I live in West Virginia and I can remember my sister and brother-in-law laughing at my mom who was preparing for a major storm. She got tons of canned food, dry milk, cereal, cat and dog food. We had a kerosene heater so she got three 5 gallon cans of kerosene, made sure the car was full of gas so we wouldn't get fuel line freeze up. Made sure her meds were filled. When the storm came they weren't laughing anymore. They were wishing they had taken their smart asses to the store like she did. My mom followed the weather faithfully.
My mom was still pregnant with me during this, so I have no real memories. We lived in the snow belt, so to us, this was probably not much more than a particularly intense winter storm. My mom says she doesn't remember this storm, but she also told me that she doesn't remember storms. My dad, however, remembers it better than she does. He recalls not having any electricity in our home for 5 or 6 days because of this.
We were out of town at my grandmother's funeral when the Governor closed all the roads in Pennsylvania. When we got back home we found that our neighbor had come over every three hours to clear the snow (23") from our driveway. Great guy!
I was 22 years old at the time living in Rochester. I was a letter carrier for the postal service. I can clearly remember finishing up delivering mail around 4:00pm on Saturday March 13th when the flurries started. The ground was pretty much clear from snow. By approximately 8:30pm the snow was up past me knees. I have personal videos of that storm. The next day I slipped a disc in my back shoveling the driveway. I’ve had problems in that area in my back ever since. Hard to believe it’s been 30 years!
I hitched from Youngstown, Ohio to Virginia Beach, Va. during this blizzard. Got caught on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the middle of this storm. I pitched my cold camp under a dry river overpass after it became a whiteout. After only a few hours I was burried under a three foot drift. I was brutal windy and awful cold! Thank God for wool and goosedown!
Our daughter was born that day at Children's hospital at 8:30 pm. A normal 20 minute ride from Kenmore took us 2 and a half hours. I had a CB radio in my car and with the help of folks that were also out in the storm we made to the hospital in time. I was never able to thank them for their help but I will for ever be grateful they were their in our time of need. On the one year anniversary of the blizzard the Courier Express did an article on the blizzard that include a picture of my wife and our daughter Karen. The people of WNY are tough when it comes dealing with snow.
I was in Disney World for my honeymoon at the time the Storm hit(there was no snow in Orlando but it was chilly there. I lived (and still do) in NY and was supposed go home on the 13th of March but stayed at Disney World an extra day after calling my parents and they told me about the storm coming
I was 9. I'll never forget we had just moved to jax from tampa.. I had been on snow before while visiting kansas but this was special bc it never snows in jville.
I experienced this storm living in Syracuse. The morning after the big snow, I could not even figure out where my car was. The parking lot outside my apartment looked like a lumpy field of snow. Took a bit of poking around just to figure out which lump was mine. CNY is unbelievably good at snow removal. Main roads near my apartment were clear and drive-able that Sunday in Syracuse. Almost anywhere else would have been down for a week with that much snow.
A storm i will never forget and neither will my son who was 5 at the time. On tuesday he and his friends were sliding down the huge snowbank at the end of my driveway. Along came a channel 9 reporter who interviewed him. He actually made the 5 o'clock news. 27 years later he still remembers
I was 8 years old in Williamsport pa. I’ll never forget waking up that morning and telling my mom we were snowed in she thought I was pulling her leg till she came out to the kitchen and looked out on our deck Lol. Fun fun fun wish we could have winters like that. Instead it’s November 25 and 53 degrees out.
I was working as a call boy when this storm started. I pulled on my cat suit, grabbed my whips, chains and bowling bag and headed home. When I got home my nipples were frozen to my cat suit. I survived though!
I was 7 and I got snowed in at my grandparents house who were raising my older sister. She was jealous when I came around. It was pure hell. Moma showed up as soon as she could to get me.
Oh, that was just a lovely storm, wasn't it? Being snowed in for a while, my childhood home's front door completely covered, windows totally obscured by snowbanks. At least we got out of school for a bit, right?
I also was a young adult in the Rochester blizzard of '66. We had snow to the gutter and could only get out by climbing out the windows on the 2nd floor. The has been nothing like that since.
I remember it well growing up in Connecticut. At least afterwards spring wasn’t far behind to melt it all. I remember the leaves were coming out on the trees that year and there were still snowbanks in the parking lots slowly melting away.
