The biggest snowstorm to hit this area was 30 years ago this week! On this page, you can view some video of the storm and share your memories of that massive snow!
Saturday, Jun 28 at 3:41 PM Daphne Rudhman wrote ...
I was in my early years of teaching.My friend, Marilyn, and I prayed for snow so we could go skiing...my brother -in-law was stuck at work, my sister was in her house with her newborn baby, a neighbor trekked to the store to buy infant formula, and my sister was going stir crazy...I came to take care of the little one so my sister could go take a break ...that, of course was the first day I could drive on the streets! I finally got to go skiing...bottom line: No more praying for snow!
Friday, May 30 at 4:17 PM Norma Fleming wrote ...
It was the first day of the blizzard about 12 noon.
I was 21 and still living
in my parents house. They
couldn't even go to work.
You couldn't hardly walk, much less drive out there.
I told my girlfriend there
was no way I could get out to see her. One hour later another girlfriend called
me to ask me to bring her
some laundry soap and also keep her company. I drove 4
miles to do that for her.
We are still together today. Thank God for the
blizzard of '78.
Friday, Apr 25 at 8:08 PM Steve wrote ...
I was trapped in Spokane, WA...with NO flights back...I'd met a wonderful lady named r4ebecca and spent the three days stranded in a WA motel with her....when I finally got back, I was just florred by the thin narrow plowed streets from the airport to my house !
Friday, Apr 25 at 12:22 PM chris frazier wrote ...
i was -15 years old and there is alot of eye-witnessers here ttyl yall
Sunday, Apr 20 at 4:54 PM debbi wrote ...
on the eveing of the 1st day of the Blizzard i went into labor and called an ambulance because our car was already drifted in. we lived in mish near Marion High. They had a 4x4 get within 4 blocks and then they had to pull me by sled back to the 4x4 with snow already past their knees, then drove to mcdonalds next to bonnie Doons & a bigger 4x4 took me to memorial where my son Ryan was born Jan 27 we were stuck there 3 days with all the dads & moms sharing rooms with their babies.
Friday, Apr 18 at 5:30 PM Maddy wrote ...
I wasn't born yet soo...I'm mad!!!!!!!=(
I'm only 12 right now so hahahah byee
Sunday, Apr 13 at 9:32 AM L wrote ...
I was six years old living in Rolling Prairie. I remember my parents smoked at that time and they were out of cigarettes, so they were smoking the butts! They wouldn't let me play outside like my older sisters because they were afraid I would be buried if a snow bank fell on me. We had to drink fresh cow milk from the neighbors farm, and to this day, when its predicted that we will get a lot of snow, I always run to the store to make sure there are enough groceries for the week.
Monday, Mar 17 at 1:57 PM joseph wrote ...
I was only 10 years old, but I remember for some reason my mom kept a shovel in the basement. lucky!!! we had to dig our way out of our house. there was about a 15ft. tunnel lengthwise to get out. we had a two story home and a drift of snow went up one side of our home. I have a photo of me standing on the crest of our roof with my sled, i went sledding off the top of our house! that was at lake of the woods
Saturday, Mar 8 at 4:40 AM Daryl Wineland wrote ...
I was 16 years old in 1978 and was a student at Crown Point high school. I remember snowmobiling on 2 to 3 foot of snow on top of Hwy 55 known as the 9 mile stretch between Crown Point and Lowell IN. Some drifts were 4 to 7 feet deep.
Thursday, Feb 28 at 7:16 PM Bob wrote ...
I was a student at La Lumiere School north of La Porte and we were snowed in for 4 days. There was no electricty in the dorms so everyone slept in the Main House next to the large stone fireplace. We also started running out of food because trucks could not make deliveries. On the 3rd day, the students created a massive shoveling squad to clear the entrance road so food deliveries could resume. Once the roads were cleared and the South Shore started running again, everyone was sent home.
Tuesday, Feb 26 at 7:46 AM Julia wrote ...
It was my senior year at St.Joe High School. We were out of school for 2 weeks! It will remain one of my best memories. People came together in ways that I had never witness before nor since. Complete strangers were looking out for one anothers welfare. People that had snowmobiles were the hero's for many who would have otherwise not been able to deal with emergency situations. The young and able bodied walked through make shift tunnels to get to the store for elderly neighbors
Thursday, Feb 7 at 8:05 PM cindy wrote ...
we lived in ohio at the time.dad was in the hospital,so it was me and mom.our power went out,we had a wood burner in the garage,so thats where we stayed for 4 days.mom cooked on the stove so we ate well and we melyed snow to have water.one of our neighbors stayed with us since we had some heat,and i remember she slepted on the hood of our car.i was 15 and thought that was the worst experience i ever went through,and to this day i think it still is.we finally got our power back in about a week .
Thursday, Feb 7 at 2:53 PM Rexanna wrote ...
I lived in Clay Township and remember trying to get Thrif-t-Mart on 23 and Ironwood for groceries for all the neighbors. We made it as far as the toll road overpass on 23 - and it was covered in a drift. I also had a CB radio in my car (I only found my car because of the antenna on the roof). I remember making phone calls for truck drivers stuck in drifts on the toll road to their families all over the country, letting them know their loved one was okay. T
Thursday, Feb 7 at 2:26 PM Rosemary wrote ...
I was 17 and When I got up mom said I can't go to work so I called my boss at burger chef and he told me he would come get me then he got there to find that burger chef was buried under snow drifts from the high winds. so dad went around helping people in his 4x4 truck making sure people had food and meds.
Thursday, Feb 7 at 10:23 AM Casey Major wrote ...
Our daughter was three weeks old when the blizzard hit and formula was first on my mind. I fortunately bought two cases at Martins that evening. That evening we watched the weather on Channel 16 and I remember Dick Addis using his greese pencil and spelling "impending doom" as his way of expressing the forecast. The following morning I tried to go to work and made it down County Road 12 West in Elkhart about 1/2 mile when the blowing snow and wind made me retreat home.
Thursday, Feb 7 at 7:02 AM Ann wrote ...
The blizzard of 78 was a once in a life time event. Today with doppler radar and other means of forecasting the possiblility of it being of the proportion will never happen,back then they did not forcast days ahead like today. I remember watching the weather @ that time they knew some major snow event was going to happen severity unknown till the barometer started falling off the charts. Stores were not open 24-7 like now and back then we did not panic buy for grocery's when it was going to sno
Thursday, Feb 7 at 1:44 AM Ted wrote ...
I was 14 when the blizzard hit, and I remember so clearly how it kept snowing and never seemed to stop. Fortunately I was a paperboy at the time and had collected money from my route before the snow started. My brother and I, along with a friend, took grocery orders from neighbors and used the paper route money to buy the groceries. We walked 2 miles in the snow to Martins Supermarket and on the way back found a grocery cart in a field and put the groceries in it and pulled it home on a sled.
Wednesday, Feb 6 at 10:08 PM Karen Powers wrote ...
I was 14 and was home with my parents. The drifts were higher than I was so I made tunnels for myself and my dog to play in.I havespecific memories of pulling a sled down the middle of Michigan street with my dad to Cira's Supermarket, hoping to find something to take home to eat! It was truly remarkable how life as we knew it, stood still. However, neighbors helping neighbors never ceased. I will never forget the chilling whiteout conditions blowing past our window. I was scared and in awe.
Wednesday, Feb 6 at 4:14 PM Mellissa S wrote ...
I enjoy hearing and reading the stories, being that I was born Feb. 26, 1978 I obviously don't remember it.
Wednesday, Feb 6 at 2:28 PM Janice Woods wrote ...
Might want to see how many babies were born mid to late October 1978. Great time to be appreciate each other.
Wednesday, Feb 6 at 12:16 PM Mark wrote ...
As soon as it started to snow I called a friend with a new 4x4 to drive me to the store for some staples and we could'nt get within a mile of my house a half hr later. It took me the rest of the day to walk thru 5-6' drifts with 2 bags of now frozen food. 9 months later we had a son (no cable tv)
Monday, Feb 4 at 12:40 AM k johnson wrote ...
I was 14 years old when the blizzard of `78 hit. The most memorable event was when all the neighbors in the block got our snow shovels out and started digging out our street! Then a neighbor across the street and his sons got on top of their roof, brushed down all the snow and then jumped from the roof onto their front yard. They were safe because there was so much snow. Schools were closed and we couldn't use our back door because snow had drifted.
Saturday, Feb 2 at 9:20 PM Carroll DeGroff (WSBT retiree) wrote ...
I was working at the WSBT Transmitters on S. Ironwood when the storm hit on Wed. At that time, we were not operating 24 hours, but shut down about l AM or so. As sign off time approached,I watched out the front door but saw no traffic. So after shutting down everything, I got out the cot and sleeping bag, set the alarm for sign-on and went to bed. Finally got home on Saturday, when our Chief Engineer brought out a relief man in a borrowed Jeep Cherokee.
Friday, Feb 1 at 8:40 PM Holly wrote ...
I had a friend over that week, and seh got to stay the whole week! We went snowboarding, sleding, and had dozens of snowball fights. It was a pain for adults, but fun for the kids!
Friday, Feb 1 at 7:59 PM ALICE G. POPLAWSKI wrote ...
