How Well I Remember This One!!!

[cr8crshr]

Even though I grew up in Chicago's northern suburb, Evanston, this still hit there very big and hard. I can still see it as though it happened today only in 1979. cr8crshr/Bill...

Today in Chicago History: BLIZZARD …Today in Chicago History: BLIZZARD …​

 

[Cranky]

Even though I grew up in Chicago's northern suburb, Evanston, this still hit there very big and hard. I can still see it as though it happened today only in 1979. cr8crshr/Bill...

Today in Chicago History: BLIZZARD …Today in Chicago History: BLIZZARD …​

I remember that kind of stuff when I lived in Massachewshits.....glad I'm not there anymore!

 

[Geetex]

Even though I grew up in Chicago's northern suburb, Evanston, this still hit there very big and hard. I can still see it as though it happened today only in 1979. cr8crshr/Bill...

Today in Chicago History: BLIZZARD …Today in Chicago History: BLIZZARD …​

In 1979 I worked for the apartment complex that we lived in. Part of my job was grounds keeping, which included snow removal in the winter. That was a long winter.

 

[alsant]

I was a high school junior at the time , Chicago busses were not running so walked about a mile home. Think it was the only time we had snow days off.

 

[Austin Charger]

7 months previous I just graduated from University of Illinois. Landed my first full time job working in a quality control lab straight midnight shift 10pm to 6 am. Relieving shift could not make it in so I worked another 8 to cover. Can remember it very well. '77-'78 was no prize either.

 

[Richard Cranium]

We had our major blizzard a year earlier in 1978. It dumped 4+ feet.

Photos: Looking back at the Blizzard of ‘78

 

[64BEL]

I lived through this one in Omaha on January 10th, 1975.
January 10, 1975 | The Omaha Blizzard of 1975

While it didn't have the snow totals of some of the others mentioned here, it was the wind and cold that I remember. My dad and I got stuck in the old rear wheel drive family truckster and had to walk home about a mile in the storm (mostly uphill, too). We kept having to take breaks by ducking into apartment entryways to get out of it. I remember how the wind took my breath away walking in it. I was glad to get a break from delivering the Omaha World Heralds for 2 days. Until I found out I had to deliver all 3 days worth on the 3rd day! And that was when newspapers were newspapers! My mom helped me and I got stuck up to my chest in a drift walking between houses at one point. Glad my mom was there to pull me out of it.

Then, on May 6th of that year, we got hit with 8 tornadoes. One was an F4. At the time, it was the highest property damage in US history. But that's another story.

 

[zyzzyx]

In 79 I was driving a semi for a firm in Lyons called J&A Cartage. We were one of the companies that got a contract hauling snow.
A big snow removal company out of Buffalo N.Y. put all of their equipment on rail cars and shipped it here. While they were here
the blizzard moved east to Buffalo and dumped on them like there was no tomorrow! Lots of people pissed off in Buffalo!!!!
Made lots of MooLa!

 

[Budnicks]

2 winters ago we had 25' (feet) of snow, our normal is less than 1/2 if even that
how soon some forget
there were places upcountry just 20 miles from here, in Tuolumne Co.
that had 50 feet

at the pass, 3 days in

this was at like 7,000 ft in the early part of the storm

 

[ckessel]

Just to make ya'll envious.

 

[demonram]

7 months previous I just graduated from University of Illinois. Landed my first full time job working in a quality control lab straight midnight shift 10pm to 6 am. Relieving shift could not make it in so I worked another 8 to cover. Can remember it very well. '77-'78 was no prize either.

How about 67, it was a rough one too.

 

[maxwedgechar]

My father said that my grandfather always talked about the Blizzard of '88 (1888). He would've been 12.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

'77-'78 was no prize either.

January of 78 I flew into O'Hare, one of the last planes to land... Caught a ride to Great Lakes Naval Training Center & once I got to the barracks none of us was allowed to leave the barracks for a couple days... We ate everything in the vending machines... The mess hall was less than a quarter mile away & we weren't allowed to walk to it.... As a kid I'd spent six years in Alaska, I'd seen much worse... I was seriously concerned about what sort of wimps our military was training...