I was 16 at the time. living coudersport, pa at the time. I used to listen to wayne mahar on the radio 95.7 wpig. anyways i remember him talking about this massive storm that was going to hit us and boy did it ever. Me i couldn't wait to have a couple days off from school. It started almost late morning by nightfall it was full on blizzard conditions out side. The next day I remember my step-father having trouble just trying to get out of our drive just to get to the road and was just after the plows came through and his jeep truck that he had at the time was having a hard time getting threw the snow. me and my brother were out playing in the snow. I actually fell through the snow just above where are car was buried under 10 to 15 feet of snow. And i could bearly get my hand up out of the snow needless to thank god my brother was there to help pull me out. Anyways that storm changed me forever.I will never forget The blizzard of '93.
I was living in galeton on pine street. my mom still walked in to work that day. she was a tough and wounderfull mother. me and my brother totally enjoyed a couple days off school. one by one my friends showed up we watched a rented movie called Rocky horror picture show and laughed our asses off smoaking cigarettes n talking about girls. we played ding dong ditch on one of the hardest snowing nights. we almost drove that miserable old man half crazy doing that so much.
I was about 200 miles to the west of Syracuse, it was brutal. Yeah, i remember it was a foot and a half, the frozen and windy conditions in the aftermath were epic.
I born in this one. In Stroudsburg, PA. My dad drove the Buick through 3 feet of white with mom in the backseat. They came to northeast PA by way of Brooklyn. they still call me the Blizzard Baby, to this day. needless to say, I have a love/hate relationship with snow.
This is actually the first blizzard from my lifetime that I remember. At the time, I'd been a sophomore in high school. That night, my mom and I had a sleepover with my now ex-stepfather, my aunt, and a family friend. My now ex-stepfather slept on the couch, my mom and my aunt slept in my mom's bed, I slept on my fold-out chair in my mom's room, and our family friend slept in my bed. The day after that, my aunt and our family friend were able to go home, but my mom's fiance--which is my now ex-stepfather--stayed an extra night, and went home on Monday. I remember we didn't have school on Monday or Tuesday that week.
I was 16 yrs old in Pittsburgh, Pa...I'll never forget it. Me and a few of my buddies walked as the snow started to our buddy Matt's house, who lived a good 1/2 hour away walking distance. We fully anticipated being snowed in for a couple days. We chose Matt's house because he had the cool mom that let us smoke pot and drink. No school and pot and booze...Good times!! I love snow and almost 40 years old and still waiting for a bad MOFO like the "Blizzard of '93" to hit " The Burgh" again. We ended up with 25.3 inches, the third largest snowfall ever recorded in Pittsburgh. The two bigger were 27.4 in 1950 when my dad was 2 yrs old and 25.9 in 1890, which I surprised was even on record.
Did his mom not make him go to school? I understand wanting to be the 'cool' parent, but I think letting your kids smoke and drink is taking it a little too far.
To the haters of Matt's Mom. There was a blizzard and school was cancelled. She sounds cool and didn't let her kid and all the other kids skip school for no reason.
My Kentucky guard unit was activated and I was stationed at Eddyville prison in order to shuttle the guards back & forth to work. Later on, because I was a medic, I was dispatched to deliver a a pregnant lady from Columbus KY to a hospital in Paducah KY. I remember it being so damn cold that I saw several animals on the side of the road that had frozen solid. One looked like it was still in a standing position but had fallen over. I-24 was completely littered with vehicles. When I finally made it back home, a couple weeks later, my entire home had been flooded by bursting water pipes. I lost a lot of personal belongings in that. Losing pictures and military awards was the worst.
I was also 16 at the time and living in Old Bridge Nj. I specifically remember my friend Scott Cersocimo and I walking down the middle of route 18 at about 9pm. There was one lane plowed and literally 8 foot walls of snow on each side. Barely anything was on the road! Anyway we made it half way to his house, saw lights coming at us and realized it was a commuter bus. Problem was we had nowhere to run because of the snow walls. Finally we had to burrow into those things to avoid getting run over. Haha Good times!! I'm now 40, have 4 kids and haven't seen any of my high school friends in years. God, those were the days, eh!!
Where are you now? Are you still in NJ? I was 21, lived in Cinnaminson, NJ and now have 2 kids. One still in Rutgers and the other graduated from Rowan and now living in Japan.
harrisandrewn Buffalo,NY got labeled snow capital of the country from 1977 Blizzard. It was a bad storm, kids had 3 weeks off school. Buffalo does get 10-12 feet of snow some winters.
My husband was in New York from Australia. He had left 100F degree weather and walked into that! The revolving door to his hotel froze and they couldn't get out for 2-3 days! He said they lost power and so there were no lifts and they ate cold food at the hotel! He got so tired of the stairs he stayed in his room and ate EVERYTHING in the mini bar! INCLUDING ALL THE BOOZE!!