I WORKED FOR INDIANA BELL AND THEY CAME AND GOT US IN ONE OF THEIR LARGE TRUCKS AND TOOK US TO WORK AND WE WERE PUT UP IN WHATEVER HOTEL THAT WAS AVAILABLE WE HAD ARMY TYPE COTS AT THE OFC. WE WORKED AS MANY HOURS AS WE COULD WHICH MEANT DOUBLE SHIFTS . THERE WERE NO CELL PHONES FOR PEOPLE THEN
Friday, Feb 1 at 4:13 PM Melody wrote ...
I was 17 during the storm of 78. What I remember was my mom worked as a cashier at Hank's Friendly Supermarket. She was the only cashier to make in to work that 1st day of the storm. Hank's boys had to bring her home on a snowmobile. I also remember after the storm my dad and us kids going to our neighbor's homes to check on them and ask them if they needed anything from the store. We walked to the store with sleeping bags. We put the groceries in the sleeping bags and pulled them home on a sled
Friday, Feb 1 at 4:06 PM BLJ wrote ...
I remember that day. I lived in Cassopolis, Michigan at the time.I was on my way to work and came to a completly dead stop at the state line. There was a wall of snow about 20 feet high. I was off of work for four days. That day is one of the reasons I live in Arizona now.
Friday, Feb 1 at 1:20 PM Karen wrote ...
I was 16 during the blizzard,I remember waking up and you could only see maybe 6 inches out of our bay window in the front of our house,in the back of our house the patio door was completely covered in a snow drift.
We had to tunnel out and it took three of us shoveling,just to get out to our driveway!!
Getting the snowmobiles of of the garage was another story!!
Friday, Feb 1 at 11:53 AM Art Holtzinger wrote ...
I remember driving my Gremlin home to Millersburg, after being stranded in Goshen for 4 days, and seeing snowdrifts as high as the electric poles on CR38. When I got home there were 25' piles of snow on each side of my driveway thanks to Millersburg local contracters. It was real but not fun!
Friday, Feb 1 at 11:52 AM Jodie wrote ...
I was 7 years old. I remember our dad bundled the three of us kids up and we literally tunneled in the snow. We made our own little snow tunel city. School was closed and life was good!
Friday, Feb 1 at 10:29 AM Susan wrote ...
I was 20 during the blizzard of '78. I got snowed in at a friends house in Goshen and didn't get home to Wakarusa to see my parents for over a week. I remember walking to Park Pharmacy in snow drifts up to my chest in the middle of the road, not a car in sight. My friend's car a corvette was completely covered, we couldn't find it. We had to walk blindly in the area of where it was parked, and when we ran into something, we found the car! I only missed 3 days of work because I could walk,
Friday, Feb 1 at 10:04 AM Judy Bradford wrote ...
I was working as a newspaper reporter in a suburb of Cleveland area at the time, and only three of us made it in to the newsroom. We were all new college graduates, but we worked hard all day and got the paper (65,000 daily circulation) published. We were so proud of ourselves....but then, there was no way to deliver it because none of the circulation people made it in. But the paper could at least live up to its reputation of never having missed a publication date!
Friday, Feb 1 at 9:20 AM Pat Bieber, Elkhart wrote ...
My father, Lee Stankovich used his snow mobile to take milk from a local farmer to several families. One family had a new born baby who needed the milk very badly. A real treat was opening the garage door to see the wall of solid snow, you could see nothing else. Jumping off the roof of our tri-level home into the snow banks. Then all of us kids tunneling through the snow to find each other. It was a blast for our family.
Friday, Feb 1 at 8:26 AM T.J. wrote ...
The Blizzard of '78 happened about a week after I was born. My parents thought it was great because they were snowed in with their first little bundle of joy. My grandparents lived a mile or two down the road. They had two take the snowmobile to see their first grandchild. So it was a great time for me.
Friday, Feb 1 at 8:09 AM Karin wrote ...
I was six. Snow in the driveway was up to my chest. My dad wouldn't allow me to walk on the sidewalk next to the house afraid the snow next to it might fall over and I would be trapped. The snow in the front yard met up with the roof and made a great place to sled. Besides using sleds people pushed home shopping carts full of groceries to their houses then left them in the street. After playing with one a while we pushed it back to the store. Our neighbor was one of the snowmobile paramedics.
Friday, Feb 1 at 8:07 AM Jeannine Porod, Granger wrote ...
I was 16 years old living with my family in Rolling Prairie. I was sad about missing school. We ended up missing 2 weeks of schoolBy Day 3, we had snow drifts 10' high and over the roof. We were not able to get out the front door. We ran out of groceries and there was talk of butchering my 4H rabbits. On Day 7, at 3:00 am, we heard snow plows. We cheered because we knew we'd soon be freed from being trapped on our dirt road. Instead of plows, they had to use graters, because of the massive snow.
Friday, Feb 1 at 7:15 AM ProTrkDvr wrote ...
What I remember about the winter of '78 was we gave up trying to clear out the front walk of our house. I remember coming home from Easter services, and shoveling the walk and our front door, so our Sunday dinner guests could come in the home without going through the garage! Imagine shoveling snow on Easter Sunday.
Friday, Feb 1 at 6:00 AM Mary wrote ...
I was only 6 years old but I remember looking out our back door and seeing people shoveling between two giant walls of snow. My dad was a police officer in Mishawaka and the other police had to come on snowmobiles and dig us out so my dad could get to work. I also remembered him going to work on cross country skis.
Friday, Feb 1 at 5:19 AM Dena wrote ...
I was 13 and we lived about 3 miles from town. I remember being stuck in the house for at least 2 days, until my Grandpa was able to get his jeep, with a plow on it, down US6 to cut across a field behind our house (because the snow was so drifted and packed on the country roads, he couldn't break through). We knew this storm was big, because even the Chicago radio stations remarked that South Bend, IN had disappeared and we'd never heard them mention S.B. before!
Friday, Feb 1 at 4:55 AM George wrote ...
Rick, you might want to go back a little bit further. To the winter of 60-61. If I remember correctly that was worse than 78. At one time there was 6 foot of snow on the ground in Michigan City and lots of snow on the ground to the east. That was a bad winter world wide, a whole lot of people died in Europe, and a few in this area if I remember correctly.
Friday, Feb 1 at 1:52 AM Robin wrote ...
This was the best time ever! I was oh 12-13 that year and it was a blast! I remember looking out the window early in the morning and just being astonished! Mother was nervous and us kids were elated! The 5 of us spent the day rolling snowballs that were 5' to 6' tall! We have some great photos of that year & I often share that story with my children! I wouldn't mind it if we were to get that much nowadays! It made for great memories of coming together for families and for our communities!
Friday, Feb 1 at 1:28 AM Jackie, Knox wrote ...
I was only four years old at the time, but my father who had a broken hip and my uncle needed to get to the store, so they got our sled, my uncle pulled my dad in the sled, and headed for the store. after getting the groceries, in the sled my dad crawled back into the sled, but before they took off, a very nice man with a snowmobile, hooked the sled to his snowmobile, and took my dad and uncle home. Thank God for GOOD People.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 7:36 PM Sally Hart wrote ...
January 1978 I was a non-traditional LPN student at Glen Oaks Community College, Centerville, MI. I lived just south of White Pigeon, just in Indiana. Glen Oaks closed for NOTHING. Until that year! They were closed for a week! I was happy to be home with the kids. Fortunately we had a freezer full of meat. I remember getting "cabin fever" after a few days and walking across the road to my neighbor's to visit - took me 10 minutes!!! The neighbors had snow mobiles and made trips for food.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 5:29 PM Gary wrote ...
I was 13 in 1978, we lived in LaGrange, IN. Yeah I thought the snow was fun. My older brother didn't so much, he worked for the state highway. He was just out of high school. We were out of school for a week. I remeber my dad and brother (age 15) walking into town for food, about a mile and half. That was the first time I had goats milk. The amish family next door gave it to us, it wasn't bad.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 4:45 PM Bob wrote ...
We lived in Mishawaka that winter. Our oldest daughter was due on the 27th. Fortunately she was born on the 16th. It was a bit nerve racking for us being new parents and snowed in. Since we didn't have a stock pile of food in the house numerous walks to the grocery store through a 2 foot wide 'tunnel' in 5-8 foot drifts kept us in pretty good shape. That daughter in now a school teacher in the South Bend School system. We moved to Florida 7 years ago. It was in the 80s today. Sorry friends.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 4:29 PM Bobbi S wrote ...
We lived on the east side of Lake Max. My husband's boss picked him up with a snowmobile so they could deliver small LP tanks to people who were freezing along the Tippecanoe river. They drug the tanks behind two snowmobiles for four days straight. On the third day I decided to try to walk into town to get some food since we didn't have anything left in the house. As I walked along 117 I came upon an orange flag sticking out of the snow. I was walking on top of a car buried by a drift! WOW!!
Thursday, Jan 31 at 4:04 PM Britney wrote ...
I wasn't alive then, but my mother told me many stories of that year. Stories about how driving down the roads were like driving through tunnels, and the snow being so high, they had to get ontop of the garage just to feed the horses. Living on a farm, the snow drifts were incredible from what I've been told. My mother had just had my sister just before Christmas '77. A new baby and a blizzard, sounds like a story to pass on for generations.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 3:42 PM Dave wrote ...
Sorry, Rick,
I just left for Texas that summer (of '78) to go to college and ended up meeting the young lady that is currently my wife.
