I was 18 at the time and worked 3rd shift at a large retailer my boss and I were the only ones to show up that night. After our little bit of work was done due to the lack of business that day we watched it show from the store’s front windows. The snow blew sideways all night and I didn’t realize how deep it was till I went to my car! My dad called the Store and told me not to try and make it home…so I drove passed my house to my Girlfriends house…..remember I was 18…my mom wasn’t amused! 😅😂
I just had my 7th birthday on January 6, 1978. The village of Glenford, Ohio was very hard to get to. Where we lived our farm house was down a long lane from the road on top of a hill. We had no way to dig out. We couldn't get out until that May. Thank goodness my mom knew how to prepare that summer before. We had loads of home canned foods and were given loads of free milk and meats from the dairy farm up the lane and my uncles pig / beef farm up the road a ways from our home. The K-3 elementary school house roof (being the gymnasium and main portion of the building) collapsed. To this day there still is no Dr office, no dentist office, no hospital, no police station, and no fire station. There is less than 200 in population there. So, yeah, the blizzard of '78 was the worst that village has ever seen since.
In 1978 lived in Bennington VT and was a rock drummer. I had my beloved husky Fred. When it started to snow snowflakes bigger than I ever saw in my life my Husky went crazy and had to go outside into the backyard and refused to come inside. My band and I got all drunk & stoned lol and wandered around Bennington that night amazed at the snowfall. You could hold these big snow flakes in your hand.They were huge. It snowed so hard you couldn't see 50 feet down the road. Fred refused to come in that night. When I woke up the next morning i went to bring him in and he was gone. I was heartbroken thought he ran away and started screaming. All of a sudden I saw some movement and his head popped up out of 4 feet of snow. When he poked his head up out of the snow there was like a foot of snow on top of his head lol. Happy as he could be lol. I had a Dodge van than and couldn't see it in the backyard it was just a mountain of snow over it. That was one hell of a blizzard I will never forget. Took Bennington 3 or 4 days to dig out the town. I l love Vermont its a beautiful place.
I was a senior in high school at the time (Dublin, in particular) and we were cooped up in our house for 4 solid days, however, the electricity was ALWAYS on during that entire time (same cannot be said for those folks that had just built houses in Muirfield LOL!!) ! Also, for some strange reason, my mother decided to go grocery shopping the day BEFORE the storm hit (not sure why, as her usual grocery shopping day was always on Saturday), but, thankfully, we had food, water and electricity the entire time of the blizzard! Finally, once it had ended and the sun came out the next day, we discovered 4-6 foot snow drifts surrounding our house that was blocking the front door. My Dad had to crawl through one of the living room windows to get outside and start shoveling snow away from the front door and down the front walk to the driveway and eventually out to the road so we could get our mail, once mail delivery started up again the next day, that is. It was quite a storm, that's for sure!
I will never forget walking off the roof into of our house into the snow with my Dad. We lost power & we, along .with several neighbors stayed at our only neighbor that had gas heat in the basement. (Zanesville). Have lived in Texas since '79...similar incident 2yrs ago...4 days at -5 to 0 and no power!
I’m from upper Sandusky and the winds were so strong that there were snow drifts from the roads up to the top of overpasses and people were riding the snowmobiles up over the highway
I was 15 in Cuyahoga Falls and remember. Got up early with mom to listen to the radio announce an endless list of school closing and celebrating, lol. Watch the wind and snow all day.
I remember that storm very well when i was 24 years old and i couldn't drive at all since my car was buried at the time when i was living in Brooklyn, N.Y. The snow plows took forever to come down the block since they didn't have enough of them at the time being short handed as well.
His was the year that I turned 18 years on my birthday that night an d I got caught out in it walking as well by my self what a night we was snowed in for 3 day
I was six years old and I remember the first time mom and dad took us out after the storm. A week later. The piles of snow along Springdale road were about 12 feet tall.
i lived it out of school 3 months we were 85 miles south of columbus big old farm house wood heat in a big old coal furnace in the basement big fireplace in the livingroom truck load of wood a day every weekend we would cut 7 loads of wood we had a 4 wheel drive to pulled people up hills out of ditches delivered food
I had a blizzard experience myself! Not this one…I believe it was 2009 or 10! In the thumb of Michigan…where we had plenty of snowdrifts! The normal 1hr ride from my parents home to mine, took 8hrs & I still didn’t make it to my home! I was only wearing a hoodie & knee-high boots, for dress not snow! I had my lil 4lb dog with me! I helped one guy who had no heat in his car, let him warm up in my car & gave him a blanket I had! We decided to follow each other to the closest town! I lost him when he was getting to far behind me. You couldn’t see anything in front of you, the blowing snow totally disorients you! I drove into a snow drift and got stuck, thankfully friends got me out & I stayed at their house for 2 days! Police said you are on your own if you go out & get stuck! EMS & police vehicles were stuck on the sides of the road! It was crazy! That is when I vowed I was moving out of Michigan, to a warmer state! Took another 6yrs but I did it!!!
