We think we have it bad some days.

Eldon (WA) · Jan 20, 2018

I came across this video of the great blizzard of 1949. Maybe some of you older guys can remember it. Some nice machinery pics also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl6Iz4dXGdg

Fred Werring · Jan 20, 2018

During the latest cold snap here...lows were around 0f, highs in the teens, Adams co. Ohio...my wife and I headed across the bridge to Maysville
KY.

Over the Ohio river, flowing free as can be.

And we were talking about how people thought this was cold. Reminiscing about when the river froze over with people walking across, the Bengals
Chargers freezer bowl in 81?, blizzard of 78.

Folks around here would think it was the end of the world if it happened today.

I know you guys in the more northern climes deal with stuff like that all the time, but for southern Ohio, it was pretty brutal...but I was young,
and it didn't matter.

Fred

rrlund · Jan 20, 2018

This one was before my time,but the old folks always talked about the snow storm of '36. They say that you could walk right over the top of the telephone wires between here and Greenville.

jon f mn · Jan 20, 2018

Thanks for posting that! I really enjoyed
watching that. Folks always seem to pull
together in tough times.

PJH · Jan 20, 2018

Fred - there is a restaurant in Chester, Illinois - a Mississippi River town, and they have a picture of cars out on the river ice. The cars look to be about 1930.

tractorguy2 · Jan 20, 2018

Dad was 9 years old when the blizzard of 49 happened. He talks
about it often. My favorite story dad tells is they were trying
to plow the township road and got the TD14 crawler stuck. They
spend a day digging it out with shovels. Then pulled it out
using four tractors. Two Farmall M's, grandpa's 41 Deere model
A, and a war time G on steel.

Dad said they put the G in the front. The steel wheels acted
like little shovels and dug a path for the other three tractors.

Later a track came off the TD14. Dad said it took two days to
dig it out and put it back on. The workers took turns working
while others warmed up by grandma kitchen stove.

John(OR) · Jan 20, 2018

I was 5 at the time in south central Idaho it was bad but not that bad. What I noticed was there
were no Looters !!

Bud Sather in MT · Jan 20, 2018

Not 49 but 51 my sister and I could walk up a snowbank and onto the roof of the house. When we slid off the house with our sled we went over the pickup, totally covered and out into the front yard. That year my dad hooked the team of horses to a sled and took my sister to school with them. He did that for about 6 weeks. It was 1.5 miles one way. When it was nice I got to go with him and drive the team. Big deal for me but in reality the team went there and back with very little assistance from the driver. Bud

504 · Jan 20, 2018

My ante has a picture of herself setting on a house trailer,across from her house. She walked up to the top of the trailer on the snow. Mid 80s Hoopston IL

David Snipes · Jan 21, 2018

Great documentary, thanks. I remember my parents talking about it.

We think we have it bad some days.

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