Blizzard of '77 Operation Antifreeze CJRN 710 radio 

That was wonderful

I wouldve done the same back then. Beats just sitting inside not doing anything at all. Not like you could distract your self woth your smartphone or xbox back then. Im from south so ive never seen snow like that but i wouldve loved it as a kid. But now i cant stand even the cold. And if we even get a inch of snow i hate it. Especially if it sticks to the road. But mostly well get snow on road then itll melt during day then freeze at night and snow more n more and keep doing it everyday for like a week. I remember not being able go to school for almost a month because it was just thick ice all over the streets and it was too dangerous to put kids on a bus down cou try backroads in them conditions. But hell we get 1 inch slow with little bit stuck they cancel school here because of country backroads. When i explain how easy it is for us to get a snow day to a northerner they find it crazy. All we have is trucks with plows and salt. Theres no chain tires or nothing because we dont get snow alot so people dont bother to be equipped for it. But usually atleast once a year if we do it will get bad. Not from snow but from ice that melts n refreezes over and over.

Most 15 year olds now, probably don't even know what a shovel is, or if they do, dont know how to use it. Finally.....help someone??? They are the most entitled people ever. Thank God you fellows were raised right, and had big hearts!

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See now THIS shows there were some wonderful people out there. Thank you for helping those less able. I spent over a decade taking care of my Mom who for the last 3-4 years was bedridden. I usually always try to help out people when they needed help. If I was able to help, why not just give and help out? Nowadays the world seems so greedy, so much more cruel than back when I was a kid in the 70's. I'm now in my middle 50's and have the same illness that took my Mom's life. Except I don't have any family left to help. I do have a great friend which I THANK God for. There are some good and wonderful people left out there. However it seems the bad and cruel do outnumber the good and decent. I have faith, I have hope, and I pray that someday soon people will realize that life is far too precious and to short to waste it on destruction and misery. Imagine what this world COULD become if we'd HELP EACH OTHER?!?!? IF we used our energies for helping one another instead of hurting and possibly killing one another. I'm NOT a Social Justice Warrior. The uses of social media by the cruel and politically correct people claim they use these things for good, yet they are more corrupt than the people they point fingers at. Blaming others, blacklisting people from jobs, calling people out for saying something foolish decades ago? Really? EVERYONE of us has made mistakes. Said something foolish when you were angry or upset. It happens to EVERYONE! Every person, every gender, every race, every orientation, every single nationality, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US is GUILTY of saying and/or making a mistake. Yet some people see this as a way to make themselves feel superior by condemning those people who were caught making those mistakes. These social justice people have caused more harm than good.

Thank bn you for sharing your memory. It must have been scary

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i had a 76 starsky n hutch gran torino what a great car 26,345 miles original had firestone firehawk tires cb radio black carpet white vinyl seats white headliner black dash man i miss that car

Good job we always got lucky in Washington dc.

I don't remember 76 neither 77 , I remember the one in 78 though Dan Cairns

My thoughts exactly

Shocking that there were looters

I remember back then driving for Wonder Bread, we were not allowed to have Cb radios in our trucks, but that Saturday that I went back out, I was allowed to hook one up temporarily for that day, when I got back home I hooked it up in our apartment with the antenna on the balcony. I know back in the 70s the Cb radio became a bad thing in the Niagara region, but during that storm all the Cber's came together and worked as a team of people relaying messages, it was a great thing to own one during that storm!

WOW that had to be rough

@@edbouman5013 why were they bad in your area? used to camp a lot with my parents and our friends and they all had cbs

Same here as an 11 yr old on 99th in love canal. I remember (and have pix) of the snow drifts that faced north were 15 to 20 ft high. My dad had to dig us out at the back door and i walked from the back door right up to the top of the house. I remember getting yelled at for touching the tv antenna up there. Very best wishes to you and yours and Happy Holidays Dave.

yes I wished that as well. John Michael had a great talk show CJRN and CKTB I listened for many years.