I was still in Texas during the Blizzard of '78.
A Great Escape!
Thursday, Jan 31 at 2:45 PM Lisa wrote ...
I lived in Delphi (Carroll County - north of Lafayette). Both of my parents were bus drivers. After we got the call each night that there would not be any school the next day, I called all the kids on their bus routes to tell them "Snow Day tomorrow"! In those days we didn't have to make up snow days at the end of the school year so we were excited! My brother and I helped my dad dig the snow away from the fences because our cattle were walking over the fences. We played lots of euchre!
Thursday, Jan 31 at 2:20 PM Traci wrote ...
I was a little over a year old but I have been told I was stuck at my grandmothers house because my mom couldnt get there to pick me up after work that night and my uncle used skis to get to the grocery store to get milk and food for me.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 12:52 PM DAVIS wrote ...
I'd moved to Indianafrom Penna. the summer of 1977, which I remember being one of the longest and warmest on record for the lower Great Lakes region.
I worked evening shift, and I saw a double ring around the moon that night going home from work. Shortly after I saw it, the car radio started giving weather service bulletins telling people to get inside and stay off the roads. Next a.m. my neighbors car was buried by the snow drifts. took them days to excavate Rt.15 S. of New Paris to one lane
Thursday, Jan 31 at 12:25 PM Debra wrote ...
I lived in Elkhart at the time with 2 other gals we were 24 and we had no food in the house 2 if ys walked to at that time it was wilts gor on bristol street. it took us 2 hours to get there and should of taken 15 minutes by the time we got up the hill and in the store we felt sick and had to take our coat and hat glove off. We were the only people at the store besides the manager who came in on a snowmobel
after we got our gro a neighbors offered us a ride ate dinnere and played games in 3 day
Thursday, Jan 31 at 12:15 PM Deanna Wagler wrote ...
I was 8 months pregnant with my first child and living 2 1/2 miles away from a town when the blizzard of 78 hit. My husband was in town at his business and could not get home. My mom was sure I would have the baby, so she sent the National Guard to bring me into town to stay at her house. It was exciting! My son did not arrive for another 5 weeeks!
Thursday, Jan 31 at 10:53 AM Connie wrote ...
We lived in Kendallville, In on a dairy farm.My husband milked about 60 cows plus had pigs ready to have babies. He tied a rope from the house to the barn so he could find his way in the chest deep & higher snow drifts. We had little kids age 3 & 6 . I had bought groceries the day before, but we ran out of LP gas. It got very cold in the house and we had to call the county to get the huge maintainer plow to dig us out so the gas truck could get in. We tell many storm stories.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 10:53 AM Sharon wrote ...
I heard the first blizzard warning on TV and immediately went to the store and bought $50 of food for my family of 4. The day the blizzard started I baked lasagna. We live off Crumstown Hwy and it took 9 days to be dug out. A neighbor had a tractor with a front end loader and he dug us out on Peach Rd. All the neighbors chipped in and gave him some money. All the food I bought for the storm didn't last us so my husband and I walked to Maciejewski's with a sled to get more. Glad I took pics.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 10:35 AM Greg wrote ...
I was 23 then and lived in Berrien Springs. My wife worked at Pawatting Hospital in Niles as a RN 7to3 shift. I got up early and walked out to us 31. The snow was over my knees.Not one plow or vehichle had been through. We had a small compact car and there was no way to get through. That fall we purchased a snowmobile. It came in very handy, but the snow was so deep even it would get stuck. I got stuck so many times it took the fun out of it.Once the snow settled down riding was fun till April.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 10:24 AM Delores Franks wrote ...
My husband drove a school bus that year . It was amost buried in the snow. Two people got stuck near our home and had to spend the night. One, we found stuck in the road when we were driving in our 4 wheel drive. We walked a small way to get to him and our lungs burned from the raw wind. The milk truck couldn't get thru to get the milk from a neighboring farmer, so they shared the milk with all the neighbors. Neighbors were close as we depended on each other.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 10:18 AM Laurie wrote ...
I was 8 and I had strep throat. I couldn't do anything but stay in the house and watch my Brother and Sister and our friends have a blast playing in the snow. By the time I was well enough to go outside the fun had worn off.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 9:53 AM Suzie wrote ...
I was 14 and this was the only time I have personally seen a car completely buried. I shoveled all day and into the night shoveling our car out. I took breaks to eat and for hot cocoa that my mom had waiting for me. I was not asked to shovel the car out, but I know my parents appreciated it. I made quite a bit of money shoveling snow for neighbors that year. I spent the money on presents for my mother and some candy for me.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 9:52 AM Lola Boyle wrote ...
On the night of the storm ,we had to call emergency to take my son, he was 1 and a half months old at the time, to the hospital. He had pneumonia,they came in a jeep and we went from Main St. in Mish. to the Hosp. on Jefferson. What a trip that was.
Thursday, Jan 31 at 6:50 AM Heather wrote ...
I was 7 years old and that morning my mom was anxious to show us the snow. My brother and I stood in front of the patio door and as my mom pulled back the curtian the only daylight we could see was about a 6 inch opening in the top left corner. We were completely snowed in. Needless to say time off from school was spent making snow forts! What fun!!
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 10:53 PM Eva Eli wrote ...
In the morning, my husband opened the garage door to leave for work and found a foot of snow! The faster he shoveled, the deeper the snow got! So much for working! My four yr. old looked out at the backyard and said "look mommy, the clothesline shrinked!" Only two ft. were left sticking out of the snow! Neighbors with snowmobiles took people for groceries. We had three kids and couldn't have appreciated their kindness more! For three days we were in our own wintry world! Amazing scenery!
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 8:55 PM Tim wrote ...
I was 11 at the time. Snow drifted up to the roof of our garage. We packed it down and made a sledding hill starting at the peak of the garage. The Goshen News took our picture and it was in the paper the next day. I just remember the fun!!!!
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 7:52 PM Tim Trethewey wrote ...
I remember that I had a science test at Jackson Middle school the Wednesday night before the blizzard and needless to say my prayers were answered. My brother and I had to shovel our driveway because my dad's work was cancelled at noon. I was a paperboy for the SBT and I didn't get any papers for a week. The only way we could get groceries is by walking to the Martins store with a sled - in fact, we got groceries for 3 to families. It was great being home from school!!
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 4:25 PM Michele Strock wrote ...
My husband worked 2nd shift. When he got home he said I would not be able to go to work the next day,eue to the snow. I had a 1972 VW Bug and it could go anywhere. I opened the garage door and floored it. I made it half way thru the driveway where it stayed for 2 days. I love the snow!!!
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 3:54 PM Sue wrote ...
Why do I remember the winter of '67 better than the winter of '78? Which was worse?
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 3:27 PM Sheryl wrote ...
Blizzard 1978, my daughter was in second grade. Brought daughter to sitter in Elkhart. Didn't get home for 4 days. When we arrived home daughter and I had the chickenpox. Daughter loves telling this story
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 11:38 AM Jessica wrote ...
I was born on January 6th, 1978! There is an invitation to my baby shower in my baby book that has "cancelled due to the blizzard of '78" written on it!! My mom wrote about the blizzard in my baby book and I've heard the stories all my life!
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 10:09 AM Bonnie wrote ...
Dear Rick, For some reason I do not remember the storm of 1978 But I have a SB Trib paper from November 1977 when we got 20 inches of smow and 5 people died.Were there really two big snows only 2 months apart?
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 9:09 AM ESTHER wrote ...
I HAD MY YOUNGEST SON ON 1-20-78 AND CAME HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL IN ELKHART THE DAY THE SNOW STARTED. BY MORNING WE WERE SNOWED IN COMPLETELY. WE LIVED 3 BLOCKS OFF OF MAIN ST. IN ELKHART. MY SON, MARK, JUST TURNED 30 AND HIS FIRST SON WAS BORN ON 1-27-08, THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE BLIZZARD. THEY BROUGHT THE BABY HOME LATE YESTERDAY FROM THE HOSPITAL JUST BEFORE THE STORM HIT LAST
NIGHT. HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF (ALMOST,BUT NOT QUITE).
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 9:08 AM Chudwad wrote ...
I was 12 years old during the blizzard. I walked three blocks to the grocery store with my Dad the day after the storm ended. We each pulled sled. The store had limited the amounts of bread, eggs, and milk you could buy, so my Dad was glad I came. He gave me money at the check-out lane so I could get groceries for our neighbors. My brother and I only missed one week of school, but my sister (who was only one year younger than me) got to miss two wks of school. Boy,was I jealous!
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 8:00 AM Lu wrote ...
I lived in Bangor Mi. at the time and my husuband worked for the public works dept. clearing snow. I got to ride with him in the snow plow you could not put a dent on the roads to keep up. Then he was a fireman and both of us rode our snowmobiles to the fire dept. and went to deliver food, medicines and went on fire and ambulance calls. We practically lived for a week at the fire dept.
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 7:11 AM Becky wrote ...
My daughter was born in October of 1978. Wonder what I was doing during the blizzard? You do the math.
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 6:09 AM Dianna wrote ...
I remember my parents waking up my brother and me saying there was no school but we need to come start shoveling I live on the main road in Constantine Mi it was only open in town only you had to walk everywhere the blocked the road off going to three rivers with snow the took out of town to open the roads up for the 2 doctors to be able to get to there offices for emergency snowmobilers were making food deliveries in the country it was a week before things started to get back to normal
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 4:33 AM Dave wrote ...
