[AT] Blizzard of '78

[Richard Fink Sr]

Belive it or not i am old enough to remember that storm in PA. Don't 
remember the day of week. We were with out power for about 4 days sent wife 
and kids to her parents house. I stayed and fired two fire places we just 
got completed to keep water from frezeing. We had been building the house 
started in 72 closed in in and moved in in 73. Then done it as we lived 
there. We were on REA electric and all electric house. between fireing we 
moved snow. Was fun at the time for me and 2 boys from 8 years to 14. then 
they had to go back to paps at nite. Was also building a house for a client 
that year it was back a lane about 5-6 hundred feet was out of there for 
about 2 weeks.[[ o for the good old days]]
R Fink
Snowy PA




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78


> David, why doesn't that surprise me at all?
>
> Charlie
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: David Bruce
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 6:33 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> 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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