I remember the blizzard of 78. I WAS A 30 YEAR OLD TRUCKER. Hauling Produce from the west coast to Kroger, Big Bear , and Pic n Pay. I STRUGGLED TO get a load into Cleveland as all the Highway road signs and exit signs were literally covered with heavy snow. I remember that morning well as I was actually cutting the first tracks as no one else had been out there on the road.( SAM TANKSLEY DRIVER, PETERBILT COE '76 to '80)
Me too. In 1985 another blizzard hit the east Coast 102 inches of Snow. I stayed out in it for 30 hours before I could shut down. Fuel froze in the ground. In the fuel tank. Accidents I dodged all night.
i live in Dallas, and I can still remember the 'Great Snow" of 2021. Snow was 3/4 inch in some places, it was horrifying. Many of us were "greatly inconvenienced' when temperatures plunged below 40 degrees, yet we were able to survive. Tough times make heroes. Still, we car on!
I was a senior in college in Michigan. I had an environmental science exam that day and walked from my dorm to the classroom with snow up to my waist. The professor just gave me an A on the exam for weathering the environment!
I was in Harbor Springs/Petoskey MI area,working at Boyne Highlands ski resort. I lived a half mile away and could not make it home by mid afternoon. we were stranded along with everyone else! Great times for a teenager
I was 14 yrs old . My family of 7 all had to hunker down in one room of our house. It was the only room with a gas heater. We used oil lamps for light and camping stove for cooking. I learned a lot about survival during that blizzard
I remember this storm well. I was 10 years old. I remember hearing thunder snow for the first time. The drifts were above our windows and when we opened our front door it was a wall of snow. The cold was unrelenting. I remember I was able to walk on top of the snow because it had frozen. Winter of 1978 was one I will never forget and has set the benchmark for me regarding future storms. Nothing I have seen since compares to this blizzard.
@@bexief31 The strangest thing I saw out there in it . With snow landing all over 102 inch mountain of snow walked over the Hwy in front of me. Can not turn around. Impact it explodes total White out. Can't see if a car is in front of you. No reaction time.
I delivered Dayton Daily Newspapers near Wright Patterson AFB. The company bragged about getting the paper out during the blizzard. I was the 14 year old who delivered those papers door to door! 😊
I was eight years of age, and lived in northwest, central ohio when this blizzard hit , and I will never forget this storm and the events that followed . Like others , i remember certain events,that still remain fresh in my mind ,due to the intensity,of the storm and the effects it had. The wind was fierce, and the snow was relentless, and the combination led to snowdrifts,one would have to witness to believe, i can remember a snow plow getting stuck on our street, and we were unable to open door , or even see out the windows. I can also remember we were running low on food, and finally, several days after the storm subsided, someone , gave my father a ride to the grocery store on a snowmobile to get the basic necessities. It was truly an amazing site to witness , and it paralyzed many communities.
My uncle Steve used to always tell me about this blizzard. He lived in Navarre Ohio when it happened. Said he would walk to his neighbor's to get gas for the heater. I still live in the general and was born in 81. Never experienced anything like what has been said about the 78 blizzard.
What was the weather forecast, just a few inches? Thank goodness nowadays we can all have NOAA weather radios or apps on our phones to warn us as the situation gets dangerous.
@@thenightporter Even with that... a few years ago roads closed and stranded several towns for 3 months. Helicopter took out people in emegrencies but not everyone faired well. Some died. Some had huge medical bills. Crazy stuff.
@@tuvoca825 I was 8 when this happened, Iived in a suburb of Minneapolis. I remember that Christmas, only a couple weeks before, was one of the coldest nights ever. I remember it was very windy.
I was 20 yrs old . Worked at kroger greatsouthern on route 23 nights as a floor man scrubbing the floors. Lights where out no heat . We where told we could not go home we had to stay we had no keys to lock the stores doors they where locked up in a office draw. I drove home that morning only about a mile in half home i wound up off the road in a ditch on parson ave going south. After it all had settled i built a snow man about eight foot tall in front of my parents house. I then carved out to look like king kong . It made the papers. I think it was a columbus news paper in the southend columbus called the lantern. I still have some photos of it. I remmber takeing one of my sisters barbie dolls and putting it in one of the arms of this SNOW KONG.
I was stationed at Ft Devens, Massachusetts during that blizzard, and remember we had to travel to Ft Drum, NY to help dig them out of the snow, unfreeze barracks doors, provide traffic control.. What a monumental job that was; 12-14 hour work days, sleeping outside in tents, though they were warm and comfy, pulling guard duty in snow up to our thighs... We were soldiers, and that's what soldiers do, in peace time anyway😊 I would do it again! Major
I survived this blizzard in Michigan I was 9 It was bad! Got up in the morning open the curtains and all we seen was snow over all the windows in the house! I watched my dad open the front door and it was a wall of snow! My dad was a county worker, a co worker came in the county snow plow truck to pick him up to go to work ! He was gone a week! Plowing roads all over the county! His check after that was fat as hell too 🤣🤣🤣 My dad had that job for more that 35 yrs until he retired in his late 60s
My father died when that blizzard hit he was 44.Couldnt bury him to much snow at the cemetery.Over 125 people came to the funeral home during the blizzard.
My mother in law also passed. Like others the weather was so bad she couldn’t be buried at that time. There was family up from Florida and other warmer temperatures and didn’t think to bring heavier clothes. And of course everyone is staying with a relative. We were situated then on the coast of Massachusetts. The national guard had to take me to work, essential employees.
I was a junior in high school. The night before was balmy and foggy. I went to bed around 11 pm. At about 4 am I woke up and our neighbors dog was howling. I woke up my mom and said something weird was about to happen. Suddenly, there was thunder and lightning and the wind started howling. The snow began falling and by 8 am we were unable to get out the back door of our house. We lived right behind the hospital in our community and they brought in a big earth moving g piece of equipment to keep the road open to the emergency room entrance. From that point on and for the next few days we could not leave our house. I remember we had a police scanner and listened to all of the emergency responders rescuing people from the rural areas and interstates on snowmobiles. It was definitely the storm of the century.
I was 8 in the Winter of 78, and remember it well as a kid in Central Illinois. I would never have believed then it would be almost 50 years later now and still never repeated. Even though I can't tell you how many times grocery stores were swamped and raided here whenever a snowstorm was announced since, everyone remembering the ice storm. For all I knew then it would happen the next year, and every year. Crazy.
I certainly realize this blizzard was more devastating in northwestern Ohio but, I will never forget my epic 8 mile journey home from my workplace in the height of this blizzard in Indianapolis, IN. I won’t go into my story here but, as I recall snow above big 4x4 vehicles but, not as high as power lines. What a memory. It took me 2 and 1/2 hours for that journey home to my wife and a steak and backed potato. She trusted me when I called her and asked her to look for me. I held this video in my “watch later” category for some time. I’m glad I got around to watching it.
It was around 11pm my husband and I lived in Huntsville Ohio in Logan county we worked at a small factory across the street from our apartment we left work and the wind and freezing rain hit just as we were opening our door and then the snow hit the next morning my husband shoveled his way across the street to a small restaurant it was packed with stranded motorist off st rt 117 he brought 3 people home with him a semi driver from West Virginia and a couple from another county they stayed 2 days until the roads were cleared a bit our car a Volkswagen was totally covered for a week 18:20
Will never forget it ! My grandfather died and was buried on this day back in 78 My mom drove right through the blizzard from Connecticut to Massachusetts in the thick of it 😢 took her long time to get home !:(
I was at home in South Bend, Indiana at 8 years old when the blizzard of 1978 hit in January. We pushed the button for our garage to open and it went up and up and up and it was all a wall of snow except the very top of about 4 inches where the light shown through. That wall of snow was scary. My dad had to crawl out a side window with a shovel so we could actually get out of the house and he had to shovel an entry and exit way at our back door. We had a fireplace and wood stove in the basement so we were warm when the power went out. Remember it well.
