I was in college at U of L then. I have a memory of a news story where a couple of guys started driving a Corvair across the river, made it about halfway, started sinking, had to be rescued by HELICOPTER!
I had just gotten back from Montana a few months before this. I was staying with my parents around this time, I believe. Made me HATE WINTER ALL THE MORE!!!!
My grandfather walked across the river in 1929 ; I crossed over to Indiana to watch the sun go down in1978 on ice skates . Probably one of the dumbest things I've ever done . At the Lnights of Columbus on River Rd. , the ice was as smooth as glass for 60 yards or so then an ice bolder field made by barges. In the middle was a swath where barges last traveled , this was frozen smooth as glass the width of a barge . You could see debris and trash rushing by , this ice appeared to be two inches thick , on the other side was a repeat terrain of the south side . I wasn't the only fool out there , I reckoned if they could go across I could too . The following year the river also froze enough to skate on but not totally across , this I did returning home from UofL most ever day . Wish I had a camera back then .
I remember trying rabbit hunt in that stuff. It was impossible. We kept getting these little arctic energy pulses on after the other for a while, and then this blizzard came. There had been a freezing rain in there and a day or two of above 32 degrees, so it was in layers of ice and snow. I was very difficult to walk in, because you would break through a layer of ice into snow, and then hit another layer of ice, ect. Tough going through that.
I think you're right. I believe it to be the Goodwill Store that burned about that time. If I remember right there had been a fire a few years before this at the same store, the Fire Chief at the time wanted a wall torn down and it was not. This time the wall fell destroying a fire truck. At this point a different ordered the rest of the dangerous parts torn down.
I have a slide of my family standing on the ice of the Ohio River and it is dated January 1977. "WFPL reported on this very phenomenon in January of last year. Ja’Nel Johnson spoke with the National Weather Service and learned that the Ohio River froze over during the winters of 1976-1977 and 1977-1978, which were a couple of the coldest winters on record for Kentucky" wfpl.org/curious-louisville-whens-last-time-ohio-river-froze/
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I remember this, missed a ton of school. Good times. I was about 13
I remember all of this... Lived here always...Great memories
Who else here in 2021 and crazy this popped up on the day of ice storm
Yup
This my city
My family had recently moved to lou, i forgot you could walk across the ohio. was this the year we were out of school for over a month?
im right over in jeffersonville and i was 5 in 78 and the snow was up to my chest!
Never will forget this man it was cold , I was 17
Love the 1978 skyline!! Lol 😍
I was in college at U of L then. I have a memory of a news story where a couple of guys started driving a Corvair across the river, made it about halfway, started sinking, had to be rescued by HELICOPTER!
I had just gotten back from Montana a few months before this. I was staying with my parents around this time, I believe. Made me HATE WINTER ALL THE MORE!!!!
AWESOME Memories....
My grandfather walked across the river in 1929 ; I crossed over to Indiana to watch the sun go down in1978 on ice skates .
Probably one of the dumbest things I've ever done .
At the Lnights of Columbus on River Rd. , the ice was as smooth as glass for 60 yards or so then an ice bolder field made by barges. In the middle was a swath
where barges last traveled , this was frozen smooth as glass the width of a barge . You could see debris and trash rushing by , this ice appeared to be two inches
thick , on the other side was a repeat terrain of the south side .
I wasn't the only fool out there , I reckoned if they could go across I could too .
The following year the river also froze enough to skate on but not totally across , this I did returning home from UofL most ever day .
Wish I had a camera back then .
I was 8 years old and have pictures of me standing on the river...
AWESOME PICS!!
I’ll never forget
I remember trying rabbit hunt in that stuff. It was impossible. We kept getting these little arctic energy pulses on after the other for a while, and then this blizzard came. There had been a freezing rain in there and a day or two of above 32 degrees, so it was in layers of ice and snow. I was very difficult to walk in, because you would break through a layer of ice into snow, and then hit another layer of ice, ect. Tough going through that.
I think you're right. I believe it to be the Goodwill Store that burned about that time. If I remember right there had been a fire a few years before this at the same store, the Fire Chief at the time wanted a wall torn down and it was not. This time the wall fell destroying a fire truck. At this point a different ordered the rest of the dangerous parts torn down.
I was 10 at that time. Was talking to a guy at worked about this a few weeks ago. Seems almost impossible these days.
Winter Freeze 2021 for Louisville!
Ah the good ole days when we only wore mask if we wanted to
The year I was born
That was 1977.It was cold 1978 but the river didn't freeze over like that.
I have a slide of my family standing on the ice of the Ohio River and it is dated January 1977.
"WFPL reported on this very phenomenon in January of last year. Ja’Nel Johnson spoke with the National Weather Service and learned that the Ohio River froze over during the winters of 1976-1977 and 1977-1978, which were a couple of the coldest winters on record for Kentucky" wfpl.org/curious-louisville-whens-last-time-ohio-river-froze/
My mom was 4 she lived in Floyd county
The river froze?
That it did I walked out past the boat docks, my older brother walked all the way across to indiana