Skiing during blizzard of 78, anyone?

[billski]

Anyone ski during or immediately after the Blizzard of 78? I was stranded on a farm.... I suspect the high winds made lift-assist impossible, perhaps even damaged lifts?
Would like to hear a story or three...

 

[dmc]

I was stranded on a farm too... We lived in Ohio then.. It was insane.. Had to carry water from the house to the barn to water the horses...

 

[Marc]

Four years before I existed. Old farts.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Yeah we skied BUT XC only ! to the farkin grocery store fer some grub and vittles don'cha know

 

[severine]

Um, yeah, I was an infant. I don't think so.

 

[billski]

Four years before I existed. Old farts.

I voted for Roosevelt

 

[frozencorn]

Four years old.

 

[billski]

Four years old.

and you weren't skiing yet? :smile:

 

[Warp Daddy]

Slackers

 

[madman]

I was working in a Hospital in Ct. They had us on the roof shoveling snow because they were afraid the cafeteria roof was going to cave in. I called my brother the next day in Killington and asked if they needed another roommate. That was the start of the three best yrs of my life.

 

[gorgonzola]

punks...I lived in Maryland then, me and my buddy built a big ol booter in his back yard for backsctratchers, daffies , spread eagles and even spun a few helicopters (i think you kids call 'em 3's now), we even came up with this great idea to slide down it on old skateboard decks backwards...:blink:

 

[wa-loaf]

I was in Maine and 9 yrs old. We didn't get hit as hard as MA, but I remember it was a great year for building snow tunnels through the yard.

 

[jimmer]

ah the 70s,not only dont i remember the storm,there were quit a few years that were a blur.them were the good ole days.

 

[Talisman]

Wow, memories of the '70's are really murky as it was the era of free love, booze, rock music and non-stop parties. The Blizzard of '78 was largely a costal storm with the mega snowfall being from CT, RI and Eastern Mass. I was in college in western Mass and some of the skiing I did was on cross country skis for beer. The highways around Boston we shutdown for a week making for uncrowded lifts and the slopes had lots of fresh snow at Mt Snow, Haystack and Carinthia.

 

[Marc]

I voted for Roosevelt

Teddy?

 

[Paul]

I was sledding in the back yard. 7 yrs. old.

 

[Brettski]

17..pre ski days though

When was the blizzard of the century? 93?

Stayed a house in Keene valley...4 feet of snow and we couldn't get to whiteface

:-(

Closed the thruway...the pass to the mountain was closed...heard the upper mountain was closed

Got into town on Sunday..actually earlier on Saturday we went to van hovenberg and went xcountry

Got back to the lodge, and everyone except 1 guy and the guy's like...you gotta get outta here there's a blizzard on the way

 

[KevinF]

I was 7 years old and living in Pennsylvania at the time. The county I lived in had about 20 school districts. On the day the storm hit (it was nice that morning), all but one of them closed, with my school district (Oley Valley) being the only one to open.

Sometime around 11:00, they realized they had made a big mistake, and started calling parents, running buses, etc. to send kids home. Very rural area; somebody they got everybody home though. My brother and I lived only a mile or so from school, and this was before we realized how exceedingly dangerous "walking to school" is, so we just walked home through a raging blizzard.

We lived at the end of a dead-end street, so the snow-plows would just push massive piles of snow just past our driveway. Perfect for snow forts. :smile:

 

[ccskier]

I am a blizzard baby, Feb. 7th, 1978. My birthdays growing up were always postponed due to snow.

 

[severine]

We lived at the end of a dead-end street, so the snow-plows would just push massive piles of snow just past our driveway. Perfect for snow forts. :smile:

One of the best parts about living on a dead end street as a child!