Blizzard 1978 - WHBC newscast - Canton, Ohio.wmv
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- The BLIZZARD OF 1978. Radio broadcasts on WHBC RADIO in Canton, Ohio and photos related to the storm.
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Memoir Reflection:
The ice was thick and slick as the previous rains froze fast and hard. Inches of snow and winds followed rapidly as I laid in my hospital bed after giving birth to my first child. I was in the precious moments with my new baby girl and oblivious to how truly dangerous it was outside. But then for the first time of my husbands career at Con-Rail, was called out for emergency help to keep the trains moving. For they held the many valuable resources to sustain people"s needs. When he showed concern, I knew it was bad. It took a lot to make him concerned and he was very much so for the trip home. Soon the day came to be released and I was fully aware of the dangers now. I asked my Doctor if we could stay another day and he approved it. However, he stated that this is no guarantee that it could be worse travel by tomorrow? It now became our decision to gamble according to the forecast. I was terrified to take our newborn ( Shawnna ) on these roads from Aultman Hospital to Paris Ohio.
People died walking from stranded cars.... People died staying in their cars. I begged for an ambulance to take us home safely, to no avail. If only I had a video of the minus 60 degree wind chill winds gusting against our very old sand filled pick up truck with chains that he put on all four tires. Chains that dug into the 4 inches of ice beneath us.
Looking down at my precious newborn daughter crying, I said to myself, I knew you were to good to be true. As I feared the worst and prayed for God to keep us on the road.
The flour like powder blinded our path to be able to see what was road and what was drifts as high as 6 feet. Randomly placed due to the blizzard winds. If a car was on the road you didn't know it until you were right on top of them. No lanes were designated on this trip, just wherever you could drive was all that mattered. One thing I remember wishing was a way to call for help if we did get blown into a ditch.. Today a cell phone video of our trip home would have been all over the news, it was so terrifying) .... This is the true meaning for having a cell phone in 1978. . . I know for me I would have felt safer. Needless to say we made it home in 2 plus hrs of nerve racking, blood pressure rising, hard breathing fear. Covering with layers of blanks over our baby and cautious steps into the old but very warm farm house, was an exhausted sigh of relief for both of us.
" Home Sweet Home"
Cassie J. Volzer
I remember that storm, I worked at Timken Bearing in Canton at the time, They shut down all shifts for two days.
I listened on my red transistor radio while my parents watched dick Goddard. My siblings watched brady bunch and gilligans island. It was fun for me.
I lived through all of this!
1976-78 was wild storms during those years
I lived in Canton Ohio in 1978 n believe me
It was BAD N COLD
I'm still living in Canton in 2022 I'm 72 n I hope I never see it that cold here again
For over 30 days it didn't above zero 0⃣
This was the Hurricane Sandy version of a blizzard!!!
I remember it in 1978
I was 27 everything in Canton STOPPED
I'm now 72
will I was towing cars out of ditch s and had a snow plow on my truck started at 6am and did not stop until 7am the next day and started all over the next day so much snow and no where to put it . the city of canton was putting the snow in the parks off 6th street yes the good old days .Oh yes made big bucks for to weeks after it .
In 1978 I lived in canton I was 28 it was my last winter in Ohio I moved to Florida im now writing this in 2022 I'm 72 years old
I lived in canton in 1978 n trust me it was COLD N BAD
I lived in Cincinnati then, and my relatives lived in Canton. I remember this well.
I lived in Fremont Ohio at this time. I worked at Eckrich lunch meat. I missed work for a week. If I remember we saw snow until June that was piled up by plow trucks. My 1st child was born 9 month later, & called a blizzard baby. Not that that has anything to do with this storm.
must be getting old. I remember that storm had a three year old and five year old and they went out after things were plowed and the snow was at least three feet higher than they were.
I was called in to work at hospital and had to take my kids to my moms, was trying to get the small hill to her house and my speedometer said I was going 70 and the car wasn't moving.... snow was about 2 feet high and I had to stop gunning it and back down the hill. So much fun!
When this hit, I lived in Millersburg Ohio. It took 5 days to open Rt. 83 north to Wooster and Rt 62 to Massillon. It was incredible. Cresting hilltops you looked out over what appeared to be a white ocean and other hilltops looked like islands. Down in the low areas there were walls of snow maybe as much as 25-30 feet high on the sides of the road. There were also snow banks on the north side of buildings and land forms until June!
My brothers and sisters built two Huge snowmen and our pictures were in the canton repository. We lived in Jackson township. I still have the picture.
I'm glad to see something about this. I used to live in Lorain then and in 1977 and 1978 there were bad blizzards.
My grandpa was in the national Guard when that hit. His platoon was busy that's for sure.
I delivered papers in it as a boy. Lived in Waynesburg, OH.
My mother told me stories of this blizzard when I was a kid. She and the rest of the family got buried inside their house and were stuck until a her uncle could drive through the storm and dig them out. I wish I could have seen it.
In Cincinnati where I am from both 77 and 78 were bad. 1977 it was 25 below and we had no heat. in this blizzard in 1978 it was 24 inches of snow that took until the summer since it was up in huge piles. My mom fell and broke her ankle while crossing an icy street. Good riddance.
I made it to work at a car dealership in my Fiat (with oversized studded snow tires), only to find that snow had blown in the tiniest cracks to fill up the service department. Nobody else was there; they had called everyone to say that we wouldn't open, but I didn't have a phone in my apartment! So my one-plus-hour slog to go to work ended up being a four-hour round trip ... for a total of fewer than ten miles. To add insult to injury, I parked pointed the wrong way in the street, and was cited.
