We lived in Terre Haute on the north side. I was about 10 years old. I remember the snow covering our our doors and windows. After a day or two my brothers went out and with my Dad's help, cleared a path and made snow tunnels. We had so much fun 🤣 then, the Sealtest ice cream man that lived up the road left me a carton of Peppermint stick ice cream in the snow by the mailbox. That blizzard, while devastating, also brought some of the more special memories for me as a kid. My family was all together, no work, no running around. The snow kept us all in and safe and able to spend more precious time together.
This brings back memories. This channel and program was playing in my living room when I was a kid! Who would have thought I'd get to watch it again after all these years! Oh, and thanks for leaving the commercials in. What a throwback!
I was just thinking about this event a couple of days ago. I was 15 years old and was living in the country south of Greenwood. It took three days as I remember for the National Guard to get through in an APC. Thankfully, WISH-TV decided to put this on You Tube. It will have been 47 years ago this January. I have several copies of the Indianapolis Star and The Daily Journal newspapers from that time that told the stories of the blizzard. In retrospect, I think that people came through that storm pretty well considering that no one was prepared for a blizzard. I don't remember people complaining. It was a challenge, and everyone rose to meet it. I don't think that people would fare as well today.
Coldest spot in the nation for three days was Spencer, Indiana. I lived in a very old farmhouse in Poland Indiana and snow drifted up to the second floor window. During the blizzard we could see lightning & heard claps of thunder. It was incredible.
Really?.. my family was in Mooresville at the time. I was in the Navy in Connecticut and remember dad telling me about how devastating it was. Dad was born in Freedom and my brother lives in Spencer now. I'm glad to see all the locals in comments 💁🏼♀️
I like how it's fairly fit. trim, white people speaking the lord's english and not some fake ghetto hood clickbait ebonics speak. We need to go back to this
I was a junior at Northwestern High School in Howard County. The school let us out too late, and the busses couldn't get down most roads! We had two family sets of kids staying with us because the bus couldn't get them home! It was fun as a kid. Snow drifts as tall as our outbuildings! We'd climb on top and slide down. We lived out in the country, and the roads were one lane and looked like tunnels! An experience of a lifetime!
My brother and I did the exact same thing in Kouts. My dad was a buddy of the snow plow guy in town so he piled all the snow down the street in our front yard. It was three times as high as our roof. All the neighborhood kids sledded for two months on that dude.
I was 7 years old we lived in a trailer park between Monrovia and Mooresville snow drifts were up to the top of the trailers I'll never forget it we don't get snow like that no more
I was in a trailer too. When it quit coming down, Dad shoved all his weight (big man) against the door, sister and I had to squeeze out and dig for a while, squeeze back in so Dad could slam against it some more 😂 took almost all day to get off the front porch 😂
Remember it well. I was working at weir cook airport when it hit. I was one of the lucky few who got home that night. We were told to close the store and go home. I will never forget my dad showing up with his truck and the long, long drive home. We finally pulled into the driveway after 6pm. A week later, the airport authority found my white mustang along with 10 other cars in the snow bank that was the employee parking lot. That storm was a heck of a birthday present for anyone born in January and early February. We could see the newly built i70 with semi trucks stranded. Someone in the neighborhood had a snow mobile and ran back and forth for emergencies.
I grew up in Connersville, IN, east and south of Indianapolis. I remember I was 14, being out of school for a week. Thankfully we had a big wood stove and my dad kept us sweating. The wind was brutal and if you went outside you weren’t out very long. A very unique time I’ll never forget.
I was 13 years old, we lived in a dinky little town named Francisco, here in the southwestern corner of the state. My dad worked second shift at the Whirlpool plant in Evansville at the time. He didn't make it home for a few days. U.S. 41, as well as the county highways had been closed. We missed a month of school. My mom was more than a little relieved that it was just me and my brother living at home at that point in time, the poor woman would have had a nervous breakdown if all four of us were still at home.
The roof came off our brand new mobile home in Chesterfield. It took the National Guard to get our family out of the park and into Anderson. I will never forget it.