My parents met during this blizzard in South Bend! My Dad lived near my Mom on the west side and showed up on her doorstep asking for food after he ran out.
Me too i was 10 years old living up on a hill in an old farm house on 4 acres that my parents had bought in 1975 , i was skiing on 3 ft long plastic skiis with short aluminum poles lol and i ice skated down on the lane lol jumped off the barn roof and the back porch . Allot of fun for us kids , there were only 6 of us down that private lane out in THE boon docks lol . Scary lookin back at it now wondering how my parents kept it together 🤔😊❤🇺🇸
I was in it. We were dairy farmers in northern Indiana. We dumped our milk for about 3 weeks. We had 2 farms to take care of and a hundred plus cows. It was a nightmare. We missed almost a month of school. The only thing I can say: Thank GOD the power didn’t go out.
I was 4 years old during this storm and had JUST had my birthday. When the storm was over and all the piles of snow were everywhere and no streets were plowed...my dad took me up to our 2nd floor patio and he would throw me off into the backyard and snow...It's one of my favorite memories of playing with my dad. (but boy was mom p****ed)
I was born December 31st of 77. My dad had to pay someone to go to the store and get me formula & diapers. I guess the guy had a truck & helped a lot of ppl out.
I was born in 1969 and grew up on a large working farm in Northwest Ohio. I will never forget the blizzard of ‘78. I remember President Carter declaring an emergency and calling in The National Guard. I was only nine years old at the time but I remember everything very vividly. I remember I had to pull out two kitchen chairs for me and my little sister so that we could be tall enough to look over the snow that had accumulated against the front and back door and all our windows. I remember seeing all the heavy duty military equipment on our road and how scared and upset my mother was throughout the entire ordeal. I can still see all the adults sitting at the kitchen table and planning things out.
I was 18 years old, living with my parents in Brighton, a part of Boston, Mass. What an epic event. We had 2+ feet of snow. Driving was banned in the city for a week! We lived atop a hill and had to walk everywhere, including my dad’s cleaning jobs. I remember that our feet were level with the tops of the cars! But, my family had a good time together, hunkered down, playing games, eating, etc. I love snow. ❄️😊
I was 14 yrs old in Framingham. New England got hammered! My Dad went to work in Westwood on 128 & got sent home. Next morning could barely open the front door snow fell that fast. Dukakis State of emergency but it was a great time!
I remember it well ,I was 19 years old , my baby girl was 1 years old , Lynne Marie she was still in diapers and we ran out , All the store were so low on supplies, anybody and everybody was going to the store getting whatever they needed. My daughter needed Pampers I remember trying to trudge through the snow with a carriage it was totally impossible the mounds of snow were so high I don't think I've ever seen them that high again. The people out with their shovels kids playing in the snow Banks neighbors helping neighbors It was probably the only time I seen humanity, it was an experience of a lifetime. I really enjoyed it
I had just turned 29 years of age a few days before this hit in 1978, and I was living on Cape Cod. My late wife and I had three children, ages 5,6 and a 3 month-old baby girl. Boy, do I remember this storm!! Not with fond memories either! More snow than I had ever seen in my 29 years on the Cape!
Well we had about 25 inches of snow in Cincinnati Ohio and they finally got to push it up in mounds and it did not all melt until the spring and summer.
I was 8 going to be 9 that May and I remember this blizzard, it was brutal. Kids today will NEVER know or understand what we all went through or what kind of winters we had.
Had just moved from Florida with my very young sons. Lived with my folks and worked with my 18 year old sister at a nursing home five miles away. We were out in the county. Workers picked us up on snowmobiles. One nurse and my sister and I ran a 150 patient home for 3 days.. Only 85 of the patients needed constant care. On the way home, in Dad's pick up on one lane, you could not see over the snow on either side. We had drifts over 12 feet. I will never forget it. I was 23. Northern Indiana a couple of miles from Notre Dame University.
I remember riding my snowmobile down the roads and running over the roofs of cars. Fortunately the people who were in those cares got out before the drifts had covered them. The road bed was under 10’ of snow in places. Clearing that road was a challenge for the road crews. The neighbor was an elderly couple who needed meds. The pharmacist lived over the pharmacy so I drove the snowmobile into town and got the meds for the neighbors. I had just turned 18 that month
I remember the thunder snow. My brother and I had a blast. No power and no school. It was ok because our heat was 100% wood stove. We put all the food outside to stay cold.what a memory.
I remember this. I was a sophomore in college in Rochester, NY. They shut down the entire city on a Monday, waiting for the blizzard. Nobody on the streets, no cars, no busses, no travel allowed. We never got an inch of snow! After all that preparation for disaster, nothing fell on the ground. We've been hit many times by other blizzards, but this one missed us completely.
I remember it well. I stayed over at my boyfriend's house and watched my 1970 Firebird get totally buried in the snow to the point that I couldn't see it anymore
Same here. I was 9 when that blizzard hit, and I just remember everything white outside, and all of us snug and warm inside…playing games with my siblings while school and all else was canceled. Simpler, happier times for sure.
I too remember this storm. I remember the winter season as a whole. I learned to drive in this. Got my permit and had to wait over a month to take my drivers test due to the back to back storms. One things for sure; snow never bothered me after this.
2 feet of snow in approx. 4 hrs, about 5 feet in total with 60-75 mph winds. Drove home from work in it. We had snow drifts as tall as garage roofs. Took 3 and a half days to dig out with huge payloaders, snow plows and 8 wheel drive farm tractors. Totally unreal! I was 28 yrs old at the time,will never forget that week.
In Jan '78, I was a few months into 8th grade in grade school in Philly PA and I remember the snow being up to my waist and walking around the streets, must've been about 13 going on 14. I also vaguely recall the '67 blizzard even though I was about 3-4 as the snow was so high with our three story rowhome we couldn't get out the door and my father broke out the back window to the yard to climb out and shovel snow away from the door; but yeah '78 was a doozy.
I was 19 when this hit and happened, and the next year, it got COLD NO BLIZZARD. As fast as a car would lay tire tire tracks, it would cover over with SNOW ! THE WIND WAS AT LEAST 60 MPH THUNDER, LIGHTNING. IT WAS AMAZING. DOWN IN LOW WATER BOTTOMS THE DRIFTING WAS 40 FEET HIGH. I WAS IN THE TAMPICO GROCERY STORE WHEN THE HIGHWAY CREW BROKE THREW THE DRIFTING. THEY STOPPED TO HAVE LUNCH.
I survived hunkered down in our apartment while my wife rode with a volunteer snow mobile driver to her grocery store she opened so the locals could get milk and bread for their children. Fortunately, we had numerous snowmobile owners who volunteered to help us supply neighbors. We had numerous 20-foot snow drifts everywhere. When the wind was blowing, you could not see more than a few feet distance. It took a month after the storm to dig out and resume a normal pattern of life!