What I remeber about 78 was that my Dad had me & my brother climb out a window of the house and dig out the front door. it took us the better part of the day to dig out the drive. My younger brother & I found that by crawling, we stayed above the snow, and we then made trips to the store for our famliy and neighbors. The Fire Dept tried to use snowmobiles to get to a house (not on fire) but sank. We crawled by as the were digging them out, I don't think they were happy. LOL
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 3:10 AM Susie Rogers wrote ...
Hey everybody, loved all your stories and I think this one trumps them all.
I was married on February 4th, l978 to Greg Rogers. Three days before the wedding the snow started to fall and didn't quit. Our reception was to be held at the FOP on St. Rd. 23 a shoe in establishment since my dad is a S.B. Policeman. Well the hall got snowed in and 2 days before my wedding I had to phone 250 people to let them know the reception was changed to the Community Center at Scottsdale Mall.
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 12:21 AM robert wrote ...
I remember trying to walk with the snow past my waist,& I am over 6'. one weather story I remember was in Wyoming. I went into the truckstop for fuel just west of cheyenne. I was in the truckstop about 15 min paying for the fuel. In that time the temp droped from 40 to -40! I almost froze getting to my truck!
Wednesday, Jan 30 at 12:17 AM Amy wrote ...
I was 5 years old and I remember sledding off the roof of the house because the drift on one end of our house was so high. It was GREAT fun as a kid.
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 11:55 PM RICK FROM WARSAW wrote ...
I left work at midnight and BARELY made it home. The guys on 3rd shift (those who made it in to work that night) were stuck there for DAYS. They made alot of money working overtime, but I was glad to be at home with my wife.
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 10:22 PM Tim wrote ...
I remember a snow drift that came up to the roof of our house. No one except snowmobilers could go anywhere for 3 days. After the wind and snow finally stopped and the roads were cleared, there were many places that had drifts 2 to 3 feet higher than semi's and school buses.
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 9:55 PM Paul Bittle wrote ...
the day the blizzard hit was my first day of basic training, all we got in San Antonio was a little rain
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 7:52 PM Steve wrote ...
I was living in Ohio at the time. There it started with a light freezing rain then turned to snow. By the nest morning it was all snow and plenty of wind , plus an 1/8" of ice on the my car. I lived less than a half mile from work. The roads were very slick and you couldn't see much of anything. As I turned onto the main street to work I noticed that I couldn't see the highly lit McDonalds sign across from where I worked. I decided it was time to go back home. I couldn't leave for another 2 days
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 3:49 PM Jimbo wrote ...
Lived on the main road going into Niles. Road was closed for almost five days. Only saw snowmobiles going back and forth towing sleds behind them. They were going to the only open store to get food and supplies for people in the area. They were the only things that could move during those days! Remebered jumping out of our two storie window in the house and not falling far at all! Fun times! :o)
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 12:44 PM BethAnn Fann-McGurn wrote ...
We lived on a small farm. We had dogs so we had to dig out the snow so they could go out. Then they got smart, climbed the snow bank & walked over the roof of the garage like it was part of the ground. We also had a cow due to give birth. The family had to dig a trench out to the barn to get to the cow. We set up the stall to keep her warm. Later, Dad came in and told us it was a girl and her name is 50 below. It had to be the coldest day ever!
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 12:30 PM Sheri wrote ...
I remember 78 very well. It was our 1st yr we moved back to Michigan, from San Diego.We lived out their almost 7 years,only seeing snow in the mountains when we went their on very rare occasions. I was 15 at the time, the oldest of 6 kid's. the snow was up to my 2nd story bedroom window, my brother being just 1 year younger then me dared me to jump out my window. being only 15 and naive at the time I did so, ended up with a broken arm, and being snowmobiled to the hospital to get my cast on,
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 11:33 AM Judy wrote ...
I was at my fiancé's house when it was getting bad. So, I decided to head for home. The next day I was amazed because I saw a man walking outside and as he came closer I realized that it was my fiance. He walked from his house to mine. About 5 miles. He walked down country roads and across fields. He even laid down in the snow banks to rest a few times. He was OK. We were all angry that he did that but he said that he just wanted to see me. We will celebrate our 30th this coming April.
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 10:53 AM The Good's wrote ...
Don't forget the blizzard of December 1977. It snowed and blowed the entire week of December 5-December 10. We were married on December 10, 1977,and the only ones who could make it to the wedding were the minister and a few guests. The caterer, florist, and photographer were all snowed out. The weather has not been that bad, on December 10th, since then!
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 9:50 AM craig wrote ...
dont forget about 1985!
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 8:36 AM Patnick wrote ...
I was a student at Purdue in West Lafayette, living in the residence halls. I had a 7:30 am class and walked all the way to campus, going through every building I could on the way. When I got to my building the Purdue Police showed up in their cars, announcing that classes had been cancelled. (No - they didn't give us a ride back to our dorms!)
Tuesday, Jan 29 at 8:30 AM Sandy from Warsaw wrote ...
I remember getting ready for work as usual. I knew it had snowed, but didn't really pay much attention to how much, after all I lived in town and only had to drive across town to work. I heard a knock on my door. It was a two guys I worked with. They wondered what I was doing. Well, my response was "going to work." They informed me they didn't think so. As I looked outside at my car, the snow was up to the door handles. I gladly accepted a ride to work that day.
Monday, Jan 28 at 2:48 PM Cheryl Kruk wrote ...
I lived next near Edison and Ivy Road near N.D. Big old Edison was a foot path for 2 days, and all the N.D. students had to walk to the grocery. It was SO QUIET!!!!! No traffic!
Monday, Jan 28 at 12:25 PM Anonymous wrote ...
We lived in Rochester (in town), and it was just as bad in town as in the country. My dad was stranded at his job in Chicago for a week, so my mom and I shoveled all the snow ourselves so we could get out. Our neighbor across the street was cussing because he had just loaned out his snowblower the week before and the person couldn't get in to get it back to him. And yes, the Blizzard of '67 was much worse. My dad had stories to tell about being stuck in Chicago for that one as well.
Monday, Jan 28 at 11:53 AM Suzy Davis wrote ...
I'm a nurse. The first day of the blizzard was my day off but I got called into work. I lived one block off of LWW. To get to me, a bus drove down my street to make a path. A CD person with a 4 wheel drive used those tracks to get me. 36 hours and 2 1/2 shifts later, I got to come home. That same guy picked me up and dropped me off on LWW. I only lived one block away but it took me 45 minutes to get home. As I waded thru the drifts I felt things that turned out to be parked cars.
Monday, Jan 28 at 11:22 AM Bill wrote ...
Anyone who was in this area 30 years ago will remember this storm! I remember how my Dad and I had to walk to the grocery store because of roof-high snow drifts and impassable roads only to find empty shelves! It was cool being off school for a week! I doubt we'll ever see another snow like this one. Our street up by the soon-to-be-built UP Mall was cleared by construction equipment days after the storm buried us. The next year everyone had snow blowers! A once-in-a-lifetime event.
Monday, Jan 28 at 9:20 AM Jeanne Sones wrote ...
My husband and I took a vacation to Florida when the blizzard hit. We were stuck in a hotel with six small children for days in Cartersville, GA on our return trip home. The only attraction was a dead Indian musuem display and after 3-4 days of looking at him, while very historical and interesting, the children were climbing the hotel walls.
We ran out of money, had to wire home for money to be sent and when we finally got home snow was piled high on both sides of our driveway, neighbors plow
Monday, Jan 28 at 8:47 AM Lisa wrote ...
I was (18) and a senior at John Adams and they cancelled the second day of finals. My class got A's. School was closed for two full weeks. Snow was drifted up 4 feet on our back door. We had to go out the front door and dig/shovel the snow around the house before we could get the back doorway cleared. The drifts were chest high in the middle of the street. Took 2 days to dig out our driveway with 4 people shoveling. My photos are faded yellow, but all you could see were the roofs of houses.
Monday, Jan 28 at 6:59 AM Dorothy Stone wrote ...
I wasn't around for the blizzard of 78 but I was around for the other blizzards we had in the 70's. There were drifts where we lived that were higher then a school bus. only one auto could go down the road at a time. Just seeing white around us while on the bus was neat. The winters now are not like the winter we had when I was growing up. Winters back then was always having snow days from school.
Monday, Jan 28 at 6:59 AM Michele Phillips wrote ...
The one thing that stands out in my mind from 1978 is my parents and my aunt and uncle bundling up in snow suits and layers, taking our four brand new Christmas sleds, and going up and down our neighborhood to gather money and grocery lists for everyone. They made a 2 mile trek up hill to the local grocery, then returned with everyone's groceries. I think it was the first hands-on lesson I learned about helping others.
Monday, Jan 28 at 5:58 AM Alvin wrote ...
I worked at Delco in Kokomo. I was on the 3rd shift. Someone came in and said if you are going to make it home you had better go now. I lived in Greentown at that time. So i started out. Greentown is only 10 miles from Kokomo. It did not look that bad in town. It took me an hour to drive from Kokomo to Greentown, I could not see the hood of my car at times and i was pushing the snow with my car.People was on the CB radio and stayed with me until i got home. I will never drive in a blizzard again
Sunday, Jan 27 at 11:08 PM Carol Tanksley wrote ...
