Blizzard of 1978 Indianapolis: Kevin Gregory discusses blizzard memories with Bob Gregory
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2018
- Former Indianapolis meteorologist Bob Gregory stopped by RTV6 to discuss the Blizzard of 1978 with his son, RTV6 Meteorologist Kevin Gregory.
Thats so cool. I had no clue that he was your dad. I recognized his voice instantly. I was 10 in '78. Used to see your dad on the news all the time. My parents watched him every night.
I was 10 too. I'm from Anderson. I remember looking out at the snow for hours. I remember the commercial where the lady dressed her kid in a foot thick of sweaters, coats, mittens and scarves so the kid couldn't move and she says "Bob Gregory said it's going to be cold outside." I tell that story to my friends here in Texas when they think they have gotten a little snow.
nepotism in action :)
Bob Gregory! Good times!
I was 28 when this hit Indianapolis and it traumatized me for life I can tell you - if there is one hint of snow in the forecast I am off the grocery store to stock up. I was snowed in my apartment on 10th street on the east side of Indianapolis and it snowed for 3 solid days horrizontally past my window. Before it started late Friday the weather before was pretty mild but the forecasting was dismal because there simply was no radar tracking of the whole US and I don't think they thought storms could be a multi-state thing yet - all weather used to be considered a local event but we now know that is not true. A storm out in Kansas can and does make it's way across the US going east and effect state after state. So I went home Friday after work and did not go to the grocery store. That snow was deep, heavy, and frozen. The windchill was 30 below zero. Nothing was moving because our local government did not salt or plow back then. Only things moving out on the street were 4 wheel drive vehicles and snow mobiles whizzing up and down Shadeland Ave. And the deep ice ruts on the streets made it very hard to make turns because your car was stuck in them because they were frozen. The snow did not melt until April 1978 completely. Very, very frightentng.
people that pay attention had no issues at all.. It pays to pay attention.. My family did just fine
I did not know that was his dad. I was in the 3rd grade when this came through. Was pretty amazing.
I was 7 and was out of school for 2 weeks. It made me want to have a house with fireplace the rest of my life; including after we moved to Clearwater, Florida where it has never snowed!
I'll never forget this just so happen to be out grocery shopping thought it was just going to snow but didn't know it was going be a blizzard that hit Indianapolis. Good thing I went grocery shopping on that day and also just bought a case of baby's formula.
Me and my dad where walking down by Brookside park in deep snow
Small world I grew up in brookside
We had a blast ! I was 17 not worried about a thing but getting back to Shazams the under 21 club me and my sister Terri went too.
I had just turned 15 on the very day of the blizzard and yes! we also had no worries except getting back to our beloved under 21 disco called the Locomotion! Haha. 😂
I was only two years old at the time living on the far North side of Indianapolis.
I remember this 😊❤❤ I love snow days
An ambulance crashed in our front yard. shortly after an army truck came an took all of the people away. The ambulance stayed in the yard for 3 weeks. Pike Twp. Indy. That storm was amazing.
I was in the seventh grade. We had a large window in our living room. I sat all day Thursday, the main day of snow in Central Indiana, and watch it come down out of the sky with a vengeance!
My god I remember walking 4 miles from my Apartment at 38th college area up to 34th and Emerson Ave, what a battle I had just one step after another...I had to cause I had not food.
21st and Emerson here.
I was living at souteastern and maryland i was 7 years old, snow was so far over my head. It was awesome!
It got deeper the closer you got to new castle and LEWISVILLE east of Indy
My soon to be husband and and I followed a snow plow out from our short little street onto 26th and Arlington and drove to Lawrence to a friends house In our 2 wheel drive van. We got there In one piece and Didn't get stuck once. I White knucked the ride the whole way. This May we celebrate our 40th Anniversary. I still don't like driving in the snow, and either be drives or I wait till the roads are dry and then I'll drive. We do have a four wheel drive truck now.Loved seeing Bob Gregory and his son Kevin discussing the '78 Blizzard. The Were my favorite Meteorogists. We don't have cable or satellite and only stream the tv with Roku. We're in the boonies and can't get local tv networks.