Down in what they call SYDNEY BOTTOMS there's a Highway 39 the highway depot got threw the Snow Drifts they said some were over 40 ft. And he probably was telling the truth.
I was a 6th grader in Indiana at a very rural elementary school of about 80 kids per graduating class. We spent the night at school - which, as a 12 year old was great! Basketball, shenanigans etc. Then came the realization we got to sleep on the floor - no pillow, no blankets. State Highway Dept escorted busses the next day
The way we came together to help each other was beautiful even though the weather was deadly, I’ll never forget that storm it was the biggest I’ll probably ever see. We had neighbors from both sides at our house because Dad had the insight to own a generator and plenty of fuel thank goodness. We had to hold onto each other to help people’s across the road it was insane.
I was 28. Had to drive to the farm to feed 60 head of cattle in a barn. Car got stuck in 7 foot drift in Fredonia. Had to struggle to walk about a mile in that crap. Will never forget that experience.
By the time the storm hit New England, I had already left for work, as an RN, at the Institute of mental Health, in Cranston, in Rhode Island. It was Monday morning, and it wasn't snowing yet when I arrived at work. It started around 10:30 am. That was it, for the week, and I wasn't able to get back home until very early Saturday morning. Thankfully, my husband, and I, worked with the Red Cross, so he was given permission to drive down from Cumberland, RI, to where I was working, to pick me up and bring me home. Whew, what a relief. The family was so happy to see me, especially our youngest daughter, who was 4 years old.
Watching this again. Oregon is getting hit tonight & this helps me to be grateful. My friend in Cleveland just messaged that they're expecting a blizzard this weekend. I hope folks everywhere can get to safety & warmth.
Virginia sure had some blizzards to remember. The flight that went in the Potomac River,I never forget that day. Living in Arlington. It be in the 80's 82 it snowed and melted the next day.
I have an aunt that went into labor during this blizzard. I wasn't born until the 80's but whenever we talk about a cold snap during winter in Ohio, my family always brings up this blizzard. My dad was in high school at the time and among six brothers and six sisters, somehow he was the only one able to get a car started. They managed to get to the hospital but to this day I've only had one winter where it was so cold that my car wouldn't start. So hard to even fathom how bad that blizzard of 78 was
I remember the Akron weather guy saying not to go out unless it's an emergency! Well, being a 17 y/o kid, I hopped in my 69 Camaro and went cruising around in the blizzard. A gust of wind whited out my sight in the middle of an intersection and I high sided the car on a snow drift in the middle of the intersection. Luckily I had a shovel in the back seat and was trying to dig my way out but that wind stung my skin in just a few minutes... I hopped back in and sat there with the heater blasting. Luckily a cop pickup truck came by. They yelled at me to get home, then towed me out. Lesson learned!!
I was 9 years old when the blizzard hit us in the Boston area. Me and my family wound up going to stay at a ski ⛷️ resort in New Hampshire were my parents were just going to stay a couple of days but instead they came home and took me my sister and brother for almost 2 weeks instead because the high ways were blocked with snow. My parents and family were very happy about there because they had a generator and indoor swimming pool and small arcade ect…but I remember being in the indoor pool watching the snow ❄️ pile up on the windows around the pool. Remember finally coming back and there were trucks and with snow piled up inside them and walking through basically a tunnel to get into our apartment building. Will never forget the blizzard of 78.
I'm 45, lived in SE Texas all my life. The heat down here is very brutal and winters are very mild. The 2021 snowstorm that happened here was a cakewalk compared to this even though it kicked many people's asses. I love hearing these testimonies. I'll never know what it is like to go through this stuff. My imagination runs wild though which is why I love watching this.
Yeah man I'm still here in the greater Cincinnati/northern Kentucky areas ,and I very vividly, clearly remember this particular blizzard! I remember how the Ohio river portion which separates Newport Kentucky from just across the water to downtown Cincinnati was completely 100% solid ice!! A car literally drove across it ,and a couple brave fools also walking on it as though it was a damn sidewalk!! Like around 14 inches of snow, along with exactly 39 consecutive days with at least 1 inch of snow!! But id never consider leaving here because living someplace with having the four seasons every Year is absolutely awesome!! It like by time one season runs it's course, your already, ready for a change of season,thus you really never get totally burnt out on any season and it just makes everyone look forward to the next one if that makes sense. Summer, winter,fall ,autumn ! Pretty cool!! I remember an ex coworker years ago who moved here to Kentucky/ Cincinnati Ohio area, she lived with snow first time ever!! Lady was a fish outta water for sure n didn't know the first thing about winterizing her vehicle or wearing snow boots,or just anything,it was hilarious!!
I was born June 1979 in Arkansas. We've had tornados, floods, occasional snow or ice storm and yearly severe heat advisory, i never thought how rough a snow blizzard would be, nice documentary but feel bd for those lost and those who survived this!
I was ten years old when this happened. We lived in Columbus Ohio. I will never forget being confined to our apartment. We weren't hit as hard as the people in this video but it was still very bad. No school, everything closed, no way of of coming or going etc. I will never forget.
I remembered at 22 I had worked in a nursing home as a nuresaide and they ask me to stay for the next shift I found out when I went back to work I would've had to stay at work for several days.But I said no I wanted to take the 1 bus home.Normally it would take 15 to 20 minutes,that day it took 2/1/2 hrs to get home.Praise God I had gotten home safely.I didn't go into work for several days.My roomate worked in a childrens home in house keeping across a street.She didn't go into work either.Remember we did'nt have a car or modern technologie equiment we have in the here in now,which if we would've had that there would've been more help for us in this snow storm.That was the worst storm I've ever had experienced.
I was 11, in '78. Snow drifts up to our back porch. Momma tried to walk to the store to stock up on food but it was too cold so she came back home. Everyone was trapped at home and school was out for 2 weeks.
This was actually 3 snow storms that came in back to back not just one however the news media reported it as one storm. Look at the old archived weather maps and see for yourself.
Yes I lived in a small town inkentucky and we got 18 inches of snow (a lot for us) then 2 ice storms. Our pipes froze and we were melting snow for bathing and flushing the commode. The Ohio river froze. It was awe full!
I grew up less than 10 miles from the south shore of Lake Superior. Big snow blizzards are a regular occasion. Only select places in the mountains get more snow than there. Every winter we had to shovel off our roof lest it cave in. I still love the winter.
I remember that blizzard, I was 4 years old and had to walk half a mile up hill to my grandma's house from the laundry mat,my hands have never been so cold or hurt so bad when I was warming them up over the wood stove
I was just out of college on my first job working at Sears in Lexington, Kentucky. Management closed the store the first day. I had to hitch a ride to work the rest of the week because I was too afraid to drive.
I'm from Pennsylvania and I was in Florida, visiting a friend that I grew up with. I was watching the blizzard on TV. Knowing that I had to go back there the next day. My friend's brother was there and I ask him if he could get me a job. He said, yes, and I never went back to pennsylvania after that, except to visit my family
To each his own My mom broke her ankle in that weather and had to have a pin placed in her ankle so it was not fun for her it took her months to recover she had been carry wash to the local laundrymat and fell on some ice in the street and my dad had to carry her back home She always feared falling on the slippery porch years later The 24 inches lasted until the summer months I was 15 back than
@@Earthgal1964 I'm from Florida our snow man is a glass of water with a top hat nose. Eyes. Floating around. I was bored, the next Trucker that walked out the door at the Truck stop I threw snow balls at. He was cracking up. Ready to return fire. I need got to play like you. Or make a snow Angel but I drove into . I went into Vermont with a load of lumber. Found a big parking lot. Locked up. My brakes and practice sliding across unil I was comfortable with being on it. Slid passed exits in Mo. Back up and take the ramp
I was 19 in lower MI. We guys that lived on our street shoveled sidewalks and then had snowball fights in our sidewalk trenches and mounds of snow to hide behind. Great times.