We were stranded for 3 days at work. The snow was up to the roof of our facility. We had an elderly patient pass. The only way i got out after 3 days was on the back of a snowmobile. Took a break at a nurses house down the road and then went back to work. We had to cover shifts until relief could get in. Thank God we had plenty of everything and power. I decided i was going to get 4-wheel dr after that
I was 12 and my sister and I had to walk a quarter mile to Chuck's Market for food. We were bundled up with 3 layers of clothes and socks. I don't miss the blizzard but I miss the love of those days. R.I.P William Hudnut, Josh Littman. I guess the world was different in those days because we were children.
I lived in Connersville. We had a National Guard Armory in town. My mom was a nurse at the hospital. I remember their big trucks picking her up for work. As a young kid i thought it was great. Now as an adult i couldn't imagine this nightmare.
Was a student at Trine (Tri-State University) in Angola, Ind, Basically brought everything to a standstill on I-69 and I-89/90. College was closed for 3 days !!
I was 8 and I remember my Mom and brother using their bodies to keep our front door from blowing open until they could secure it. Also, my Mom left work early and stopped at a Magic Market convenience store and bought bread. 3 years later, at IPS #62, we staged a musical production and our music teacher had written a song about the blizzard. We began the song by saying, “Do you remember the blizzard?” and a voice in the audience unexpectedly exclaimed, “I sure do!” It was Mayor Hudnut! He was invited by our principal, who was a personal friend of his.
I was only 5 so I don't remember, but have heard many stories about my family members getting stuck out/barely making it home, etc. I grew up in the country and we had a local baby born during that storm that's still known as the "blizzard baby." His mom went to the hospital via snowmobile, it was the only way. I can't IMAGINE!!
I was 22. Wasn't able to get to work for several days. I actually worked at the State Highway (now INDOT) in Southern Indiana. The guys that went out to clear the roads said it was crazy. They couldn't keep up.
I was 10 years old and remember being out of school for a couple of weeks. My father-in-law had to spend the night in a funeral home when they closed the roads while driving home from work in Anderson.
It was a nightmare getting home to my wife and toddler son, It's a good thing I made it busting through drifts, because the dozers broke through 7 days later. We were lucky we had a wood stove (power went out), and a refrigerator full of food, one wall on the southwest side froze up inside the house. then our house became completely covered with a large drift.
Was part of 5 man construction crew 100 miles from home.Job site in Upper Sandusky Ohio. Ate from fruit cellar, shot pool by candle light and played cards till all but 2 of us were broke. Spent next winter in Pompano horse track in Florida. It would be my last white hurricane and moved to Florida in 1980
I was three when this happened. My only real memory was mom sitting in front of the French doors in the living room waiting for dad to get home while the snow fell. I learned when I was older that he had to abandon his vehicle and walk several blocks to get home. I’ve never seen anything comparable since. Some heavy snow from time to time but no blizzards. Bummer.
I lived the beginning of my childhood in Gas City- I went to West Elementary. We moved out in the country the summer before this storm, and I was staying home from Westview in Jonesboro when this happened.
I remember this storm. It was my junior year in high school and I chose to stay after school and take a test early because I was dealing with a really bad cold. The next day we learned that a storm came through our area bringing an illness called Valley Fever. One of our older English teachers was diagnosed with it and never returned to school. He died about 6 months later. While this was not as bad as a blizzard, in March of 2023, I had a storm that buried my house. It was the worst I have seen in 40 years. Fortunately, I had been with my daughter for the weekend when it hit.
I was 9 years old.... Living 30 miles north of Boston. Father came home early from work... We filled up three shopping carts, plenty of firewood...... Everybody abandoned their cars on the highway, Salisbury Beach was completely destroyed.... The brunt of the storm was on the East Coast... We got it twice
Do you ever look at the forecast? They're forecasting 6-10 inches this weekend and it will be below freezing for at least a week straight. But yeah let's pretend it never snows and is 60 degrees every day. Sheesh.
@@censortube8662the snow this weekend is nothing compared to how winters were in the 80s and 90s. I was born 1980 an I remember there being snow from the beginning of December all the way through February. Now we just get snow one weekend an gone by the next.
I will never understand people that glorify and hope for snow like this. This can turn deadly quickly if power goes out and people are stranded in their homes especially for vulnerable people like the elderly. If you love snow so much then move north, you'll see plenty of it.