O my gosh, Bob Gregory!!! I was 5 in January of 78. It's crazy but I remember me, my 4yr old sister and my 3yr old sister had chicken pox. We lived in Cicero. I remember being upset because I couldn't go out and play. Kids in the neighborhood had built up igloos and I was devastated not to b out there too.
I was living in greenwood just north of mall. I remember very well
Must been about 9 or 10.
Oh I wanted to add that winner the snow is plowed so high up the telephone poles down the main route through western part of the state that it looked like a toboggan run because there was no more places to plow the snow 😬
I remember it well because I just graduated the spring before and was getting married in early spring 78 but we were tough back then it had been a long cold winter and we were used to it !
Bob Gregory said it’s going to be cold out! I’m 58 and still say it.
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And I was driving back from Kankakee to Anderson after a day of Pheasant hunting in, with wind chill, -42 weather and made it back. Everything was shut down because of the massive snow and wind.
Too Cool!☃️
I was 18 and lived in South Bend In. They brought my grandmothers meds by snowmobile. I moved to so. California the next year.
OMGOSH! I REMEMBER THAT WINTER! MY MOTHER MADE ME WALK TO SCHOOL THAT MORNING!!! 6 AM! SNOW BLOWING SIDEWAYS! SNOW UP TO MY THIGHS! WIND CHILLS WERE -32° AND SCHOOL WAS NOT CANCELLED!!!! WHAT WAS GOING ON???? IT TOOK ME OVER AN HOUR TO GET TO SCHOOL WHEN IT NORMALLY TOOK 20 MINUTES!! ONLY ONE OTHER STUDENT BEAT ME! SITTING IN THE LOBBY! BY 9:00 AM THERE WERE FOUR OF US SITTING IN THE LOBBY. NICE. BY 10 AM CLASSES WERE OFFICIALLY CANCELLED BECAUSE THE BUSSES COULDN'T MAKE IT DOWN THE COUNTRY ROADS, SIGH.. SCHOOL WAS NEVER CANCELLED. WE WERE BEHIND IF WE HAD THREE OFFICIAL CANCELLED SCHOOL DAYS? WHATEVER. IT WAS LIKE WE HAD TO TAKE THREE MONTHS OF SUMMER CLASSES TO MAKE UP THOSE THREE DAYS. We must have had one of the lowest graduating schools or something. I still can't figure it out. BUT, MY MOTHER DECIDED I WAS WORTH COMING TO GET WHEN SHE HEARD SCHOOL WAS OFFICIALLY CLOSED. I HAD ALREADY MADE MY WAY TO THE RAIL ROAD TRACKS, WHICH WAS AN HOUR'S WALK BY THIS TIME. MOM, IN HER SPORTS CAR, TRUNK WEIGHED DOWN WITH 40 LB BAGS OF SALT WEIGHING AT LEAST 200 LBS FROM DAD CARRYING THE BAGS, TWO AT A TIME LAYING THEM IN THE TRUNK AND HAVING SNOW AND ICE CHAINS ON THE TIRES, CAME AND PICKED ME UP ON THE SIDE ROAD. Mom is five feet tall and weighs 90 pounds came out to get my little sister first, then me in her '67 Mercury Cougar RX 7 with flashing lights. Dad worked for the Government, so he HAD TO GO TO WORK TO HELP WITH STRANDED MOTORISTS AND SNOW REMOVAL. IT WAS ONE HELL OF A STORM. But... nothing trumps education in our family, I guess, not even safety. 🙄. SHEESH!!!
Ho ho ho. Good job boys.
I was 2 yrs old or almost 2 anyways I was outside in my diaper by my mom n dads station wagon
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