I wasn't born until 1981.Everytime Cape Cod would get a snowstorm My grandparents would tell me about the blizzard of 1978. I thought they were embellishing but looking at videos or pics. So sad and scary 😮😢
I was seven years old in Central Pennsylvania, New Cumberland to be exact… I remember the storm as if it was yesterday. I have pictures that my mom took of me standing in the snow, which I believe we probably got 2 to 3 feet. I think school was closed for probably a week and my friends and I had so much fun. I loved storms like this when I was a kid and I still love snow. It always brings out that little kid in me, no matter how old I get.
I was 12 the day my dad came in our room at 0700 and told us that school had been canceled. We lived in an old farm house on the far West side of Columbus that shook in the high winds, which blasted the structure from a vast open aera to the Southwest. I could hear plaster falling in the uninsulated walls. Our otherwise leaky windows were sealed by ice and snow. We had no furnace; our home was heated by a coal stove located in the living room. My dad had to drive his small International Harvester pick up to the coal supply yard and help himself because there was no one there to pay, but he left an IOU note. In the afternoon we were allowed to go out and play in the snow and wind. I would hold my coat open against the wind and it would push me acrost the open parking lot next to our home. The wind created mountainous snow drifts. It was truly an incredible day to experience.
I don't remember this specific one, maybe because i grew up with numerous snow storms over the years. Thankfully we always had what we needed, and as kids enjoyed the playtime.
Remember that storm. I was servicing standby engine generator sets in central and south eastern Ohio at that time. Going on service calls a few days after on plowed rural roads I have to say I have never seen snow piled so high before or since that day. Sadly, things were much worse for other folks. Do Not need any more of that.
I live in Ontario Canada . I went to visit my son in hospital in the morning when there was no snow . The emergency services arrived at the hospital in the afternoon to advise us to stay because of he blizzard . I was stuck there for 3 days .
My mom and dad remember this. My mom showed me a picture of her AMC hornet covered to the roof. She said they had to call 4x4s to pick her up for work since she was a nurse.
I was working in a large NCR plant in Waterloo Ontario Canada. it was raining when I entered the building and I couldn't see outside til I got to my office. it was only a short walk but by the time I saw outside again it was a blizzard
I lived in rural Miami County. My husband was a Troy policeman. The PD picked him up on a snow mobile. He was gone for 3 days. I was home with 4 children under 6. I did not leave the house for 3 months. 1978 we moved into Troy. I would not live out in the country another winter. Lynn Cox
I'll never forget the date of the blizzard of '78 - it was on my birthday, January 26. We had just moved to Ohio, experienced the coldest winter ever in '77, then this! I was ready to return to Tennessee.
Even though I lived 50 miles north of Cincinnati through the 70's. '77-'78 was my freshman year of college, 10 miles north of Lexington and the weather wasn't nearly as bad as back home.
Dont forget the surrounding states. I worked at Talbot lumber Co. located in Catonsville just up hill from the river. that river flooded cause we got hit by Agnus . A terrible storm that shot up the Chesapeak floading everything in its path . All the businesses below the Lumber yard got flooded out Homes , parked cars and more were ruined
From Lutherville Timonium area and I remember both Agnes and the blizzard of 78. I was in high school when the blizzard hit and my boyfriend walked 2 hours in deep snow thinking he could get stranded at my house but he didn't realize my Dad was from Buffalo NY and could drive through any amount of snow. My Dad let him stay long enough to get warm and have lunch then drove him home...lol.
I was holed up in a dorm room. Luckily there was a tunnel to the cafeteria on the adjacent hospital. I remember college kids jumping out the second story into massive banks of snow.
I remember the blizzard of 78. I WAS A 30 YEAR OLD TRUCKER. Hauling Produce from the west coast to Kroger, Big Bear , and Pic n Pay. I STRUGGLED TO get a load into Cleveland as all the Highway road signs and exit signs were literally covered with heavy snow. I remember that morning well as I was actually cutting the first tracks as no one else had been out there on the road.( SAM TANKSLEY DRIVER, PETERBILT COE '76 to '80)
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Me too. In 1985 another blizzard hit the east Coast 102 inches of Snow. I stayed out in it for 30 hours before I could shut down. Fuel froze in the ground. In the fuel tank. Accidents I dodged all night.
i live in Dallas, and I can still remember the 'Great Snow" of 2021. Snow was 3/4 inch in some places, it was horrifying. Many of us were "greatly inconvenienced' when temperatures plunged below 40 degrees, yet we were able to survive. Tough times make heroes. Still, we car on!
@@ludovicleprinceroyal87213/4 of an inch 😂
I was a senior in college in Michigan. I had an environmental science exam that day and walked from my dorm to the classroom with snow up to my waist. The professor just gave me an A on the exam for weathering the environment!
Were you the only student who showed up? What grade did the no show students get? Because YOU deserved that A.
Also from Michigan. I came home on leave from the Army stationed in California. This was probably the best time in life.
I was 5 in SW Michigan. I remember my family taking in many stranded people in storms like this and having a great time!
I was in Harbor Springs/Petoskey MI area,working at Boyne Highlands ski resort. I lived a half mile away and could not make it home by mid afternoon. we were stranded along with everyone else! Great times for a teenager
I was 14 yrs old . My family of 7 all had to hunker down in one room of our house. It was the only room with a gas heater. We used oil lamps for light and camping stove for cooking. I learned a lot about survival during that blizzard
I remember this storm well. I was 10 years old. I remember hearing thunder snow for the first time. The drifts were above our windows and when we opened our front door it was a wall of snow. The cold was unrelenting. I remember I was able to walk on top of the snow because it had frozen. Winter of 1978 was one I will never forget and has set the benchmark for me regarding future storms. Nothing I have seen since compares to this blizzard.
same lol i remember that blizzard, we got hit in Rhode Island
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I was 11 and remember it all too well
I was 19 years old and living in East Toledo at the time and I had just started working at Food Town in Rossford Ohio .Now in Colorado GOD BLESS
@@bexief31 The strangest thing I saw out there in it . With snow landing all over 102 inch mountain of snow walked over the Hwy in front of me. Can not turn around. Impact it explodes total White out. Can't see if a car is in front of you. No reaction time.
Every damn day in 77/78 I had to deliver papers in a small WV town… my God I can STILL remember the cold from those winters, I will never forget it.
I live in West Virginia
I delivered Dayton Daily Newspapers near Wright Patterson AFB. The company bragged about getting the paper out during the blizzard. I was the 14 year old who delivered those papers door to door! 😊
@@sherrydawson519 I truly feel your pain 🫡
@@Blueerer730 I don’t live there now but I miss it. I think I’d retire there and go back but my wife won’t have it sadly,
I was 21 years old and I will never forget this storm..I lived in Western Pennsylvania.