Was driving for WH JOHNS ...drove into the storm from va. Delivered in Baltimore...then picked up the next load in Lancaster....there was 1.5 feet at time ...delivered in Gettesburg ...left there at 9 pm. Went across 16 to Greencastele ....there were places drifted shut so deep at I could see were mail boxes ....made it back to virginia 24 hours after I left never got stuck.
i remember this store the night before we stocked up on everything i lived on rock cut road in a trailer park right next to the highway from are yard it was a sea of headlights on the highway because all the driver were stuck in their cars and could not go anywhere the people ended leaving their cars there and walking home crazy storm
I remember being out Saturday night in the area helping around. Had my flannel and jeans on, working hard outside - neighbors snowblowing and gas generators working. Classic!
There was also the terrible blizzard of '83 that hit the south from Texas to Virginia. Temperatures in north Texas where I live, were below freezing for almost 2 weeks, what never comes close to otherwise happening. There was another blizzard what hit the south, and left Alabama frozen over, just after New Years in '88, and more recently, the great north Texas freeze what happened last February 2021
I have pictures of me and my siblings making tunnels and "houses" in snow plow piles higher than our two story apartment. It was AWESOME!! All the roads were closed. No one was allowed to drive on Rt. 13 in Ithaca and Tompkins and Cayuga counties.
I lived in McLean va at the time but worked in Fairfax va at the 24 hour denny's restaurant. I was stuck there and couldn't leave...I will never forget that storm...I was 18 years old....
Loved the coach's comments, ever been in a whiteout? Many of them. Back up heat source,food,fill the tub so you can flush.,camping gear, food,and of course BOOZE. Good to go. takes a week to stock up.
It was the deepest I've personally seen in one storm...but I drove from college, Loch Sheldrake, NY(near Monticello) up to my friend in Canton, from there we went to friends in Potsdam. Slept for 3 hours or so, drove to Harrisville to do laundry at my Dad's house, walking through chest high snow, then drove back to college at Loch Sheldrake, NY all in my 1985 Plymouth Reliant with all season tires. The plow drivers did good.
I worked for the NC prison and the night of that snow I was working a guard tower. The heater was running wide open and could not keep up with the cold wind. First shift did not come in to work in the morning. Pulled a double shift and slept in the front office till work the next day. We got 23 inches of snow that night...
I lived in Asheville n.c it had snowed alot by 1 or 2 on the 13 of March, but it started getting bad . All of a sudden there was a big Crack of lighting and it rally really started coming down it snowed like 2 ft in a hour , so crazy !!!
I lived in Montreal and we got about 20 inches. The storm lasted about 24 hours and the snow drifts were impressive. I delivered the newspaper and outside of a day when they couldn't print because of a power failure they could not print a Sunday paper. And it got cold, extremely cold for mid March
I was working at the senior center up the street from where the apartment building my mom and I were living and I had that weekend off because of the blizzard.
Even after 30 years, I remember every bit of this, 28”, and locked hard, I spent 3 days in equipment plowing, dozing, loading…my left leg was numb from clutching…then came the melt!
Sometimes it really helps to put a specific LOCATION in the TITLE? There are many Blizzards in History to "tell your Grandchildren about" ... not to mention, in the U.S. alone, there are MANY Towns/Cities named Syracuse.
I remember reading in children's books how different countries deal with lots of snow. Places like Alaska and Scandinavian countries must have to deal with these storms every winter. We also have people living on the south pole. They have blizzards at the S. Pole all the time. There must be better ways to prepare for this.
I kinda chuckle now seeing this, not just how some of these guys look 👀 back them😂🤨but the storm we have had sense then this is nothing! But I definitely remember my parents and neighbors making sure they took care of everyone !
I remember that was the first day of spring break, and I planned on leaving early AM to dive home from Brockport NY to my hometown near Ithaca, about a 3 hour drive. Unfortunately my GF at the time (now my wife of 22 years) wasn't ready, so we got going around noon time. That drive took us 6 hours due to whiteout conditions about half way there, and almost didn't make it up the hill that my parents lived on. Anyway, we made it, but were stuck inside the entire week LOL Funny thing is I was majoring in meteorology and KNEW it was coming but still couldn't get on the road early enough...
At this moment January 6th 2022 in Rockport Missouri the wind chill is -17 and expecting snow.This maybe the year heavy snow and severe weather.wexciting=weather and excitement.
The Blizzard of 1993 was nothing like the Blizzard of 1978. I'd just turned 7 years old 20 days before the Blizzard of January 26, 1978 hit. When the one hit in early January of 1993 in Ohio, I was still pregnant with my 1st baby. It hit the week before I had her. January 6, 1993, to be exact, my 22nd birthday.
