Comments on: Remembering The Great Blizzard Of 1978

By: Olivia Sarah

Olivia Sarah — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:09:11 +0000

I died in the storm

By: CocointheSouth

CocointheSouth — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:39:07 +0000

I was a freshman in high school in Warren Co at this time. I remember the brutal cold so well. You couldn’t go out for more than a minute as your skin would literally hurt. To breathe in through your mouth would make your throat and lungs hurt, and to breathe in through your nose would make your nasal passages crystalize. We had a farm and the snow drifts reached to the roof of our house. We lived back off the road and the National Guard had to dig us out of our driveway. I’ve never been in anything like it since, and trying to recount the feeling of that cold to my kid leaves him bewildered. He just can’t imagine how bad it was.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:24:27 +0000

I was a student at the University of Cincinnati. We played Risk and other games since it was difficult to go anywhere. Some students in my dorm, Dabney Hall, skipped some meals at the cafeteria and ate whatever food they had in their rooms. They used front loaders to carve paths in the sidewalk snow. The people at Physical Plant were heroic in keeping the heat and lights on as well as clearing the sidewalks on campus! We had about 10 inches of snow, which is a lot for Cincinnati. If you aren’t from the area, even 2 or 3 inches makes the hills dangerous to drive on.

By: LaNell Barrett

LaNell Barrett — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:32:49 +0000

I lived in Louisville Ky. And I would have sworn that the first hideous one, (’76-77 ??) was the winter we had a real warm day or two very shortly … like a week… before we got slammed. Can’t find it yet on line, but I have a vivid memory of out in cut off jeans, washing my first car. Hose and all. And I was always a freezy female, But it was that warm. Anyone else recall that?
As for the snow, it was worse the following winter. I had a front wheel drive Honda Civic, and I was taking a carloads to their jobs for awhile. Louisville’s Snow Removal System was also known as Spring .

By: lindalshot

lindalshot — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 02:34:53 +0000

In reply to george koch. I worked at the one in the White Oak Shopping Center. Larry Uebel was manager; I was asst. manager. I also worked at the one at Simpson & Galbraith in North College Hill with Stan Andrews.

By: george koch

george koch — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:27:35 +0000

In reply to Linda Moeller. I worked @ Convenient as well. Which location did you work? I worked @ Clough & 8 mile. in Anderson Twp. I also waked to work. We were swamped. The problem was keeping the shelves stocked. The trucks could't get to the stores.

By: Dean Hall

Dean Hall — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:37:35 +0000

I grew up in Milford Ohio. The one thing that I remember most about the Blizzard of 1978 is how large the snow flakes were at the height of the heaviest snow fall. They were as big as Silver Dollars. I have never seen snow flakes that big and never since. The snow fall rate was amazing. It seemed to pour down forever. When it was over it got super cold. Below zero cold. No cars would start. It was awful…

By: Chris Mayo

Chris Mayo — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:15:05 +0000

I was 11 and the snow drift was at eye level I was outside my mom yelled for me and laughed when she saw a slow moving winter hat

By: Timbo

Timbo — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:06:32 +0000

I remember barely making out the blurry image of my father’s old Chevy Biscayne as he left our driveway for work that morning. I don’t know what he was thinking, but apparently he loved work.
I also remember walking down the middle of Beechmont Ave. in the middle of the day without a vehicle in sight, and a backhoe digging up the 5″ layer of ice that coated our street a week later.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:16:26 +0000

I remember them sending news reporters to Alaska to report on the progress of the glaciers. They were heading right for us, according to reports. We were fated for another ice age due to all of the pollution in the environment.