Blizzard of 1978

[McCarter]

i hate snow!

Plus, winter time is bad for bait sales.  Bah, Humbug!

McCarter himself

[djkimmel]

you all shovelin up der yet??

been pretty miserable here mostly low's in the mid 30's and wet..

zooker

No snow shoveling yet... we'll send you some in a box or something...

[WayneC]

Zooker, since you lived in Buffalo you probably wouldn't of even noticed there was snow here in '78.

[zooker]

true...

but than i brought my snow blower with me when i moved south..screw shovlin..

i got a tourny saturday-forcast is for 2" of snow...yeah!!




zooker

[djkimmel]

We got snow RIGHT NOW!! Yuck!

[mikesmiph]

I'm seeing a couple inches on everything. I know this one wont stay. Glad the boat is put away. Counting the days till it goes away.

[zooker]

come on down mccater..

the tourny went off 55 boats we just had a tad of freezing drizzle.- nothing to worry about- air temps were in the low 30's at blast off time.. water temps were 49-51.. water was muddy due to the 4" of rain we got early last week..

i caught two bass,four crappie, and one flathead catfish..big around 3 pounds... the bass came on a crankbait and a shaky head.. the crappie all hit a dt6 in parrot color. big was around two pounds the cat fish looked to be around 12 pounds.-have yet to fish high rock and not catch one of those darn things.

other than plowing thru a 1/2 acre of leaves some idiot blew into the lake-there should be a law- everything was good


zooker

[Dan]

I was teaching school then and my wife was 8 1/2 months pregnant with our first. The schools in the Grand Rapids area were closed for over a week and when we did go back only one door in my building was accessible. The rest had snow drifts that completely covered them. I got into a little trouble for making a comment about fire safety with only one door available. I thought they had brought us back a little too early. The principal at the time didn't think it was appropriate, but I was only stating the obvious.
They activated my National Guard unit for the whole week I was out of school. They used our deuce and a halfs to deliver necessary medicines and food to people stranded. They also patrolled the expressways looking for stranded motorist. I was the supply sergeant so I pretty much sat around the armory. Shot a lot of basketball.
I do recall two of our big trucks getting stuck. The first truck went off the eway and the second followed it right off the road and ran into it because the visibility was so bad. I forget how long 131 was closed, but it was a number of days.
Everyone on my street had to shovel off their roofs. I was over waist deep on my roof. It was quite a storm! I worried the whole time about having to take the wife in early to deliver the baby, but he waited until his due date in January.

[Waterfoul]

I was 12.  If we didn't have a snowmobile I think  lot of the people on our street would have starved!!  The guy next door had a plow on an old Scout.  Our street was 1/2 mile long.  He took 3-4 days to plow a single lane to the main road, which the county had plowed a single lane down.

No school for almost 2 weeks.

[oldjigger]

Went to work in Grand Rapids in morning driving a CJ-5 which had a V-8 in it.  The trip was 25 miles.  Shop closed by 10:30 screwed around getting Pike minnows and helping other people that when I got to the e-way it was closed.  filled up with gas when left gr and with getting stuck andeverything only made it about 11 miles when was getting low on gas.  Finnally spent night with some very nice people whom took me home next day on snowmobile.

[Ockham]

I wasn't born yet, and I honestly can't remember seeing any snow like your descriptions ever in my 27 years. 
The best storm I can think of was when I was in Rochester, NY in 2004 and we had a crazy ice storm on April Fools Day.  Everything was coated in an inch of ice, and power was out for some people for more than 2 weeks.  Luckily the apartment I was in only lost power for a day, and school had generators, so it wasn't terrible.  But driving was ridiculous.  I don't think it was very bad for Michigan at that time, but I don't really remember.