I lived in Richfird NY then. We had snow up past our windows on the first floor. We had to shovel our roof off twice so it wouldn't collapse. The vents on the roof had to be kept clear for the furnance to work. The only vehicles on the road were snowmobiles. We would shovel snow in shifts between three of us. The worse sore muscles ever! Upstate NY you must have a generator, a second source for heat and games for the kids to play.
what else was hapenning at that time because i think i was driving across the country from there to the west coast and crossed that bridge near little rock without having even known it because all i could see was about two or three feet in front of my car .It didnt make a difference if it was hi or low beams . So i just kept going, letting the car kind of stay in the trough of the (thank god they were there still ) tire tracks on the highway , hoping that nobody else had stopped on the highway where id run into the back of them. Or off into the side or something . I fugured if i stopped id be stuck and freeze to death or have to leave the car in case somebody ran into it from behind . Ther was no one and nothing for hours and hours ( 3 to ? hrs ) of just darkness and swirling thick blizzard snow and a two foot view range in front of the headlights , id switch the beams from high to low just to not be mesmerized , and try to feel the track whith the tires. Pretty serious. Im glad it was a front wheel drive car 600 $ awesome little honda civic 1300dx probably saved my life .
Bolivar TN, at flight school. they told the students to go home, I was a teacher. I stopped at the store and bought some Turkey to sip and watch it snow. we got 17 flakes. it went south and nailed Birmingham with 12+ inches. what Was Clinton doing in DC to allow this to happen?
I remember this storm well...walked two miles to my GF's house so I could stay "warm" during the blizzard...compare this newscast with any from this weeks blizzard in western NY...modern newscasts are full of doom porn and scolds lecturing us to stay home and stay safe. Oh and this newscast actually talks about being prepared and anticipating the storm. Nowadays no discussion around preparation - only stay home and stay safe!
All these snow storms seem to happen in In March ,the winter storm happen about the same time the of 1888. They didn't have snow plowes back then alot of ppl perished!!!
No. 1998--+1999. Was. Bigger. Than. This. Ever and. Now. I. Live in. Florida. So ha. Keep. The. Snow. In. October. November. Temps. Are. Only. Low. As. 60 degrees. Out. Just the. Right temps. For. Me
I live in West Virginia and I can remember my sister and brother-in-law laughing at my mom who was preparing for a major storm. She got tons of canned food, dry milk, cereal, cat and dog food. We had a kerosene heater so she got three 5 gallon cans of kerosene, made sure the car was full of gas so we wouldn't get fuel line freeze up. Made sure her meds were filled. When the storm came they weren't laughing anymore. They were wishing they had taken their smart asses to the store like she did. My mom followed the weather faithfully.
My mom was still pregnant with me during this, so I have no real memories. We lived in the snow belt, so to us, this was probably not much more than a particularly intense winter storm. My mom says she doesn't remember this storm, but she also told me that she doesn't remember storms. My dad, however, remembers it better than she does. He recalls not having any electricity in our home for 5 or 6 days because of this.
Elizabeth Wilson I live in WV too I was three years old. I remember making tunnels through the snow it was taller than me lol
SMART lady!!!!! Go Mom Go!!!!!!
Elizabeth Wilson...your mom a smart lady
@@danielhammond9059 Thank you. She was one of the best.
We were out of town at my grandmother's funeral when the Governor closed all the roads in Pennsylvania. When we got back home we found that our neighbor had come over every three hours to clear the snow (23") from our driveway. Great guy!
Awesome sounds like a nice guy
I was 22 years old at the time living in Rochester. I was a letter carrier for the postal service. I can clearly remember finishing up delivering mail around 4:00pm on Saturday March 13th when the flurries started. The ground was pretty much clear from snow. By approximately 8:30pm the snow was up past me knees. I have personal videos of that storm. The next day I slipped a disc in my back shoveling the driveway. I’ve had problems in that area in my back ever since. Hard to believe it’s been 30 years!
I hitched from Youngstown, Ohio to Virginia Beach, Va. during this blizzard. Got caught on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the middle of this storm. I pitched my cold camp under a dry river overpass after it became a whiteout. After only a few hours I was burried under a three foot drift. I was brutal windy and awful cold! Thank God for wool and goosedown!
Unbelievable!
Our daughter was born that day at Children's hospital at 8:30 pm. A normal 20 minute ride from Kenmore took us 2 and a half hours. I had a CB radio in my car and with the help of folks that were also out in the storm we made to the hospital in time. I was never able to thank them for their help but I will for ever be grateful they were their in our time of need. On the one year anniversary of the blizzard the Courier Express did an article on the blizzard that include a picture of my wife and our daughter Karen. The people of WNY are tough when it comes dealing with snow.