I also remember the blizzard of 1967 - we were snowed in at my mother and dad's for 3 days. Snow that year was over and above the car tops. Driving down county roads afterward was like driving through a tunnel because of the high snow drifts.
Sunday, Jan 27 at 9:07 PM Betty wrote ...
My daughter Jessica was born in the blizzard of 1978. She was the first girl that year. She was born Jan 3 1978. And now she has her own kids and twins on the way.
Sunday, Jan 27 at 4:00 PM Vickie wrote ...
The snow in the driveway was up to the top of the third garage door section. It was three days before we could get a payloader to come and clear the drive.
Sunday, Jan 27 at 1:16 PM Tressa Decker wrote ...
We lived in "The Oaks" near Battell Park & I was in 6th grade. I clearly remember bundling up and walking to St. Monica's church in Mishawaka during the blizzard of 78. We weren't Catholic, but it was the closest church and my mom was determined that we should go to church no matter what! So, all of us kids got our first taste of a Catholic mass during the blizzard of 78. Maybe that's when we started becoming such avid Notre Dame fans! :)
Sunday, Jan 27 at 9:06 AM Christopher A. Morgan wrote ...
Warm greetings from an Elkhartan in charlotte, NC. I lived in Bristol, IN across the street from Larry Murphy, editorial director at The Truth at the time. I tunnelled out to the State Route (towards Goshen) Snowbound for nearly a week -All you could hear was the snowcats and the howl of the wind for days. I was 28 and batching it, and helped shovel out walks. It was a fun time to be a single Hoosier. Within 18 months I would be baptized and married on the same day at 3050 Edison Rd, South Bend
Sunday, Jan 27 at 7:31 AM GeorgiaHatheway wrote ...
I was 13 & lived in Clinton IN. What I remember most is me & my girlfriend getting matching t-shirts at the G.C. Murphy store uptown that said, "I SURVIVED THE BLIZZARD OF '78" . I wonder if this is the year my dad helped us make a GIANT snowman? He made the Clintonian. I'll bet this was also the year that Kevin Marietta pulled his sister & I around on a sled tied to a riding mower, lol.
Sunday, Jan 27 at 3:38 AM Kil.2@nd.edu wrote ...
It was a Sunday and Notre Dame was playing a nationally televised game at the Joyce Center. I walked from my home in Wooded Estates down Edison to the Joyce. No traffic just one 4-wheel drive truck. Everything was so quiet w/o any traffic, but once inside the Joyce Center, the students were cheering loudly. Then they announced no classes at ND on Monday. Since I worked at ND, it was a day off for me too. ND won the game, and I went back home to shovel more snow.
Saturday, Jan 26 at 11:15 PM Derrick J.Young wrote ...
Remember went play and help other get too and my sisters was help too because it was colded very brr.
Saturday, Jan 26 at 11:14 PM Jill Shock wrote ...
I was only 17 years old and lived on my families dairy farm near Angola. We had SO much milk and no way for the truck to pick it up, so for 2 weeks we used a snowmobile to collect containers from the neighbors and return them full of fresh milk. Of course that only made a dent in the supply and most of it had to be put down the drain. The blizzard was a very expensive time for our family. I didn't mind being off of school for 3 weeks though!
Saturday, Jan 26 at 9:54 PM craig wrote ...
how long where schools closed?
Saturday, Jan 26 at 9:16 PM Gayle wrote ...
I remember it well even though I was only 5 at the time. I was excited b/c I got out of school for almost 2 weeks! My sister and I were able to climb (she was 3 at the time) to the top of some hard packed snow and slide down the huge pile of snow, across the driveway and into the middle of the front yard. The snow was higher than my dad's shed roof! Now that I have to work for a living, it wouldn't be as fun b/c it would mean not getting paid for 2 weeks.
Saturday, Jan 26 at 6:43 PM renee wrote ...
The 78 blizzard I will always remember.I was 5 and lived on 650 north in rolling prairie. My sister was 1. The Mrezinkies down the road had cows so we got free milk. And they checked on my mom who had just had open heart surgery. We lost power and We couldn't get out to the chikens and some froze to death because the snow was so deep and high it was up to are roof we could not threw until the famers came and dug us out.there is a picture my mom took of me and my sister on the plowed driveway
Saturday, Jan 26 at 5:54 PM Carolyn Clark wrote ...
IN 78 I LIVE IN LAMBERTVILLE MI it was bad there and my dad and mom snow plowed and cars was buried under the snow driftand they hit a the car under the snow and than randy was on a snowmobile and this friend and they pick on mom and dad bring them home and they went so fast that the first guy lost his hat and randy didnt slow up and pick it up the hat. they only would let snowmobile and 4 wheels truck to get the doctor and nurses to work any way they could get there it was fun snowplowing
Saturday, Jan 26 at 3:42 PM Anonymous wrote ...
In 1978 I was 4 years old and we lived in LaPorte at the time.I can remember my dad finally being able to push the front door open to get outside to clear snow from the driveway.I was so excited to get outdoors to play in the snow and help him that my mom decided to let me help my dad. Well to make a long story short after being bundled up I rushed out into the yard only to be swallowed up by an enormous snow drift that covered me.Dad continued to snow blow right over the topof me.Mom saved me!
Saturday, Jan 26 at 1:28 PM tom wrote ...
I remember living off
jefferson by penn,when i
got out to walk to town
bittersweet was just a
snowmobile path to
lincolnway.a snowmobiler
came by and took me to
pricketts grocery
store.Never again do i
want to see that much
snow.But i moved to town
now,so it won`t be that
far to go......
Saturday, Jan 26 at 10:38 AM Bonnie Fitch wrote ...
My Husband and I lived on Scott St. He worked in Elkhart, so he left early, just a normal day. About 30 minutes before I left, one of my co-workers called, suffice it to say, it was not a normal day. I did not leave the house for 3 days. My husband started to drive home, decided to stop at my parents, got stuck on the way to their residence, so had to walk and wait out the days with them. Oh, during his half-mile walk, he rested by leaning back to sit on the snow. Not a normal winter event.
Saturday, Jan 26 at 10:33 AM Lynn Nemeth wrote ...
I worked for Indiana Bell at the corner of Ironwood and Cleveland. One of the fellows had driven his motor home to work that and when two other men couldn't get home either, they pulled the motor home into the Telephone garage and they lived in it for a couple of days till they could get home.
Saturday, Jan 26 at 9:53 AM Steve Varga wrote ...
I was working at weyerhaeusr on dendix dr. The roof collasped and damaged the equipment. The sprinklers came on and a lot of damage to the paper. We even put a snow blower on the roof to get the snow off. Took up a pool to see how long the snow pile in front of the plant would last, I think it stayed until the end of May. I now live in Sanford, NC but will always be a Hoosier. No snow like that here.
Saturday, Jan 26 at 7:25 AM DB wrote ...
I was 9 yrs old then. I remember snow drifts so high we could walk over the 5 ft chain link fence in our back yard. The igloos and tunnels we made in the snow were awesome. We walked to grandma and grandpa's house and I remember hardly being able to lift my little legs high enough to take the next step. Dad still went to work at the SB Tribune. Gramps pickup was buried under snow in front of our house and I recall getting up into the bed and just jumping off not worried about hitting the ground.
Saturday, Jan 26 at 5:19 AM Ray wrote ...
I was 10 years old. Our neighbor took his snowmobile to IGA to get us some bread and milk. As I watched my Dad shovel from the living room window, he would disappear, then his head would pop up, then the snow would fly, then he would disappear again. He shoveled the 100 ft driveway all day. I think into the next day or two also. My brother and I climbed the TV antenna at the back of the house, got on the roof, and walked right off the edge.
It was great! Snow drifts as high as the house.
Saturday, Jan 26 at 12:03 AM Laura wrote ...
I was 5 when it hit. We were running low on groceries, & my parents planned to go to the store the next day. The forecast wasn't that bad. Oops! This led to my dad trudging through the snow to the Broadmoor Kroger's. I remember seeing tons of people walking by our house heading there or Martin's. The snow tunnels were cool. Our cats were very confused by how deep the snow was. I seem to remember the snow mountains at Scottsdale Mall didn't melt until late May if not June.
Friday, Jan 25 at 10:48 PM Sherri Allen wrote ...
It was the year before I was born, my mother told me that My great grandpa Chaney died at his home in that blizzard. There was sooo much snow the ambulance could not come and get his body. So, the authorities had them put his body outside in the snow for a couple days, till they could come and get him. Kind of strange story I know but all true!!
Friday, Jan 25 at 7:55 PM Leslie wrote ...
I was a junior at Ball State University. Classes were cancelled for the week so we played never-ending games of euchre. It was all fun at first but by mid-week, everyone was on their last nerve.
I was news director at a campus station and made the trek across campus to pick up the AP news stories. It was good to get out but really cold. The news DID go on.
My daughter is now at Ball State; will it happen to her?
Friday, Jan 25 at 7:20 PM DSF wrote ...
I was a sophmore at IU and remember this time very well. The Hop opened its doors and the Greeks arrived. We had the time of our lives and so many memories of friendship. I'll get the next pitcher!
Friday, Jan 25 at 7:16 PM Joy (Brown) Lawler wrote ...
