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Sonofanump

Jan 26, 2013 12:31 AM
The snow drift was 8 feet high in my side yard. Have a good day.
Jan 26, 2013 12:31am
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Jan 26, 2013 12:52 AM
I was in Tennessee when that happened here in 1978. I also remember 1976/77 being a hell of a Winter in Ohio. We kept our Winter gear by the front door in order to help push cars up the street when they got stuck/spinning their tires. Good old rear wheel drive cars.
Jan 26, 2013 12:52am
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Jan 26, 2013 4:04 AM
I was in the Army when the '78 blizzard hit. Fortunately I was stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii! :D
Jan 26, 2013 4:04am
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Jan 26, 2013 4:42 AM
I still lived in Wisconsin where people are used to snow.
Jan 26, 2013 4:42am
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Jan 26, 2013 8:19 AM
old people thread
Jan 26, 2013 8:19am
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Jan 26, 2013 9:38 AM
Lived in Perrysburge at the time an after getting a call from the local police to help get people off of 75 to the high school for shelter , 75 was closed down. I get home around 2 in the morning, I had a jeep 4
W drive with big tires but still was difficult to move in the side street and main roads. By morning the snow had drifted up over my garage doors and there was 10 foot high drift on my front porch and drive way.we where trapped, plus at some point the gas lines in Perrysburge had water in them and the meters where freezing no heat.
Jan 26, 2013 9:38am
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Jan 26, 2013 10:07 AM
I wasn't alive but my parents always tell the story of how they were stranded out in front of the house they live in now (didn't move there til '92). They ended up walking to the neighbors house with about 10 other people and staying until the weather was better.
Jan 26, 2013 10:07am
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Jan 26, 2013 11:21 AM
Where are all the 34 year olds?
Jan 26, 2013 11:21am
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Jan 26, 2013 11:34 AM
ccrunner609;1375011 wrote:I was 7 years old and remember that the day before we were running around outside playing in 60 degree weather and in the morning the wind chill was somethiing like 90 degrees colder.
I remember riding our bikes that day. It was crazy warm for this time of year.

My dad had a snowmobile and he was going around checking on everyone to make sure everyone was fine. He made a sled to pull behind it so he could go to the store and pick stuff up for people. Its hard to believe how unprepared people were when it happened.
Jan 26, 2013 11:34am
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Sonofanump

Jan 26, 2013 12:00 PM
Belly35;1375020 wrote:Lived in Perrysburge at the time an after getting a call from the local police to help get people off of 75 to the high school for shelter , 75 was closed down. I get home around 2 in the morning, I had a jeep 4
W drive with big tires but still was difficult to move in the side street and main roads. By morning the snow had drifted up over my garage doors and there was 10 foot high drift on my front porch and drive way.we where trapped, plus at some point the gas lines in Perrysburge had water in them and the meters where freezing no heat.
This you?

Jan 26, 2013 12:00pm
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Jan 26, 2013 12:16 PM
That picture is awesome
Jan 26, 2013 12:16pm
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Jan 26, 2013 2:07 PM
Sonofanump;1375067 wrote:This you?

No ... But that is what my house looked like , I had to shovel from the garage out, at first we put the snow in the garage until we where able to throw it over the drift.
Jan 26, 2013 2:07pm
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Jan 26, 2013 4:12 PM
I was five years old. The township road we live lived on was drifted completely shut. They had to get heavy equipment in to open it. Snow was piled like 10ft high on both sides.
Jan 26, 2013 4:12pm
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Jan 26, 2013 4:52 PM
I was in the National Guard, stationed on the west side of Columbus. I was the first one able to get to the armory. I spent the next 54 hours in a deuce-and-a-half out on Route 40 between C-bus and West Jefferson recovering stranded motorists and getting sick or injured people to Doctor's hospital, including one lady who gave birth less than an hour after we got her there. For several hours the visibility was so bad my partner and I took turns walking outside the truck to make sure we didn't run into a stranded vehicle. We used the deuce to knock through several snow drifts to get residents out of their neighborhoods.
Jan 26, 2013 4:52pm
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Jan 26, 2013 8:25 PM
...I was still a young man chasing young women - if I remember correctly classes were cancelled so most of the campus took to 'sledding' on purloined cafeteria trays.
Jan 26, 2013 8:25pm
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Jan 26, 2013 10:58 PM
Was 3 years old....but that year I scored a 28 on my ACT even though I barely tried.
Jan 26, 2013 10:58pm
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Jan 27, 2013 4:37 AM
I was -6 years old.
Jan 27, 2013 4:37am
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Jan 27, 2013 10:47 AM
gerb131;1375053 wrote:Where are all the 34 year olds?
Well done, sir ;)
Jan 27, 2013 10:47am
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Jan 27, 2013 1:51 PM
I was a junior in high school and the snow drifts in Newark were very large.
Jan 27, 2013 1:51pm
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Jan 28, 2013 9:14 AM
Threads like this make me feel young. Most other threads make me feel old.

I wasn't even a developed sperm in daddy's nut 35 years ago.

But I remember him talking about the blizzard.
Jan 28, 2013 9:14am
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Jan 28, 2013 9:23 AM
mcburg93;1375058 wrote:I remember riding our bikes that day. It was crazy warm for this time of year.

My dad had a snowmobile and he was going around checking on everyone to make sure everyone was fine. He made a sled to pull behind it so he could go to the store and pick stuff up for people. Its hard to believe how unprepared people were when it happened.
Just curious, what does the 93 in your user name stand for? I assumed it was the year you graduated but then you couldn't have been riding bikes in 76 I think.
Jan 28, 2013 9:23am
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Jan 28, 2013 9:25 AM
FatHobbit;1375980 wrote:Just curious, what does the 93 in your user name stand for? I assumed it was the year you graduated but then you couldn't have been riding bikes in 76 I think.
The average age at time of High School graduation in Mechanicsburg is 33. Hope this helps.
Jan 28, 2013 9:25am
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Jan 28, 2013 10:49 AM
To think back I was 27 years old WOW what a great life I have
Jan 28, 2013 10:49am
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Jan 28, 2013 3:56 PM
Meteorologically one of the greatest storms of all time, definitely the biggest in Ohio history. I don't know if we will ever see something like this again in all honesty
Jan 28, 2013 3:56pm
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Jan 29, 2013 2:30 PM
The local milkman, yes, our area had a guy who delivered milk to people up until 3-4 years ago, made deliveries on his snowmobile!
Remember the fire dept coming out to pick my mom up and bring her to work at the hospital during this blizzard!
Jan 29, 2013 2:30pm