The Unfathomable Winter Superstorm of March 13, 1993: An Analysis

[@cxb262]

This storm was actually the catalyst for me becoming a volunteer firefighter, serving 20 years before many (primarily medical) issues forced me out. My Dad and I had to shovel our driveway in SE PA out, and as a courtesy to a neighbor across the street, who had just had open heart surgery, we did his too. Meanwhile, a neighbor behind our house suffered a chimney fire, with our local fire company coming out to put it out. Having a hydrant in front of our house, one of the firefighters was there shoveling it out, and seeing this I offered to help. The following week, my application to server was in, and the rest is history.

[@Enzo-z1g8v]

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[@rtcmedic]

I bet you're fun at parties. Look at most of the comments on this video. It's full of people sharing their experience of this storm and how it impacted their lives. Serving as a volunteer firefighter is a noble cause and doesn't deserve your snark. @@user-gg8pw8wz6o

[@geezushasrisen]

@@user-gg8pw8wz6oClearly you do.

[@hatchetmouth8211]

At least give the man a slow clap for that heartfelt speech. @@user-gg8pw8wz6o

[@hiroshi1046]

@@user-gg8pw8wz6oyou got a problem?

[@jancurtis7827]

As a retired meteorologist, your analysis summary of this storm was spot on! Great job!!

[@weatherboxstudios]

Thanks Jan!

[@jcksnghst]

So how much do you know, Jan? That we haven't had natural weather in decades?

[@jancurtis7827]

As a career meteorologist, oceanographer and hydrologist (I was Wyoming State Climatologist as well), I think I have a pretty good knowledge. We are experience more variability in weather in recent decades due to many reasons: better sensors, more people being impacted, better communication, better forecasting ability, and the fact that the sun drives everything occurring on earth. Nothing in nature is constant.

[@jcksnghst]

@@jancurtis7827 uhh... It's hard for me to believe that a career meteorologist could be blind to the decades of weather control. Speculation in crop futures, reinsurance, catastrophe bonds, weather derivatives, etc. have been fueling the false narrative called by many names including climate change, global warming, etc. They blame us when in fact it's all bullshit lies. There should/could never be another tornado outbreak nor a hurricane making landfall. I remember blue skies and damnit I miss them. Surely the gag order that you were under does not extend into retirement? Maybe it's like any other job and you never researched past graduation. Smh...

[@caseysmith544]

@@weatherboxstudios The 1997--1998 winter storms in the great lakes area, I was living in Madsion wisconsin area. Then to the straight line winds of South Dakota in 2010's I think it was 2015 where in Pierre (Pier) we got up to 112 MPH over parts of the city and 120 mph highest of that. There is also the winter of 2016--2017 in South Dakota that would never end with very cold winter so cold some places in North Dakota the older windows broke in Fargo/Minot and the one of 2022--2023 that gave the most snow Pierre has ever seen to the point the clay soil was still not dry until June 1st 1.5 months after the last storm but was mild but still below freezing most of the season outside of the storms. I have been living in Pierre South Dakota since January 1, 2001.

[@jld-jw9pb]

Here in east Tennessee we had a tornado outbreak three weeks earlier, with one passing about 2 miles from my house. Then came the March 13th storm that left 2 feet of snow. I live in a wooded area and remember hearing pine trees splitting under the weight of the snow. They sounded like shotgun blasts.

[@purcascade]

And then came the Tennessee River flood in April. 😅

[@jld-jw9pb]

@@purcascade Yes. I will not forget that one either.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Nobody asked... nobody cares.

[@noahpage7459]

@@Look_What_You_Did shut up

[@mirex-konex]

@@Look_What_You_Did 24:42

[@aliashurricane9349]

I was 13 when we got hit by this storm in far Eastern Pennsylvania on the border of New Jersey and I had no idea it was this big of a storm! I just remember getting trapped at my BFF’s house when I slept over on Friday night and I was there for 3/4 days before the roads were clear enough for my dad to come pick me up just a few miles away. Thank you for the detailed video of the reality of this storm! I had no idea about how bad this was! Great job as always!

[@RNancyJEvans]

I was in Birmingham in ‘93. It was nice to see James Spann mentioned in your segment. Everyone in B’ham knew that when Spann had on his suspenders you’d better watch out!

[@jacquelinekenknight9280]

Spann is the man! I still watch him even though I moved to Florida in 2017. I remember his coverage in 93 of this and the thundersnow was amazing. I was 6 and the snow was nearly as tall as I was!

