Joseph James
Senior Member
Interesting video. If we have members that dealt with this, it would be interesting to hear about your experience.
I can’t imagine what it would be like. People in the video couldn’t see to drive and said it was so cold the car engine couldn’t produce heat.I remember my dad cross country skiing to the hardware store a mile away, and the plows didn't come for two days. We lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis, and the county's and cities had plenty in their budgets for manpower. We got a lot of snow in a little time.
That video was fascinating to me. I have been through a few hurricanes but the blizzard sounds a lot worse. The insanely cold temperatures. The one guy said to tie a rope to your car so you could find your way back to it. Must be tough people to live in such a harsh environment.Sorry, I was out of town for this one. I think in Idaho at the time, USN. The one I remember was the three dayer, March 2-5 1966. We had some awesome snowbanks in our yard when that one ended - tunnels galore for my sister and I.
Hugo was the worst one I recall other than one in 05 when a tree fell on my house.Hurricanes are no fun either, I've been through a couple and not all that bad, but I haven't gone through an Andrew or a Katrina either.
I am a Minnesota VIKINGS fan -- and (not these last two years...), But, I used to get out to the Land of the Purple (and will again) once a year for a game...
Even just four or five years ago, We swore off going in December ever again!!!! Snow, blizzards, severe cold, winds, it was BRUTAL !!!!
Real temperature was 15° below -- wind chill was
60° below... There were radio warnings to stay inside.
They warned us to check our extremities ( "wiggle your fingers & toes after 15 minutes outside" they warned)....
We went to a Timblewolves - Rockets game, sat courtside for $ 10 Saturday nite !!!! Went to TGIFs after the game for a meal after the game. We went out the wrong side, by accident, and the door locked behind us...We had to walk around the Target Center Mall to the rental car.... You could not suck in enough air to breathe walking backwards into the wind....
All our future games will be in October or November once car show season is over !!!!!!
Western North Carolina had one that same year.I was too young to remember this, there was many blizzards in Minnesota over my 40 years. The 93 blizzard is one the stands out in my mind.
Pete, You beat me to it. You mentioned the Blizzard of '78 before I could finish my little book, But You were obviously in the Neighborhood that January, lol. Between '42 and '53? I was camping out in Mauston and the white crap was so deep one of those yearz shortly after the War ended that I could and did walk out my upper bedroom window and across the front porch roof and off into the snow drift. Google Search "Operation Hay Lift" and we'll both know for sure which year. Stay warm Pal, JerYesterdays 10" of snow was difficult enough until I found this...… I remember the ice storm of 1977 and Blizzard in 1978.
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70 people died!? That’s serious stuff.For me, it was both 77 and 78, two years that I will never forget. I lived about 45 miles south of Erie, PA so 78 was much worse for us, this scene is from Buffalo in 77 but this was the scene all over Western NY and NW PA.
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Buffalo Red Cross looking for people trapped in their cars - 1977
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Buffalo 1977
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If memory serves, this was around Buffalo also.
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Ohio got it worse in 78, Wood County OH, not an overpass, this is someone's house where they dug out the garage - 1978
1977 Storm map
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1978 Storm map
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If you notice, the snow fall totals aren't that excessive, it's the wind that makes a blizzard and 10 inches of snow can translate into 20' of drifted snow.
The snow piled up on each side of the driveway was so high for about 15 feet from the road, on each side that you could barely reach the top with a shovel. After the plows made it through our road, we dug tunnels from the road to the field, then caves back into the snow that the plows had pushed off the road. Hind sight, that was a monumentally bad idea but when you're young and "indestructible", you don't think of all the things that could go wrong. Similar to this pic.
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