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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cybergal, post: 335882, member: 2385&quot;]<b>Blizzard of &#039;78: Heroic trucker, Supermarket sweethearts</b></p><p><b>1/25/08</b></p><p><img src="http://www.wkyc.com/assetpool/images/08125201116_Blizzard%20of%2078%20(300x225)%20Truly04.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.wkyc.com/assetpool/images/08125201210_blizzard%20tuggle%20(300x225)%20005.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>CLEVELAND -- Two Northeast Ohio families will never forget the Blizzard of &#039;78, for completely different reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>The family of truck driver Jim Truly looks back at the blizzard&#039;s 30th anniversary this weekend with mixed emotions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Truly survived six days in the blizzard, trapped in the cab of his truck under a 30 foot snowdrift that was nearly half a mile long.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;They didn&#039;t think that, you know, he could have survived that long,&quot; recalls his widow, Carol. Jim Truly died of natural causes eight years after the blizzard.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It was terrible, it was just terrible,&quot; she says sadly, taking a pause while paging through the yellowed newsclippings of her husband&#039;s amazing survival story. &quot;I wish he was still here today.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim Truly was hauling steel from Cleveland to Mansfield when the blizzard hit. He had pulled over to help another driver then decided to wait until the heavy snow passed. It never did.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It was a difficult time for him, a difficult time for the family,&quot; says Truly&#039;s daughter Susan Pogue, who was a teenager at the time of the Blizzard of &#039;78. She remembers the day well, and wonders how her dad survived in a dark, freezing truck for so many days.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Either he had some oxygen trapped underneath there, which is hard to believe, or he had some real good guardian angels blowing air in there for him,&quot; Pogue figures.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/[url=http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82079]WKYC-more here&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/[url=http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82079]WKYC-more here&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;"><a href="http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82079" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82079" rel="nofollow">WKYC-more here&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;</a></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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