A fun video from the blizzards of 76-77

[SoCalDem]

http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/swio/pages/content/1977_coldWave.htm

These are from Ohio, but we experienced them in northern Indiana too. They were wicked..

I worked at a Travel Agency and we went on half-days for quite a while due to rationing of natural gas.. We had snow piles 6feet tall on both sides of our driveway..

[melm00se]

1. pikers

Buffalo's Blizzard of 1977

[SoCalDem]

2. Buffalo does have wicked winters

I used to have a client who was always TRYING to get to Buffalo

[melm00se]

4. I lived thru it.

I remember my father (a physician) who was picked up at the house 3 straight days by folks on snowmobiles to take him to the hospital to take care of patients.

[MineralMan]

3. Brrr...

We've been through this before...

[hedgehog]

7. The photos are spectacular, but most of them are of drifts rather than

actual total snow fall - not to say that a drift up to your second floor window isn't a problem!

I've always thought that the real problem was that the storm hit on a Friday afternoon when a lot of people were driving around getting pay checks cashed (this was before ATMs), getting groceries, getting lunch, etc. Once the first car in a lane stalled or got stuck, that lane was closed and all the cars behind it were stuck in place to make a spot for drifts. All those cars had to be dug out individually, and some of the digging wasn't very careful. If he storm had struck at 3AM, the roads would have been pretty much empty and clean-up would have been easier.

There have always been rumors of people who died in the storm, but I never saw any reputable count.

[Tansy_Gold]

5. Northeastern Indiana, blizzard of '77

I remember it well. Not fondly, but well.

[John1956PA]

6. OP is a concise summary of the 1976-1977 and 1977-1978 winters in the Northeast.

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From mid-January through mid-February 1977, the opening pieces on the evening news shows featured the harsh weather. The mini-series Roots debuted on January 23 and received high ratings numbers, buoyed in part by home-bound viewers. I do not recall downed power lines on the scale of some of the ice storms which occurred in the following decades. However, the cold weather from mid-January through mid-February 1977 was intense and persistent.

[William769]

8. Those blizzards caused massive flooding in town's in S.E. Kentucky after the snow melted.