The people that want to see snow like that, they are crazy for sure. I myself would just like to see enough snow to make Christmas feel like it was when I grew up in the 80s. Not 60 degrees and raining lol.
We lived in Terre Haute on the north side. I was about 10 years old. I remember the snow covering our our doors and windows. After a day or two my brothers went out and with my Dad's help, cleared a path and made snow tunnels. We had so much fun 🤣 then, the Sealtest ice cream man that lived up the road left me a carton of Peppermint stick ice cream in the snow by the mailbox. That blizzard, while devastating, also brought some of the more special memories for me as a kid. My family was all together, no work, no running around. The snow kept us all in and safe and able to spend more precious time together.
This brings back memories. This channel and program was playing in my living room when I was a kid! Who would have thought I'd get to watch it again after all these years! Oh, and thanks for leaving the commercials in. What a throwback!
Oh man I miss Hooks Drugstore.
I was just thinking about this event a couple of days ago. I was 15 years old and was living in the country south of Greenwood. It took three days as I remember for the National Guard to get through in an APC. Thankfully, WISH-TV decided to put this on You Tube. It will have been 47 years ago this January. I have several copies of the Indianapolis Star and The Daily Journal newspapers from that time that told the stories of the blizzard. In retrospect, I think that people came through that storm pretty well considering that no one was prepared for a blizzard. I don't remember people complaining. It was a challenge, and everyone rose to meet it. I don't think that people would fare as well today.
Mike Ahern and Stan "The Weatherman" Wood. They were Indiana celebrities.
Where was Debbie Knox ? that one cat thought he was cool, network face man.😁😁
Thank you so much for uploading this special. Some of my earliest memories are of digging out from this storm.
Coldest spot in the nation for three days was Spencer, Indiana.
I lived in a very old farmhouse in Poland Indiana and snow drifted up to the second floor window.
During the blizzard we could see lightning & heard claps of thunder. It was incredible.
Really?.. my family was in Mooresville at the time. I was in the Navy in Connecticut and remember dad telling me about how devastating it was. Dad was born in Freedom and my brother lives in Spencer now.
I'm glad to see all the locals in comments 💁🏼♀️
I am 63 years old and I have never seen snow like this ever again 😮😊❤
Ditto on that and I’m 50
Chicago 2011
Hope I never see a blizzard again.
68 here and I agree.
68 in Kokomo and ditto!
I like how the WISH-TV 8 production team of ‘78 has Mayor Bill Hudnut declaring a snow emergency to the drum solo of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
I like how it's fairly fit. trim, white people speaking the lord's english and not some fake ghetto hood clickbait ebonics speak. We need to go back to this
I was a junior at Northwestern High School in Howard County. The school let us out too late, and the busses couldn't get down most roads! We had two family sets of kids staying with us because the bus couldn't get them home! It was fun as a kid. Snow drifts as tall as our outbuildings! We'd climb on top and slide down. We lived out in the country, and the roads were one lane and looked like tunnels! An experience of a lifetime!
I miss the old channel 8 news crew 😢😊❤
Everybody gets old and retires. Part of life. I understand your sentiment. ❤
I remember this time so well my brothers and I made a tunnel in our yard those were the best times 😢😊❤
My brother and I did the exact same thing in Kouts. My dad was a buddy of the snow plow guy in town so he piled all the snow down the street in our front yard. It was three times as high as our roof. All the neighborhood kids sledded for two months on that dude.
I was 7 years old we lived in a trailer park between Monrovia and Mooresville snow drifts were up to the top of the trailers I'll never forget it we don't get snow like that no more
Sounds like Echo Lake.
O yes we do. It's coming. Don't believe the global warming lie.
I was in a trailer too. When it quit coming down, Dad shoved all his weight (big man) against the door, sister and I had to squeeze out and dig for a while, squeeze back in so Dad could slam against it some more 😂 took almost all day to get off the front porch 😂
Remember it well. I was working at weir cook airport when it hit. I was one of the lucky few who got home that night. We were told to close the store and go home. I will never forget my dad showing up with his truck and the long, long drive home.
