1978 file: How West Michigan responded to the blizzard

[@gloriasmith4061]

I was 12 and loved those snow days off school!

[@Mgoblue1023]

I was just born! The reason everyone was stuck was because all the cars were these giant old REAR wheel drive tanks. Sandbags in the trunk for weight. Now we have front wheel drive or half are all wheel drive. Big difference!

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Sorry to tell you @GoldezzStreams There were snow Drifts 15' Deep on many rural roads.. I was 16 years old and had a cast on one foot. I plowed snow with my Fathers Front end loader for 7 days straight 18 hour days. My Dad's snowmobile even tended to get stuck .. I was in Kindergarten during the Snow Storm of 1967 and got at least a week off from School .. My Father Plowed snow for the Kalamazoo County Road Commission with a Larger front end loader for a Week too .

[@TCgirl]

I was 16 at the time and my sister 14, and even with today’s better vehicles, nobody would’ve been doing anything. You would’ve still been snowed in. Some houses were partially covered all the way up to the rooftops. My sister and I, as we walked outside the following morning, found that we had been walking on top of the cars without realizing it in the trailer park we lived in. Pretty sure your four-wheel-drive wasn’t going to cut through that.

[@ProlificInvention]

My dad told me about this, he said no cars were out-mostly only snowmobiles for a week

[@TCgirl]

I’m from Traverse City Michigan and I remember being out in Meadow lanes trailer park where we lived at the time with our mom. The morning after, we decided to go outside to explore and walk in the snow. I was 16 at the time, my sister 14. We noticed immediately trailers partially buried, including the front of our trailer all the way up to the roof. As we walked, we became strangely aware that there were no cars to be seen. We wondered together where all the cars had gone. Until suddenly we realized that we were walking on them. It was a few days before we were able to even leave the trailer park. No one could get in or out. Once they started plowing the roads inside the park, the snowbanks were way taller than us. I’ll never forget the storm of 78 in our little hometown. True story.

[@matthewronsson]

Yeah, I was just a year older and recall having to take the school bus once TCHS opened back up, and the snow banks that were taller than the Bus going down Cedar Run Rd. All you could see looking out the windows was a wall of snow. I heard that monster drift defeated one of those huge "V" front snow plows and they had to send another to go pull that plow out of that snow bank.

[@TCgirl]

@@matthewronsson wow! Yeah, if anyone thinks we are exaggerating, then they weren't there lol

[@Harpazoed]

I drag raced snowmobile’s from 1976 to 81. I had a blast with all of the snow ❄️. I was 17 at this time. We had up to 13 foot drifts. It was a great time to have a Sled.

[@Harpazoed]

We got people food who was stuck in their house.

[@aandrus2169]

I was 12. The neighbor drove his snowmobile 8 miles to Caledonia to get bread and milk for us and other neighbors.

[@DreamState71822]

I was all of 4 years old when this blizzard happened living in north east Grand Rapids. I vaguely remember my dad having to take the back door off from inside to be able to dig out of the house as a kid i remember it was funny dad shoveling snow into the house...

[@kellyi.4353]

I was 9 years old living and Grand Rapids. I miss my hometown 😢.

[@dannymccarty344]

I was in the US Army Europe and came home the following spring. It was unusually mild that winter in Stutgart. Almost no sno all winter.

[@gregoryfuzi4745]

I was 18 years old out digging out cars and asking the elderly in the houses on our block's if they needed to have the snow shoveled . We did what we could.

[@billwaters320]

I was 16 and we had the time of or life. I grew up in Ionia Mich Dad let the local PD too use his snowmobiles and never got compensated for it he was pissed for years.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Back in the good Ole Days before Gullable Warming and the Plandemic .. I was 16 years old and I plowed snow for 18 hours per day for 7 days running my Fathers Front end loader. In the Blizzard of 1967 we got a week off from School .. Kindergarten for me. My Father Plowed snow for the Kalamazoo County Road Commission for a week .. He pulled out a School bus and a County Plow Truck too.

[@retroplank]

Hey News 8…. This is at least the 3rd story about that blizzard. Is news really that slow?? Or is it that you guys are just doing your part in the real agenda? How about telling the viewers what’s really going on… like Agenda 21. We are sick of your old news. It’s ridiculous.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Back in the Good ole days before Weather Modifications HARP and Gullible Warming ..