The world is still cruel, but, unfortunately, peoples hearts arent as kind as yours and mines. Most only look out for themselves now. Im 59, and grew up when your neighbors functioned as family. Boy do I miss those days.

​@@jesusislord3321 I agree. 🙏 I have lived in small towns, and big cities. I've seen some harsh and cruelty as well as unbelievably decent and wonderful people. People are usually decent, but when you get them, especially younger people in groups, that's when they can and do become cruel and sadly sometimes violent. It's sad, very sad, and given that most people now strive for greed and not decency, this world will probably get worse before it gets better. I can only hope and pray that someday we come to out senses and stop the insanity.

Most people are not nice. Most neighbors are not friendly. It's a horrible world.

Can you tell the future? It'll happen again like it did in 46.

It is one of those things always good to be prepared. Here in Seattle in 2012 it reached -22 or so which is really rare and caused major issues. I can only imagine what -50 is like.

Didn't it already happen in Michigan or somewhere around there in the early 2000's. 22 feet of snow in a blizzard and then they got another one and the snow went above the houses and a lot of people had to tunnel out of their houses

The looting was in Buffalo, NY. Not suprising for America, where there's much more poverty /far fewer social programs than Canada.

I lived through this in Kalamazoo. We were one of the snowmobile helpers. This one was bigger then the one in 78.

Toledo for me....Mother Nature just went plain crazy.

The reason is to be found in the policies of Melbourne, Canberra, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City, and the utter lack of resistance to them from the world’s lower classes back in the 1990s. If the world’s lower classes had been as serious about global warming as they had been about apartheid, then they would have demanded a rapid and total decarbonisation of Australia and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries at or before the date of the Kyōtō Protocol. With Australia and the GCC decarbonised, the rest of the world would gain economic opportunity (especially in agriculture after Australia’s wholly unsustainable farmland be converted to properly adapted native flora and fauna) while carbon emissions would free-fall globally. Instead, the rest of the OECD obeyed Australia’s corporate polluters’ demands without protests from their working classes. The Gulf Cooperation Council invested in preventing extremely vulnerable poor countries from demanding the requisite 100 percent emissions cut no later than 2005. It did so by uniting these poor nations on a religious basis despite vastly different and wholly incompatible ecology and economics. The result was that the countries who under a fair Kyōtō Protocol would have been set - and had enforced - a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2005 (which the 1990 ‘Environment, Capitalism and Socialism’ showed quite possible) were allowed carte blanche to emit whatever carbon their corporate polluters wanted. The costs, as seen in rainfall declines of fifty percent in Central Chile since as recently as 2005, are already alarming.

Yes, and here in the northeast right now nearby ocean surface temperatures are several degrees above the long term average from 1981 to 2020....whichvin itself is higher than the prior 40 year average. But the local forecasters just gleam and praise mother nature for the plethora of above normal temperatures, as if it's not at all the by-product of a disturbing trend. Pandora's box has been opened, even if just by a crack.

@@guodade2239 Nothing to do with so called Global Warming. The thought back then was the return of the little ICE AGE all the scientists were saying this so were the radio or TV newscasters since both 1977 and 1978 were so cold.