I was eight years of age, and lived in northwest, central ohio when this blizzard hit , and I will never forget this storm and the events that followed . Like others , i remember certain events,that still remain fresh in my mind ,due to the intensity,of the storm and the effects it had. The wind was fierce, and the snow was relentless, and the combination led to snowdrifts,one would have to witness to believe, i can remember a snow plow getting stuck on our street, and we were unable to open door , or even see out the windows. I can also remember we were running low on food, and finally, several days after the storm subsided, someone , gave my father a ride to the grocery store on a snowmobile to get the basic necessities. It was truly an amazing site to witness , and it paralyzed many communities.
My uncle Steve used to always tell me about this blizzard. He lived in Navarre Ohio when it happened. Said he would walk to his neighbor's to get gas for the heater. I still live in the general and was born in 81. Never experienced anything like what has been said about the 78 blizzard.
What was the weather forecast, just a few inches? Thank goodness nowadays we can all have NOAA weather radios or apps on our phones to warn us as the situation gets dangerous.
@@thenightporter
Even with that... a few years ago roads closed and stranded several towns for 3 months. Helicopter took out people in emegrencies but not everyone faired well. Some died. Some had huge medical bills. Crazy stuff.
@@tuvoca825 I was 8 when this happened, Iived in a suburb of Minneapolis. I remember that Christmas, only a couple weeks before, was one of the coldest nights ever. I remember it was very windy.
I remember that I was living in Indiana at the time.
I was born in 1978, and my parents used to tell me about this growing up. Ahhh memories, love you mom and dad
I was born during the blizzard in 78. My Dad had to pull my mom on a sled to get to the hospital. Lol
@@LisaSmith-je8pv that's crazy, so you were technically out in the blizzard! That's awesome lol!
August 💪 1978
Same
17 years old living in northeast Ohio. I don’t think anyone that lived it will forget it.
I lived in Kettering Ohio when this storm hit
I was born that winter
I was 20 yrs old . Worked at kroger greatsouthern on route 23 nights as a floor man scrubbing the floors. Lights where out no heat . We where told we could not go home we had to stay we had no keys to lock the stores doors they where locked up in a office draw. I drove home that morning only about a mile in half home i wound up off the road in a ditch on parson ave going south. After it all had settled i built a snow man about eight foot tall in front of my parents house. I then carved out to look like king kong . It made the papers. I think it was a columbus news paper in the southend columbus called the lantern. I still have some photos of it. I remmber takeing one of my sisters barbie dolls and putting it in one of the arms of this SNOW KONG.
I was eight years old, man we had fun digging snow fort’s with our neighbors And diving over snow banks… we were kids so it was fun …
As a child of the 70s and a resident of northern Indiana, I remember it well. It was the first big weather event of my life.
I was stationed at Ft Devens, Massachusetts during that blizzard, and remember we had to travel to Ft Drum, NY to help dig them out of the snow, unfreeze barracks doors, provide traffic control..
What a monumental job that was; 12-14 hour work days, sleeping outside in tents, though they were warm and comfy, pulling guard duty in snow up to our thighs...
We were soldiers, and that's what soldiers do, in peace time anyway😊
I would do it again!
Major
I grew up in Ayer 🤙🏿
Thank you, Major! 🫡
Thank you for your service❤
@@karenfields-sb4cq You're quite welcome.
@@Coach_Zay I lived in Shirley.
I survived this blizzard in Michigan
I was 9
It was bad! Got up in the morning open the curtains and all we seen was snow over all the windows in the house! I watched my dad open the front door and it was a wall of snow! My dad was a county worker, a co worker came in the county snow plow truck to pick him up to go to work ! He was gone a week! Plowing roads all over the county! His check after that was fat as hell too 🤣🤣🤣
My dad had that job for more that 35 yrs until he retired in his late 60s
Is the county still in debt from your dad's fat paycheck? 😆. Did he take pictures or have any interesting stories to tell?
We couldn’t open our front door in Philadelphia! The snow drifts were massive!
@@thenightporter the county is still running so no debt lol
Respect for your dad and his coworkers!
Fat check I work for a highway department in New York and we get paid peanuts
My father died when that blizzard hit he was 44.Couldnt bury him to much snow at the cemetery.Over 125 people came to the funeral home during the blizzard.
My dad died also during the blizzard January 2nd 1978
Sounds like he was well loved!
My mother in law also passed. Like others the weather was so bad she couldn’t be buried at that time. There was family up from Florida and other warmer temperatures and didn’t think to bring heavier clothes. And of course everyone is staying with a relative. We were situated then on the coast of Massachusetts. The national guard had to take me to work, essential employees.
That’s young, sorry for your loss
I was in that storm and it will remain with me all my life.✝️🙏
I was a junior in high school. The night before was balmy and foggy. I went to bed around 11 pm. At about 4 am I woke up and our neighbors dog was howling. I woke up my mom and said something weird was about to happen. Suddenly, there was thunder and lightning and the wind started howling. The snow began falling and by 8 am we were unable to get out the back door of our house. We lived right behind the hospital in our community and they brought in a big earth moving g piece of equipment to keep the road open to the emergency room entrance. From that point on and for the next few days we could not leave our house. I remember we had a police scanner and listened to all of the emergency responders rescuing people from the rural areas and interstates on snowmobiles. It was definitely the storm of the century.
I was 8 in the Winter of 78, and remember it well as a kid in Central Illinois. I would never have believed then it would be almost 50 years later now and still never repeated. Even though I can't tell you how many times grocery stores were swamped and raided here whenever a snowstorm was announced since, everyone remembering the ice storm.
For all I knew then it would happen the next year, and every year. Crazy.
The 70's had tons of snow great times for us kids.
I certainly realize this blizzard was more devastating in northwestern Ohio but, I will never forget my epic 8 mile journey home from my workplace in the height of this blizzard in Indianapolis, IN. I won’t go into my story here but, as I recall snow above big 4x4 vehicles but, not as high as power lines. What a memory. It took me 2 and 1/2 hours for that journey home to my wife and a steak and backed potato. She trusted me when I called her and asked her to look for me.
I held this video in my “watch later” category for some time. I’m glad I got around to watching it.
It was around 11pm my husband and I lived in Huntsville Ohio in Logan county we worked at a small factory across the street from our apartment we left work and the wind and freezing rain hit just as we were opening our door and then the snow hit the next morning my husband shoveled his way across the street to a small restaurant it was packed with stranded motorist off st rt 117 he brought 3 people home with him a semi driver from West Virginia and a couple from another county they stayed 2 days until the roads were cleared a bit our car a Volkswagen was totally covered for a week 18:20
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Will never forget it ! My grandfather died and was buried on this day back in 78 My mom drove right through the blizzard from Connecticut to Massachusetts in the thick of it 😢 took her long time to get home !:(
I was at home in South Bend, Indiana at 8 years old when the blizzard of 1978 hit in January. We pushed the button for our garage to open and it went up and up and up and it was all a wall of snow except the very top of about 4 inches where the light shown through. That wall of snow was scary. My dad had to crawl out a side window with a shovel so we could actually get out of the house and he had to shovel an entry and exit way at our back door. We had a fireplace and wood stove in the basement so we were warm when the power went out. Remember it well.
My parents met during this blizzard in South Bend! My Dad lived near my Mom on the west side and showed up on her doorstep asking for food after he ran out.
Blizzard of 1979. 2 weeks off school. Made igloos, tunnels, snowmen, snow angels, ice skating rink in the driveway.