The blizzrd of Southeast Missouri on Saturday night and stayed through Sunday, February 26, 1979. A heavy rain turned to snow during the night and deposited twenty four inches of snow in the next fifteen hours
Our superintendent of schools had some sort of mental disorder and kept our schools open. My mother didn’t have the best judgment ever so she sent us to school. I’m 7 years older than my little brother who was 6 at the time so it was my job to drag him across the snow. As mom watched us out the window she finally came to and called down to a neighbor that yelled out to me that my little brother didn’t have to go to school. See if you can guess what I did that day?😂
Mom always told me stories about this. What really made it bad was speculators drove up the cost of LNG sky high. This was part of the reason why they closed the schools for two weeks. But once they did that, dad took vacation time (he had lots of it) and they went with my brother and sisters to Sanibel, FL. Smart move, dad. LOL
I was 18 at the time and worked 3rd shift at a large retailer my boss and I were the only ones to show up that night. After our little bit of work was done due to the lack of business that day we watched it show from the store’s front windows. The snow blew sideways all night and I didn’t realize how deep it was till I went to my car! My dad called the Store and told me not to try and make it home…so I drove passed my house to my Girlfriends house…..remember I was 18…my mom wasn’t amused! 😅😂
18 in 1978 ? That must mean your prettyy old
@@OGHadesFTF what 62? That's older but you're acting like their 100 lmao
@@OGHadesFTF he only 62 how old your grandpa prolly older than that lmao
my parents made us kids shovel are long ass driveway back then
dont forget 278 sunspotless days. during that year,.grand solar mininum much
I just had my 7th birthday on January 6, 1978. The village of Glenford, Ohio was very hard to get to. Where we lived our farm house was down a long lane from the road on top of a hill. We had no way to dig out. We couldn't get out until that May. Thank goodness my mom knew how to prepare that summer before. We had loads of home canned foods and were given loads of free milk and meats from the dairy farm up the lane and my uncles pig / beef farm up the road a ways from our home. The K-3 elementary school house roof (being the gymnasium and main portion of the building) collapsed. To this day there still is no Dr office, no dentist office, no hospital, no police station, and no fire station. There is less than 200 in population there. So, yeah, the blizzard of '78 was the worst that village has ever seen since.
In 1978 lived in Bennington VT and was a rock drummer. I had my beloved husky Fred. When it started to snow snowflakes bigger than I ever saw in my life my Husky went crazy and had to go outside into the backyard and refused to come inside. My band and I got all drunk & stoned lol and wandered around Bennington that night amazed at the snowfall. You could hold these big snow flakes in your hand.They were huge. It snowed so hard you couldn't see 50 feet down the road. Fred refused to come in that night. When I woke up the next morning i went to bring him in and he was gone. I was heartbroken thought he ran away and started screaming. All of a sudden I saw some movement and his head popped up out of 4 feet of snow. When he poked his head up out of the snow there was like a foot of snow on top of his head lol. Happy as he could be lol.
I had a Dodge van than and couldn't see it in the backyard it was just a mountain of snow over it. That was one hell of a blizzard I will never forget. Took Bennington 3 or 4 days to dig out the town. I l love Vermont its a beautiful place.
GREAT 👍 VIDEO BEN(I Was 10yrs Old In 78&Remember It All Like it Was Yesterday )🥶❄️☃️
I was a senior in high school at the time (Dublin, in particular) and we were cooped up in our house for 4 solid days, however, the electricity was ALWAYS on during that entire time (same cannot be said for those folks that had just built houses in Muirfield LOL!!) ! Also, for some strange reason, my mother decided to go grocery shopping the day BEFORE the storm hit (not sure why, as her usual grocery shopping day was always on Saturday), but, thankfully, we had food, water and electricity the entire time of the blizzard! Finally, once it had ended and the sun came out the next day, we discovered 4-6 foot snow drifts surrounding our house that was blocking the front door. My Dad had to crawl through one of the living room windows to get outside and start shoveling snow away from the front door and down the front walk to the driveway and eventually out to the road so we could get our mail, once mail delivery started up again the next day, that is. It was quite a storm, that's for sure!
I will never forget walking off the roof into of our house into the snow with my Dad. We lost power & we, along .with several neighbors stayed at our only neighbor that had gas heat in the basement. (Zanesville). Have lived in Texas since '79...similar incident 2yrs ago...4 days at -5 to 0 and no power!
No power, insane
I’m from upper Sandusky and the winds were so strong that there were snow drifts from the roads up to the top of overpasses and people were riding the snowmobiles up over the highway
I was 15 in Cuyahoga Falls and remember. Got up early with mom to listen to the radio announce an endless list of school closing and celebrating, lol. Watch the wind and snow all day.