We finally pulled into the driveway after 6pm. A week later, the airport authority found my white mustang along with 10 other cars in the snow bank that was the employee parking lot. That storm was a heck of a birthday present for anyone born in January and early February. We could see the newly built i70 with semi trucks stranded. Someone in the neighborhood had a snow mobile and ran back and forth for emergencies.
I grew up in Connersville, IN, east and south of Indianapolis. I remember I was 14, being out of school for a week. Thankfully we had a big wood stove and my dad kept us sweating. The wind was brutal and if you went outside you weren’t out very long. A very unique time I’ll never forget.
Northern Indiana had drifts as high as houses
I was 13 years old, we lived in a dinky little town named Francisco, here in the southwestern corner of the state. My dad worked second shift at the Whirlpool plant in Evansville at the time. He didn't make it home for a few days. U.S. 41, as well as the county highways had been closed. We missed a month of school. My mom was more than a little relieved that it was just me and my brother living at home at that point in time, the poor woman would have had a nervous breakdown if all four of us were still at home.
The roof came off our brand new mobile home in Chesterfield. It took the National Guard to get our family out of the park and into Anderson. I will never forget it.
Let’s not forget the “wonderful” music for this special, Ron Bushy’s drum solo from the song “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Iron Butterfly.
We were stranded for 3 days at work. The snow was up to the roof of our facility. We had an elderly patient pass. The only way i got out after 3 days was on the back of a snowmobile. Took a break at a nurses house down the road and then went back to work. We had to cover shifts until relief could get in. Thank God we had plenty of everything and power. I decided i was going to get 4-wheel dr after that
I remember this storm. I was 11 years old, and my family was stranded in a rural area for several days.
I was 12 and my sister and I had to walk a quarter mile to Chuck's Market for food. We were bundled up with 3 layers of clothes and socks. I don't miss the blizzard but I miss the love of those days. R.I.P William Hudnut, Josh Littman. I guess the world was different in those days because we were children.
@@rickimhotep1236 I miss it too.
That 70’s carpet 🤦🏻♂️
Lol yes! Three shades!
It came for us and it got us and I survived it - hoosier strong
Whatever doesn't kill ya 😂
I was 6 years old when this happened and couldn't get the front door open cause of the snow!
I was 8yrs. old we lived in Columbus
I lived in Connersville. We had a National Guard Armory in town. My mom was a nurse at the hospital. I remember their big trucks picking her up for work. As a young kid i thought it was great. Now as an adult i couldn't imagine this nightmare.
Was a student at Trine (Tri-State University) in Angola, Ind, Basically brought everything to a standstill on I-69 and I-89/90. College was closed for 3 days !!
I remember this storm very well! I hadn't been home from being discharged from the USN long, staying at my Mom and stepdads in Indianapolis.
Need to increase the volume.
I remember that day very well growing up in Greenfield.
I was 8 and I remember my Mom and brother using their bodies to keep our front door from blowing open until they could secure it. Also, my Mom left work early and stopped at a Magic Market convenience store and bought bread.
3 years later, at IPS #62, we staged a musical production and our music teacher had written a song about the blizzard. We began the song by saying, “Do you remember the blizzard?” and a voice in the audience unexpectedly exclaimed, “I sure do!” It was Mayor Hudnut! He was invited by our principal, who was a personal friend of his.
I was only 5 so I don't remember, but have heard many stories about my family members getting stuck out/barely making it home, etc. I grew up in the country and we had a local baby born during that storm that's still known as the "blizzard baby." His mom went to the hospital via snowmobile, it was the only way. I can't IMAGINE!!
I was 22. Wasn't able to get to work for several days. I actually worked at the State Highway (now INDOT) in Southern Indiana. The guys that went out to clear the roads said it was crazy. They couldn't keep up.
I was 10 years old and remember being out of school for a couple of weeks. My father-in-law had to spend the night in a funeral home when they closed the roads while driving home from work in Anderson.
I like the In-A-Gadda drum solo that they used.
It was a nightmare getting home to my wife and toddler son, It's a good thing I made it busting through drifts, because the dozers broke through 7 days later. We were lucky we had a wood stove (power went out), and a refrigerator full of food, one wall on the southwest side froze up inside the house. then our house became completely covered with a large drift.
I was 21 years old and worked for the State Highway Dept. 12 hours on 12 hours off for over a week.