Same stayed to long froze feet up
Me too i was 10 years old living up on a hill in an old farm house on 4 acres that my parents had bought in 1975 , i was skiing on 3 ft long plastic skiis with short aluminum poles lol and i ice skated down on the lane lol jumped off the barn roof and the back porch . Allot of fun for us kids , there were only 6 of us down that private lane out in THE boon docks lol . Scary lookin back at it now wondering how my parents kept it together 🤔😊❤🇺🇸
Richmond Indiana was our blizzard location 😊
I was in it. We were dairy farmers in northern Indiana. We dumped our milk for about 3 weeks. We had 2 farms to take care of and a hundred plus cows. It was a nightmare. We missed almost a month of school. The only thing I can say: Thank GOD the power didn’t go out.
I was 4 years old during this storm and had JUST had my birthday. When the storm was over and all the piles of snow were everywhere and no streets were plowed...my dad took me up to our 2nd floor patio and he would throw me off into the backyard and snow...It's one of my favorite memories of playing with my dad. (but boy was mom p****ed)
I was born in Wisconsin on that day. My parents were lucky to make it to the hospital!
@@reneemcmichael921 😂bet your poor mother and father had some story’s to tell you about that day.!!!! Glad she made it to hospital 🧐🇮🇪👍🏻
I was born December 31st of 77. My dad had to pay someone to go to the store and get me formula & diapers. I guess the guy had a truck & helped a lot of ppl out.
Birthday twins! I was born in Ontario Canada
I was born in 1969 and grew up on a large working farm in Northwest Ohio. I will never forget the blizzard of ‘78. I remember President Carter declaring an emergency and calling in The National Guard. I was only nine years old at the time but I remember everything very vividly. I remember I had to pull out two kitchen chairs for me and my little sister so that we could be tall enough to look over the snow that had accumulated against the front and back door and all our windows. I remember seeing all the heavy duty military equipment on our road and how scared and upset my mother was throughout the entire ordeal. I can still see all the adults sitting at the kitchen table and planning things out.
my mother was born in that blizzard new castle PA. Rest in peace momma!
She passed already? 😔 God bless your momma and family. ❤
I was 18 years old, living with my parents in Brighton, a part of Boston, Mass. What an epic event. We had 2+ feet of snow. Driving was banned in the city for a week! We lived atop a hill and had to walk everywhere, including my dad’s cleaning jobs. I remember that our feet were level with the tops of the cars! But, my family had a good time together, hunkered down, playing games, eating, etc. I love snow. ❄️😊
I was 14 yrs old in Framingham. New England got hammered! My Dad went to work in Westwood on 128 & got sent home. Next morning could barely open the front door snow fell that fast. Dukakis State of emergency but it was a great time!
I remember it well ,I was 19 years old , my baby girl was 1 years old , Lynne Marie she was still in diapers and we ran out , All the store were so low on supplies, anybody and everybody was going to the store getting whatever they needed. My daughter needed Pampers I remember trying to trudge through the snow with a carriage it was totally impossible the mounds of snow were so high I don't think I've ever seen them that high again. The people out with their shovels kids playing in the snow Banks neighbors helping neighbors It was probably the only time I seen humanity, it was an experience of a lifetime. I really enjoyed it
Can we respect that guy that went outside to chainsaw the tree off of that old lady's house though? Bad-ass move.
Lima pride
I had just turned 29 years of age a few days before this hit in 1978, and I was living on Cape Cod. My late wife and I had three children, ages 5,6 and a 3 month-old baby girl. Boy, do I remember this storm!! Not with fond memories either! More snow than I had ever seen in my 29 years on the Cape!
Oh wow!!! To have small children to take care of during such a storm,would be truly scary... Glad to hear you and your family made it through.
@@msdustismith8919 Thank you. We were Cape Cod born and bred so we managed to get through the storm with no major, (or minor) problems.
Well we had about 25 inches of snow in Cincinnati Ohio and they finally got to push it up in mounds and it did not all melt until the spring and summer.
Absolutely great video especially since I can say I was there God bless you all and thank you very much for this video from Kentucky now
I'm in Ontario Canada and I remember the blizzard of 77 shut everything down. It was crazy!
Hello from Brantford,l rember the 77 storm well,was 15 at the time,little town of Waterford
It was in 78
You're correct it was 1977
@@nancyross5257 1977
It hit us here in New York as well! I'll never forget. I was ten years old.
I was 15 and living in Connecticut. It was (by far) the biggest snow storm of my life.
I was 13.
Remember it very well. Senior in HS. Haven't seen so much snow in my life. Hell of a storm. ☮️
I was 10 years old and living in Warren, Ohio and I remember the snow drifts were at least 10 feet high.
I was 15 years old and remember this storm like it was yesterday. I lived in West Newton mass at the time. Very scary time!
I was 8 going to be 9 that May and I remember this blizzard, it was brutal. Kids today will NEVER know or understand what we all went through or what kind of winters we had.
Had just moved from Florida with my very young sons. Lived with my folks and worked with my 18 year old sister at a nursing home five miles away. We were out in the county. Workers picked us up on snowmobiles. One nurse and my sister and I ran a 150 patient home for 3 days.. Only 85 of the patients needed constant care. On the way home, in Dad's pick up on one lane, you could not see over the snow on either side. We had drifts over 12 feet. I will never forget it. I was 23. Northern Indiana a couple of miles from Notre Dame University.
I remember riding my snowmobile down the roads and running over the roofs of cars. Fortunately the people who were in those cares got out before the drifts had covered them. The road bed was under 10’ of snow in places. Clearing that road was a challenge for the road crews. The neighbor was an elderly couple who needed meds. The pharmacist lived over the pharmacy so I drove the snowmobile into town and got the meds for the neighbors. I had just turned 18 that month
I remember the thunder snow. My brother and I had a blast. No power and no school. It was ok because our heat was 100% wood stove. We put all the food outside to stay cold.what a memory.
I remember this. I was a sophomore in college in Rochester, NY. They shut down the entire city on a Monday, waiting for the blizzard. Nobody on the streets, no cars, no busses, no travel allowed. We never got an inch of snow! After all that preparation for disaster, nothing fell on the ground. We've been hit many times by other blizzards, but this one missed us completely.
I remember it well. I stayed over at my boyfriend's house and watched my 1970 Firebird get totally buried in the snow to the point that I couldn't see it anymore
I feel like people back then are more moral and decent and for the greater good just the sense I get like everyone looks out for everyone
When i think of snow, i think of the blizzard of '78, and way, way much more "Happier" times.
Same here. I was 9 when that blizzard hit, and I just remember everything white outside, and all of us snug and warm inside…playing games with my siblings while school and all else was canceled. Simpler, happier times for sure.
Did they close your school, they close schools now when it snows just 1 inch.
@@stevekirby5546: I graduated "way before" '78☺️☺️
I too remember this storm. I remember the winter season as a whole. I learned to drive in this. Got my permit and had to wait over a month to take my drivers test due to the back to back storms. One things for sure; snow never bothered me after this.
Me too! Have never minded snow since, nothing can compare.
2 feet of snow in approx. 4 hrs, about 5 feet in total with 60-75 mph winds. Drove home from work in it. We had snow drifts as tall as garage roofs. Took 3 and a half days to dig out with huge payloaders, snow plows and 8 wheel drive farm tractors. Totally unreal! I was 28 yrs old at the time,will never forget that week.
We got 55" here in Muskegon Michigan. That does not include drifting. US31 was covered ten feet deep with hundreds of cars buried. Was apocalyptic.
