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45 Years Ago.............
« on: January 31, 2012, 08:48:36 AM »
I wasn't in Chicago. I was stationed at Charlevoix, MI, where the average snowfall was about 200" per year.

But in Chicago............

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Bob Sirott's One More Thing about Chicago's Worst Blizzard
Updated: Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 10:10 PM CST
Published : Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 4:21 PM CST

By Bob Sirott, FOX Chicago News

Chicago - One more thing, about the great Chicago blizzard. I'm not talking about last year's snowstorm, or that puny blizzard of '79 everyone still talks about.

I'm referring to the mother of all Chicago blizzards: the one that started on Thursday, Jan. 26, exactly 45 years ago - and didn't stop until the next day.

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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 02:14:16 PM »
Try living in upstate New York for awhile. I was there for a tear and a half near Watertown at Ft Drum and the least amount of snowfall I saw on average was 6 inches and I think Watertown held the record for the most snowfall at one time.

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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 06:56:27 PM »
45 years ago, I was nine and thought Chicago was part of Canada!!  (No, not really, but it might as well be!!)
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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2012, 07:35:28 PM »
He was smoking on TV!!!  lol

I remember that year.  We got quite a bit east of there, too.  Now I live where most of the snow stays up in the mountains, where it belongs.  If I want to see it I can drive up.  I don't.

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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2012, 07:38:32 PM »
Try living in upstate New York for awhile. I was there for a tear and a half near Watertown at Ft Drum and the least amount of snowfall I saw on average was 6 inches and I think Watertown held the record for the most snowfall at one time.

 http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/2003-10-01-snowiest-cities_x.htm
Ayup. Chicago is overrated in a lot of ways. Watertown, Ft. Drum, Syracuse, the Adirondacks is where it snows nine foot deep to an asshole Indian, er wait, oh well you know what I mean. Seriously, Syracuse gets an unbelievable  amount of snow. If it were rain it would be Biblical. Ft. Drum is regularly closed, buried really and utterly inaccessible by roads. This isn't something that happens every so many years or so, it happens at least once a year and sometimes for weeks on end.
I was in Utica in '94 when that city got eight feet in one night. Even with that though the roads were cleared and traffic was flowing within 24 hours. Happened to Buffalo a few years back too, seven feet in a day.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2001/2001-12-28-buffalo-snow.htm

This is New York, par for the course. Unlike some places like say, North Carolina where if they get an inch of actual snow on the ground the entire region is crippled with people hiding under bridges, etc. and multiple car pile ups on every highway.
Here we have high school kids and grannies who can drive 55 in a foot of unplowed snow without flinching, just another day.

The blizzard of '77 was truly horrific but everyone pulled together and we got through it. That's why Buffalo is called "the city of good neighbors". If that sort of thing happens to a place like NYC everybody bitches, moans and whines.
In Buffalo we just pick up a six pack and stay home. :-)


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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2012, 08:34:22 PM »
Ayup. Chicago is overrated in a lot of ways. Watertown, Ft. Drum, Syracuse, the Adirondacks is where it snows nine foot deep to an asshole Indian, er wait, oh well you know what I mean. Seriously, Syracuse gets an unbelievable  amount of snow. If it were rain it would be Biblical. Ft. Drum is regularly closed, buried really and utterly inaccessible by roads. This isn't something that happens every so many years or so, it happens at least once a year and sometimes for weeks on end.
I was in Utica in '94 when that city got eight feet in one night. Even with that though the roads were cleared and traffic was flowing within 24 hours. Happened to Buffalo a few years back too, seven feet in a day.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2001/2001-12-28-buffalo-snow.htm

This is New York, par for the course. Unlike some places like say, North Carolina where if they get an inch of actual snow on the ground the entire region is crippled with people hiding under bridges, etc. and multiple car pile ups on every highway.
Here we have high school kids and grannies who can drive 55 in a foot of unplowed snow without flinching, just another day.

The blizzard of '77 was truly horrific but everyone pulled together and we got through it. That's why Buffalo is called "the city of good neighbors". If that sort of thing happens to a place like NYC everybody bitches, moans and whines.
In Buffalo we just pick up a six pack and stay home. :-)

All that lake effect shit off of Lake Erie is what does it. So much misery for such a shallow lake.  :p
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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2012, 08:37:48 PM »
45 years ago this month I was 6 months old.

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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2012, 05:31:37 AM »
All that lake effect shit off of Lake Erie is what does it. So much misery for such a shallow lake.  :p

Umm . . . that would be Lake Ontario for the stuff there.  Where I went to school (undergrad), we were north of the snow belt, but the cold that came roaring up the St. Lawrence Valley would nail us good.  Anyway, there's two seasons in the Adirondacks--"winter," and "winter will be back in a minute."
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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2012, 07:19:41 AM »
45 years ago this month I was 6 months old.

I was still 2 months away from being born...

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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2012, 08:28:17 AM »
I was in high school, and not all that far away (Southern IN), but I don't remember anything special about that year, or its snowfall.
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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2012, 09:31:00 AM »
Buffalo has a reputation for having a lot of snow. But my brother-in-law, who lives on 45 acres south of Buffalo, is in the snow belt, whereas Buffalo is not. When Buffalo gets 12", he will get 36" to 48". Lake Erie is visible from some of the hills around his place.
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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2012, 01:21:37 PM »
Umm . . . that would be Lake Ontario for the stuff there.  Where I went to school (undergrad), we were north of the snow belt, but the cold that came roaring up the St. Lawrence Valley would nail us good.  Anyway, there's two seasons in the Adirondacks--"winter," and "winter will be back in a minute."

Regarding Watertown and eastern upper NY State, I stand corrected.

I was speaking more of general snow belt conditions, of which Lake Erie packs one helluva punch to NE Ohio, PA, and NY State (but more of the middle regions rather than the northern).
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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2012, 01:45:15 PM »
Last year, on this date, we had a blizzard that blocked almost all roads around here. Everything was drifted in.

But I was in the hospital, waiting for the window to blow in! GAWD! The wind was horrible!

Thank heavens I have some good neighbors; they plowed our driveway while I was incapacitated. Even the 4x4s were not out and about. Our driveway was clear, but the road was so bad my wife couldn't get out to pick me up at the hospital. Finally she was able to come and "rescue" me at about 8:00 PM.
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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2012, 02:19:57 PM »
Last year, on this date, we had a blizzard that blocked almost all roads around here. Everything was drifted in.

But I was in the hospital, waiting for the window to blow in! GAWD! The wind was horrible!

Thank heavens I have some good neighbors; they plowed our driveway while I was incapacitated. Even the 4x4s were not out and about. Our driveway was clear, but the road was so bad my wife couldn't get out to pick me up at the hospital. Finally she was able to come and "rescue" me at about 8:00 PM.

Mrs E reminded me about that same storm this morning. I had never had to clean off more snow in my life than I did that day. I had drifts up to 6 feet tall.  :censored:
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Re: 45 Years Ago.............
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2012, 04:42:49 PM »
Even Texas was suffering this time last year!!  :o
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