They don't mention us much but this blizzard had us shut down in Tennessee. I was in 4th grade and we had a month of snow days from school. To us it was heaven. Our parents lost their minds. We were still attending school in late June to make up all those snow days.
My oldest daughter is known as a blizzard baby of 78. I lived in Fremont Ohio (Cedar Point area). I worked at Eckrich Lunch meat, I missed work for a week. Father-in-law had a snow mobile at that time. came in handy. Shoveling this stuff was next to impossible. We lived in the kitchen with a gas oven keeping us warm at nights, we had candles for light.
I got married on this very day here in Pittsburgh PA. I think it was like 27 inches of snow. No cell phones, my phone connection to the house was knocked off when the snow knocked the awning off the side of the house. When I went outside, the snow was up to my crotch. I had to dig out my 2 Wheel Dr. new Ford van, drive to my girlfriends house, and borrow her front wheel drive new Volkswagen rabbit to pick up the best man and my mother for the 6 o’clock ceremony which was to be held all along in my girlfriends/soon to be my wife’s living room. The justice of the peace was picked up by a neighbors four-wheel-drive pick up truck, we canceled the reception hall, the room, the caterers, the band, all the guests. We got married in my wife’s living room. And when we were leaving, her mother told her to give her the key to the house, because she was married now.. that was 44 years ago.Three kids, three grandkids later, so far so good from that snowy start
This is way old, but figured it might be helpful for anyone scrolling by. ‘Bomb cyclone’ isn’t a scare tactic phrase. It’s an actual low pressure centered weather system that can intensify rapidly due to having access to water, heat etc. A lot of kids learn about this in school.
Our house was buried in 16ft of snow and we had to use the windows to get out of the house until we could clear a tunnel to the door. We ended up loosing power and the national guard came in a 4 wheel vehicle and took us to our aunts house as she still had power.
I was 7 years old and I still remember it. A couple of years after we moved to the Washington DC area and down here we have never had a winter storm that approached anything close to the ferocity of what we went through in Columbus back then.
I remember it. That winter was so bad the ice froze on the Ohio River and the coal barges couldn't get through. People started to worry about heating their homes.
I'll always remember this. I was just over 12 years old. I lived in the Euclid projects off of East 200th street, on Chickasaw Ave. My mother went to open up the front door, only to be staring at another door of pure, solid, door-shaped snow. We, and our neighbors literally had to dig our ways out of there like a tunnel.
I lived in Strongsville Ohio and my Brother, sister and I walked to McDonald’s in high snow drifts. It was a day I’ll never forget! Good memories for us.
I live in Bridgewater when it happened,and my uncle was snowplow drive back then . I was about eleven years old and I was going out with my uncle Eddie with him snowplowing the street.
My dad told me that as the snow got worse my grandparents got worried because my uncle who was 19 at the time was still not home from work. Then an hour later they heard a loud clanging of metal outside so my dad and my aunt went outside with my grandpa to see what had happened. What they found was my uncle had crashed his 1967 Camaro into a neighbors car as he came down the hill of a road they lived on. My uncle’s steering wheel had legit popped off the steering column and he said he tried to force it back on and steer down the hill but by then it was too late. The car did a full donut and in the process his passenger side door hit a telephone pole and then the drivers side slammed into the neighbors car. The door was stuck and their neighbor couldn’t move his car because the snow was so well packed from the plows coming by so they called 911, the fire department said it would take them 30 minutes to get there to remove my uncle’s car door as he was trapped inside it. Instead of waiting out in the cold my grandfather, my dad, and a few neighbors used crow bars and other tools to wedge the passenger side door open so my uncle could climb across and get out. Thankfully my uncle was okay and from then on he never drove a car again he always drove trucks with a bunch of weight in the bed during the winter months and then 4 Wheel drive trucks. 😂
I was 14 then I remember hearing my mother yelling to my father to get up that we were completely snowed in and the power was out to the house the front door and windows were covered by a huge drift that buried our yard and house.we burned wood then so keeping warm was not a problem but for light all of us had to dig back the drift from the windows to let daylight in and we had to clear the roof off as well.for days we lived like we were in the North Pole us kids dug trails All over that yard for days we had open fields all around the house the high winds were at hurricane force and it was days before we saw anyone else .we were lucky we had deer meat and fish and assortted vegetables canned by mom saved up and our nearest neighbor was at least a mile down the road but they were ok also just sat tight and waited for the plows to come through.looking back on it a part of me misses that kind of weather but we as a human race growing up between the 1950 -the 80s were better equipped physically and mentally by being raised by the type of people our parents and grandparents were that taught us self reliance in any situation thrown at us. Today's youth have meltdowns even you call them a bad name or their phone is shut off today's youth are just to darn fluffy no matter how tough they think they got it .take them back in time during that storm and other disasters we went through back then they would not no what to do .to live in that era you had to know how to draw blood at times just to eat.
