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I can't believe it....
*tomorrow, January 28, 1977*

WILL BE THE 29TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BLIZZARD OF
'77 IN BUFFALO, N.Y.



Here's an article..
Buffalo remembers infamous blizzard of \'77

Wow, I guess that's the difference between the country and the city. Here a storm or two like that is normal( we had one at the first of the month). People are pulled off the roads and storm stuck in their houses for a couple of days.

It's a sad thing to see that it cost lives and millions of dollars though, I guess they weren't prepared for such a storm. Hopefully it never happens again for them.

I lived in Rochester NY, 60ish miles away from Buffalo. Yes it was a hard winter.
~Tina

Found another picture from it..
Motorist stuck in snow bank..

I am tryin' to find the pictures of the
rented snow plows from Canada I believe they
were, they'd come thru and shave the snowbanks
away, *over the top of the snowplow* and like
snow blow it up and over the bank to get it back..

Tamara, there wasn't even alot of snow fall either, it was the blowing snow that did it..
*and sub zero temps*

And it came out of the blue..
Literally...
*and predicting it was not what it is
these days..*
It was upon everyone in the time to get off of
work and go home..

Minneapolis/St. Paul sent their snow removing equipment up to Rochester, too. They filled the Genesee River gorge with removed snow. The parks were piled 3-4 srories high with unstable snow. There had already been a lot of snowfall before that storm. And a lot more after.
That storm stopped suddenly and it was so eerily quiet, everybody spilled outside of their houses to see. It was clear and beautiful full moon and awesome.
Of course, I was raised in California so I thoughr that it was probably "normal".
~Tina

weezie,
we had a storm in 96 that shut our city down for almost 2 weeks. haha..we lived in the city at that time and there was soo much snow that we could't find our cars because we couldn't see the cars! it was fun!

Too bad I wasn't born yet when your storm hit! That would have been great!!!

That's it in a nut shell... I grew up in the
"snowbelts" where 16", 18" 25" of snowfall in
one day time.. is not unusual... but that storm
hit the city of Buffalo, where there's big buildings, and no where's to PUT THE SNOW, so as if fell, and kept falling and blowing..
and no where's to put it..and it kept building up on the sidewalks, and just shut the city down..

Now, us in the country, well, we had quadruple amounts of snow, and we drove to Warsaw every other day in that storm.. **(My Grandfather was in the hospitol and we had to visit him)**
I took up reading *STEPHEN KING BOOKS* in the back seat of the car with a flashlight, so I wouldn't have to look out the cars' window's and see the terrifying blinding snow..

Jenn, if people would have been prepared for it,
most would not have had any problem with it..

but most people don't stock up food and such to last them in their house for 2 weeks straight.
*with no deliveries, people who were used to going to the store just to pick up what they needed wasn't being delivered, and you couldn't drive to get there.. people started getting cranky..

We live in the snow belts, we know storms hit
we allllllways were stocked up in the winter...
*Mother hated winter driving*
but we also had my Aunt *that lived in Chicago* staying with us.. SHE WAS CLIMBING THE WALLS...
No buses were leaving to take her home, and she was stranded.. TALK ABOUT A CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
she didn't have enough PEPSI supply *or Irish Whiskey* and she was a night owl, while we were all sleeping she was up all night.. looking out at the snow..
We were able to get to town and such, cause we know how to drive in that stuff.. happens on a daily basis here.. but the trucks weren't coming in for deliveries...

It was a very memorable year for me, I had just come back from Florida for my Senior "trip" *I wasn't a senior in school yet, but my parents sent me early, to stay with my grandparents, hey, you never know..* but I went down and it was sooo beautiful weather, stayed about 10 days *over Christmas* and only a few short days later after coming home, BLIZZARD.. talk about your weather changes...

Gonna try post a pic, I'm using photobucket for the first time... storm pic

How do I post the pic straight on the page? This was a pic from a weather station last winter after a three day storm.

Use the IMAGE button on the FULL REPLY FORM..

I remember this storm, Weezie.
It was on the news a lot...
...when Rachel was 2 years old.
I must be several years older than you!

Wellllll Yeahhhhhhhhh,
You were born in

Gee...I AM old!
I meant to correct that in my profile...actually it's March, not October!

Cindy you have same B'Day as my first wife.
You young whipper snapper you.
Jimmy

Very interesting. I would have been 10 then and do not rememeber if we had a huge snow in Colorado that year or not. Will have to ask mom if that was the year of the huge snow drifts on the road. Bet it was.

WOW Tamara, is that your roof in the background?

I believe this one was a Noreaster...those usually drive straight up the coast and no across the city so I wouldn't think it would have hit Colorado.

Ours came from over Lake Erie...

and a bit from Canada I think..
*I'll look to see if they give me
the exact happenings tomorrow..
should be all over our news all day..
I should find out alot more info..*

I remember it. 1977. I was a senior in high school, living at Eglon WV. It was the last year for Aurora High School before they consolidated with Terra Alta to form East Preston High School. We had 212 inches of snow that winter. Someone took a picture from the Oakland (Maryland) paper of my mom and dad driving into town with snow on the side of the road higher than the car. The snow was over 3 feet deep in our yard. We had only 6 days of school in January, went back on February 2nd and left at noon because of more snow--6 inches on the roads. It wasn't just the snow either. We would have stretches without snow, but the temperature stayed so cold, the snow wouldn't melt and pack, so everytime the wind picked up, the roads would be blocked again. We had snow on the ground continuosly for 5 months (at least in patches)

Oh, and Weezie, you must be just a year or so younger than me. You're older than I pictured