School was off for a week but if you could walk through thigh-high snow to get to b-ball practice, you did.

I was a junior in high school. we lived in town and the conditions were pretty bad. I can't imagine what it was like in rural areas. The thing I remember the most was the wind. It was really howling.

cat_lover;1834353 wrote:The thing I remember the most was the wind. It was really howling.

I remember waking up around 6:30 AM on my own, which was weird. Staggered out to the living room, where my father was listening to his pocket transistor radio he listened to every morning. He said, "Look outside". I thought it was fog at first, then realized it was constant horizontal snow. He said, "Blizzard. Power's out." It wasn't until then that I snapped out of it and noticed the candles in the living room, and that Dad wasn't in the kitchen like he normally was each morning ........

Our cat and dog decided to call a truce that morning and actually laid down together to keep warm. My sister kept a guinea pig in an aquarium with the cedar shavings - we packed in extra newspaper, and that thing burrowed in so deep we thought it had disappeared.

Ahhh '78, was only four at the time, barely remember much of it. I think the only reason I remember any of it was cause we dug a hole out our back door to our wood storage shed. That was how dad carried wood in for the wood furnace.

Wife and I lived in Perrysburg, I had a VW Wagon the storm rolled in around 10:00 as one of only 5 male teachers we stayed to make sure the kids got on the busses and parents pickup their kids by 6:00 the storm had dumped a lot of snow that the expressway where closing. I was 30 miles from Perrysburg and getting home, wife was home safe. That VW Wagon plowed throw that snow the roads where not being scraped. I made it home as soon as I got home I got called by the Perrysburg police to help them on snowmobiles to recover stranded motorists and get them to the high school.
Next day Perrysburg lost power and gas lines froze... Kazmiers was selling everything at 70% off to anyone who could get there. Note: wife and I bought a lot of wine, cheese and crackers ....we had a fireplace ... First daughter was born in 1979

ITT: old guys talk about snow

Belly35;1834456 wrote:Next day Perrysburg lost power and gas lines froze... Kazmiers was selling everything at 70% off to anyone who could get there. Note: wife and I bought a lot of wine, cheese and crackers ....we had a fireplace ... First daughter was born in 1979

Either the timeline appears to be somewhat suspect, or you forgot about that wine for for a long time.

Long rough winter in '77 too.

Zunardo;1834471 wrote:Either the timeline appears to be somewhat suspect, or you forgot about that wine for for a long time.

back in the day we had lots of wine, smoke and

Gardens35;1834473 wrote:Long rough winter in '77 too.

Amen, brother.

It was back to back.

BRF;1834487 wrote:Amen, brother.

It was back to back.

Indeed it was. Energy problems hit too and our district moved the junior high kids into the high school and we had split days .....high school kids from 7-noon, and junior high from noon-5, or something like that. It was an interesting few weeks.

This is my oldest brother's stepmom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxy-sO-z_E4


Lowest pressure ever in Ohio .........pretty amazing

I remember the snow was so high we could climb on my grandpa's roof and slide down the snow.

Back in those days, and up until the late 90's, we still had a "milkman" who delivered to your door a couple times a week. During that blizzard he brought by milk via his snow mobile!

Fun fact about that storm, officially only 12" was measured at Toledo Express. The reason was they knew there was zero chance of measuring so they just put a foot down.

It's estimated that 18-24" in all actuality fell


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Classyposter58;1835113 wrote:Fun fact about that storm, officially only 12" was measured at Toledo Express. The reason was they knew there was zero chance of measuring so they just put a foot down.

It's estimated that 18-24" in all actuality fell


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Yeah, it would be tough to measure. I was in New Jersey last january when they had a blizzard and it was said 24 inches fell in around 30 hours. With all the blowing it is tough to measure most places.

Classyposter58;1835113 wrote:Fun fact about that storm, officially only 12" was measured at Toledo Express. The reason was they knew there was zero chance of measuring so they just put a foot down.

It's estimated that 18-24" in all actuality fell


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wife and I lived in Perrysburg the front porch and garage doors where drifted over I got the snowmobile out the back door of the garage. When I open the garage door it was a wall of snow 14 feet high. Every time we shoveled the snow from the garage more would slide off the roof or the wind would just drift it over again. I helped the police and fire dept. the next morning checking for cars along side the express way from Perrysburge to Sylvania many times I was riding over top of them. Two day went by and the national guard can out and helped plow the roads but there was no place to put all the snow, so they bulldozer it up the side of the roads to almost the bottom of the power lines. The radio warned parents to not let the kids climb up and down those snowdrifts and piles of snow.

thavoice;1835114 wrote:Yeah, it would be tough to measure. I was in New Jersey last january when they had a blizzard and it was said 24 inches fell in around 30 hours. With all the blowing it is tough to measure most places.

Thing is the lack of open space and typically more mild temps post storm is what makes impacts of storms in the NE so much different than here in the Midwest. Just look at the Chicago blizzard a few years ago, whole city was shut down for a few days, the burbs a few more and rural Northern IL a week plus.