In Jan '78, I was a few months into 8th grade in grade school in Philly PA and I remember the snow being up to my waist and walking around the streets, must've been about 13 going on 14. I also vaguely recall the '67 blizzard even though I was about 3-4 as the snow was so high with our three story rowhome we couldn't get out the door and my father broke out the back window to the yard to climb out and shovel snow away from the door; but yeah '78 was a doozy.
I was 28 and living in Honolulu, Hawaii, and saw it on the news. They said, "Lucky you live Hawaii."
I was 19 when this hit and happened, and the next year, it got COLD NO BLIZZARD. As fast as a car would lay tire tire tracks, it would cover over with SNOW ! THE WIND WAS AT LEAST 60 MPH THUNDER, LIGHTNING. IT WAS AMAZING. DOWN IN LOW WATER BOTTOMS THE DRIFTING WAS 40 FEET HIGH. I WAS IN THE TAMPICO GROCERY STORE WHEN THE HIGHWAY CREW BROKE THREW THE DRIFTING. THEY STOPPED TO HAVE LUNCH.
I remember this all to well my poor Daddy worked at the city of Cincinnati l remember him coming home for breaks and going back to clean the streets
I survived hunkered down in our apartment while my wife rode with a volunteer snow mobile driver to her grocery store she opened so the locals could get milk and bread for their children. Fortunately, we had numerous snowmobile owners who volunteered to help us supply neighbors. We had numerous 20-foot snow drifts everywhere. When the wind was blowing, you could not see more than a few feet distance. It took a month after the storm to dig out and resume a normal pattern of life!
Down in what they call SYDNEY BOTTOMS there's a Highway 39 the highway depot got threw the Snow Drifts they said some were over 40 ft. And he probably was telling the truth.
I was a 6th grader in Indiana at a very rural elementary school of about 80 kids per graduating class. We spent the night at school - which, as a 12 year old was great! Basketball, shenanigans etc. Then came the realization we got to sleep on the floor - no pillow, no blankets. State Highway Dept escorted busses the next day
The way we came together to help each other was beautiful even though the weather was deadly, I’ll never forget that storm it was the biggest I’ll probably ever see. We had neighbors from both sides at our house because Dad had the insight to own a generator and plenty of fuel thank goodness. We had to hold onto each other to help people’s across the road it was insane.
Never forget the snow up to the top of bridges never seen anything like it again!! Thank goodness!
I was 28. Had to drive to the farm to feed 60 head of cattle in a barn. Car got stuck in 7 foot drift in Fredonia. Had to struggle to walk about a mile in that crap. Will never forget that experience.
By the time the storm hit New England, I had already left for work, as an RN, at the Institute of mental Health, in Cranston, in Rhode Island. It was Monday morning, and it wasn't snowing yet when I arrived at work. It started around 10:30 am. That was it, for the week, and I wasn't able to get back home until very early Saturday morning. Thankfully, my husband, and I, worked with the Red Cross, so he was given permission to drive down from Cumberland, RI, to where I was working, to pick me up and bring me home. Whew, what a relief. The family was so happy to see me, especially our youngest daughter, who was 4 years old.
Watching this again. Oregon is getting hit tonight & this helps me to be grateful. My friend in Cleveland just messaged that they're expecting a blizzard this weekend. I hope folks everywhere can get to safety & warmth.
Virginia sure had some blizzards to remember. The flight that went in the Potomac River,I never forget that day. Living in Arlington. It be in the 80's 82 it snowed and melted the next day.
I have an aunt that went into labor during this blizzard. I wasn't born until the 80's but whenever we talk about a cold snap during winter in Ohio, my family always brings up this blizzard. My dad was in high school at the time and among six brothers and six sisters, somehow he was the only one able to get a car started. They managed to get to the hospital but to this day I've only had one winter where it was so cold that my car wouldn't start. So hard to even fathom how bad that blizzard of 78 was
Nine months later - my first daughter was born! There was a bump in the baby population in Oct. 1979.
Oct 1979?
That was a VERY long and record gestation trimester for those women!!😂😂
@@ph1stsshould be 1978. Ex was born in oct 1978 , he said he was conceived because of the blizzard lol
No birth control then?
I remember the Akron weather guy saying not to go out unless it's an emergency! Well, being a 17 y/o kid, I hopped in my 69 Camaro and went cruising around in the blizzard. A gust of wind whited out my sight in the middle of an intersection and I high sided the car on a snow drift in the middle of the intersection. Luckily I had a shovel in the back seat and was trying to dig my way out but that wind stung my skin in just a few minutes... I hopped back in and sat there with the heater blasting. Luckily a cop pickup truck came by. They yelled at me to get home, then towed me out. Lesson learned!!
I was 9 years old when the blizzard hit us in the Boston area. Me and my family wound up going to stay at a ski ⛷️ resort in New Hampshire were my parents were just going to stay a couple of days but instead they came home and took me my sister and brother for almost 2 weeks instead because the high ways were blocked with snow. My parents and family were very happy about there because they had a generator and indoor swimming pool and small arcade ect…but I remember being in the indoor pool watching the snow ❄️ pile up on the windows around the pool. Remember finally coming back and there were trucks and with snow piled up inside them and walking through basically a tunnel to get into our apartment building. Will never forget the blizzard of 78.
I'm 45, lived in SE Texas all my life. The heat down here is very brutal and winters are very mild. The 2021 snowstorm that happened here was a cakewalk compared to this even though it kicked many people's asses. I love hearing these testimonies. I'll never know what it is like to go through this stuff. My imagination runs wild though which is why I love watching this.
Yeah man I'm still here in the greater Cincinnati/northern Kentucky areas ,and I very vividly, clearly remember this particular blizzard! I remember how the Ohio river portion which separates Newport Kentucky from just across the water to downtown Cincinnati was completely 100% solid ice!! A car literally drove across it ,and a couple brave fools also walking on it as though it was a damn sidewalk!! Like around 14 inches of snow, along with exactly 39 consecutive days with at least 1 inch of snow!! But id never consider leaving here because living someplace with having the four seasons every Year is absolutely awesome!! It like by time one season runs it's course, your already, ready for a change of season,thus you really never get totally burnt out on any season and it just makes everyone look forward to the next one if that makes sense. Summer, winter,fall ,autumn ! Pretty cool!! I remember an ex coworker years ago who moved here to Kentucky/ Cincinnati Ohio area, she lived with snow first time ever!! Lady was a fish outta water for sure n didn't know the first thing about winterizing her vehicle or wearing snow boots,or just anything,it was hilarious!!
I had to walk uphill to school EVERYDAY in this snow. And then walk home ...uphill..EVERYDAY in this snow.
I was born June 1979 in Arkansas. We've had tornados, floods, occasional snow or ice storm and yearly severe heat advisory, i never thought how rough a snow blizzard would be, nice documentary but feel bd for those lost and those who survived this!
I was ten years old when this happened. We lived in Columbus Ohio. I will never forget being confined to our apartment. We weren't hit as hard as the people in this video but it was still very bad. No school, everything closed, no way of of coming or going etc. I will never forget.
I remembered at 22 I had worked in a nursing home as a nuresaide and they ask me to stay for the next shift I found out when I went back to work I would've had to stay at work for several days.But I said no I wanted to take the 1 bus home.Normally it would take 15 to 20 minutes,that day it took 2/1/2 hrs to get home.Praise God I had gotten home safely.I didn't go into work for several days.My roomate worked in a childrens home in house keeping across a street.She didn't go into work either.Remember we did'nt have a car or modern technologie equiment we have in the here in now,which if we would've had that there would've been more help for us in this snow storm.That was the worst storm I've ever had experienced.
