I live in West Virginia and I can remember my sister and brother-in-law laughing at my mom who was preparing for a major storm. She got tons of canned food, dry milk, cereal, cat and dog food. We had a kerosene heater so she got three 5 gallon cans of kerosene, made sure the car was full of gas so we wouldn't get fuel line freeze up. Made sure her meds were filled. When the storm came they weren't laughing anymore. They were wishing they had taken their smart asses to the store like she did. My mom followed the weather faithfully.
My mom was still pregnant with me during this, so I have no real memories. We lived in the snow belt, so to us, this was probably not much more than a particularly intense winter storm. My mom says she doesn't remember this storm, but she also told me that she doesn't remember storms. My dad, however, remembers it better than she does. He recalls not having any electricity in our home for 5 or 6 days because of this.
We were out of town at my grandmother's funeral when the Governor closed all the roads in Pennsylvania. When we got back home we found that our neighbor had come over every three hours to clear the snow (23") from our driveway. Great guy!
I was 22 years old at the time living in Rochester. I was a letter carrier for the postal service. I can clearly remember finishing up delivering mail around 4:00pm on Saturday March 13th when the flurries started. The ground was pretty much clear from snow. By approximately 8:30pm the snow was up past me knees. I have personal videos of that storm. The next day I slipped a disc in my back shoveling the driveway. I’ve had problems in that area in my back ever since. Hard to believe it’s been 30 years!
I hitched from Youngstown, Ohio to Virginia Beach, Va. during this blizzard. Got caught on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the middle of this storm. I pitched my cold camp under a dry river overpass after it became a whiteout. After only a few hours I was burried under a three foot drift. I was brutal windy and awful cold! Thank God for wool and goosedown!
I remember visiting my Grand Parents. They had ropes tied from the house to the barn. Then you attached yourself to the rope. So you don't get lost. As they still had to feed the animals during them blizzards. Man them snow drifts were huge.
I experienced this storm living in Syracuse. The morning after the big snow, I could not even figure out where my car was. The parking lot outside my apartment looked like a lumpy field of snow. Took a bit of poking around just to figure out which lump was mine. CNY is unbelievably good at snow removal. Main roads near my apartment were clear and drive-able that Sunday in Syracuse. Almost anywhere else would have been down for a week with that much snow.
Our daughter was born that day at Children's hospital at 8:30 pm. A normal 20 minute ride from Kenmore took us 2 and a half hours. I had a CB radio in my car and with the help of folks that were also out in the storm we made to the hospital in time. I was never able to thank them for their help but I will for ever be grateful they were their in our time of need. On the one year anniversary of the blizzard the Courier Express did an article on the blizzard that include a picture of my wife and our daughter Karen. The people of WNY are tough when it comes dealing with snow.
A storm i will never forget and neither will my son who was 5 at the time. On tuesday he and his friends were sliding down the huge snowbank at the end of my driveway. Along came a channel 9 reporter who interviewed him. He actually made the 5 o'clock news. 27 years later he still remembers
I was in Disney World for my honeymoon at the time the Storm hit(there was no snow in Orlando but it was chilly there. I lived (and still do) in NY and was supposed go home on the 13th of March but stayed at Disney World an extra day after calling my parents and they told me about the storm coming
I was 9. I'll never forget we had just moved to jax from tampa.. I had been on snow before while visiting kansas but this was special bc it never snows in jville.
I was 8 years old in Williamsport pa. I’ll never forget waking up that morning and telling my mom we were snowed in she thought I was pulling her leg till she came out to the kitchen and looked out on our deck Lol. Fun fun fun wish we could have winters like that. Instead it’s November 25 and 53 degrees out.
This was the most fun... I was in Baldwinsville , NY ! My mother was in the hospital and my brother and his family came to visit her. I remember driving on 690 into Syracuse to see my mother and the people at the hospital were amazed that we came in...we were the only people on the road. We had a Volvo and I don't remember having any problems on the roads, but then, Central NY knows how to deal with snow!
Back in 1993, Syracuse University closing (15:19) was quite a monumental event. Now it closes at least twice every winter for snow, shows how soft we've become.
I was 7 and I got snowed in at my grandparents house who were raising my older sister. She was jealous when I came around. It was pure hell. Moma showed up as soon as she could to get me.
