return to the late seventies

4020man · Feb 14, 2021

Looks like we could see weather like we had in the blizzards in 1977 and 1978. Six to eight inches on the ground now here where I live. Very windy and cold

504 · Feb 14, 2021

Looks like Next Saturday we will make it up to 32 deg. It has been somewhere around two weeks since it has been that hot,1/4 inch here and and 1 inch there,we around 10 inches on the ground,all powder and it just blows from one fence to the other.

Geo-TH,In · Feb 14, 2021

The blizzard of 1978 still holds Terre Haute's record.
My rafters were making a cracking sound so I got on roof and pushed snow off. Many roofs on houses and pole barns caved in.
George
blizzard of 78

4wdtom · Feb 14, 2021

They still talk about it here in R.I.

SHALER · Feb 14, 2021

Thanks 4020man, those were 43 years ago and I had just about entirely erased them from my memory.....until you brought them back up again.
Back to back years, truly generational storms that I had not witnessed before nor after. Eastern Ohio. Still recall a snowdrift on our property that finally melted in the first week of May which is unheard of round these parts....cant recall if that was 77 or 78, but am darn sure the snow pile was there during the first few days of May.

paul · Feb 14, 2021

I was on the bus those years to school, man that was something. Stranded, frozen gelled, a wreck, slid into a ditch twice. And that was only one week!

Those were some days to stand out on the end of the driveway.....

Then on the way home we drove to a nearby town, unloaded most of the bus, and then loaded up a bus load of elementary, and all of those got dropped off on the rural route, I was third to the last to get off the bus. Typically 1-1/4 hour bus ride, those years I could figure 2 hours and 3 hours was common enough.

The school policy was to wait for the storm to hit, and then close school. So we would get out on the roads in the opening teeth of the storm. It was nuts.

The following year they got a revised policy to close school an hour before the storm should hit, to give us a little time to get on the road.

Paul

farmerjohn · Feb 14, 2021

Yes I remember it, I was in high school, in January 1978 we had school 6 days, the rest of the time it was closed, and that was in the days before they close down the schools because it was 30° with an inch of snow.

Rollie NE PA · Feb 14, 2021

When I was in grade school, 1956-1962, our bus driver who drove a old REO bus would put chains on both the front and rear axles. When the bus driver got down to the bottom of our mountain he would take the chains off of the front axle. What a rough ride that was. School was never closed. Oh the good ole days.

flying belgian · Feb 14, 2021

The worst I remember here in So. Mn. was Jan. 74. I had brought a load of steel out of Minneapolis for the Hiniker Co. 68 IHC. R model 476 Gas. Tri-axel. Was so happy to finally get back as far as St. Peter so instead of going out to the factory on East side of Mankato, I drove home to our place on West side of Mankato. Truck sat in our yard for 4 days before roads were finally open to get over to factory. Cab of truck was completely buried. You could walk right over hood. Took me a couple hours to shovel truck out then a couple more to get snow dug out of engine compartment enough to get it started. Remember it was gas engine so everything was damp and had to dry it all off. Then only to finally get back to factory and my El-Camino was snowed in the parking lot. All you could see was one side of the drivers door. Shovel for another hour.

Red1 · Feb 14, 2021

Wichita ks...surround sc ks was forecast for 4 - 7 inches..received

3 - 4...thank goodness...

Paul from MI · Feb 14, 2021

Sure do remember the blizzard of 1978. I was snowed in with two kids for three days. Wife snowed in in town with the third kid. Neither one of us had a good time, but we never lost power.

1970-1655 · Feb 15, 2021

South Eastern Indiana, around US-50 and I-65. December 22, 2004 it started snowing hard. We were planning a trip to Dallas to my wife's parents. Started watching the weather and everything south of us was iced in and snow on top of that. We headed north because State Police said roads that way were a little better. When we got to Indianapolis and onto I-70 westbound, we were out of the snow all the way to Dallas. All the neighbors called to check on us and telling us we had 36" of snow on the ground at home. When we came home 2 weeks later, very little snow in shaded areas and the rest was gone. But the effects of it were everywhere. Several barns and even a few houses were caved in from the weight of the snow.

Lived in Laredo, Texas September 1971 to April 1973. During the winter of 1971 Laredo got the first snowfall they had seen in over 20 years. Locals were building small snow people on their car hoods and driving around town with them until the ran into a ditch or another car and knocked the snow people off.

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