Buckshot Jon. Why in the world would u want it 2 snow like that again ?? .. it was terrible I was trapped in the house I had a daughter that was about a year-and-a-half old I could go on and on but there's not enough room I'm just curious why you would want tragedies strike ?? . Lots more bad things happened in Good In This Storm did you live through the . Blizzard of 78??
I remember this storm. I was in 4th grade at Hunter Elementary in Franklin. Best snowstorm ever for a kid!!!
I remember it well, my husband and I got married early March of 78 !
They don't mention us much but this blizzard had us shut down in Tennessee. I was in 4th grade and we had a month of snow days from school. To us it was heaven. Our parents lost their minds. We were still attending school in late June to make up all those snow days.
my mom was walking home from school when it started😬
My oldest daughter is known as a blizzard baby of 78. I lived in Fremont Ohio (Cedar Point area). I worked at Eckrich Lunch meat, I missed work for a week. Father-in-law had a snow mobile at that time. came in handy. Shoveling this stuff was next to impossible. We lived in the kitchen with a gas oven keeping us warm at nights, we had candles for light.
instablaster.
Where are you from that it seems real to you?
I lived it! Was nature at its worst! Yet, I loved missing school!
I got married on this very day here in Pittsburgh PA. I think it was like 27 inches of snow. No cell phones, my phone connection to the house was knocked off when the snow knocked the awning off the side of the house. When I went outside, the snow was up to my crotch. I had to dig out my 2 Wheel Dr. new Ford van, drive to my girlfriends house, and borrow her front wheel drive new Volkswagen rabbit to pick up the best man and my mother for the 6 o’clock ceremony which was to be held all along in my girlfriends/soon to be my wife’s living room. The justice of the peace was picked up by a neighbors four-wheel-drive pick up truck, we canceled the reception hall, the room, the caterers, the band, all the guests. We got married in my wife’s living room. And when we were leaving, her mother told her to give her the key to the house, because she was married now.. that was 44 years ago.Three kids, three grandkids later, so far so good from that snowy start
It sure was a golly wamper in Connecticut
My county , to this day, has a blizzard auction every year, that's when you're family stuck together, have my memories from nw Ohio
Wow Ellie was fine,I forgot her .
Hate when they use "bomb cyclone" Have to put the fear in people somehow. I guess. Surely using verbiage like that incites panic in some folks.
This is way old, but figured it might be helpful for anyone scrolling by. ‘Bomb cyclone’ isn’t a scare tactic phrase. It’s an actual low pressure centered weather system that can intensify rapidly due to having access to water, heat etc. A lot of kids learn about this in school.
Our house was buried in 16ft of snow and we had to use the windows to get out of the house until we could clear a tunnel to the door. We ended up loosing power and the national guard came in a 4 wheel vehicle and took us to our aunts house as she still had power.
It sure was a golly wamper in Connecticut😂
I was 7 years old and I still remember it. A couple of years after we moved to the Washington DC area and down here we have never had a winter storm that approached anything close to the ferocity of what we went through in Columbus back then.
I remember it. That winter was so bad the ice froze on the Ohio River and the coal barges couldn't get through. People started to worry about heating their homes.
But people have memory loss and you just so happen to remember everything even actors need someone to help them memorize their lines???
These days school gets canceled for 2” of snow, back then they bussed us to Mohawk, school without schools because it had a coal fired boiler.
Got em
I was a senior in high school. 40 years!! I remember it!
I'll always remember this. I was just over 12 years old. I lived in the Euclid projects off of East 200th street, on Chickasaw Ave. My mother went to open up the front door, only to be staring at another door of pure, solid, door-shaped snow. We, and our neighbors literally had to dig our ways out of there like a tunnel.