Wow
Ok, I lived in Florida my whole luxe and this was the year that it snowed like crazy in Jacksonville Florida. I was 14 and had a blast
I was in Disney World for my honeymoon at the time the Storm hit(there was no snow in Orlando but it was chilly there. I lived (and still do) in NY and was supposed go home on the 13th of March but stayed at Disney World an extra day after calling my parents and they told me about the storm coming
I was 9. I'll never forget we had just moved to jax from tampa.. I had been on snow before while visiting kansas but this was special bc it never snows in jville.
I experienced this storm living in Syracuse. The morning after the big snow, I could not even figure out where my car was. The parking lot outside my apartment looked like a lumpy field of snow. Took a bit of poking around just to figure out which lump was mine. CNY is unbelievably good at snow removal. Main roads near my apartment were clear and drive-able that Sunday in Syracuse. Almost anywhere else would have been down for a week with that much snow.
A storm i will never forget and neither will my son who was 5 at the time. On tuesday he and his friends were sliding down the huge snowbank at the end of my driveway. Along came a channel 9 reporter who interviewed him. He actually made the 5 o'clock news. 27 years later he still remembers
I was 8 years old in Williamsport pa. I’ll never forget waking up that morning and telling my mom we were snowed in she thought I was pulling her leg till she came out to the kitchen and looked out on our deck Lol. Fun fun fun wish we could have winters like that. Instead it’s November 25 and 53 degrees out.
I was working as a call boy when this storm started. I pulled on my cat suit, grabbed my whips, chains and bowling bag and headed home. When I got home my nipples were frozen to my cat suit. I survived though!
LoL
Kirk Griffin 😂 😂 😂
I remember this storm very well. I live in North Carolina and I had close to 3 feet from this storm.
I was 17 and my gf at the time got stuck at my house for 2 days. Great times 😁
Is she still ur girlfriend now?
endofsociety best story ever.
@@mksreh he said "at that time" .
Nice. The planets aligned for you that day.
Mother Nature dapped you up like "I got you bruh"
I was 7 and I got snowed in at my grandparents house who were raising my older sister. She was jealous when I came around. It was pure hell. Moma showed up as soon as she could to get me.
My dad owns a sand and gravel company. I was almost 14 at the time and spent 2 straight days plowing people out of their homes in a frontend loader.
Oh, that was just a lovely storm, wasn't it? Being snowed in for a while, my childhood home's front door completely covered, windows totally obscured by snowbanks. At least we got out of school for a bit, right?
I also was a young adult in the Rochester blizzard of '66. We had snow to the gutter and could only get out by climbing out the windows on the 2nd floor. The has been nothing like that since.
I remember it well growing up in Connecticut. At least afterwards spring wasn’t far behind to melt it all. I remember the leaves were coming out on the trees that year and there were still snowbanks in the parking lots slowly melting away.
I was 16 at the time. living coudersport, pa at the time. I used to listen to wayne mahar on the radio 95.7 wpig. anyways i remember him talking about this massive storm that was going to hit us and boy did it ever. Me i couldn't wait to have a couple days off from school. It started almost late morning by nightfall it was full on blizzard conditions out side. The next day I remember my step-father having trouble just trying to get out of our drive just to get to the road and was just after the plows came through and his jeep truck that he had at the time was having a hard time getting threw the snow. me and my brother were out playing in the snow. I actually fell through the snow just above where are car was buried under 10 to 15 feet of snow. And i could bearly get my hand up out of the snow needless to thank god my brother was there to help pull me out. Anyways that storm changed me forever.I will never forget The blizzard of '93.
I was living in galeton on pine street. my mom still walked in to work that day. she was a tough and wounderfull mother. me and my brother totally enjoyed a couple days off school. one by one my friends showed up we watched a rented movie called Rocky horror picture show and laughed our asses off smoaking cigarettes n talking about girls. we played ding dong ditch on one of the hardest snowing nights. we almost drove that miserable old man half crazy doing that so much.
I was about 200 miles to the west of Syracuse, it was brutal. Yeah, i remember it was a foot and a half, the frozen and windy conditions in the aftermath were epic.
I born in this one. In Stroudsburg, PA. My dad drove the Buick through 3 feet of white with mom in the backseat. They came to northeast PA by way of Brooklyn. they still call me the Blizzard Baby, to this day.
needless to say, I have a love/hate relationship with snow.
Note to self: Having lived in the Valley section of “the Cuse”, get yourself a 4WD vehicle and keep the snowmobile fueled
This is actually the first blizzard from my lifetime that I remember. At the time, I'd been a sophomore in high school. That night, my mom and I had a sleepover with my now ex-stepfather, my aunt, and a family friend. My now ex-stepfather slept on the couch, my mom and my aunt slept in my mom's bed, I slept on my fold-out chair in my mom's room, and our family friend slept in my bed. The day after that, my aunt and our family friend were able to go home, but my mom's fiance--which is my now ex-stepfather--stayed an extra night, and went home on Monday. I remember we didn't have school on Monday or Tuesday that week.
