[LMB] Port on a plane OT:

[Christine Forber]

At 12:40 PM 12/1/2006 -0500, James Nicoll wrote:
>
> 	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.

I recall the blizzard of 1977 more than 1978. I was in my first 
year at Waterloo in the winter of 1977. I had been thinking of 
going home to Niagara Falls that weekend, but changed my 
mind and stayed in residence. In all of the years that I'd spent 
in Niagara Falls, I don't recall a single "snow day" where we 
got off school. My sisters got at least 3 days off due to that 
storm and a few more days over that winter. The officials hadn't 
called the "snow day" earlier enough and a number of kids got 
stranded in their schools, esp in the Fort Erie area. My parents 
had a drift in their back yard that was up to the eaves (slightly 
raised bungalow). I went home two weeks later and there was 
still an impressive amount of snow. That was the storm where 
Toronto sent snow trucks to Buffalo since they were completely 
immobilized, despite Buffalo being used to getting a lot of snow.

But since the storm started on a Friday afternoon and didn't 
dump a huge amount of snow on Waterloo, I don't recall much 
inconvenience with respect to classes, etc.

The storm of 1978 was worse in Waterloo.

Christine