Omg, I remember those long lists, waiting to hear your county and school. Good memories ☺️
I was 5 but will never forget we grew up in mobile home we had snow inside
I remember that storm very well when i was 24 years old and i couldn't drive at all since my car was buried at the time when i was living in Brooklyn, N.Y. The snow plows took forever to come down the block since they didn't have enough of them at the time being short handed as well.
Wow!. Didn't realize you guys got hit hard too. My state(Massachusetts) got whalloped! 27.1 inches in one day.
The best days ever!!!!!!!!!!! I was 7 and I love the snow!!!!!
I bet! ☺️
I was 16 I remember the National Guard came through driving a huge snow blower look like something from outer space
I have the Blizzard,of 1978,on super8 homemovies, on
A fifty foot reel.
Well u should upload it to youtube
His was the year that I turned 18 years on my birthday that night an d I got caught out in it walking as well by my self what a night we was snowed in for 3 day
I was six years old and I remember the first time mom and dad took us out after the storm. A week later. The piles of snow along Springdale road were about 12 feet tall.
Whenever a “significant snow event” is predicted, I always ask myself “is it going to be as bad as 78”
It hasn’t been. Ever.
2 weeks off school I was not at all upset
LOOL
It hit the entire lower peninsula of Michigan and also shut down that state for weeks.
i lived it out of school 3 months we were 85 miles south of columbus big old farm house wood heat in a big old coal furnace in the basement big fireplace in the livingroom truck load of wood a day every weekend we would cut 7 loads of wood we had a 4 wheel drive to pulled people up hills out of ditches delivered food
I was 7 in Ottawa County. Fam was evacuated by the Guard. When we got back home I could walk up the snow onto the roof of our house.
I walked 22 miles in the middle of this from Racine to Burlington, Wis.
Naw , during the storm
Please tell US more of this epic survival story 👍
If that happened now, you can be sure that millions would have perished in their cars or at home with no power.
I had a blizzard experience myself! Not this one…I believe it was 2009 or 10! In the thumb of Michigan…where we had plenty of snowdrifts! The normal 1hr ride from my parents home to mine, took 8hrs & I still didn’t make it to my home! I was only wearing a hoodie & knee-high boots, for dress not snow! I had my lil 4lb dog with me! I helped one guy who had no heat in his car, let him warm up in my car & gave him a blanket I had! We decided to follow each other to the closest town! I lost him when he was getting to far behind me. You couldn’t see anything in front of you, the blowing snow totally disorients you! I drove into a snow drift and got stuck, thankfully friends got me out & I stayed at their house for 2 days! Police said you are on your own if you go out & get stuck! EMS & police vehicles were stuck on the sides of the road! It was crazy! That is when I vowed I was moving out of Michigan, to a warmer state! Took another 6yrs but I did it!!!
The blizzrd of Southeast Missouri on Saturday night and stayed through Sunday, February 26, 1979. A heavy rain turned to snow during the night and deposited twenty four inches of snow in the next fifteen hours
My dad drove salt trucks during that
I was there.
Our superintendent of schools had some sort of mental disorder and kept our schools open. My mother didn’t have the best judgment ever so she sent us to school. I’m 7 years older than my little brother who was 6 at the time so it was my job to drag him across the snow. As mom watched us out the window she finally came to and called down to a neighbor that yelled out to me that my little brother didn’t have to go to school. See if you can guess what I did that day?😂
Mom always told me stories about this. What really made it bad was speculators drove up the cost of LNG sky high. This was part of the reason why they closed the schools for two weeks. But once they did that, dad took vacation time (he had lots of it) and they went with my brother and sisters to Sanibel, FL. Smart move, dad. LOL
I was 6 mo. I have been told stories about the storm. I would love to get a T-shirt that says I survived a blizzard of 78
Got stranded in that 3 days
It be coming back some day.
Maybe if we stop raising global temperatures.
No that snow already melted.
@@zacvee7255 not going to happen any time soon
@@hiimpeyton671 We are suppose to get a lot of snow Wednesday ❄ in Indiana.
@@Rach113 It’s not gonna be 52 inches though
21 years wasted literally!! Well deserved coming
Was this near Cleveland?
Yes, it was all of Ohio.
this when the government didn't really know what they were doing as usual firing up the H.A.R.P. before they perfected it to turn it into a weapon
I bought a brand new chev 4 wheel drive with a western plow the next year for 7,800 bucks! Not anymore 😅
. I was born in it
I’m my town people rode there snowmobiles over overpasses
dont forget 278 sunspotless days. during that year,.grand solar mininum much
The blizzard of Ozz!
Think I called out of school just to make a snowman
2008- current
I pay I never see one
of course its Ohio
Only in ohio