[@jw77019]

@@jacquelinekenknight9280James Spann has become a far right wing climate change denying nutcase. He is very good at knowing the name and location of every redneck place in central Alabama. He is no scientist. I was fooled by him for 40 years until I saw him be so defiant of climate change regardless how many weird weather events he covered. The blizzard of 1993 when I saw it snowing big, chunky snow and thundering and lightning simultaneiously in MARCH was my confirmation climate change had arrived. Retrospectively we saw 100 degree plus temps in Birmingham a few summers before that which had never happened,

[@joshuabrown2521]

I live in Georgia, never even lived in James’s viewing area, but I discovered him during the 2011 Super Outbreak and he ROCKS. One of the finest meteorologists ever, and certainly the finest in the south. I loved Ken Cook, Chris Holcomb and Glenn Burns in Atlanta, but James Spann deserves any award he’s ever gotten and every one he hasn’t as well.

[@Mandy-lu6pk]

Same i remember that storm i got to see snow and James Spann is till my fav weatherman

[@GR-bn3xj]

I was a student at Alabama. Tuscaloosa became a winter wonder land for the students. I still remember going on the quad and getting in snowball fights. We were lucky, it was a lot of snow but I never lost power at the dorm.

[@patrickmcneilly4293]

Growing up in a relatively small North Jersey town, I learned about The Blizzard of '77 and The Blizzard of '93. Now, I finally have the backstory to both of those storms. Thank you!

[@testbenchdude]

I was 17, in southeast PA. I remember the top crust of the snow freezing so hard afterward that I could easily walk on it. One of my all-time favorite memories is going on a night walk on the snow with my mom, my brother, and our three Irish setters. We took our saucer sleds and sledded down the cornfield behind our house in the moonlight. Normally the slope of the field is so slight that sledding in normal snow is impossible but with a coating of ice on top? Man, it was so much fun and so magical.

[@ellenbryn]

That's right! It must have sleeted or rained on top. I've got a photo of one of my friends standing on top of the snow almost 3 feet above me on campus grinning down at me. But we had to steal trays out of the dining hall; I left my saucer sled at home. ;)

[@paulgeraghty6112]

I was in South East PA also, Ardmore to be exact. What I remember most was most streets being covered in 2-3 inches of ice.

[@JesusFriedChrist]

That happens every winter in Canada. Your worst nightmare is our annual reality.

[@phillyflash43]

I remember, although I think it was early '94, an incredible ice storm in the area. Driving down County Line Road in Montco, the open fields, trees, grass covered in ice, glinting in the sunlight. Never seen anything like it before or since.

[@kingalphawerewolf]

No it doesn't. Unless you live VERY far north in Canada along the coast. Most of the population of Canada gets only mildly colder winters then the top states of the us.@@JesusFriedChrist

[@ZombieMurdoc]

I was about 7 years old living in Pittsburgh, and the blizzard of 93 dropped more snow than I'd ever seen at one time. It was the only time I ever had a snow day off from school. It also set the record for a single day snowfall in Pittsburgh, which still stands to this day. While we didn't get as much as New England, Pittsburgh is extremely hilly and also relies heavily on bridges, so the city was paralyzed for a couple days.

[@sonsofliberty3081]

Hilly? Really? How about cliffy. Strait up and down. Haha.

[@mattg4836]

I grew up in northeast pa and we had multiple snow days each year. I remember school being closed the entire week in 93

[@ElTurbinado]

i was living in pittsburgh too it was legendary! i was 12. i still talk about that blizzard today. i remember that year there was a few feet of snow on halloween, too. when the snow melted that summer the water destroyed a lot of the bridges on the trails around where i lived.

[@seanlanglois8620]

I was 8 the snow in Massachusetts was up to my chest

[@sausagefingers2885]

Yeah man! I was 11 living near Lancaster PA. The amount of snow falling per minute was unreal. Lightning too!

[@drthorium9041]

I see a weatherbox upload, I come to the weatherbox upload, I watch the weatherbox upload; I am a simple organism

[@ainou2001]

Real

[@Cinerary]

No ur not. Liar. Go expire in the vacuum of space

[@notremembering]

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[@WeatherWatcher14]

I came, I saw, I watched 😂

[@tylerthompson5859]

Weatherbox is the mitochondria, I am the cell.

[@EvanK2EJT]

I was a senior in high school in upstate NY in 1993. I have a picture of me and my girlfriend standing on the snow bank in front of my parents two story house, and it looks like we're standing on the roof. It truly was an insane storm, and one I'll definitely never forget

[@peterbelanger4094]

I was 23 in '93, was in Rochester for the storm. I actually thought it was kinda fun, in a weird way. We got hit almost as hard as Syracuse, the wind was perfect for lake effect from Ontario to add to it all. My friend and I decided to go out and do doughnuts in the snow. It was just and the plow drivers out there. 3-4 feet of snow SOUNDS like a lot of snow, but it's really kinda normal for that area. they had the roads clear pretty quick. Though upstate NY got the most snow, we were also the best prepared for it. The great lakes are natural snow machines. Most cities get shut down with inches. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, they can handle feet at a time easy.

