[AT] Blizzard of '78

[Larry Goss]

Anybody need a slide rule?  I still have my collection stored under the stairs in a utility closet.  My 6-foot classroom slide rule is stored on top of the wall cabinets in my office -- for emergency use when the power goes off and my batteries go dead!

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 8:21
Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Al, ours were Thursday night exams.  90 minutes to work 30 
> problems in 
> Harrelson Hall on those itty bitty swing up desks with a test 
> booklet, a 
> work booklet an answer sheet and a slide rule.  You think 
> things like 
> Avogadro's Number or the Molar Gas Constant are tough on a 
> calculator?  Try 
> them on a 23 scale K E or Post slide rule.   The 
> answer sheet was multiple 
> choice.  5 possible answers to each question.  The 
> possibilities were the 
> correct answer and the 4 most probably mistake answers.  
> You didn't have 
> time to check your work.  You pretty much had to go with 
> the first answer 
> you came up with and believe me it was on the answer sheet.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Al Jones
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 8:26 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78
> 
> 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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