I remember this storm. I was living with my grandmother in North Versailles, PA on 3/13/1993.
I was 16 yrs old in Pittsburgh, Pa...I'll never forget it. Me and a few of my buddies walked as the snow started to our buddy Matt's house, who lived a good 1/2 hour away walking distance. We fully anticipated being snowed in for a couple days. We chose Matt's house because he had the cool mom that let us smoke pot and drink. No school and pot and booze...Good times!! I love snow and almost 40 years old and still waiting for a bad MOFO like the "Blizzard of '93" to hit " The Burgh" again. We ended up with 25.3 inches, the third largest snowfall ever recorded in Pittsburgh. The two bigger were 27.4 in 1950 when my dad was 2 yrs old and 25.9 in 1890, which I surprised was even on record.
Did his mom not make him go to school? I understand wanting to be the 'cool' parent, but I think letting your kids smoke and drink is taking it a little too far.
Matt'sMom was probably aiming to "Polanski" all-the-young-dudes...Pittsburgh....Pot...Pedophilia...LoL
Doesn't sound like a cool Mom to me, more like an IRRESPONSIBLE Mom.
To the haters of Matt's Mom. There was a blizzard and school was cancelled. She sounds cool and didn't let her kid and all the other kids skip school for no reason.
Chris Pap Talk about that guys mom failing as a parent. Holy shit lol
My daughter was 3 months old. My brother died 3 months later. NEVER forget this year, storm, blizzard.
I recall this blizzard, the winter that refused to go away😑
My Kentucky guard unit was activated and I was stationed at Eddyville prison in order to shuttle the guards back & forth to work. Later on, because I was a medic, I was dispatched to deliver a a pregnant lady from Columbus KY to a hospital in Paducah KY. I remember it being so damn cold that I saw several animals on the side of the road that had frozen solid. One looked like it was still in a standing position but had fallen over. I-24 was completely littered with vehicles. When I finally made it back home, a couple weeks later, my entire home had been flooded by bursting water pipes. I lost a lot of personal belongings in that. Losing pictures and military awards was the worst.
I was also 16 at the time and living in Old Bridge Nj. I specifically remember my friend Scott Cersocimo and I walking down the middle of route 18 at about 9pm. There was one lane plowed and literally 8 foot walls of snow on each side. Barely anything was on the road! Anyway we made it half way to his house, saw lights coming at us and realized it was a commuter bus. Problem was we had nowhere to run because of the snow walls. Finally we had to burrow into those things to avoid getting run over. Haha Good times!! I'm now 40, have 4 kids and haven't seen any of my high school friends in years. God, those were the days, eh!!
Remember Chi Ch’s on Route 18 oh so many years ago?? Lol.
Where are you now? Are you still in NJ? I was 21, lived in Cinnaminson, NJ and now have 2 kids. One still in Rutgers and the other graduated from Rowan and now living in Japan.
I was in Syracuse and remeber days of snow covering the front door. It was kinda cool. Everything was shut down for days. 😊
Enjoyed this storm. Loved them days off from school.
harrisandrewn Buffalo,NY got labeled snow capital of the country from 1977 Blizzard. It was a bad storm, kids had 3 weeks off school. Buffalo does get 10-12 feet of snow some winters.
Watching Jerry Springer and Price Is Right lol.
My husband was in New York from Australia. He had left 100F degree weather and walked into that! The revolving door to his hotel froze and they couldn't get out for 2-3 days! He said they lost power and so there were no lifts and they ate cold food at the hotel! He got so tired of the stairs he stayed in his room and ate EVERYTHING in the mini bar! INCLUDING ALL THE BOOZE!!
I love to see this again here in Georgia, and throughout the Southern U.S. too!
I was driving cab in Utica and I was stuck there because they closed all the roads. I ended up staying at a local motel.
I remember this storm when I was only a Sophomore in High School. I was only 16 years old at the time.
Was driving for WH JOHNS ...drove into the storm from va. Delivered in Baltimore...then picked up the next load in Lancaster....there was 1.5 feet at time ...delivered in Gettesburg ...left there at 9 pm. Went across 16 to Greencastele ....there were places drifted shut so deep at I could see were mail boxes ....made it back to virginia 24 hours after I left never got stuck.
i remember this store the night before we stocked up on everything i lived on rock cut road in a trailer park right next to the highway from are yard it was a sea of headlights on the highway because all the driver were stuck in their cars and could not go anywhere the people ended leaving their cars there and walking home crazy storm
I remember being out Saturday night in the area helping around. Had my flannel and jeans on, working hard outside - neighbors snowblowing and gas generators working. Classic!
