40 years ago White Death

[Digger 66 3,488]

I was 11 years old during The Blizzard of 77 .

I remember being able to walk up snowdrifts onto the top of my childhood home & to be eye level with the streetlights .

My father worked for Bethlehem Steel & didn't come home for 7 days .

29 souls perished in this blizzard .

 

A sobering reminder of Mother Nature's power :

 

 

Edited January 28, 2017 by Digger 66

[953 nut 59,912]

I had already moved to Florida by then, but my cousin shared a photo of the  road to the family farm near Syracuse NY from her scrap book.

Edited January 28, 2017 by 953 nut

[WHX?? 51,732]

Good post Digger..thanks... I was out punching holes in the North Atlantic at the time in a cozy warm submarine when news of this came over the wire. Since most of the crew was staioned out of the subase in CT Lots of guys were woriied that this storm was going to reach the east coast. 

 

Does this mean you are going to take over Dick's threads on ths day in XXXX?!!?!? 

[briankd 819]

I can remember it we couldn't go any where 10'- 12' snow drifts my dad worked for the county road department they came in on snowmobile and got him for work and didn't see him for about 2 weeks. they even called in the national guard with their heavy equipment to help with getting roads open. i have pictures just like that

5 hours ago, 953 nut said:

I had already moved to Florida by then, but my cousin shared a photo of the  road to the family farm near Syracuse NY from her scrap book.

 

[benji756 341]

That was a bad one, 10 years earlier was a bad one also, that was the only time we had to have a dozer come in and plow out our beef cattle feed lot so we could feed our beef. us kids had a blast playing on the huge pile of snow the rest of the winter.

[squonk 43,782]

16 hours ago, 953 nut said:

I had already moved to Florida by then, but my cousin shared a photo of the  road to the family farm near Syracuse NY from her scrap book.

After the Superstorm of 93 there was a north south major highway that looked worse than that. It was like 7 miles from my house. I was traveling down it to look at a snowblower for my 210-H. I met a state highway truck with a blower mounted coming the other way. It was a tight fit.

[Sarge 3,465]

We had one similar to that in '78/'79 here in northern Illinois with over 4' of snowfall and high winds - no one moved for a week and quite a few deaths to boot ...never forget that storm and we had a huge pile of snow still in the back yard at the end of May when it was 80* outside ...

 

Sarge

[Wishin4a416 2,191]

I remember it well I had horses at the local race track and we had a time of it. Didnt get as much as you but we were in a bad way.