Posted by fixerupper on January 14, 2009 at 08:41:26 from (66.43.238.99):
In Reply to: Blizzard of '77 posted by geo in MI on January 14, 2009 at 07:25:26:
Here in NW Iowa we didn't have a bad winter in 77 that I can remember. Our biggie started on Jan 10th of 75. We had 16-18 inches of snow and a howling wind for three days and the temp was somewhere below zero. Drifts were hard as concrete. A lot of cattle were lost. They walked over the fences and went with the wind until they ended up in a creek or ditch. Snow plow didn't go by for a full week. My wife and I had been married a year and a half but we didn't have kids yet.
The winter had been really nice until then but after the blizzard we had little 4" snows with wind for the rest of the winter so the roads were shut most of the time. The floods were pretty bad when we thawed out and the spring turned out wet. Started planting beans on around June 10th which is a month late. The old timers said it was worse than the winter of '35.
'78 and '82 were snowy but we haven't had what we could call a "good old fashioned blizzard" since then. Jim
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