[@LMacNeill]

I grew up in Atlanta, GA, and on Mach 13th, 1993, I was living in a suburb of Atlanta called Chamblee. Obviously, growing up in Georgia, I'd never seen more than maybe an inch or two of snow, at most. Then suddenly we have a FOOT of snow, or more, with drifts all the way up to the gutters of the house I was living in! Just the fact that there were drifts of any kind was amazing, because the snow we usually have hits the ground and turns to slush or ice almost instantly. But this stuff stayed frozen in flakes and was able to be blown around by the heavy winds. I was a few weeks shy of my 23rd birthday, and because I was an early-twenties male (read: idiot), I actually went out driving around in the stuff! LOL. Gave a couple of rides to complete strangers who were trying to walk home from their cars that were stuck. Amazing I didn't get stuck -- but I had a little '91 Nissan Sentra at the time, which was front-wheel-drive and relatively light, so it really handled the snow surprisingly well. Good memories. 🙂

[@laurenharrell227]

These videos are some of the best on the meteorology side of KZbin. The eighties style editing scratches the right part of my brain. I love these please don’t ever stop making content like this

[@jm94008]

It’s really unfortunate how few subscribers you have. This channel is one of the best I’ve seen. I’m always looking forward to the next upload from you.

[@earlosandwich7433]

Well, at least you didn't call it "criminally underrated"; an overused cliche in the comments section of many vids. 😂

[@DopeTheManDope]

You’re witnessing the beginning of the grind for this guy and his channel. Solid content drops like these regularly along with ad friendly videos are a great recipe for filling the suggestion and recommend sections of KZbin

[@Look_What_You_Did]

Children believe such statistics mater...

[@The_ZeroLine]

He’s doing well for a channel only two years old.

[@Midnight24435]

This was simply an incredible storm. When it hit, I lived in Raphine, Virginia, and I was very young; barely 5 years old. We were lower income at that time. We were living in a very small trailer park near White's Truck Stop. My dad worked for VDoT (Virginia Department of Transportation) as a mechanic and, when the winter weather got bad, a snow plow truck driver. VDoT played things cautiously despite the lack of confidence in the forecast, so dad ended up heading out to the nearest VDoT site (in Lexington) and they prepared the day before the storm hit. I specifically remember seeing on the TV one particular meteorologist stating his disbelief that this storm would amount to anything. I remember him saying something along the lines of "I don't get why everyone is panicking - this is only going to be a light dusting of snow." Let's just say that 'light dusting' he claimed ended up being 20-foot snow drifts that we woke up to. We couldn't exit our trailer out the main door; we had to send my brother out the window to go around and start digging the entrance to the house out. You could literally walk from the ground up to the roof of the trailer because the snow drifts were so high. My dad called us to let us know the county roads were impassible and he couldn't make it home. He ended up having to stay at VDoT site in Lexington for 3 days. When the county roads finally were cleared enough that dad could return to the entrance of our neighborhood, none of our neighborhood's roads had even been touched yet. There was no way his truck could get him the quarter mile uphill to get into our neighborhood, so he ended up parking his truck and began walking. It took him almost 45-50 minutes to get up the quarter-mile hill to our neighborhood. At the time, mom took me outside on the porch to look at the snow since I was simply fascinated with any weather phenomenon. Apparently, both my mom and I missed my dad calling out to us as he slowly worked his way through all the snow to get to us. Any time there's snow in our forecast, my family still jests with that meteorologist's comment about it only being a 'light dusting' of snow. Better watch out, could be a tiny layer of snow that barely covers the surface... or it could be sufficient snow to have an easy access ramp to your rooftop. Lol. Cheers, y'all.

[@michaelciccone2194]

Hi Midnite! What a very interesting comment! Did your family know the Michael Faurber family that lived across from the RAPHINE post office back in 1995? I will never forget the kindness of Mike Faurber! I had a vehicle problem and had to have my car serviced at the gas station right next to the Faurber house....no cell phones back than, Mr Faurber allowed me to use their house phone to make a few important phone calls and hot coffee.!

[@thelugoffgamecock792]

White's was an awesome truckstop! Best food I remember eating at a truckstop.

[@nerowolfe5175]

That weather forecaster was named Robin Reed, broadcasting from I think the CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, VA, or perhaps it was the NBC affiliate WSLS (too old to remember now). I actually knew him personally, though not very well. My wife and I had been married for a little over two years at the time, and were living in Covington VA, a little town of around 6,000 up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Alleghany County, just a few miles from the West Virginia line. We both knew Robin, trusted him, so went to sleep that night with a bit of regret - we both like snow. Woke up to almost exactly three feet of light dusting. Took around 2-3 weeks to get the whole town dug out. Yes siree Bob -the Blizzard of '93!