Every year when you talk about the storm of 1978, I keep wondering why you don't talk about the storm of 1967. I lived in Waklee,Mi. and the storm was much worse there than it was here. I was on the front page of the Michigan addition of the South Bend Tribune, about a very "exciting" ride to the Three Rivers, Mi. hospital, in labor, to have my 6th child, at 10 mo. pregnant. It was also in the Three Rivers, Marcellus, and Kalamazoo papers. The drifts were above the roofs of the houses.
Friday, Jan 25 at 6:33 PM Thomas Conard wrote ...
I went to bed at midnight with a moderate outlook for the next days commute. At 5:30am i could only see the amber light on top of my plow truck. After 3 hours getting my truck turned around to plow it took me 7 hours to go 300 ft south to jefferson on Joan Ave.Then everyone that was watching me came from all directions requesting a food run to the local grocery.The truck was loaded front to back covered with a tarpolian and the local store saved the day with needed supplies.
Friday, Jan 25 at 6:14 PM ANONYNOUS wrote ...
I WAS ONE IF THE GUYS WHO JUMPED FROM THE 4-STORY DORMS @ GOSHEN COLLEGE. IT WAS GREAT FUN, BUT SOME STUDENTS TEMPTED FATE WHEN THEY PLUMETED INTO SOME TUNNELS WHICH WERE DUG IN THE SNOW DRIFTS. SOME QUICK-THINKING OBSERVERS ON THE GROUND RECOGNIZED THE DILEMA AND DUG THESE PEOPLE OUT FROM A LIFE THREATENING EXPERIENCE. THE ROOF HATCH WAS LOCKED SOON AFTER OUR LITTLE STUNT. I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT DOUBLE FLIP INTO 8 FEET OF SNOW. I AM LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO TELL THIS STORY.
Friday, Jan 25 at 6:07 PM Donna wrote ...
The snow accumulation was so bad in Kosciusko County backroads that we were off 2wks from school. After the snow plows opened the roads, the country roads from Old Rd 30 to Tippecanoe Valley High School were only one lane and the snow was piled on sides of the road as high as the windows on our bus! We kept wondering what if another car comes from the other direction!
Friday, Jan 25 at 6:02 PM Sue Marshall wrote ...
We lived in a mobile home park in Elkhart. Friends of ours lived in the same park. I remember my husband and our friends
shoveling a path from our mobile home to theirs to play cards and drink beer. I still don't know how they did it! Sue Marshall Mishawaka
Friday, Jan 25 at 5:47 PM Crystal wrote ...
I will never forget the Blizzard of '78. It started on the night of my 10th birthday. The next morning when me and my family woke up we couldn't believe our eyes. When my dad opened the front door all we saw was snow. I remember my dad bundled up and making a hole through the snow to get out of the house. I also remember the sound of the wind blowing all night long. Of course me and my siblings enjoyed walking up the drifts of snow to the roof of our house. It was fun and memorable.
Friday, Jan 25 at 4:11 PM Chuck wrote ...
I remember betting one of my friends in high school the night before the blizzard hit at an ND basketball game that we wouldn't have school the next day. I knew The forecast was only for 2 to 4 inches of snow the next day, but it was a blizzard warning because of the cold and wind. Well, I won the bet. We were out of school for at least a week, and I think it may have been two weeks before school re-oponed
Friday, Jan 25 at 2:41 PM I Mikesell wrote ...
My two daughters and I were drifted in our home, as a snow drift started up the street and circled around our house and was as tall as the garage. At the side of the garage was my husbands snow plow. He was snowed in in St. Louis, Mo. When he finally got home, he was able to get the plow out. We had been snowed in for four days and had to kick the front door open to be able to get out. That was when we had winters. It was really great how neighbors helped neighbors.
Friday, Jan 25 at 1:40 PM robert l murphy wrote ...
i was 17 when the storm hit and at that age it was still shocking to see that much snow. the thing i remember the most is all the snowmobile driving around checking on people to see if they were all right.i had never seen snow as high as the top of cars in some areas. i now live in fayetteville north carolina and that kind of snow storm i do not miss. i still live and eat indiana even though the people here are still tring to convert me into a tar heel,but that will never happen.
Friday, Jan 25 at 11:23 AM Anonymous wrote ...
I was pregnant and did not know it so a girlfriend and I walked 2 miles with snow almost to our waists to a local resturant to help feed the stranded and NIPSCO workers. I got sick when we arrived and could not get to hospital for care. But hey young and foolish. By the way my beautiful daughter will be 30 this summer.
Friday, Jan 25 at 9:15 AM Elizabeth Rieth - Union, MI wrote ...
I will email you a picture of my daughter Karie Hoffer posing outside her grandmother's house in Wakarusa after digging out!
But our story is more dark than some I've read. My daughter and I were living in Wakarusa, trying to "ride out the storm" when our power went out. No lights or heat and no idea when it would be restored. She and I cuddled under the covers and waited. I was afraid we would freeze to death. I remember the dark and all that wind! Power eventually came back on!
Friday, Jan 25 at 9:11 AM Greg wrote ...
Back in Jan 1978 I was working at the AM General plant (now the Humvee H1) on McKinley Highway, Mishawaka, where,at that time, the corporation was producing transit city buses for various locations throughout the U.S. At the time of the storm, I was working the night shift and just made it home in the morning when the plant called and said not to report back in until notified. Needless to say that was a week later. In the aftermath we were digging buses out of the "yard" for the next month!!
Friday, Jan 25 at 8:24 AM dixie wrote ...
the thing that i rember the most is we had to go shovle out my dads semi. but before we did that trying to get to his truck we ran in to a snow drift on the rail road track. and had to shovle it off the track.boy that was someday.
Friday, Jan 25 at 7:47 AM Sheila wrote ...
We lived in Plymouth and close to where the Walmart is now, but not then, we got so low on milk and other foods, my dad got the horse out and tied one of our snow sleds to the horse and walked to Krogers to get food and put the groceries on the sled. We made snow forts in the side of the hill where the big drifts were, was the greatest snow storm for kids! I remember the payloaders coming down our road to dig us out finally! Of course, we were sad because that meant school was back in session.
Friday, Jan 25 at 6:38 AM Wayne Bartlett wrote ...
We lived on US31 South. Front end loaders stopped at Kern road. 31 was closed for five days. We had 55 inches in your yard. Didn't find my truck, in the drive way, for four days. We stayed up all night shoveling out the back door area so we could get it if necessary. I remember the forcast was for 1-3 inches of snow!!!! We've come a long way since then.
Friday, Jan 25 at 2:37 AM Ed Berners wrote ...
I went out that Thursday night and walked up East Woodmont to experience the storm, in about a foot of snow. The next morning I went out again with a yardstick and stuck it into the snow in the middle of the street. 30 inches! At the rear of our house the snow on the patio was even with the snow on the roof -- about 10 feet. On Sunday we saw a lady coming back from the grocery towing a turkey along behind her through the snow. A plow finally came on Monday and cleared one lane only.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 9:52 PM Kris wrote ...
I lived out by the airport & remember walking to Thrifty Mart at L.W.W. & Sheridan for groceries. It was really a strange feeling to be walking down the middle of L.W.W. & NO traffic except for a few snowmobles
Thursday, Jan 24 at 9:34 PM Eric Chamberlin wrote ...
I was a 13 year old in North Liberty at the time and it is my fondest memory of childhood. As soon as we were able to get out the house we began to devise things to do to pass the time. We got out the ladder and climbed to the roof where I proceeded to push my 2 younger brothers off and into the abyss. I feared they were dead as I watched them sink into a 20 ft drift on the west side of the house. My brothers lived and I was grounded until the snow melted.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 9:28 PM Gayle Baugher (Parrett) wrote ...
I was at Goshen College during the blizzard. You could look out in the student parking lot and see only the attenas of the cars!! The guys were getting bored so they went to the second floor of the dorm and jumbed out of the windows into snow drifts! That became mundane so they went to the roof and jumped off!!
My folks live on 1000N in LaPorte County. They were snowed in for 5 days. The horses walked right over the fences, and the cat was looking in the window from atop the snow!!!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 8:12 PM tractorman65 wrote ...
I remeber the blizzard of 78 quite well, i was in grade school at the time, my grandfather was the teacher of a lil three room school in sodus michigan, That school never closed I remember I rode to school w/ my grandfather on a tractor to school, and by the way he was the principal too so i had no choice hehehhe
Thursday, Jan 24 at 7:53 PM Roberta wrote ...
January 27, I came into this world amid family members and neighbors.
My mother was stranded in Galien. If any of you know where that is, you also know it's pretty far off the beaten path! No one from emergency services could make it out that far, so my grandmother made phone calls around the neighborhood to ask for help, Dr. Tillman and his wife came from up the road, and a dr. in 3 Oaks on the CB talked the neighborhood through my birth. Help came in the form of snowmobiles a few days later.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 7:18 PM Millie Ditmire wrote ...
We live on a farm near Leiters Ford & had livestock to feed. Our cars were not garaged at that time & snow covered them. We have pictures of our kids standing on top of one. Fortunately, we had a bulldozer at that time. After clearing our lots & lane my husband helped the county open some of the country roads so the feed trucks from Monterey could deliver feed to area farmers. We live on a hill & our 3 kids had fun with a sled going down the hill in the middle of the road.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 6:39 PM ned gruver wrote ...
