Blizzard of '78

l drove cross country that winter. The snow piled so high that the air intakes were covered causing engines to stall and drivers being found frozen to death days later. During that era we all had 3 log books, bennies in a very small paper sack sitting on the dash, cops knew and over looked it and we drove until we couldn't keep it on the road any longer and would pull over to the side and sleep, sometimes over the steering wheel. l've read posts by x1Heavy and know back then he was on the road too.

 

I try to calm down on some of those stories. But some situations were crazy.

One company liked to send me to get loaded in places that ice storms were raging. I just didnt know any better.

While the panic buying was going on in my area of all things, I kept remembering DC region where a word from the weatherman on TV thus:

we have 5 inches of snow tonight.

And stores all around are stripped bare in a hour.

 

COVID is almost a do'over .... TBH~! But for delivery of 'essentials....which I'm signed on for.

 

The 70 d were so bad , the weathermen were worried about starting another Ice Age

 

that storm his us in early February, i think around the 6th?

it was slow moving. here, nearly all the state highway dept garages were on strike too, so of course, no snow plows. that changed, the state in what ever way the did it, restructured the contracts with all the garages under different unions. that way, if one garage goes out on strike, the others stay working.

anyway, when i saw that it was coming this way, i stayed home. the place i worked at, took over a week to clean up.

 

I still remember it, even as a kid. Doozy it sure was... here in Ohio; right up the street from me. Did you see my link? I was 14.

Blizzard of 1978