[AT] Blizzard of '78

[Al Jones]

Textiles definately had the rep. of being a rigorous program when I was working on my undergrad and masters from '92-97....back then I believe all the textiles dept.  was over on Centennial Campus.  There wasn't a whole lot going on there then.  I went back last spring to take a statistics exam through the distance ed. department at State, their offices are on Centennial.  MAN that place has changed!!!  There's something actually over there now!

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 29, 2011 9:52 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78
>
>I knew there was a difference David.  That textile chem degree was well 
>known on campus to be right up there with the engineering disciplines in 
>difficulty.
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: David Bruce
>Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:29 AM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78
>
>Actually not the Chem Dept.  Textile Chem is part of the now College of
>Textiles (was school of Textiles in those days) rather than Chem.
>Caused us students a lot of grief back in the day as the "real" Chem
>professors did everything they could to downgrade that "other
>department".  Jealousy in academic settings can also be brutal.
>
>David
>NW NC
>
>On 1/29/2011 8:26 AM, Al Jones wrote:
>> That sounds just like the dept. of chemistry at NC State! (!@(%* Saturday 
>> exams!) I think the only department there whose faculty as a whole has the 
>> same, maybe even less real world common sense is the department of 
>> statistics....
>>
>> I don't remember snow here in '78 but the big snow on March 1, 1980 was 
>> the first big one I remember.
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Bruce<davidbruce at yadtel.net>
>>> Sent: Jan 29, 2011 6:33 AM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78
>>>
>>> Don't know if it was the same storm but -
>>> I was an undergrad at NC State that year, living in a dorm.
>>> As I recall we had about 12 inches of snow early one morning and I
>>> considered sleeping in rather than making my 7:50 AM Textile Chemistry
>>> class.
>>> In the end I tromped to the TC building where my prof was already there
>>> waiting.  He had walked from the Crabtree Valley area to campus (those
>>> that know Raleigh know that is a long hike).
>>>
>>> David
>>> NW NC
>>>
>>> On 1/26/2011 11:00 PM, Gene Dotson wrote:
>>>>       Just wonder how many of you remember the Great Blizzard of "78 
>>>> during
>>>> this week in 1978? 40 inches of snow, 100 MPH winds and temperature 
>>>> of -17
>>>> degrees. Wind chill was
>>>> -80 degrees.  Barometer reading of 28.28 in. At the time the lowest ever
>>>> recorded in the USA. 51 people died. Snow drifts 18 to 20 feet. Took 
>>>> more
>>>> than a week to dig out. Snowmobiles and National Guard snow tractors 
>>>> were
>>>> only vehicles moving. End loaders and bulldozers were used to clear the
>>>> roads.
>>>>
>>>>       To make it tractor related, the township commandeered me with my 
>>>> Case
>>>> 700 and a back blade they had to help clear some of the streets in the
>>>> village of Broadway where I lived at the time. Pushed snow for 3 days.
>>>> Fortunately I had a heat houser on the tractor, but was still cold.
>>>>
>>>>       The program on Bowling Green PBS station last week and again 
>>>> tonight
>>>> brought back all the memories. It was a rough time for everybody, but 
>>>> sure
>>>> brought the community together. Local restaurand and bar fired up their 
>>>> wood
>>>> stove and had a perpetual soup pot on the whole time for anyone who 
>>>> needed a
>>>> meal. Everyone brought what they had to put in the pot.
>>>>
>>>> Gene
>>>>
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