I worked for the rail road at this time and was called to work to take a train to chicago. Well being my luck it started to snow and was stuck in chicago for four days be for the tracks were plowed out so we could go back to elkhart. Upon arriving back to elkhart it took me two hours to go home to edwardsburg mi.My wife and my three kids were out of milk so i got on my snowmobil and tried to get some milk but stores were out.On my way to the store i road over two cars in snow and did not know it
Thursday, Jan 24 at 6:39 PM Brenda Smith Stoers wrote ...
I remember the blizzard so well I worked at Walts Restaurant on 31S We were snowed in for three days so I worked the whole time and slept in the back dining room for a few hours and then went back to work Believe it or not we had people coming in constantly so we made good pay
Thursday, Jan 24 at 6:38 PM Vickie from Buchanan, MI wrote ...
The morning of the blizzard hit, my husband took off to the hospital to work which would normally take 10 min. but that morning it took more than a half hour. Once he got there, he couldn't get home for 5 days. Not only was he a lab tech, he also helped cook too, and did what ever he could for the patients. Our son, 4 yrs old, and I were safe at home. I had gone to the store the night before so we had plenty of food. Snowmobiles went by and asked if I needed any food. I was thankful and safe.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 6:31 PM Phyllis Heisler wrote ...
I worked in Ft. Wayne at a motel. When I got to work we had no food left for the guests and the national guard had to deliver food. My car also caught on fire at the motel when I was warming it up so it would start when I finally got to go back home. Needless to say I now live in North Carolina where I find the weather generally much better! I left Indiana in 1979.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 6:30 PM Joanne wrote ...
I worked in Dowagiac and couldn't get home to Cassopolis, so I stayed with my best friend for three days. We invested a drink - rum, bananas, milk and vanilla - and named it the Michigan Blizzard. (see item in the Tribune 2/9/1992)
Thursday, Jan 24 at 6:28 PM Cyndi wrote ...
I was 10 years old and my dad was the chief of police of our town. I remember not seeing him for days at a time as he was out driving the snow plows to give relief to the regular snow plow drivers who were working 12 hour shifts around the clock. The city hall became a bunk house for the city street crews and others working to clear the streets and roads. I remember my mother cooking lunch and dinner for the crews and dad coming home only long enough to get the food and sleeping bags.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 6:25 PM Kathie wrote ...
I was snowed in at a friends home. We ran out of food while there. We walked to the nearest main road, which normally to 20min. It took us 2 hours to make that walk. We were picked up by family members only to see that most of the road was one lane in spots. I was so glad to get home and have some food to eat.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 6:06 PM Myra wrote ...
I was in high school and lived on East Beardsley Avenue which was a snow route. So beleive it or not, we were plowed out rather quickly. However, the only vehicles seen out driving by were red cross trucks. It was an eerie sight. We also walked down the middle of our usually extremely busy road on the way to Wilts Grocery store to see if they had any bread and milk. It was like going through a ghost town.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 5:52 PM DAN GEARHART wrote ...
I'M TIRED OF HEARING OF 1978.WE HAD A LAKE EFFECT SNOWSTORM IN DEC 1966 AND JAN 1967 WITH 5 FEET OF SNOW. THEY HAD TO HAUL SNOW TO THE RIVER AND DUMP IT BECAUSE IT WAS TOO HIGH TO PILE-UP.LOOK IN THE TRIBUNE ARCHIVES FOR INFO OR PHOTOS. I MAY BE A YEAR OFF IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO. DRIVING WAS VERY INTERESTING WITH 10-15 FEET OF SNOW ON THE ROADSIDES IT WAS LIKE BEING IN A RAT MAZE. DAN G.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 5:45 PM Richard wrote ...
I was all of 19 at the time. Had just started a new job working the 3rd shift. A friend of mine and I were sharing the driving and it was my turn . The snow was deep when we got off work at 7am. I was driving a 1969 Camaro and not good for gowing trough deep snow. I got stranded at his moms house no food. we had to walk several miles to get some. Older brother got mad 2nd night and threw TV out the door into the snow. On the thir day we were plowed out and I will never for get the Blizzard 78.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 4:42 PM Anonymous wrote ...
does anyone have pictures of 78 storm maybe they can post them on wsbt thank you
Thursday, Jan 24 at 4:18 PM Charlene Baber wrote ...
I lived in Buchanan then, my dad worked for the Berrien Co. Rd. Comm. and I remember dad getting a phone call to go open a road that was blown shut that nite.I remember he was upset because he wanted to watch RioLobo on TV and he had to leave.He didn't get home for 2 wks.We didn't have school for 2 wks. and exams were postponed 'til we could get back to school.We had snow piled in our back yard 10-12 ft high by the pear tree.We have a pic of our dog at the top of that pile.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 3:44 PM Jacque wrote ...
Mine is a silly story. I have a brother and sister and we went out to see if we could shovel snow in the neighborhood. We were walking down the street with our snow shovels and we were amazed at all the snow and happy because we knew we would be off of school for awhile. I took off running as fast as I could to jump into one of the snow drifts. It just so happens that the one that I picked was actually a buried parked car. The drifts were so big that you couldn;t tell what was waht!!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 3:36 PM Jean and Jim Hill wrote ...
We had moved from California in June of '77. We had great neighbors and shared meals and shoveled/plowed together. In the height of the storm other neighbors called because their TV had gone out. We cut a deal: we traded the use of a TV for a bottle of booze! Since our driveway was clear before the street, it became a skating rink, complete with chairs cut into the snow bank. Favorite site: a frozen turkey bouncing along in the snow as it was being dragged by a guy with his scarf.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 3:31 PM Kara wrote ...
I was 8 years old and we had a tunnel out of the house through the snow to the drive way, it took my Dad 2 days with a front end loader to dig the 4 miles into Buchanan for supplies.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 3:16 PM Pat wrote ...
The blizzard of 78 was crazy. It took 9.5 hours to shovel, with 5 of us, the driveway, and we still could not get out(the street was a drift). We went to Al's Supermarket on 31, and went shopping. In one aisle was all the beer. My dad's favorite beer, ALPS Brau, was at the beginning, and we went back, the only thing left in the beer aisle was 4 or 5 cases of Alps! My brother,sisters, and I laughed so hard. My dad was not phased. He passed in 99, but the memory of the blizzard is great.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 3:15 PM Pam wrote ...
I was in charge of taking school closings at the time for WSJV-TV. I left my home in Elk. at 4AM with my 9 year old daughter in the back seat. We made it to the station on C.R.7 about 1hour later, a normal 5 min drive. We were there for 3 days. Our news director lived north of town next to a surgeon, the county hwy dept picked them both up and took the Dr. to the hospital and the News Dir. to the station.... people were furious. even though we were giving life saving info for 72hrs straight!!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 3:05 PM Beth wrote ...
I was 11 years old and thrilled to be out of school for so long! We lived in Twyckenham Hills. I remember how dark our house was, because the snow was covering all of the windows. I remember following my father through the snow to go to Stoner's Grocery (on the corner of Twyckenham and Calvert) and then to my Nana's house in Ridgedale...a round trip of about 1.5 miles. My mother still talks about how I came home and said "It's hard to walk through 4 feet of snow when you're only 4 foot 2!"
Thursday, Jan 24 at 1:39 PM Sara wrote ...
I was in high school in Kalamazoo, MI. This was the only time I remember having a whole week off school. I'm looking for a picture of me (5'9") standing on our patio with a drift taller than me. You could almost walk up the snow right on to the roof. I remember walking a mile down the road with my Dad (a mail carrier who also didn't have to deliver mail for at least a day or two) to get supplies and carrying them home on a sled.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 12:36 PM john wrote ...
i was 17 when the blizzard hit, living in holiday trailer court in elkhart, with drifts higher than the roofs, we did good deeds for people with infants making formula runs to kroger....it was really preety cool,lets do it again !!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 12:28 PM Michelle wrote ...
I remember in our back yard there was a fence about 7ft high and the snow drifts were all the up the the fence, but there was just enough room for me and my brothers to get behind the drifts and dig igloos. I was 11yrs old and my brothers were 12yrs old and 9yrs old. It was one of the funnest snow days we ever had in Watervliet, MI.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 11:58 AM Laurie wrote ...
Late at night, I heard my dad screaming. My mom called 911. The ambulance could not get to our house. Neighbors were called to see if anyone had anything to get through the snow. I remember seeing my dad on a sled behind a snowmobile I thought for the last time. I was 15. Mom couldn't get back home. I remember all the kids building tunnels like hedges to get to each house. We were surrounded by love and caring neighbors. I never said it but thank you to all who helped us.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 11:56 AM Becky Lewis wrote ...
I moved to Florida in 1982. Moved to California in 1994. When ever it got extremely hot in either of those states, all I had to do is look at the copies of the 1978 South Bend Tribune with the photos of the blizzard on the front page. Cooled me right off. Had to move back here in 2004 and am now back to "enjoying" the cool Januarys. Now,to warm up, I think of the 110 degree weather in Hemet, Ca.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 11:40 AM Connie wrote ...
I remember that my boyfriend and I (husband of 29 yrs. now) we worked with the Civil Defense in New Carlisle. Our main focus was to get people off the roads that had been stranded. We also went house to house to see if people needed food or medications. There were also snow drifts on some side roads that were 10-12 feet. My dad's car was totally covered by snow. All in all it was great!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 11:18 AM Tina wrote ...