I was 11, in '78. Snow drifts up to our back porch. Momma tried to walk to the store to stock up on food but it was too cold so she came back home. Everyone was trapped at home and school was out for 2 weeks.
I live in Rochester NY and I never will forget!
The good old days when we use to have real very heavy blockbusting blizzards.
This was actually 3 snow storms that came in back to back not just one however the news media reported it as one storm. Look at the old archived weather maps and see for yourself.
Yes I lived in a small town inkentucky and we got 18 inches of snow (a lot for us) then 2 ice storms. Our pipes froze and we were melting snow for bathing and flushing the commode. The Ohio river froze. It was awe full!
I grew up less than 10 miles from the south shore of Lake Superior. Big snow blizzards are a regular occasion. Only select places in the mountains get more snow than there. Every winter we had to shovel off our roof lest it cave in. I still love the winter.
I was born during the blizzard lol. January 26th 1978 in Ontario Canada. My mother had to climb over a huge snowdrift while in labor.
I was trying to remember the date 👍🎸🇺🇸 I remember the storm seems like we had more snow then, than these days 🥶
I remember that blizzard, I was 4 years old and had to walk half a mile up hill to my grandma's house from the laundry mat,my hands have never been so cold or hurt so bad when I was warming them up over the wood stove
I was just out of college on my first job working at Sears in Lexington, Kentucky. Management closed the store the first day. I had to hitch a ride to work the rest of the week because I was too afraid to drive.
I'm from Pennsylvania and I was in Florida, visiting a friend that I grew up with. I was watching the blizzard on TV. Knowing that I had to go back there the next day. My friend's brother was there and I ask him if he could get me a job. He said, yes, and I never went back to pennsylvania after that, except to visit my family
I loved that blizzard!! I was 14 and played in that snow for days!!!!!!!!
To each his own My mom broke her ankle in that weather and had to have a pin placed in her ankle so it was not fun for her it took her months to recover she had been carry wash to the local laundrymat and fell on some ice in the street and my dad had to carry her back home She always feared falling on the slippery porch years later The 24 inches lasted until the summer months I was 15 back than
@@Earthgal1964 I'm from Florida our snow man is a glass of water with a top hat nose. Eyes. Floating around. I was bored, the next Trucker that walked out the door at the Truck stop I threw snow balls at. He was cracking up. Ready to return fire. I need got to play like you. Or make a snow Angel but I drove into . I went into Vermont with a load of lumber. Found a big parking lot. Locked up. My brakes and practice sliding across unil I was comfortable with being on it. Slid passed exits in Mo. Back up and take the ramp
Learned how to shovel snow and dad made it fun
I was 19 in lower MI. We guys that lived on our street shoveled sidewalks and then had snowball fights in our sidewalk trenches and mounds of snow to hide behind. Great times.
A powdery fun potentially dangerous substance. I don't think we are talking about the same thing lady. 😮
I wasn't born until 1981.Everytime Cape Cod would get a snowstorm My grandparents would tell me about the blizzard of 1978. I thought they were embellishing but looking at videos or pics. So sad and scary 😮😢
I was seven years old in Central Pennsylvania, New Cumberland to be exact… I remember the storm as if it was yesterday. I have pictures that my mom took of me standing in the snow, which I believe we probably got 2 to 3 feet. I think school was closed for probably a week and my friends and I had so much fun. I loved storms like this when I was a kid and I still love snow. It always brings out that little kid in me, no matter how old I get.
I used to live in Camp Hill and then Etters PA. 😊
I was 18 years old and lived in Indiana and know what we went through
I was 12 the day my dad came in our room at 0700 and told us that school had been canceled. We lived in an old farm house on the far West side of Columbus that shook in the high winds, which blasted the structure from a vast open aera to the Southwest. I could hear plaster falling in the uninsulated walls. Our otherwise leaky windows were sealed by ice and snow. We had no furnace; our home was heated by a coal stove located in the living room. My dad had to drive his small International Harvester pick up to the coal supply yard and help himself because there was no one there to pay, but he left an IOU note. In the afternoon we were allowed to go out and play in the snow and wind. I would hold my coat open against the wind and it would push me acrost the open parking lot next to our home. The wind created mountainous snow drifts. It was truly an incredible day to experience.
I don't remember this specific one, maybe because i grew up with numerous snow storms over the years. Thankfully we always had what we needed, and as kids enjoyed the playtime.
House in South Dakota at the time and I remember jumping off a roof onto the snow and it was a two-story house...
Remember that storm. I was servicing standby engine generator sets in central and south eastern Ohio at that time. Going on service calls a few days after on plowed rural roads I have to say I have never seen snow piled so high before or since that day.
Sadly, things were much worse for other folks.
Do Not need any more of that.
I live in Ontario Canada . I went to visit my son in hospital in the morning when there was no snow . The emergency services arrived at the hospital in the afternoon to advise us to stay because of he blizzard . I was stuck there for 3 days .
Hello,Brantford ontario I remember the 1977 storm well, nothing like it before or since
My mom and dad remember this. My mom showed me a picture of her AMC hornet covered to the roof. She said they had to call 4x4s to pick her up for work since she was a nurse.
I was working in a large NCR plant in Waterloo Ontario Canada. it was raining when I entered the building and I couldn't see outside til I got to my office. it was only a short walk but by the time I saw outside again it was a blizzard
I lived in rural Miami County. My husband was a Troy policeman. The PD picked him up on a snow mobile. He was gone for 3 days. I was home with 4 children under 6. I did not leave the house for 3 months. 1978 we moved into Troy. I would not live out in the country another winter. Lynn Cox
I'll never forget the date of the blizzard of '78 - it was on my birthday, January 26. We had just moved to Ohio, experienced the coldest winter ever in '77, then this! I was ready to return to Tennessee.
I was in Connecticut with a 6 month old baby. I think we had a party at the house & some folks had to stay overnight. Crazy
I lived in Jackson, Michigan, in 78. I was 17 years old. Did we get 24 inches? I think we did. It's been a long time. That was a hell of a snowstorm.
I was 16 and will always remember this storm...lived in akron Ohio. It was like yesterday very scary and A LOT of snow !!!!!
Even though I lived 50 miles north of Cincinnati through the 70's. '77-'78 was my freshman year of college, 10 miles north of Lexington and the weather wasn't nearly as bad as back home.
Dont forget the surrounding states. I worked at Talbot lumber Co. located in Catonsville just up hill from the river. that river flooded cause we got hit by Agnus . A terrible storm that shot up the Chesapeak floading everything in its path . All the businesses below the Lumber yard got flooded out
Homes , parked cars and more were ruined
From Lutherville Timonium area and I remember both Agnes and the blizzard of 78. I was in high school when the blizzard hit and my boyfriend walked 2 hours in deep snow thinking he could get stranded at my house but he didn't realize my Dad was from Buffalo NY and could drive through any amount of snow. My Dad let him stay long enough to get warm and have lunch then drove him home...lol.
I was holed up in a dorm room. Luckily there was a tunnel to the cafeteria on the adjacent hospital. I remember college kids jumping out the second story into massive banks of snow.
Lived in Cincinnati Ohio. I will never forget it. Live in Florida today.
Lol, I just posted the very story about your/ our areas being caught up on that Storm!! Still live here!!