BLIZZARD...

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...ok so it isn't THAT bad outside, but they are calling emergency levels in surrounding areas..because they don't want you idiots on the roads today..

Hell, however, did freeze over today...IVY TECH is closed...in my 5 years of teaching there I have never seen it...and I KNOW we have had some crap weather in that time...

Anyway...enjoy the day off if you have it...post all you can..and don't go out and get stranded...:)

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What blizzard? '78, now that was a blizzard. This... is nothing.
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Post by Morphine Child »

When I saw that IPFW closed, I decided to skip the 30 mile drive to work and stay home. Not because I have anything to do with IPFW, but like Ivy Tech, they refuse to close under nearly any circumstance. :)
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bassjones wrote:What blizzard? '78, now that was a blizzard. This... is nothing.
Right you are!

Go to bed with a couple of inches on the ground.
Wake up the next morning with 24-28inches.

This town was shut down for at least a week.
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bassjones wrote:What blizzard? '78, now that was a blizzard. This... is nothing.
Back in my day, I used to have to walk to school with no shoes on, uphill both ways, snow up to my knees...

Anyways...blizzard or not blizzard...our office is closing for the 2nd half of the day and I'm happy. Bring it on! I'm going home to play video games and get my buzz on!
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Damn. You suckered me there, Wallace. I was hoping that this was a thread about a cool new computer game. Damn!
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Post by bwohlgemuth »

I have drifting snow in my driveway. The drift total is about five inches. The rest of the driveway is clear....

Oh well, kids are still asleep upstairs. Maybe they won't be as grumpy as usual... :-)
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Ok...so I mispoke the word BLIZZARD...that is what the CITY is calling it...

Yeah...I was young for the Blizzards of '78 and '79, but I remember it like it was yesterday...one of my earliest memories...of course I wasn't HERE in the FW...I live in Lafayette back then...and that town ALWAYS gets hit worse than here...

For some reason I think '79 was much worse than '78 where I was...but it was a few hard winters there...:)

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/blizzardof78.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1978

http://wintercenter.homestead.com/photo1978MW.html

Many more out there...:)

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Post by bwohlgemuth »

The 78/79 blizzards were awesome....well, at least to me as a kid in Chicago.

The worst winters were in the early 1980's where it regularly went below -10.
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Yeah...while searching out those sites I found one where it had a news story telling about the 29th straight day of below freezing HIGH temperatures in Chicago...actually here is the text and the link to the page:


January 25
January 25, 1977. THIS WAS THE 29TH CONSECUTIVE DAY WHERE CHICAGO'S DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS BELOW FREEZING. THE 43-DAY LONG COLD SNAP LASTED FROM DECEMBER 28TH, 1976 THROUGH FEBRUARY 8, 1977 SETTING THE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR THE LONGEST PERIOD OF BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES TO OCCUR IN CHICAGO. LIKEWISE AT ROCKFORD...TEMPERATURES DIDN'T RISE ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK FROM DECEMBER 28TH THROUGH FEBRUARY 8TH. THIS ALSO SETS THE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR THE LONGEST PERIOD OF BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES IN ROCKFORD.


http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=Jan_wx_trivia


It was the NOAA triva pages...:)

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I grew up about 20 miles west of South Bend, and about 10 miles in from the lake. '78 was so bad there we were stuck in our house for days. We had to dig our way out of our front door. My neighbors and I went sledding off of our roof into snow drifts that were as high as the roof.

'78 wasn't the only bad winter up there by any means. There was one time in '89 or 90 that we got 37" in one night. I was working at a grocery store in Michigan (a couple miles north of my house) and had to stay with a friend for two days.

I totally agree with jonesie...this isn't that big of a deal. Then again, we grew up with it.
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i was hoping this thread would be discussing


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zenmandan wrote:I grew up about 20 miles west of South Bend, and about 10 miles in from the lake. '78 was so bad there we were stuck in our house for days. We had to dig our way out of our front door. My neighbors and I went sledding off of our roof into snow drifts that were as high as the roof.

'78 wasn't the only bad winter up there by any means. There was one time in '89 or 90 that we got 37" in one night. I was working at a grocery store in Michigan (a couple miles north of my house) and had to stay with a friend for two days.

I totally agree with jonesie...this isn't that big of a deal. Then again, we grew up with it.
Didn't FW get shut down in like '99 for snow issues??? I was just discussing with my mother trying to remember what year in recent years we had to close our business because of the snow.

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cwallace wrote:
Didn't FW get shut down in like '99 for snow issues??? I was just discussing with my mother trying to remember what year in recent years we had to close our business because of the snow.

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December '98 and January '99 were pretty bad. I was a Junior in High School and we had about 2 weeks of school closings in those two weeks.
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Post by MrSpall »

I help run a workshop for mentally handicapped people. I've been here for almost 6 years, and we've NEVER closed for anything. The building is in a flood plain, and a few years ago, when it got unseasonably warm in January and there was flooding, the floor of the building was underwater. Then it froze over and the bottom of each door was covered in three inches of ice. We were open everyday (as if anyone was actually gonna bring their clients in under those conditions).

I'm glad to say that today we are closing at 1:00. Hallelujah Holla Back
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