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In reply to the discussion: This is bad. [View all]llmart
(15,536 posts)Yes, I sort of thought it was 1978. We had two winters in a row where it did nothing but snow. We had a long driveway and a three-car parking area and at one point there was just no other place to throw the snow, the piles were so high. Walking down our driveway was like walking through a tunnel. I was a stay at home mother with two small children those years. One of those winters I clearly remember it snowed every single day in January. My then husband went to work in Cleveland (we lived in Lake County) and what was normally a 45 minute drive took him 4 hours to get home. There were stories in the Plain Dealer of people stuck on the freeways for hours and how some people found "interesting" ways to pee in their cars. If I remember correctly, my son got a board game that year called "The Great Blizzard of '78". (I'll have to look that up to see if anyone remembers that.
We got transferred to North Carolina in 1982 and I thought I died and went to heaven. I hated the Cleveland winters. The first winter I was in NC was one of the mildest ever and the first week of February my neighbor was on his riding lawn mower doing a first mowing and I had daffodils blooming in my yard. I had to call my brother back in Cleveland to rub it in. I really, really wish I would have stayed in NC but we got transferred once again to Michigan. Ugh.