@@janetoconnor3636 There was talk about a new ice age in the 1970s. However, global rather than local temperature data would show that the 1976/1977, 1977/1978 and 1978/1979 Northern Hemisphere winters were overall hotter than the mean for the previous century, regardless of how cold and devastating they were in highly populated areas of the United States. A recent but obscene revelation is that even in 1980 Australiaʼs coal, road and aluminum industries knew exactly the impacts their planned expansion would have upon the global climate, yet the government did exactly what they wished - cut public transport, build more and more roads, and expand coal mining and aluminum smelting. Every community affected by these policies has a duty to sue Australia - who climate policy studies conclusively demonstrate as the worst offender regarding man-made global warming - and demand that its coal, aluminum and road-building industries pay the full cost of their policies, which were known even in 1980. In 1980, a rational and logical transport policy, as noted by the Democratic Socialist Party in their book “Environment, Capitalism and Socialism”, would have immediately ended all freeway or highway construction, abolished all freeway or highway “reservations”, and transferred every last cent from trunk road projects to expanding public transit beyond the standard of the best systems in Europe or Asia, with the goal of ending private motorised transport without mobility loss by 1990 or maximally 1995. “Environment, Capitalism and Socialism”, and the less radical Public Transport Usersʼ Association, demonstrated the possibility of enormous public savings from ending and ultimately banning the construction of freeways or highways. Instead, we got the horrific “Lonie Report” - not a professional study but a study done by the vested interests of the super-rich corporations of BHP and General Motors and their allies in the Country Roads Board. Although public pressure was sufficient to prevent all its recommended public transport closures being carried out, its recommendations for building uncalled for trunk roads have further affected public transport patronage and profitability. When a rational plan would have aimed for an increase in public transport share from less than ten percent to minimally 99 percent without mobility loss by 1990, the Lonie Report accepted the lie that declines in public transport modal share reflected public choice rather than building of roads that was exclusively in the interests of the corporate polluters and against the collective interests of 99.9 percent of Australiaʼs population. The cost of failing to end road building and massively modernise and expand rail - and then to close coal power, shift aluminum smelting to countries with reliable hydroelectric power, and revegetate Australiaʼs wholly marginal farmland - are resulting in one recent article saying that the climate is reaching a tipping point which must be attributed largely to the policies of Australia and the Gulf States.

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Emmy Green, where can I find a copy of that book?

I was 17 during that 1978 snow storm & almost died in it Emmy Green , yes it was something , I don't remember the snow storm in 77 , I do remember the one in 78 , they said there was one in 76 also , I don't remember that one neither

I lied through that winter and it as brutal in OH where the low was 25 below and while we still had power Not Much Heat. My hands got chapped in the house God knows what the indoor temp was likely below 50. The wind chill as between 50 and 70 below. I wish I was born in 84 like you but I was born in 1962 and I was 14 at the time. Furnace eventually was replaced.

This is from a Canadian radio station

The strange but true fact is that this winter marks the start of runaway global warming driven by Australia and the Gulf Cooperation Council states and their mega-rich oil, coal and aluminum corporations. China, India and other industrializing economies are pawns in the power play of the likes of Gina Reinhardt and the Al Sabah. January 1977 was the coldest on record over the contiguous US and was beaten by January 1979. However, at a global level January 1977 was 0.37°C or 0.67°F hotter than the 1880 to 1974 mean, and January 1979 was 0.25°C or 0.45°F hotter than the 1880 to 1974 mean. The only Januaries between 1880 and 1976 hotter globally than January 1977 were: - January 1958 at 0.55°C or 0.99°F hotter than the 1880 to 1974 mean - January 1944 at 0.52°C (0.94°F) hotter - January 1942 at 0.46˚C or 0.83˚F hotter globally than the 1880 to 1974 average - January 1973 at 0.45°C or 0.81°F hotter - January 1926 at (also) 0.37°C or 0.67°F hotter Also hotter than January 1979 were (all relative to 1880 to 1974): - January 1882 at +0.34˚C or +0.61˚F - January 1932 at +0.30˚C or +0.54˚F - January 1941 at +0.34˚C or +0.61˚F - January 1945 at +0.28˚C or +0.51˚F - January 1946 at +0.31˚C or +0.56˚F - January 1952 at +0.27˚C or +0.49˚F - January 1955 at +0.29˚C or +0.52˚F In other words, out of 97 Januaries between 1880 and 1976, 84 were cooler globally than January 1979 and only four were hotter than January 1977! The five hot 1940s Januaries occurred before extensive aerosol pollution in the Northern Hemisphere reduced temperatures there.

