Reply #43: 1967 was a blast. I was a freshman in high school and we were closed

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for five days. My friends and I spent a lot time at the tobaggan slide at Dan Ryan Woods at 83rd & Western. However, my parents didn't think it was that great. My mother's brand new car was left sitting in the parking lot of the CPS she was a clerk at for two weeks before my Dad could get it back home.

I don't remember the winter of 1975 being that particularly bad. However, 1976-1977, 1977-1978 were pretty bad as far as the cold temperatures went, but the absolute worst was 1978-1979.

If I remember correctly we got a total of 89 inches of snow and I remember getting up for work in the morning, listening to the radio and hearing the DJ, it could have been Bob Sirott, saying "well the wind chill factor this morning is only -35 degrees instead of -50 or
-60". I remember too that a lot of people went out and bought either front-wheel drive cars or four-wheel drive cars after 1979.

I also remember my father complaining about how badly the City reacted. None of the major arterial streets were plowed curb to curb for weeks and forgot the side streets. They were absolutely treacherous. He was a Democratic precinct captain and I think even he voted for Jane Bryne against Mike Bilandic in the mayoral primary in February, 1979. I know I did.