I was just 2wks shy of celebrating my 16th birthday when this hit here in upstate NY where im from. and boy was it ever the biggest snow storm I had ever experienced in my life so far. The snow was so tall we couldn't see out our windows and we couldn't get out our doors either because it was just feet upon feet of snow. We couldn't get back to school I think for almost 2wks or more afterwards lol And my uncle who was up here visiting us from Florida couldn't get back there because the airports were closed too. And the funny part was he was originally from here in NY and he told us when he could finally leave that he was never coming back up here around that time of year ever again lol my dad told him hey you should know how the weather can be crazy up here this time of year to begin with lol
I was 16 at the time. living coudersport, pa at the time. I used to listen to wayne mahar on the radio 95.7 wpig. anyways i remember him talking about this massive storm that was going to hit us and boy did it ever. Me i couldn't wait to have a couple days off from school. It started almost late morning by nightfall it was full on blizzard conditions out side. The next day I remember my step-father having trouble just trying to get out of our drive just to get to the road and was just after the plows came through and his jeep truck that he had at the time was having a hard time getting threw the snow. me and my brother were out playing in the snow. I actually fell through the snow just above where are car was buried under 10 to 15 feet of snow. And i could bearly get my hand up out of the snow needless to thank god my brother was there to help pull me out. Anyways that storm changed me forever.I will never forget The blizzard of '93.
I was living in galeton on pine street. my mom still walked in to work that day. she was a tough and wounderfull mother. me and my brother totally enjoyed a couple days off school. one by one my friends showed up we watched a rented movie called Rocky horror picture show and laughed our asses off smoaking cigarettes n talking about girls. we played ding dong ditch on one of the hardest snowing nights. we almost drove that miserable old man half crazy doing that so much.
I was 16 yrs old in Pittsburgh, Pa...I'll never forget it. Me and a few of my buddies walked as the snow started to our buddy Matt's house, who lived a good 1/2 hour away walking distance. We fully anticipated being snowed in for a couple days. We chose Matt's house because he had the cool mom that let us smoke pot and drink. No school and pot and booze...Good times!! I love snow and almost 40 years old and still waiting for a bad MOFO like the "Blizzard of '93" to hit " The Burgh" again. We ended up with 25.3 inches, the third largest snowfall ever recorded in Pittsburgh. The two bigger were 27.4 in 1950 when my dad was 2 yrs old and 25.9 in 1890, which I surprised was even on record.
Did his mom not make him go to school? I understand wanting to be the 'cool' parent, but I think letting your kids smoke and drink is taking it a little too far.
To the haters of Matt's Mom. There was a blizzard and school was cancelled. She sounds cool and didn't let her kid and all the other kids skip school for no reason.
I was a kid and this was actually a whole lot of fun for my friends and i. Made a lot of money for a 12 year old lol. Always sorry to hear about the lives lost, but for me this was a winter wonderland i will never forget.
I born in this one. In Stroudsburg, PA. My dad drove the Buick through 3 feet of white with mom in the backseat. They came to northeast PA by way of Brooklyn. they still call me the Blizzard Baby, to this day. needless to say, I have a love/hate relationship with snow.
I went through it, but I lived in an area where tornadoes occur often, so power outs were common. My mom refused to risk her life going the 50 miles to work. I thought the initial sound that woke me up was a part of the house collapsing, but it was a tree.
That would have scared me to death. Thankfully we didn't have trees around us. Well we had one tree. But there was a building between us and the massive oak tree.
I also was a young adult in the Rochester blizzard of '66. We had snow to the gutter and could only get out by climbing out the windows on the 2nd floor. The has been nothing like that since.
I remember it well growing up in Connecticut. At least afterwards spring wasn’t far behind to melt it all. I remember the leaves were coming out on the trees that year and there were still snowbanks in the parking lots slowly melting away.
Didn’t say anything about the southern states. We woke up to snow that covered our doors and we couldn’t get out till the next 2days. We had no power, no water and no heat. We had winds that’s in Georgia were up to 50 miles an hour. Just letting people know that it was awful down here too.
I was also 16 at the time and living in Old Bridge Nj. I specifically remember my friend Scott Cersocimo and I walking down the middle of route 18 at about 9pm. There was one lane plowed and literally 8 foot walls of snow on each side. Barely anything was on the road! Anyway we made it half way to his house, saw lights coming at us and realized it was a commuter bus. Problem was we had nowhere to run because of the snow walls. Finally we had to burrow into those things to avoid getting run over. Haha Good times!! I'm now 40, have 4 kids and haven't seen any of my high school friends in years. God, those were the days, eh!!
