we lived in Millers...mom saw the storm growing...drove to Barker central and gathered us all up and drove us home. Our friends were not so lucky as they were stuck ay the school. As a youngster , i had super bad allergies and required medicine...a good friend of the family rode his snowmobile from millers to medina and back(super hero in my eyes). With out a doubt....people from western New York are legit the best people i have ever known
I remember I was almost 8 years old and being in 2nd grade at Clarence Center Elementary school and all of us students were told to report to the gymnasium with our coats and we were going to start boarding the buses to go back home. This was probably late morning on Friday Jan. 28th, 1977. Our bus made it as far as Shimerville and Roll Roads in Clarence Ctr. We were stuck in a snow drift until about 8pm that night. A plow had finally come along and was able to get us out. I lived on Clarence Ctr. Rd. just a few miles from where we were stuck. As the next couple of days went on though roads became impassable for everyone including plows.
Yes the seventies, snow and ugly clothes. Men had long hair with sideburns, and wore skin tight jeans. Woman wore gigantic furry sweaters with tight jeans and a shag haircut. All jeans must be bell-bottoms.
I stayed home in Angola, NY on the day of the storm ( Friday 2/28), because I knew the roads would be impassable. On Saturday, (day after), I left Angola at 2:50 PM and headed towards Buffalo, for My eventual destination, which was River Road in the City of Tonawanda, NY. Due to road blockages everywhere, it took Me three hours to arrive at work. Although 1 hour late, (6 PM), they allowed me to work 8 hours, plus as much overtime that I could handle. At 2 :30 AM, nearly frozen, I clocked out, and started back towards home, though this time I altered My route. Heading towards downtown Buffalo, NY, I eventually arrived at Main St and South Park. There was a Nat'l Guardsman foot patrolling the area, (with rifle) and I explained to Him that I was heading home from work, and asked if I could pass by Him to take South Park to get out of Buffalo to Angola. He allowed Me to go and advised Me to follow a city snow plow truck which was plowing South Park, which I did and was able to make it all the way to Southwestern Blvd. Arriving at home at roughly 4:55 AM, it was wonderful to have worked that day, and return home. By the way, the car I drove that day was a 1975 Dodge Dart 6 cyl with std transmission, and ordinary radial tires on all four wheels. I had one sandbag in the trunk which assisted traction. ~DDZZ
My sister had to take the window out of the storm door to lift our dog outside so he could do what he needed to do outside, then she climbed out that opening to clear enough snow away from the door so she and the dog could get back inside. Crazy storm.
At 4:50, that's quite the front page of the newspaper. I was very young when this storm happened so I remember little about it other than the snowbanks that were about 3/4 the way up the power poles after it was all said and done. We have some pictures of it too, incredible storm for sure. I think in my area it snowed and blew for about 3 or 4 days with bitter cold wind chills. I wish I could remember more about the storm itself or the morning before it hit. I heard the morning it started it was beautiful clear sky and sunshine. Then around 10:30-11:00 AM a line of black clouds started coming across the Lake from the west. Shortly thereafter is when all heck broke loose. At 5:07, listening to that man say we ate and drank and played board games with the kids brings back memories. That's what we did as kids most of the time when there wasn't much else to do. No smartphones, no computers, no tablets, etc.
Was in the Navy at the time and stationed at a Medical Clinic on Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines, Parents sent me clippings from both the Gazette and the Courier Express, which I showed to local civilian employees of the Clinic and they had a hard time believing what they were looking at.
we lived in Millers...mom saw the storm growing...drove to Barker central and gathered us all up and drove us home. Our friends were not so lucky as they were stuck ay the school. As a youngster , i had super bad allergies and required medicine...a good friend of the family rode his snowmobile from millers to medina and back(super hero in my eyes). With out a doubt....people from western New York are legit the best people i have ever known
I remember I was almost 8 years old and being in 2nd grade at Clarence Center Elementary school and all of us students were told to report to the gymnasium with our coats and we were going to start boarding the buses to go back home. This was probably late morning on Friday Jan. 28th, 1977. Our bus made it as far as Shimerville and Roll Roads in Clarence Ctr. We were stuck in a snow drift until about 8pm that night. A plow had finally come along and was able to get us out. I lived on Clarence Ctr. Rd. just a few miles from where we were stuck. As the next couple of days went on though roads became impassable for everyone including plows.
I was one of the kids stranded in the Barker schools was there for like 3 days.
Greg Anderson I was in North Buffalo where we didn't have those big drifts of snow
Yes the seventies, snow and ugly clothes. Men had long hair with sideburns, and wore skin tight jeans. Woman wore gigantic furry sweaters with tight jeans and a shag haircut. All jeans must be bell-bottoms.
So? Its better than the weird look people have today with all the body piercings tatoos and off course pink purple and green hair. To each his own.
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I stayed home in Angola, NY on the day of the storm ( Friday 2/28), because I knew the roads would be impassable.
On Saturday, (day after), I left Angola at 2:50 PM and headed towards Buffalo, for My eventual destination, which was River Road in the City of Tonawanda, NY.
Due to road blockages everywhere, it took Me three hours to arrive at work. Although 1 hour late, (6 PM), they allowed me to work 8 hours, plus as much overtime that I could handle.
At 2 :30 AM, nearly frozen, I clocked out, and started back towards home, though this time I altered My route. Heading towards downtown Buffalo, NY, I eventually arrived at Main St and
South Park.
There was a Nat'l Guardsman foot patrolling the area, (with rifle) and I explained to Him that I was heading home from work, and asked if I could pass by Him to take South Park to get out of Buffalo to Angola.
He allowed Me to go and advised Me to follow a city snow plow truck which was plowing South Park, which I did and was able to make it all the way to Southwestern Blvd.
Arriving at home at roughly 4:55 AM, it was wonderful to have worked that day, and return home.
By the way, the car I drove that day was a 1975 Dodge Dart 6 cyl with std transmission, and ordinary radial tires on all four wheels. I had one sandbag in the trunk which assisted traction.
~DDZZ
My sister had to take the window out of the storm door to lift our dog outside so he could do what he needed to do outside, then she climbed out that opening to clear enough snow away from the door so she and the dog could get back inside. Crazy storm.
How can I forget the reason for the blackout and 77 is because it is storm...... New York was in chaos with the looting
At 4:50, that's quite the front page of the newspaper. I was very young when this storm happened so I remember little about it other than the snowbanks that were about 3/4 the way up the power poles after it was all said and done. We have some pictures of it too, incredible storm for sure. I think in my area it snowed and blew for about 3 or 4 days with bitter cold wind chills. I wish I could remember more about the storm itself or the morning before it hit. I heard the morning it started it was beautiful clear sky and sunshine. Then around 10:30-11:00 AM a line of black clouds started coming across the Lake from the west. Shortly thereafter is when all heck broke loose.
At 5:07, listening to that man say we ate and drank and played board games with the kids brings back memories. That's what we did as kids most of the time when there wasn't much else to do. No smartphones, no computers, no tablets, etc.
Yeah I guess so no one was going anywhere and that kind of snow mobiles snow shoes
Was in the Navy at the time and stationed at a Medical Clinic on Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines,
Parents sent me clippings from both the Gazette and the Courier Express, which I showed to local civilian employees of the Clinic and they had a hard time believing what they were looking at.
My mom missed work that day.
Clarissa Packer I was in the city where we didn't have those big snow drifts, I don't know about you but I had 3 weeks of no school
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I remember I was 10
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