[LMB] Port on a plane OT:

[James Nicoll]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Lathia wrote:

> >
>>> 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?
>
 	1978 was the one that made the University of Waterloo reconsider 
its "no closing, no how, for any reason" policy because so many staff got 
injured on the way in.

 	It certainly made an impression on me: three broken ribs, a nice 
gusher of a scalp wound (which once we cleaned the blood away was barely 
visible nick), I had to walk from KW Hospital to UW in a blizzard and 
about a year later a paperwork error led to me being declared dead, which 
is less fun than one might think.