@@guodade2239 No it was not warming being blamed but they said the result of the return of a ICE AGE. They said this on the news on radio and TV for both 1977 and 1978, even the severe 1983 Bone Chiller and 1985 were all blamed on the global cooling NOT warming that started after 1988.

@@janetoconnor3636 That may be true, but even in 1977 figures indicated clear warming. Alaska had, in nine years, three Januaries warmer than any previously known, and runaway rainfall and runoff declines in southwestern Western Australia began at this same time. Between 1882 and 1974 only one year had less (actual or estimated) runoff into Perth’s dams (which were not built in 1882) than the average since 2006, and 1974 remains the last year to reach the average up to that year.

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I realize that my response to your comment is quite late, however I wanted to thank you for sharing your story with us. Mother Nature is/can be/will always be an unpredictable, powerful, cruel, and potentially dangerous/deadly force. I grew up in Wisconsin in the 70's. Born in the late 60's, 67 to be exact, I spent summers playing and freaking out over the nasty thunderstorms, and then spent all winters playing in the snow, sledding, tobogganing, building snow forts, having snowball fights, and just having F U N!! In Wisconsin our weather is extremely fickle. We've had 50⁰-60⁰ in December, and 10-15" of snow in April. Extremely 🥶☃️🥶☃️🥶 COLD🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶, frigid, and sometimes deadly windchill factors can get as low/cold as minus/negative -60⁰+. As I'm sure New Yorkers are also fully aware of, and usually completely ready for. Living in these areas will help prepare you for the possibility of having to spend days inside. Snowstorms, ice storms, frigid temperatures, and brutal and potentially deadly winds can prevent you from going anywhere. Most of the bigger storms will last for maybe one of two days. The Monsters however can cripple a city for a week, and IF your not 100% prepared for it, you could be in deep deep trouble. When your a kid, snow is fun! You wish for those huge storms just so that your school might get canceled. The parents however? Not so much. Not only does it make it so difficult for them to get to and from work, or get to the grocery store? Things that we take for granted, these storms can and sometimes do affect our electricity. Blackouts can and do occur. No power, no TV!??!!??! NOOOOOOO! LOL! It's unbelievable how many people, how many things can get affected by a storm, especially a severe winter storm. While for some people/kids, they can be seen as fun and more fun😂😂😂😂😂, once reality has kicked in, the fun ends, and the challenges begin.

we did not really have TV,s Back then only Old Tube radios

The looting then as now was in and around large cities. Lived through the 77 and 78 blizzards in rural area, lots of human kindness NO LOOTING. Then hurricane Charlie, saw multiple stores open to the outside and no looting in the small town. Again the looting appears to be primarily an urban issue, maybe there is something to be said for those rural hicks cleaning to their Bibles and guns.

To my understanding looting has long been a problem in poor areas and then there was no BLM or Antifa active that just started in this 21rst century. Looting and arsons happened in July of that year when there was a lightning storm that knocked all the power out for 24 hours.

Frame that Shirt!!!

Give you 100 for it !!

Shut it churchy, praise be Allah!

@@richieb1990 You were raised well !!

NY I think

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He sounds like a more annoying Regis Philben, if that’s possible to imagine. It sounds like a 5w station in a town of 30 residents.

Jimmy Carter said in a interview that 11 states were affected but the worst was New York and Pennsylvania. Ohio where I am from had record low cold -25 with a wind chill of 80 to 85 below.

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The weather in lowland Arizona is worse - and more polluting because of the huge costs of air conditioning - than even the weather in the Northeast (I do hate hot weather and prefer highs between 55°F and 70°F, so that to me summer in the Northeast is “very warm”).

Trudeau number 2 is finishing the job.

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this was 1977 you twit

The 1967 Blizzard hit the City of Chicago Illinois on January 26 1967.

Sorry to say But the Bad ones was 1977 , Though 1967 was only the start of it