Where are you now? Are you still in NJ? I was 21, lived in Cinnaminson, NJ and now have 2 kids. One still in Rutgers and the other graduated from Rowan and now living in Japan.
harrisandrewn Buffalo,NY got labeled snow capital of the country from 1977 Blizzard. It was a bad storm, kids had 3 weeks off school. Buffalo does get 10-12 feet of snow some winters.
"The storm to tell your grandchildren about!" ... Until the blizzard of 96.... and hurricane katrina...and rita....and willma... and the midwest blizzards of 2010... then sandy... and matthew.... Might wanna write this all down granny. LOL
Actually the worst snow storm ever in the southern united states. The highest snow totals 22" and highest winds 80 mph ever in the southeast during a snow storm. Actually the only blizzard in the southern united states. Temps in the teens with Power out for 2 weeks, roads covered under 20" of snow with no snow plows. We had snow drifts 15 ft tall. We had to dig thru 2 ft of ice and snow to shit. We had animals/pets freeze to death. So In Atlanta GA it was hell on Earth. so YES I told my grandchildren.
@@southernload5710 Yep, I'd have to agree with that. Hurricane damage is generally pretty localized. Southern states also have almost no ability to deal with large amounts now.
March 16 at 1am.......My wife woke me up saying she was in labor. So I get the car warmed up along with dusting off the new snow. It was 18 inches, so after dealing with 44, easy. So I get wifey in the car, get mom and me and get on the main road. Her mom(from Florida) was telling me how to drive in snow. Next thing she heard" Out of the car or in the trunk. I'm not listening to this shit all night". My son was born at 1:11 PM 😃
I dodged this bullet. I was working on temporary assignment down in New Orleans. My family in Cayuga County however, were not so fortunate. I remember the telephone calls with all the updates. Caught by surprise because it was so unseasonably warm the day prior.
I remember being out Saturday night in the area helping around. Had my flannel and jeans on, working hard outside - neighbors snowblowing and gas generators working. Classic!
My son was born January 5, 1993 so he was only 2 months old. We lived in a mobile home. With no electricty, we had to use the gas stove for heat. We hung a blanket in the hallway and just heated the kitchen, living room and bathroom so the pipes wouldn't freeze. We were worried about carbon monoxide so we kept one of the crank out windows open a few inches. During the eye of the storm, our neighbor shovelled out our door because he was worried about us being trapped with a baby, and once he could get out, my husband shovelled off the roof so it wouldn't cave in. We made it through it surprisingly well considering all we had going against us. I wouldn't want to do it again though!
i remember this store the night before we stocked up on everything i lived on rock cut road in a trailer park right next to the highway from are yard it was a sea of headlights on the highway because all the driver were stuck in their cars and could not go anywhere the people ended leaving their cars there and walking home crazy storm
Near Reading pa. We were supposed to get 36” but it turned to sleet. Had to settle for 18”. It was really nasty with 50 mph winds blowing the snow but the sleet put a stop to the drifting & made shoveling a real chore with the weight. Sleet sucks 😆
There was also the terrible blizzard of '83 that hit the south from Texas to Virginia. Temperatures in north Texas where I live, were below freezing for almost 2 weeks, what never comes close to otherwise happening. There was another blizzard what hit the south, and left Alabama frozen over, just after New Years in '88, and more recently, the great north Texas freeze what happened last February 2021
Was driving for WH JOHNS ...drove into the storm from va. Delivered in Baltimore...then picked up the next load in Lancaster....there was 1.5 feet at time ...delivered in Gettesburg ...left there at 9 pm. Went across 16 to Greencastele ....there were places drifted shut so deep at I could see were mail boxes ....made it back to virginia 24 hours after I left never got stuck.
I lived in McLean va at the time but worked in Fairfax va at the 24 hour denny's restaurant. I was stuck there and couldn't leave...I will never forget that storm...I was 18 years old....
Loved the coach's comments, ever been in a whiteout? Many of them. Back up heat source,food,fill the tub so you can flush.,camping gear, food,and of course BOOZE. Good to go. takes a week to stock up.
I lived in Asheville n.c it had snowed alot by 1 or 2 on the 13 of March, but it started getting bad . All of a sudden there was a big Crack of lighting and it rally really started coming down it snowed like 2 ft in a hour , so crazy !!!
I was barely a year old when this winter storm hit southern central Pennsylvania... trees fell all over the yard and the mountain we didn't have electric for a week deep snow my mom couldn't drag the kerosene space heater by herself from the shed it was kept in to the house she got it stuck in the snow trying to pull it over a big downed tree in the yard had to get my uncle to get it for her my mom always told me the story of her and just me cuddling during those days few being only a few months old she was just trying to keep me warm to ride out the winter storm.