I remember of 77 & 78 both where of bad snow and cold. .
I lived in Strongsville Ohio and my Brother, sister and I walked to McDonald’s in high snow drifts. It was a day I’ll never forget! Good memories for us.
We had huge drifts. I was young. Haven't seen anything like it since.
Where are you from? This isn’t real in my country
I live in Bridgewater when it happened,and my uncle was snowplow drive back then .
I was about eleven years old and I was going out with my uncle Eddie with him snowplowing the street.
What world are you guys from that this stuff is real?
It started in Arizona as what we called a "50 year flood". We knew that when it got back east then it would be very bad.
There can only be one storm of the century. Pick one and go with it.
I saw that movie storm of the century when I was little hby?
Did I just make first contact
You know it’s me GOD right? I found you lol I’m a guy lol
My dad told me that as the snow got worse my grandparents got worried because my uncle who was 19 at the time was still not home from work. Then an hour later they heard a loud clanging of metal outside so my dad and my aunt went outside with my grandpa to see what had happened. What they found was my uncle had crashed his 1967 Camaro into a neighbors car as he came down the hill of a road they lived on. My uncle’s steering wheel had legit popped off the steering column and he said he tried to force it back on and steer down the hill but by then it was too late. The car did a full donut and in the process his passenger side door hit a telephone pole and then the drivers side slammed into the neighbors car. The door was stuck and their neighbor couldn’t move his car because the snow was so well packed from the plows coming by so they called 911, the fire department said it would take them 30 minutes to get there to remove my uncle’s car door as he was trapped inside it. Instead of waiting out in the cold my grandfather, my dad, and a few neighbors used crow bars and other tools to wedge the passenger side door open so my uncle could climb across and get out. Thankfully my uncle was okay and from then on he never drove a car again he always drove trucks with a bunch of weight in the bed during the winter months and then 4 Wheel drive trucks. 😂
Bing Bong Productions what a story! Thanks for sharing!
Great story
They had 911 in 78 ?....
I was 14 then I remember hearing my mother yelling to my father to get up that we were completely snowed in and the power was out to the house the front door and windows were covered by a huge drift that buried our yard and house.we burned wood then so keeping warm was not a problem but for light all of us had to dig back the drift from the windows to let daylight in and we had to clear the roof off as well.for days we lived like we were in the North Pole us kids dug trails All over that yard for days we had open fields all around the house the high winds were at hurricane force and it was days before we saw anyone else .we were lucky we had deer meat and fish and assortted vegetables canned by mom saved up and our nearest neighbor was at least a mile down the road but they were ok also just sat tight and waited for the plows to come through.looking back on it a part of me misses that kind of weather but we as a human race growing up between the 1950 -the 80s were better equipped physically and mentally by being raised by the type of people our parents and grandparents were that taught us self reliance in any situation thrown at us. Today's youth have meltdowns even you call them a bad name or their phone is shut off today's youth are just to darn fluffy no matter how tough they think they got it .take them back in time during that storm and other disasters we went through back then they would not no what to do .to live in that era you had to know how to draw blood at times just to eat.
Great memories. Never forget that day playing with my 3 year old son.
I remember this storm. Wish it still snowed like this, but it’ll never happen again
Never know. The weather has been Crazy these last few years.
I remember it well. At least we had a couple snowmobiles to get out with.
careful what you wish for.
that is what they said in 1888
I was grown and in n Indiana. I haven't seen anything like it to this day!
Buckshot Jon. Why in the world would u want it 2 snow like that again ?? .. it was terrible I was trapped in the house I had a daughter that was about a year-and-a-half old I could go on and on but there's not enough room I'm just curious why you would want tragedies strike ?? . Lots more bad things happened in Good In This Storm did you live through the . Blizzard of 78??
Just think how this Pussy generation would deal with it!
Did anyone ever get video from lansing mi.
Lol 🎉
How about Wheel Loaders, Bulldozers, Track loaders???????????? not backhoes!!!!!!!!!!!! look up what a backhoe is!!!!
They are just news people who live in towns. Don't expect them to know much.
maybe you should look up what a backhoe is
Haarp.
Lmao ok.
Another one thank you
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It sure was a golly wamper in Connecticut