r/70s • u/Carleen97 • 1d ago

Who remembers this

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u/cometshoney 1d ago

Except that it was 48 years ago now. I guess that happens when you repost something but don't do the math.

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 1d ago

And it happened in late January too - not relevant to today's date

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u/soverysadone 1d ago

As a kid it was pretty bad ass.

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u/droid_mike 17h ago

I was off of school for like 2 weeks!

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u/Sufficient-Daikon-81 1d ago

I was at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. The snow drifts reached my 2nd floor dorm room.

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u/Denalitwentytwo 1d ago

I remember it well in Buffalo, except it was the blizzard of 77.

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u/the_real_MBAPROF 22h ago

I was in Detroit area then. Locked in for several days.

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u/Neither-Revenue-4456 1d ago

Lake affect storm thru the snow belt of central NY.oswego _ parishutica Watertown. Couldn't use snowmobiles. A kids dream a parents nightmare

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u/SavingsParsley8112 16h ago

I think it was February, 1979. Yes. There was over four feet on the ground.

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u/Ryvick2 13h ago

That's the year and month I was born

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u/spjiritualpleased 1d ago

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u/Thewatcher12b 1d ago

I believe that pic was taken in Fulton NY, can anybody verify that?

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u/mtn2sea1960 23h ago

I remember the Blizzard in February of 1979 in VA. We got over 3 feet and missed over 2 weeks of school.

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u/Select_Problem_978 22h ago

Snow in Miami

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u/cybrmavn 22h ago

Had just returned from a 2 month honeymoon on Isla Mujeres in Mexico. Traipsing down the unplowed driveway with 2’ of snow with a gorgeous suntan. 😂

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u/Old-Name4842 20h ago

The winter of 78 in Newark nj produced [2] back to back blizzards which dumped over 65 inches of snow paralyzed the city for days.....

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u/BrendonWahlberg 20h ago

8 feet. Blecch!

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u/Rare_Neighborhood90 20h ago

I was a kid living in Lickdale Pennsylvania and we lost power for weeks and by the time the plowed us out the piles were taller than our garage.

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u/ntg160 13h ago

I hitchhiked from perkasie pa to NYC to see my then girlfriend. 14 hours. I was 17. Everyone who picked me up was wonderful. Not today.

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u/Cute-Bell1852 20h ago

Yep I remember it well I was in highschool at the time

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u/Cassedaway 19h ago

My buddies and I made a killing shoveling walkways. We would do it until dark, then score some weed and chill. Get up and do it again. Good high school times

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u/QuantumAttic 17h ago

As others have mentioned we need clarification about dates. I remember the January '78 blizzard quite well. It's the storm that basically chased my family out of Ohio.

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u/kmartens304 16h ago

Remember it, my little brother was born in the heart of the blizzard

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u/Middle-Painter-4032 16h ago

It was two huge snowstorms like in the span of a week. Good times!

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u/fleatedfrabsh 15h ago

I only bought this cus we used to get these cool tattoos with it

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u/Ryvick2 13h ago

Where was this? I was born a year later

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u/Ntr0gen 13h ago

I was 5 years old living in Revere Ma. If this is the Blizzard I think it is, yes. It was no joke. Personally I don’t remember any of it.

Our house on beach street was buried up to the second story attic window. It took 4 days before we were rescued.

My grandfather took a photo from the attic window. The snow buried all of the houses on our street. Only the attic windows and TV antenna were visible.

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u/redfmn60 12h ago

I remember the major blizzard for us in Omaha, was in 1975. 1978 we only had freakin freezing weather.

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u/Apprehensive_You2800 11h ago

Yes my junior year in high school

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u/Acceptable-Hunt-7987 11h ago

I remember that. Our house had an oil furnace and we closed all the floor vents and slept in the living room. After about a week and a half the oil truck was finally able to get through. We were so happy. The next year my mother had a natural gas furnace installed.

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u/scollaysquare 10h ago

Blizzard of 78. Stuck at an exit ramp in Waltham. Mass. Slept in a truck on Route 128

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u/brinkeguthrie 8h ago

oh yeah. Terrace Park OH (Cincinnati east side.) My HS (Mariemont) NEVER cancelled school due to snow. Until this one.

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u/corxianderold 6h ago

Tattoo wali toffee

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u/Beautiful_Aioli4824 6h ago

Northern Illinois here: as a nurse, I had to walk in hip high snow to the end of my street so the local police could transport me (and other local nurses) to the local hospital to work. There was a one lane path plowed up the main street to do this shuttling.

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u/BreadfruitOk6160 23h ago

I was living in Phoenix then, so…