Thanks for posting this! Can I give a suggestion? You guys should do more throwback videos for UA-cam. I didn't grow up in the early days and I am so fond of all the vintage clips of WHAS-TV from the 60s to 80's.
My Fiance' was there at Fort Knox, KY for all three winters 1976, 1976-1977 & 1977-1978, as an MP working outside on the post gates and FROZE! With nothing more than his field jacket, issued gloves, and combat boots, he and others suffered varying degrees of frostbite. He himself still struggles with the effects of cold to this day. During the first day of the record snows, only a few plow trucks in the area around Fort Knox were struggling to clear the civilian roads. But, on the post, the Armored Division welded large steel plates onto some tanks and cleared the post roads, though not many vehicles were running anyway due to dead batteries and restricted movement. Not a fun time during his TOD there.
I had only been gone from Kentucky a couple years or so and saw the pictures of the blizzard sent (yeah, mailed, not emailed or posted on the web…haha) by relatives. My best friend in Lexington said “You should have been here! It was great! I had to deliver my papers (yes, on his bicycle) in it! It was great!” Lol
I fought my way from Owensboro to Bowling Green to get to Western. I drove 5 mph and made it to discover the school was shut down for the first time in many years if ever.
I worked at WHAS from 74 until 78. Bud Harbsmeier and Fred Wiche weroe solid professionals and wonderful human beings! Thanks for posting this!!!!
Thanks for posting this! Can I give a suggestion? You guys should do more throwback videos for UA-cam. I didn't grow up in the early days and I am so fond of all the vintage clips of WHAS-TV from the 60s to 80's.
Wow! Captain Kangaroo. That brings back memories. Also Fred Wiche. WHAS radio and television was the best. 👍
I remember it, I was 5, stepped off the porch and up to my waist in snow loved it
love watching the old reports
My Fiance' was there at Fort Knox, KY for all three winters 1976, 1976-1977 & 1977-1978, as an MP working outside on the post gates and FROZE! With nothing more than his field jacket, issued gloves, and combat boots, he and others suffered varying degrees of frostbite. He himself still struggles with the effects of cold to this day. During the first day of the record snows, only a few plow trucks in the area around Fort Knox were struggling to clear the civilian roads. But, on the post, the Armored Division welded large steel plates onto some tanks and cleared the post roads, though not many vehicles were running anyway due to dead batteries and restricted movement.
Not a fun time during his TOD there.
I was a young girl when this happened. And do I ever remember this miserable blizzard!! It was awful....and I hate snow & cold weather to this day.
Yep I was 10!
My father was Chuck Taylor, meteorologist for WHAS!
I remember this. I was 12 years old.
Think we missed two months of school. I was in junior high
I remember this I was 10 years old
To think that the kids who missed Captain Kangaroo are now perhaps older than the TV reporters back then.
I had only been gone from Kentucky a couple years or so and saw the pictures of the blizzard sent (yeah, mailed, not emailed or posted on the web…haha) by relatives. My best friend in Lexington said “You should have been here! It was great! I had to deliver my papers (yes, on his bicycle) in it! It was great!” Lol
I fought my way from Owensboro to Bowling Green to get to Western. I drove 5 mph and made it to discover the school was shut down for the first time in many years if ever.
I was just Born when the Winter Storm of 78 happened
I don't ever remember ice ever being in the river. I was born in 81 so this was before my time.
The Carl Sagan outfit!
Michelle from Louisville KY
Apparently this is happening again?
This was just under a month and a half before I was born.
Kentuckiana
yes I was 8 years old when this happened