Blizzard of '77-'78

[91r/t]

I am one of those guys from the snowbelt! I am in Colden, so we get ALL the snow. Just another day in the life here right Frank? The city almost never has much snow to deal with. I remember when you guys got blasted with the 7 feet! My cousin had to borrow my big walk behind snowblower to dig out in Lancaster. I got 4 or 5 feet eventually later in the week, but we don't get much coverage because we are ski country and are "used" to it. This year has been fun at the beginning and now we have only a few inches of snow.

 

[Brandy]

I was in West Germany for that one. But growing up in NW PA below Buffalo was very snowy.

 

[Darter6]

Worked for a trucking company in PA. Plowed snow for 36 hours straight.Some of the drivers went out(Their option) All that did came back.Glad that I didn't have any road side calls.Wheew!

 

[BeeKool]

In the northern Midwest it's not the snow, but the wind behind the storm that gets you.
If it snows a foot with a 45mph wind behind it you will not be able to see your hand in front of your face

 

[YY1]

I was 9 and had just seen Star Wars.

I have a pic of me standing on top of a car (which you can't really recognize as being a car), holding a home made light saber pieced together from a flashlight and a golf club bag liner. That worked very well, and the next year a very similar version was mass marketed.

we made tunnels in the snow from our porch, through the hedgerow, and down the side walk between the cars and hedges to my friends house. 90% totally under the snow!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Blizzard of '78 in Massachusetts. Snow drifts so high against the front of the two story house the we had to shovel the snow into the garage to cut a shoulder-wide path out of the house. Luckily the garage was empty because the auto orange '74 Plymouth Satellite with white half top was in the driveway.

It was really, really bad here. It was supposed to be a moderate storm, but the system stalled & astronomically high tides wreaked havoc.

 

[khryslerkid]

Your picture of the paper confirms the date. My wife was pregnant and walked to the store. She caught hell.

 

[oldbee]

LOL, my wife says she doesn't remember anything except all the AAA tow calls I got that night. She didn't have any work to go to; 3 kids, 5,4,3 at the time. No, all she worried about was the kids and staying inside!