I was just thinking about this event a couple of days ago. I was 15 years old and was living in the country south of Greenwood. It took three days as I remember for the National Guard to get through in an APC. Thankfully, WISH-TV decided to put this on You Tube. It will have been 47 years ago this January. I have several copies of the Indianapolis Star and The Daily Journal newspapers from that time that told the stories of the blizzard. In retrospect, I think that people came through that storm pretty well considering that no one was prepared for a blizzard. I don't remember people complaining. It was a challenge, and everyone rose to meet it. I don't think that people would fare as well today.
My brother and I did the exact same thing in Kouts. My dad was a buddy of the snow plow guy in town so he piled all the snow down the street in our front yard. It was three times as high as our roof. All the neighborhood kids sledded for two months on that dude.
I was 7 years old we lived in a trailer park between Monrovia and Mooresville snow drifts were up to the top of the trailers I'll never forget it we don't get snow like that no more
Was part of 5 man construction crew 100 miles from home.Job site in Upper Sandusky Ohio. Ate from fruit cellar, shot pool by candle light and played cards till all but 2 of us were broke. Spent next winter in Pompano horse track in Florida. It would be my last white hurricane and moved to Florida in 1980
I grew up in Connersville, IN, east and south of Indianapolis. I remember I was 14, being out of school for a week. Thankfully we had a big wood stove and my dad kept us sweating. The wind was brutal and if you went outside you weren’t out very long. A very unique time I’ll never forget.
I was 12 and my sister and I had to walk a quarter mile to Chuck's Market for food. We were bundled up with 3 layers of clothes and socks. I don't miss the blizzard but I miss the love of those days. R.I.P William Hudnut, Josh Littman. I guess the world was different in those days because we were children.
It was a nightmare getting home to my wife and toddler son, It's a good thing I made it busting through drifts, because the dozers broke through 7 days later. We were lucky we had a wood stove (power went out), and a refrigerator full of food, one wall on the southwest side froze up inside the house. then our house became completely covered with a large drift.
Remember it well. I was working at weir cook airport when it hit. I was one of the lucky few who got home that night. We were told to close the store and go home. I will never forget my dad showing up with his truck and the long, long drive home. We finally pulled into the driveway after 6pm. A week later, the airport authority found my white mustang along with 10 other cars in the snow bank that was the employee parking lot. That storm was a heck of a birthday present for anyone born in January and early February. We could see the newly built i70 with semi trucks stranded. Someone in the neighborhood had a snow mobile and ran back and forth for emergencies.
I was a junior at Northwestern High School in Howard County. The school let us out too late, and the busses couldn't get down most roads! We had two family sets of kids staying with us because the bus couldn't get them home! It was fun as a kid. Snow drifts as tall as our outbuildings! We'd climb on top and slide down. We lived out in the country, and the roads were one lane and looked like tunnels! An experience of a lifetime!
I was 9 years old.... Living 30 miles north of Boston. Father came home early from work... We filled up three shopping carts, plenty of firewood...... Everybody abandoned their cars on the highway, Salisbury Beach was completely destroyed.... The brunt of the storm was on the East Coast... We got it twice
I was just thinking about this event a couple of days ago. I was 15 years old and was living in the country south of Greenwood. It took three days as I remember for the National Guard to get through in an APC. Thankfully, WISH-TV decided to put this on You Tube. It will have been 47 years ago this January. I have several copies of the Indianapolis Star and The Daily Journal newspapers from that time that told the stories of the blizzard. In retrospect, I think that people came through that storm pretty well considering that no one was prepared for a blizzard. I don't remember people complaining. It was a challenge, and everyone rose to meet it. I don't think that people would fare as well today.
I am 63 years old and I have never seen snow like this ever again 😮😊❤
Ditto on that and I’m 50
Chicago 2011
I remember this time so well my brothers and I made a tunnel in our yard those were the best times 😢😊❤
My brother and I did the exact same thing in Kouts. My dad was a buddy of the snow plow guy in town so he piled all the snow down the street in our front yard. It was three times as high as our roof. All the neighborhood kids sledded for two months on that dude.