My husband was in New York from Australia. He had left 100F degree weather and walked into that! The revolving door to his hotel froze and they couldn't get out for 2-3 days! He said they lost power and so there were no lifts and they ate cold food at the hotel! He got so tired of the stairs he stayed in his room and ate EVERYTHING in the mini bar! INCLUDING ALL THE BOOZE!!
I worked for the NC prison and the night of that snow I was working a guard tower. The heater was running wide open and could not keep up with the cold wind. First shift did not come in to work in the morning. Pulled a double shift and slept in the front office till work the next day. We got 23 inches of snow that night...
I lived in Montreal and we got about 20 inches. The storm lasted about 24 hours and the snow drifts were impressive. I delivered the newspaper and outside of a day when they couldn't print because of a power failure they could not print a Sunday paper. And it got cold, extremely cold for mid March
I kinda chuckle now seeing this, not just how some of these guys look 👀 back them😂🤨but the storm we have had sense then this is nothing! But I definitely remember my parents and neighbors making sure they took care of everyone !
I remember that was the first day of spring break, and I planned on leaving early AM to dive home from Brockport NY to my hometown near Ithaca, about a 3 hour drive. Unfortunately my GF at the time (now my wife of 22 years) wasn't ready, so we got going around noon time. That drive took us 6 hours due to whiteout conditions about half way there, and almost didn't make it up the hill that my parents lived on. Anyway, we made it, but were stuck inside the entire week LOL Funny thing is I was majoring in meteorology and KNEW it was coming but still couldn't get on the road early enough...
Sometimes it really helps to put a specific LOCATION in the TITLE? There are many Blizzards in History to "tell your Grandchildren about" ... not to mention, in the U.S. alone, there are MANY Towns/Cities named Syracuse.
I remember reading in children's books how different countries deal with lots of snow. Places like Alaska and Scandinavian countries must have to deal with these storms every winter. We also have people living on the south pole. They have blizzards at the S. Pole all the time. There must be better ways to prepare for this.
The Blizzard of 1993 was nothing like the Blizzard of 1978. I'd just turned 7 years old 20 days before the Blizzard of January 26, 1978 hit. When the one hit in early January of 1993 in Ohio, I was still pregnant with my 1st baby. It hit the week before I had her. January 6, 1993, to be exact, my 22nd birthday.
i lived in New York from 1999 until 2016 and i will say we finally broke this record Christmas of 2001 it was horrible and the winds were hurricane force winds we were under a blizzard warning from Christmas day until the next day. And me and my husband and my 4 yr old and new born at the time we tried to make it to my sister in laws house before the storm but nope we ended up stuck down the road from my sister in laws we almost made it. But thank God we had a cell phone we had our nextels LOL old school cell phone. And we ended up with just under 30 inches of snow. Look it up if you don't believe me. I have pictures to, of my 4 yr old in the snow you could barley see her. It was scary to because we lost power but my sister in law had a genarater. So we were good. and the whole family stayed the night there that night we were on sleeping on the floor and some were on the couch, there was like 15 of us in that 3 bed room house. But it was fun we passed the time playing games and doing Christmas stuff. But the whole time i lived in New York that was the worse winter i can remember having, but we had a very bad wind storm back in 2005 or 2006 and it killed like 5 people and knocked down a lot of trees and we were out of power for 24 hours this was horrible school closed early to. But we had wild weather in New York. I live in New Mexico and i have only seen it rain like 3 times i have been here since Dec 2016 and when it did rain it was very little. Its super dry here and there is no trees more like bushes LOL. I miss home New York
I miss it I kinda wish it will do it again I was 7 years old then in Calhoun ga Gordon it lasted about 3 days I think now I'm 32 years old and been waiting sents then for another one
I remember this storm well...walked two miles to my GF's house so I could stay "warm" during the blizzard...compare this newscast with any from this weeks blizzard in western NY...modern newscasts are full of doom porn and scolds lecturing us to stay home and stay safe. Oh and this newscast actually talks about being prepared and anticipating the storm. Nowadays no discussion around preparation - only stay home and stay safe!
All these snow storms seem to happen in In March ,the winter storm happen about the same time the of 1888. They didn't have snow plowes back then alot of ppl perished!!!
can anyone imagine what it would be like now in 2024... lol ppl would have the rescue system spread thin with stupidity ... i remember it in NEPA it was rough i was only 13 so it was fun fun fun even the shoveling. i liked snow back then