I was grew up in Three Rivers, MI, I was in junior high in 1978 - my best pal was at her grandma's about a block from where I lived and we wanted to get together so I left my house and she left her grandma's and we met in the middle then we walked back to her grandma's where there was a car parked out in front of the house next door (it was buried) we climbed on top and they took a picture of us - we had a blast that week - I also remember friends delivering groceries on snowmobiles -
Thursday, Jan 24 at 10:38 AM Karen wrote ...
I also remember the blizzard of 78'. I was a newlywed and lived in St Joseph Michigan at the time. When we got stuck in our apartment with the lake effect snow, we started baking. We did tire of that.... and had a baby girl that October. So I will always have a momento to remember that blizzard by. Now she is making me a grandma for the first time. Great how things turn out, but don't really want to revisit that. Our Camero was buried to the top to give you an idea how deep the snow was.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 10:36 AM Karen wrote ...
I remember walking about one mile to the Park & Shop grocery store pulling a sled to bring back any grocery's we and the neighbors needed. Edison road had been plowed and the snow was piled about 6 feet high along the side of the road.
I would love to see tape of the weathermen at that time to see the difference in forecasting between now and then.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 10:36 AM Nicole from Elkhart wrote ...
I was almost six years old when the blizzard hit! Snow drifts reached the roof gutters & beyond! My neighbor dug himself out of his back door, came to our house by using those old "tennis-racket" like snowshoes, & dug us out of our back garage door. Before that, we were stuck inside for three days! Lots of cookies were made, though! It's a memory of mother natures' AWE AND POWER that I will never forget.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 10:33 AM Bobbie from St. Joe wrote ...
I had 2 babies, both under 2 years of age. My driveway is over 100 ft. long. A snowmobile was going door to door to ask if anyone needed groceries. They brought back some milk. We've been friends ever since.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 9:57 AM Mid Stutsman wrote ...
Our first daughter,Jessica was just two weeks old. We were completely snowed in and my father-in-law had to deliver milk and bread to us on his snowmobile. When payloaders and dumptrucks finally were able to get down our county road, we could barely see the tops of the equipment from our windows!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 9:35 AM Ruby Bontrager wrote ...
memories like yesterday! friends dropped off their 3 kids Wed morning, with plans to vacation in a warm place, but didn't get further than Elkhart. With our 3 I was busy getting meals for us all, my husband played outside,making snow tunnels with the kids, about Fri a neighbor brought milk to the neighbors on a snow mobile, my sister had her first baby on Fri morning at home, with a retired doc coming over on a snowmobile, it was a busy and great time at our house! Great memories!!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 9:12 AM Kim wrote ...
This was the year that we move here, from Martinsville, IN (they were paralized down there). My dad was here looking for a house and got snowed in. He ended up buying a house without my mom ever seeing it. It must have been ok because they lived there until last year. I remember wondering if we had any grass (yes we did, by the way). My sister and I dug tunnels and made igloos it was amazing.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 8:48 AM Amy from Marcellus wrote ...
I was 7 years old then and my sister and I built big tunnels through the snow and also I remember opening the garage door and all you could see was snow. It was so deep it went up past the top of the door. I didn't see my dad for a week; he was stuck at work and couldn't get home.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 8:00 AM Peg wrote ...
I lived in Niles and managed the local Pizza Hut at the time. When I heard of all the volunteers out plowing, I called the Niles FD and Steve Waldron (now deceased) picked me up on a snow mobile. I make up everything that was prepped and everyone that was volunteering their services got a free meal. I went home by 4WD and had to lay down and roll over the snow to get to the door because it was too deep to walk thru. What an experience!!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 7:45 AM Phil wrote ...
I was a freshman at Ball State Univ. when we got the word that the campus would be closed for 3 days. No one could get in or out of town. Ten of us walked through the blizzard with backpacks to the nearest Marsh store and each of us carried a case of beer back to the dorm. It was a memorable way to celebrate the blizzard!
Thursday, Jan 24 at 7:10 AM Donna from Argos wrote ...
I couldn't believe how the whole state just shut down for a week. I had just moved here from Minnesota and to me it was just a normal snow fall. I saw snow in Minnesota one year in the 60's where you had to climb out your second story window just to shovel a path to your front door.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 3:43 AM Vickie from Nappanee, IN wrote ...
I lived in N. Webster at the time. My sister was just a baby. My mom was out of blood pressure medicine and formula for the baby so she made some phone calls. The snowmobile club of North Webster brought her medicine and other supplies to us. My step-dad had to walk about 1/2 mile to the drop site. In order to get out the door he litterally had to use a kitchen spoon to start a tunnel. He finally made it to the lane and hiked through snow hip high to get to the drop off site. He got a ride home.
Thursday, Jan 24 at 12:54 AM Mishawaka gal wrote ...
I was working at the A&P on 4th street when the snow started and by midnight ....well I walked home down the middle of 4th street in waist deep snow....I was strange that the only things running were snowmobils...the national gaurd was posted at the Hooks store...It was about a week before the trains ran thru again...If you did not see it ...It is truely hard to explain just how much snow there was ....and I hope I never have to see that much again......
Thursday, Jan 24 at 12:09 AM Tracy Swartz wrote ...
I was 8 years old that winter. A week of snow days was like a dream for me. I'm sure my parents thought differently! I grew up in Osceola and the snowplows took several days to get out to us. When the plows finally came and we could walk down our street, the piles on each side were taller than our dad! Today I'm a teacher, so I hope we don't get another storm like that. Back then, snow days were free. Today we have to make them up. I love my job, but I don't want to be there in July!
Wednesday, Jan 23 at 9:09 PM Laura/Coloma MI wrote ...
I lived in Heger Shore MI, and in this area it has alot of small one track roads. We had a little store down the road (The Hi-Way Mkt. a.k.a. The I.G.A.). Thank goodness we were close enough to walk to the store, but once you got there, you were lucky to get any thing. The shelves were almost completely empty. I also remember seeing the news reports of people stranded on the highways. The semis with just the tops of the trailers showing. Neighbors helping neighbors.
Wednesday, Jan 23 at 9:05 PM pam wrote ...
I was 10 years old and fell in love with snow days!We were off school for a week.Unfortunately,i did have tragedy, my grandfather suffered a heart attack and all of us were digging out to get to the hospital.So my memories are bittersweet.
Wednesday, Jan 23 at 9:00 PM Marsha wrote ...
We moved to Evansville area in Nov. of that year. The house we were looking at had a driveway that sloped downhill into the garage.I asked the realitor what about when it snows, he said "Darlin it hasnt snowed here in 15 yrs".My husband was out of town when it hit. He called to say he was coming home, I told him to wait.I had just heard the weatherman say "the salt for the roads was stuck on a barge in the middle of the Ohio River and they had"BOTH" _snowplows on the Rd, 2 plows in County!!!
Wednesday, Jan 23 at 8:48 PM Lowell & Barbara Crabb wrote ...
We moved here in 1976 from beautiful Dublin, NH. When the storm hit in 1978 we felt like the Lord sent it to help us from being homesick. Now that we're older, we hope it doesn't happen again.
Wednesday, Jan 23 at 8:28 PM MARGARET WALKER wrote ...
mY SUPERVISOR TOLD ME I WASN'T NEEDED AS AN OB NURSE SO MY HUSBAND MADE IT TO TAKE ME HOME FROM PAWATING HOSPITAL. AN HOUR LATER SHE CALLED ME TO COME BACK, MY SON WAYNE HAS A FRIEND WHO HAD A SNOWMOBILE AND HE TOOK ME ON MY FIRST AND LAST RIDE ON A SNOWMOBILE. WE WERE SNOWED IN THAT FOR SEVERAL DAYS. ALMOST RAN OUT OF FOOD, EVERYBODY PITCHED IN TO DO JOBS OF EMPLOYEES WHO COULD NOT GET IN TO WORK. WE DELIVERED LOTS OF B ABIES DURING THIS TIME AND DR. MCCREEDY EVEN DELIVERED SOME OVER THE PHON
Wednesday, Jan 23 at 7:56 PM Tom wrote ...
my cousin and I were on snowmobiles on prairie ave in south bend going to Ettles market to pick up supplies for the neighbors when two guys in a four wheel drive stop us and asked if we could help get this lady that just had a heart attack. The ambulance could not get down the street. cars were just left every were so they put her on a toboggan and we pulled it up to the ambulance.
Wednesday, Jan 23 at 6:55 PM Kelly wrote ...
I lived in Calumet Michigan during the winter of '78. You SW Michigan & N Indiana people can cry about it... We set a national snow record that year. Over 900", yes 900"! We still had snow in wooded areas in July! I have pictures of my Mom standing on a snow bank leaning down to touch the to
Saturday, Jun 28 at 3:41 PM Daphne Rudhman wrote ...
I was in my early years of teaching.My friend, Marilyn, and I prayed for snow so we could go skiing...my brother -in-law was stuck at work, my sister was in her house with her newborn baby, a neighbor trekked to the store to buy infant formula, and my sister was going stir crazy...I came to take care of the little one so my sister could go take a break ...that, of course was the first day I could drive on the streets! I finally got to go skiing...bottom line: No more praying for snow!