Thank you 😂
Was part of 5 man construction crew 100 miles from home.Job site in Upper Sandusky Ohio. Ate from fruit cellar, shot pool by candle light and played cards till all but 2 of us were broke. Spent next winter in Pompano horse track in Florida. It would be my last white hurricane and moved to Florida in 1980
Great story!
This just makes me feel old...😑
I was three when this happened. My only real memory was mom sitting in front of the French doors in the living room waiting for dad to get home while the snow fell. I learned when I was older that he had to abandon his vehicle and walk several blocks to get home. I’ve never seen anything comparable since. Some heavy snow from time to time but no blizzards. Bummer.
Ive never been so bored since 1978
I grew up hearing stories of the Blizzard of '78
I remember it I was walking home from school in gas City Indiana and got frostbite
I lived the beginning of my childhood in Gas City- I went to West Elementary. We moved out in the country the summer before this storm, and I was staying home from Westview in Jonesboro when this happened.
I was 9 years old it was fun times during The 78 Blizzard for a Kid
I will never forget that storm. I was 18 years old. Almost got stuck in that mess!
I remember this storm. It was my junior year in high school and I chose to stay after school and take a test early because I was dealing with a really bad cold. The next day we learned that a storm came through our area bringing an illness called Valley Fever. One of our older English teachers was diagnosed with it and never returned to school. He died about 6 months later. While this was not as bad as a blizzard, in March of 2023, I had a storm that buried my house. It was the worst I have seen in 40 years. Fortunately, I had been with my daughter for the weekend when it hit.
I was 9 years old.... Living 30 miles north of Boston. Father came home early from work... We filled up three shopping carts, plenty of firewood...... Everybody abandoned their cars on the highway, Salisbury Beach was completely destroyed.... The brunt of the storm was on the East Coast... We got it twice
Awe Mike and Carol looking so young 😊 Still beautiful I'm sure 😊 I'm certain that channel 8 was on the TV through the entire ordeal at our place 😂
I was in junior highschool kid. We were out for 2 weeks. Remember walking up Ditch Road to the grocery
Was that the old Marsh at 86th and Ditch?
Love the raw footage, but the audio could use a boost
I was 3 and my dad drove a tractor home from work in Shelbyville
Well that was a fun sled ride down memory lane
Sent this to my granddaughters 😂 it's hard to explain to people that were not here 😂 mostly happy memories 😊 i was in Centerville 😂
Everything 4x4 sold immediately
It used to snow here?
And the ponds used the freeze over. I remember sledding down hills onto the ice.
Like a MF it snowed 😂
Do you ever look at the forecast? They're forecasting 6-10 inches this weekend and it will be below freezing for at least a week straight. But yeah let's pretend it never snows and is 60 degrees every day. Sheesh.
@@censortube8662the snow this weekend is nothing compared to how winters were in the 80s and 90s. I was born 1980 an I remember there being snow from the beginning of December all the way through February. Now we just get snow one weekend an gone by the next.
Was a kid living in Irvington.
I was stuck at Gay Dan's Hot Dog Stand on 86th street
So they dedicated an entire show to what we Canadians experience every day in the winter, every winter.
They did say happens once in every 30 years for Hoosiers! 😂
Very good information to have to be prepared for the next time too.
@@maggiemae7153 wow, seems like you're due
Every day, Dabney? Really?
@@abunchahooey It's Canada
@@dabneyoffermein595
Ok, you're definitely getting annexed now. 😂
Kept Jerry’s Restaurant open in Seymour for 2 1/2 days!
I was 11 years old skichin on oil trucks lol
A bit concerned I keep getting recommended videos and articles about this blizzard. Is this a warning another is coming soon?
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shouldn't this be for jan 2025
Leather knee-high boots for women were fashionable back in the day.
What a bizarre set for this “special”. Yikes!!
I will never understand people that glorify and hope for snow like this. This can turn deadly quickly if power goes out and people are stranded in their homes especially for vulnerable people like the elderly. If you love snow so much then move north, you'll see plenty of it.
The people that want to see snow like that, they are crazy for sure. I myself would just like to see enough snow to make Christmas feel like it was when I grew up in the 80s. Not 60 degrees and raining lol.
Been there done that Lol