Blizzard from Hell happened 3 years ago

[rurallib]

if my memory is correct.
Daughter was moving south and she beat the blizzard by just a couple of hours.
The damn thing swept all the way across the country leaving havoc every where.
Worst storm I have ever seen, but I am only 64.

Any memories - I think it was the only time I have seen the plows called off the road around here.

And if my memory is also correct it was pretty much melted off by the next Sunday here in Iowa.

[cyberswede]

1. Yeah...didn't we get 18" of snow that night?

I remember the thunder snow, and that my windows (between the screens and storm windows) were completely filled with snow. That was fun! (but we didn't have to go anywhere).

[rurallib]

4. something like that

Snow every where.

[HarveyDarkey]

2. Worst ever? I'm 64 too

Did you forget the April blizzard of '73?

http://addins.kwwl.com/blogs/weather/2009/04/april-blizzard-in-1973

http://iowawx.com/2013/04/05/historical-wx-april-blizzard-of-1973/

[rurallib]

3. no - but that melted pretty fast

both were horrible
it turned really bitterly cold in February for a couple of days

[HarveyDarkey]

6. Maybe it melted fast where you were

I lived in Des Moines at the time and Interstate 80 was closed for three days. 10" to 20" of snow with drifts 15' to20' take a while to disappear.

[Cadfael]

5. Are we talking about the groundhog day blizzard

which resulted in hundreds of stranded & abandoned cars on LSD in Chicago? My dog Henry decided he needed to "use the facilities in the backyard" at about 3 am. I opened the back door to find 4 1/2 ft of snow drifted onto the storm door. Told Henry he was gonna need to cross his legs for a bit, then I got a shovel out of the basement, went out the front door (which is elevated by five steps to our front porch), slogged my way through 2 to 3 1/2 foot drifts and wind howling sideways driven snow in my driveway headed to the back door. I proceeded to shovel out a 3X3 square right by the back door, and then let my poor 95lb lab mix perpetual puppy outside. He looked at the little square I'd made for him, looked at me like "WTF??" and leapt off the back step and almost disappeared beneath all the snow. The things we do for our beloved four legged members of the family....








the view from Henry's emergency piddle spot -for purposes of scale that lump in the foreground is my toyota


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[mnhtnbb]

8. That's a good story.

In the early 60's--probably 64 or 65--we had a snow drifted so high (NJ) our back door couldn't be opened either.
My brother climbed out the kitchen window, with a snow shovel, to dig out by the door so our German Shepherd,
Hans, could go out!

[Jenoch]

7. The worst blozzard in my lifetime in Minnesota

was the blizzard of January 10 - 12, 1975. I remember the snow drift in our front yard was 20 feet high. (We lived across the street from a lake.) Almost 60 people died in that blizzard as well as tens of thoisands of livestock. I remember that in mid April, a farmer found a live hog that had been buried in a snow bank. Lucky for that hog, that snow bank was up against a corn crib.

[meow2u3]

9. 2011 was a very snowy--and frigid--winter in Eastern PA

The temps dipped as low as -7 and snow was practially a daily occurrence.