There was also the terrible blizzard of '83 that hit the south from Texas to Virginia. Temperatures in north Texas where I live, were below freezing for almost 2 weeks, what never comes close to otherwise happening. There was another blizzard what hit the south, and left Alabama frozen over, just after New Years in '88, and more recently, the great north Texas freeze what happened last February 2021
93 was a great storm! I stayed off school 1 week. My father was a lineman, i didn't see him for 2 weeks.
I have pictures of me and my siblings making tunnels and "houses" in snow plow piles higher than our two story apartment.
It was AWESOME!! All the roads were closed. No one was allowed to drive on Rt. 13 in Ithaca and Tompkins and Cayuga counties.
How many stores were emptied of hair gel and hair spray for everyone on camera?
Boyd W 😂😂😂
I KNOW! The hair on that one Weather guy, Holy Smokes!!
I lived in McLean va at the time but worked in Fairfax va at the 24 hour denny's restaurant. I was stuck there and couldn't leave...I will never forget that storm...I was 18 years old....
I was in buffalo, could not drive home until Monday. But 66 was still worst
Loved the coach's comments, ever been in a whiteout? Many of them. Back up heat source,food,fill the tub so you can flush.,camping gear, food,and of course BOOZE. Good to go. takes a week to stock up.
It was the deepest I've personally seen in one storm...but I drove from college, Loch Sheldrake, NY(near Monticello) up to my friend in Canton, from there we went to friends in Potsdam. Slept for 3 hours or so, drove to Harrisville to do laundry at my Dad's house, walking through chest high snow, then drove back to college at Loch Sheldrake, NY all in my 1985 Plymouth Reliant with all season tires. The plow drivers did good.
The Storm of 1993 has first occurred 28 years 10 months and 2 weeks and 1 day ago.
I was in Philadelphia and remember this well. Forecast missed it.
I worked for the NC prison and the night of that snow I was working a guard tower. The heater was running wide open and could not keep up with the cold wind. First shift did not come in to work in the morning. Pulled a double shift and slept in the front office till work the next day. We got 23 inches of snow that night...
I lived in Asheville n.c it had snowed alot by 1 or 2 on the 13 of March, but it started getting bad . All of a sudden there was a big Crack of lighting and it rally really started coming down it snowed like 2 ft in a hour , so crazy !!!
I lived in Montreal and we got about 20 inches. The storm lasted about 24 hours and the snow drifts were impressive.
I delivered the newspaper and outside of a day when they couldn't print because of a power failure they could not print a Sunday paper.
And it got cold, extremely cold for mid March
I was working at the senior center up the street from where the apartment building my mom and I were living and I had that weekend off because of the blizzard.
Looks like so much fun... wish we got snow in nj. Haven't gotten snow for a few years now
I was 11 years old at the time and for a kid, this was the coolest f*****g thing EVER!
I was 9 and lived in Wayne County. Good times.
I remember the blizzard of 93 very well !
Made alot of shoveling money as a kid in Pennsylvania.
Even after 30 years, I remember every bit of this, 28”, and locked hard, I spent 3 days in equipment plowing, dozing, loading…my left leg was numb from clutching…then came the melt!
I was 7 when this storm hit I remember being so happy when the snow was as high as I was tall,
Will we ever get another storm like this?
Did this happen around December 10? Grew up in Brighton Ontario and I remember it cancelled our Santa parade.
Nope. March, 1993.
I definitely remember this one. I got stuck in the snow twice in the aftermath!😩
ahh memories
Sometimes it really helps to put a specific LOCATION in the TITLE? There are many Blizzards in History to "tell your Grandchildren about" ... not to mention, in the U.S. alone, there are MANY Towns/Cities named Syracuse.
Tornado in Western Mass on June 1, 2001. Then a storm, no electricity for a week, around Halloween. Weird.
I remember reading in children's books how different countries deal with lots of snow. Places like Alaska and Scandinavian countries must have to deal with these storms every winter. We also have people living on the south pole. They have blizzards at the S. Pole all the time. There must be better ways to prepare for this.
I was only 1 month old for this storm love Jim boeheims reaction too lol
I kinda chuckle now seeing this, not just how some of these guys look 👀 back them😂🤨but the storm we have had sense then this is nothing! But I definitely remember my parents and neighbors making sure they took care of everyone !