I was 7 years old we lived in a trailer park between Monrovia and Mooresville snow drifts were up to the top of the trailers I'll never forget it we don't get snow like that no more
Was part of 5 man construction crew 100 miles from home.Job site in Upper Sandusky Ohio. Ate from fruit cellar, shot pool by candle light and played cards till all but 2 of us were broke. Spent next winter in Pompano horse track in Florida. It would be my last white hurricane and moved to Florida in 1980
I like how the WISH-TV 8 production team of ‘78 has Mayor Bill Hudnut declaring a snow emergency to the drum solo of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
I miss the old channel 8 news crew 😢😊❤
I grew up in Connersville, IN, east and south of Indianapolis. I remember I was 14, being out of school for a week. Thankfully we had a big wood stove and my dad kept us sweating. The wind was brutal and if you went outside you weren’t out very long. A very unique time I’ll never forget.
Miss that snow.
I remember this storm. I was 11 years old, and my family was stranded in a rural area for several days.
I was 12 and my sister and I had to walk a quarter mile to Chuck's Market for food. We were bundled up with 3 layers of clothes and socks. I don't miss the blizzard but I miss the love of those days. R.I.P William Hudnut, Josh Littman. I guess the world was different in those days because we were children.
@@rickimhotep1236 I miss it too.
I remember this storm very well! I hadn't been home from being discharged from the USN long, staying at my Mom and stepdads in Indianapolis.
I was 6 years old when this happened and couldn't get the front door open cause of the snow!
I was 8yrs. old we lived in Columbus
It was a nightmare getting home to my wife and toddler son, It's a good thing I made it busting through drifts, because the dozers broke through 7 days later. We were lucky we had a wood stove (power went out), and a refrigerator full of food, one wall on the southwest side froze up inside the house. then our house became completely covered with a large drift.
Remember it well. I was working at weir cook airport when it hit. I was one of the lucky few who got home that night. We were told to close the store and go home. I will never forget my dad showing up with his truck and the long, long drive home.
We finally pulled into the driveway after 6pm. A week later, the airport authority found my white mustang along with 10 other cars in the snow bank that was the employee parking lot. That storm was a heck of a birthday present for anyone born in January and early February. We could see the newly built i70 with semi trucks stranded. Someone in the neighborhood had a snow mobile and ran back and forth for emergencies.
Need to increase the volume.
I remember that day very well growing up in Greenfield.
Coldest spot in the nation for three days was Spencer, Indiana.
I was a junior at Northwestern High School in Howard County. The school let us out too late, and the busses couldn't get down most roads! We had two family sets of kids staying with us because the bus couldn't get them home! It was fun as a kid. Snow drifts as tall as our outbuildings! We'd climb on top and slide down. We lived out in the country, and the roads were one lane and looked like tunnels! An experience of a lifetime!
It came for us and it got us and I survived it - hoosier strong
I was in junior highschool kid. We were out for 2 weeks. Remember walking up Ditch Road to the grocery
I was 9 years old.... Living 30 miles north of Boston. Father came home early from work... We filled up three shopping carts, plenty of firewood...... Everybody abandoned their cars on the highway, Salisbury Beach was completely destroyed.... The brunt of the storm was on the East Coast... We got it twice
Love the raw footage, but the audio could use a boost
Let’s not forget the “wonderful” music for this special, Ron Bushy’s drum solo from the song “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Iron Butterfly.
Mike Ahern and Stan "The Weatherman" Wood. They were Indiana celebrities.
What a bizarre set for this “special”. Yikes!!
So they dedicated an entire show to what we Canadians experience every day in the winter, every winter.
They did say happens once in every 30 years for Hoosiers! 😂
Very good information to have to be prepared for the next time too.
@@maggiemae7153 wow, seems like you're due
Every day, Dabney? Really?
@@abunchahooey It's Canada
@@dabneyoffermein595
Ok, you're definitely getting annexed now. 😂
Been there done that Lol