Worst snow storm you've experienced?

[Aristus]

51. As above, the Blizzard of 1978. I was living on Fort Knox, Kentucky at the time.

The snow was four or five feet high in some places. School was called off for over a week. My poor Dad was out in the field with his unit at the time. It must have been freezing! My mother decided to save power and heating fuel by closing off all of the heating vents in the rest of the house, and then moving us kids into her bedroom with her. We slept in sleeping bags on the floor. When we ate, it was like a picnic. It was fun.

I'll never forget the endless snowmelt when Spring finally came. There had been so much snow that it melted into veritable oceans. Every storm drain on post was inundated with the endless running snowmelt. You could hear them in the dozens all over the neighborhood. It was like living next to a waterfall. Even weeks after the last snow disappeared from the ground, the cascading roar of the water going down the drains went on. The Spring day when I woke up only to the sound of birds chirping, and no snow runoff, was like the world starting all over.

I was nine year old at the time. You can see what an impression that winter had made on me.