This was well before social media and the internet
+Leslie Bell Before PC's too, radio and TV was about it then.
come on man!! you didn't have an atari!!!
I lived threw all this also.And and now a snow storm of Jan of 2022
I was a paper boy for the Canton Repository and I got all of my papers delivered , The News paper gave me an orange hat to thank me ... wow... I remember opening a storm door of a house to place the paper inside it and the wind blew me off the front porch into the driveway . My fall was padded by the snow lol No kid today could do it .
I was a paperboy then too. I got that silly orange hat too and a letter lol
I remember this storm, I was in the ninth grade. We lived near Lake Erie and the winds were very strong. We couldn't see out the windows on one side of our house because the snow drifts were a good seven feet tall. I don't miss this weather at all.
Great job guys.
I remember living in Louisville and looking out of the sliding glass windows and the snow was up to the second story of our home.
Will never forget this winter one day -80 Celsius below. zero...went to work governor declared state emergency..picked up my check went home..What a nightmare!!
i was 16 and living in south east cleveland it was wild storm
Cleveland Hopkins recorded its lowest barometric pressure ever - 28.78 I think it was. I read 28.88 on my ships wheel aneroid in Marion. We had wind gusts to 87 mph. Lot of trees tipped over. Snow up to the window sills.
I remember this I lived with my grandma on Clarendon Ave SW not to far from Aultman Hospital..I was born & raised in Canton all my life & my dad ran the Red Head gas station on Cherry Street
I didn't realize it got as far east as Canton.
I worked with some FANTASTIC people in Tarlton ,Ohio to keep open a grocery store ,,hand slicing lunch meat packing milk in snow handing out flashlights and burning coleman lanterns to light the store up 3 or 4 days of this.
I grew up outside of Bucyrus in the middle of the open fields, and I remember our power being out. We had the couch in the family room turned to face the fireplace so we could keep warm. Mom and Dad took some pictures of the snow after our driveway was dug out, and it was up to the roofline of our one-story house.
I wss in Marion. Did you know Jackie Schaefer? She was one of the secretaries from Bucyrus. And there was Vicki Ann Hoepf from Cary. Everybody knew her - especially the priests at Our Lady of Consolation. The name John Tschantz ring a bell? And, oh yes, that was a storm!
@@mikezylstra7514 No, was four at the time.
I was 13 in Akron for this. I'll never forget it being -26. It's been colder, but that was the first one. Thanks so much for the post.
was 19 in 78 lived south of Detroit we got it too.
We live on Jeffrey Ave currently. Our house is in the picture down the street. Do you or someone you know live on Jeffrey? It was really cool seeing how much it's changed
I was 18 and worked at Clarkins on 62 at the time of the blizzard. It was closed for days. Power was out for days, it was nuts!!!
Just had to been the worst storm in Stark county. There's been a lot of time since start county where it's gotten cold and the roads were bad but not like 1978 blizzard.
I guess this what my Dad (risp) meant when he used to say i bring the storm in born '76 lol
Very nice work! I was living in Loudonville then, and I believe it was somewhat warm the evening before. I hadn't watched the news, so this all happened completely by surprise. By morning when I went to take the dog out, I had trouble getting the door open because of snow blockage and strong winds. The dog took one step out and immediately turned and flew back inside. Our electricity went out, all roads were closed to all but snowmobiles, and everything stopped for a couple of days.
My hometown. My parents were teens then. They would be married 2 years later.
I missed it, I was in the Panamanian jungle.
I was 9. We had a blast in the snow. We had wood heat. All was good enough. 2 weeks or more without electricity. Canned food and a cow and pig in the freezer.
To keep state routes cleaned and my mother and my sister's and I brought our neighbors the McCarthy's food no one could get out
Oh damn I remember that I was 5 going on 6 schools closed snow coming up to my kid face lol i found out in 96 listening to coast to coast am Russia cause the 77 blizzard with a weather control in 83 canton was on the top 10 cities for nuclear attack as a kid hearing alarms go off my family rushed into our basement oh ps nice pic standing in front of the McKinley monument
I well remember this blizzard. I was in a small town near Youngstown, Ohio in a rental house, the size of a two-room lake cottage that strangely, had no heating ducts. The small furnace in the back room, was supposed to blow enough hot air to heat the house. Even with the furnace running, the temperature in the house dropped to where the pipes froze. Bundled up as I was, another day in there and I would have frozen to death. I threw red road flares out in my front yard, and a helicopter saw me and sent a rescue team, to take me to a fire station garage shelter
I was dumb enough to drive to Cbus right after the worst to see a GF. I71 looked like Dresden.
I was 60 miles SE of Lake Michigan. No college for a week. Professors couldn't get in.
I was only 7/8 years old at the time and I thought it was awesome. Now I just see it as a huge nightmare LOL
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The Nessman brothers minus Les. Les had already moved on to the big city.
I was only 6 but I remember this...my grandpa had to come dig out the doors of the house so we could get out. Lol. My moms sister and kids came over and we all slept in the big room with the fireplace and a blanket hung across doorways to keep heat in the one room. As kids this was great fun.
I was 14 in Columbus when it hit. Sadly I froze to death.
I'm glad I didn't live then wow
~ Nice Piece ! Thanx ! ~
This doesn’t look very bad. I remember on January 19, 1994 when it got to -20 WITHOUT the windchill. I also lived in Maryland in 2010 when we got over 48” of snow in two days. I lived through this blizzard of 78’ as well. I just think it was poorly predicted and planned.