I remember that was the first day of spring break, and I planned on leaving early AM to dive home from Brockport NY to my hometown near Ithaca, about a 3 hour drive. Unfortunately my GF at the time (now my wife of 22 years) wasn't ready, so we got going around noon time. That drive took us 6 hours due to whiteout conditions about half way there, and almost didn't make it up the hill that my parents lived on. Anyway, we made it, but were stuck inside the entire week LOL
Funny thing is I was majoring in meteorology and KNEW it was coming but still couldn't get on the road early enough...
sadly only got 1 snow day out of this in RED Creek high school
Wow,I remember it well.i was 21.....now 50.
Nice anchorman hair. Ron would be proud.
Lol.
In Western NC we got 5 ft from this storm with 90 mph gusts.
In some places we had 10 ft drifts.
You went nowhere and had no power for 2 wks.
That's like an average storm in Canada lol
i love storms
The wideouts of the Eastern Seaboard are serious! You could literally get lost in your own front yard!
Oh, and nice Rug Matt Mulcahy
I remember being hot and tired after shoveling my driveway timberland were soaked through nj holla
At this moment January 6th 2022 in Rockport Missouri the wind chill is -17 and expecting snow.This maybe the year heavy snow and severe weather.wexciting=weather and excitement.
The Blizzard of 1993 was nothing like the Blizzard of 1978. I'd just turned 7 years old 20 days before the Blizzard of January 26, 1978 hit. When the one hit in early January of 1993 in Ohio, I was still pregnant with my 1st baby. It hit the week before I had her. January 6, 1993, to be exact, my 22nd birthday.
I lived in Richfird NY then. We had snow up past our windows on the first floor. We had to shovel our roof off twice so it wouldn't collapse. The vents on the roof had to be kept clear for the furnance to work. The only vehicles on the road were snowmobiles. We would shovel snow in shifts between three of us. The worse sore muscles ever! Upstate NY you must have a generator, a second source for heat and games for the kids to play.
.....Richford NY....
Yay wegmans!!!
what else was hapenning at that time because i think i was driving across the country from there to the west coast and crossed that bridge near little rock without having even known it because all i could see was about two or three feet in front of my car .It didnt make a difference if it was hi or low beams . So i just kept going, letting the car kind of stay in the trough of the (thank god they were there still ) tire tracks on the highway , hoping that nobody else had stopped on the highway where id run into the back of them. Or off into the side or something . I fugured if i stopped id be stuck and freeze to death or have to leave the car in case somebody ran into it from behind . Ther was no one and nothing for hours and hours ( 3 to ? hrs ) of just darkness and swirling thick blizzard snow and a two foot view range in front of the headlights , id switch the beams from high to low just to not be mesmerized , and try to feel the track whith the tires. Pretty serious. Im glad it was a front wheel drive car 600 $ awesome little honda civic 1300dx probably saved my life .
Bolivar TN, at flight school. they told the students to go home, I was a teacher. I stopped at the store and bought some Turkey to sip and watch it snow. we got 17 flakes. it went south and nailed Birmingham with 12+ inches. what Was Clinton doing in DC to allow this to happen?
He keeps calling it Blizzard '93. The Blizzard was named Josh.
Can u tell me how many times Wayne sais “ahh” 🤔😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
...March. Never mind.
I was In Massachusetts the bar owner said hay can you shovel the front of the bar out sure I said .
We would run down to local bars and get snowed. Good times in ny.
I remember this storm well...walked two miles to my GF's house so I could stay "warm" during the blizzard...compare this newscast with any from this weeks blizzard in western NY...modern newscasts are full of doom porn and scolds lecturing us to stay home and stay safe. Oh and this newscast actually talks about being prepared and anticipating the storm. Nowadays no discussion around preparation - only stay home and stay safe!
My husband and i decided to walk to the store. Couldn't find our vehicles. I fell into a snowdrift. My husband had to pull me out.
Loved in Syracuse
I've been worried about the homeless during this storm.
All these snow storms seem to happen in In March ,the winter storm happen about the same time the of 1888. They didn't have snow plowes back then alot of ppl perished!!!
H.A.A.R.P!!!
Took me 2 days to shovel my car out of my driveway.
I was born on 3/13/19993
Glad I've good a 4wd
I thought this was Alabama's blizzard of '93.
Mother Nature does not give a sh!t.
No. 1998--+1999. Was. Bigger. Than. This. Ever and. Now. I. Live in. Florida. So ha. Keep. The. Snow. In. October. November. Temps. Are. Only. Low. As. 60 degrees. Out. Just the. Right temps. For. Me
You bleeped the coach saying sh#%. But Not using the Lords name in vain. How Rude and Tacky.
I absolutely hate snow! We're from the Westcoast and very rarely get blizzards.