Remembering When

[seniorcats]

Been thinking about winter. I moved to Ohio from sunny North Carolina on January 24, 1978 to start a job. 2 days later, this happened. I think it's a neat look at Ohio history.

http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/swio/pages/content/1978_blizzard.htm

 

[Bo B Bunny]

HA! The blizzard of '78! I was in jr. high.

 

[RexyRex]

Good Grief :shock:

When I looked at the first pic, I thought that maybe a tornado hit in the middle of winter! I don't do snow...being a sunny North Carolinan and all Where abouts in NC did you live?

 

[gentle giants]

Wow... I wasn't even born yet, my husband would have been four at the time. That must have been a scary five days!

 

[NZminilops]

My mum would have been 14 and just started dating my dad .

Wow :shock:, snow did that? I really need to see snow close up one of these days!

 

[seniorcats]

RexyRex wrote:

Good Grief :shock:

When I looked at the first pic, I thought that maybe a tornado hit in the middle of winter! I don't do snow...being a sunny North Carolinan and all Where abouts in NC did you live?

In Fayetteville. Went to college at East Carolina in Greenville.I still have family in Wilmington andSalibury.

 

[seniorcats]

NZminilops wrote:

My mum would have been 14 and just started dating my dad .

Wow :shock:, snow did that? I really need to see snow close up one of these days!

Lordy! You've never seen it up close and personal. Oh hun, come visit us in the snow belt.

 

[seniorcats]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

HA! The blizzard of '78! I was in jr. high.

Pennie, this is for you....

Gentle Giants, my goodness you are just a baby! Bet I'm older than your mom!

 

[seniorcats]

Y'all are a bunch babies, mere children, unseasoned....

Me and Dh

 

[Bo B Bunny]

LOL - At least I felt a bit younger for awhile yesterday!!!

Can you imagine never having seen snow? It amazes me! That blizzard was something else! I remember we had people on snowmobiles come around to see if we needed anything from the grocery. My sister was picked up on a huge backhoe to go into work at the little grocery in our town. My father went out to help someone who got stuck in our road and he got stuck from the waist down in the snow. It took a couple of people to pull him out of the heavy wet snow!

The first morning, I remember the snow completely covering our door. Mostly a drift but still, we had to push through and I kept thinking of our outside cats being someplace under that snow. Their house was covered and I just cried and cried....... then POP! out came this toasty warm kitty .... it was like a little igloo for them and their house (which they had managed to line with some warm fur ..... we won't go there!)

It was a mess but it was beautiful during that week!

seniorcats wrote:

Bo B Bunny wrote:

HA! The blizzard of '78! I was in jr. high.

Pennie, this is for you....

Gentle Giants, my goodness you are just a baby! Bet I'm older than your mom!

 

[myheart]

Those were the days when we actually had snow!!!! It doesn't get nearly as bad around here anymore (now I just jinxed the area... :?). I remember shoveling waist-high drifts out of the driveway. Don't remember if that was pre-snowblower days or if my parents just couldn't afford it. They has cheap labor anyhow... us kids.

myheart

 

[Bassetluv]

If I could FedEx all you guys who are missing that cold white stuff an entire truckful of it in December, I would. In fact, you could have all of it! The only thing I'd want is a nice snowy, Robert Frost Christmas eve, with roads and rooftops blanketed in white and gentle snowflakes slowly floating down to earth. Christmas day would be ascenic, featherywhite wonderland…but once the holidays end let the temps rise and the snow begone! I'm tired of -35/-40 deg celcius, wind blowing so hard your nose will freeze and fall off, bitter frigid grey days every winter. Blech!

 

[tonyshuman]

myheart wrote:

Those were the days when we actually had snow!!!! It doesn't get nearly as bad around here anymore (now I just jinxed the area... :?). I remember shoveling waist-high drifts out of the driveway. Don't remember if that was pre-snowblower days or if my parents just couldn't afford it. They has cheap labor anyhow... us kids.

myheart

Myheart, have you forgotten last year already? I don't know what it was like for you up there, but we set the record for snowfall--over 100 in and the previous record has been about 70in, if I remember right!! Definitely one of the "good old winters" when we had TONS of snow. I went out during a snowstorm to shovel off about a foot of snow off the walk so the maintenance guy (my apt had a guy who would come around and do that sort of stuff) wouldn't break his back trying to shovel off that foot plus the next foot or so that continued to fall that night! I'm so not excited... I'm betting we get our first snow the first week of Nov.

 

[myheart]

Thanks for the reminder,Tonyshuman.You were hit harder in your areathan we were. You ended up all the stuff that couldn't make it north. It seemed as though all the heavy storms were either going to the south or north of my area.So, yea, we had it pretty easy last winter. (Now I really jinxed this area :shock.

myheart

 

[kirst3buns]

Oh my, I remember the Blizzard of '78 too, and like Pennie, I was in jr. high.

I will never forget the roads for the rest of the winter. After we were finally back at school, I remember the bus going down one section of road that they managed to get one lane open only and looking up out of the bus windows to the top of the snowbanks!

Last year was a pretty good snow year and just about the perfect amount. Enough to play in but not too many days of cancelled school. I actually love living in the Michigan because I like snow, but I'm ready to see it leave by March!

 

[furryface]

I was 6-7 at the time of the blizard...lived in Cleveland (still have family there, kinda my 2nd home)...all I really remember is the tunnels from the driveway and the sidewalk....and the snow was over my head...pretty cool for a kid!

just seemed like we had alot of snow....didn't really register that is was a blizzard...