[LMB] Port on a plane OT:

[Lathia]

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> > We spent about an hour reminiscing about The Storm Of 1977. If
> > you're anywhere near our age, you probably remember that one.
> >
> Was that the same storm that dumped a monumental amount of snow* on
> Ohio (and, IIRC, the rest of the USA Midwest)? If so, I was in the
> wrong part of the continent, but I heard stories about it from my
> parents.

I lived in Ohio at the time and the big blizzard I remember was in 1978 so
it couldn't have been the same. I remember there being really cold weather
(and some snow) in 1977, but not enough to snow me in.

In 1978 I lived right next to an freeway - I saw fewer and fewer cars going
by, until I only saw highway patrol cop cars. Then I saw tow trucks pulling
the highway patrol cars.  Then there was nothing for about two days.

I had a snow drift in the liviing room (the snow was so fine and the wind so
strong it blew in around the door). In the back of the house I had a drift
as tall as the eaves of my house.  In front, I had a drift that was only
half as high. But I never lost power or phone service.  I had plenty of food
so really all I did was sew, read and sleep.  Kinda boring actually.

Hum wikipedia says there was a blizzard in both jan of 1977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_%2777 and jan of 1978
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1978.  I was in Southern
Ohio, where were your parents?

Susan currently in Bellevue (where we've had the soggiest month since they
started keeping records over a century ago, plus we've freezing temps, snow,
hail, freezing rain, and lightening - in someplaces all at the same time.
Oh, and a little bit of sunshine.)