[@Midnight24435]

@@nerowolfe5175 Thanks for sharing his name. Mr. Robin Reed, one of the few meteorologists to receive the Seal of Approval from the American Meteorology Society. Quite the distinguished award to receive. I appreciate you sharing what happened in your little slice of Virginia. This was quite an exceptional storm.

[@haworthlowell805]

​@@Midnight24435Sounds like he earned it with that call. LOL

[@MrWhit30]

I was a bachelor living in a small cabin near Mt Cheaha in NE Alabama. I heard the forecast for snow so I bought a few groceries and some cigs for the weekend and ran a few gallons of water, thinking might loose power for a few hrs or a day. I went to bed with thunder snow(never seen before or since) and awoke to over 3ft, 6-8ft in drifts, & no power. My car was buried. I wound up being snowed in for about 5 days, 7 days without power. Thankfully I had firewood and batteries for the radio. I moved the refrigerator contents to the back porch and cooked on a backpacking stove. There was a small pond on the property, after clearing my way down there I busted the ice with an axe and got water to flush the John.(I had a well so no electricity no water pumped out of the well) On day 4 the national guard came thru and cut the fallen pine trees off the road so I managed to dig out my car and with considerable effort made it to the nearest country store for a loaf of bread and some more cigs. I considered myself very lucky that I somewhat prepared and had the firewood and camping gear to survive better than most. I had a friend who was a banjo player playing a gig in Virginia when the storm hit. They somehow miraculously managed to get home to Alabama in the middle of it in an old van, lol. Never experienced anything like that storm before or since.

[@davidbagwell5905]

I was 3 days from turning 19 and had just survived Hurricane Andrew in Homestead when the storm rolled through. I woke up for a few minutes during the worst of it (about 4 AM think) and remember the howling wind reminding me of Andrew. My parents didn't lose a single tree in Andrew but we lost two during the Storm. Down the street a Sealand container someone had bought for post-Andrew repair got thrown up on the roof of their house. I can still remember it leaning there to this day.

[@E_Don]

Letsgoooooooo!!! This is why I like creators who don't work on a dedicated multi-upload-per-week schedules. Let this man work and create great content like this

[@weatherboxstudios]

I appreciate that! I started to work on this in November and still ended up being a week late of the anniversary, but comments like this are refreshing

[@rogerhinman5427]

I was a member of the Massachusetts National Guard at that time. I was a full-time soldier managing a combat engineer company near Northampton. We were mobilized for both the December and March storms. I remember our heavy equipment and dump truck operators being very busy with just trying to keep roads open for emergency crews, and later on removing snow from anywhere it was deemed a hazard. Getting food in for the troops could have been an issue, but the lead time was enough to get a local purchase approval and the grocery store was able to supply us with nearly everything we needed. Since snow removal equipment, and shovels, weren't part of our equipment keeping the armory's road, driving and parking areas open was also a bit of an issue. But we made it work and happily nobody was seriously hurt and there were only minor equipment losses.

[@Patrick-te1sc]

I have vivid memories of this storm from childhood. I was in Pennsylvania for the blizzard part. We got 36 inches or more of snow overnight. I remember my little brother stepping off the porch and the snow being over his head. It was so cool at our young age.

[@brassmule]

I was in PA, too. The day before, my mom didn't believe a storm was coming since "her legs didn't ache" like they always did before a storm. We woke up the 13th to steadily falling snow and no food in the house. My dad and I drove into town and managed to shop before the grocery store closed and scored some pizza from a local shop. A local jeweler was open. It was the final day of bidding on an auction the store was having, and no one else showed up so my father was able to win a couple presents super cheap. By the time we headed for home, the snow was very deep. We had to park our car at a house at the end of our road and walk the .6 miles, with our groceries and the pizza, and make a separate trip for the kerosene containers for our emergency heater. The snow drifts by then were over our heads and every step was a struggle, even without carrying groceries. We got 36 inches, school was closed for a week, but blessedly we did not lose power. I remember they never plowed our road and instead huge front loaders came to dig it out due to the massive snow drifts.

[@VictorianVice]

My dad was stuck at work for over 24 hours during that storm, he still has a shirt that his workplace printed for everyone who got stuck that says “I survived the storm of ‘93”

[@keigoftw]

I think this might be the one that set my incredibly high standards for for snow time fun when I was a toddler. The snow was literally as big as me, "perfect packing snow" as my father called it, he was so excited to show me how to build a snow man he built one as tall as him himself while I did my best to make one of the cat (again, very smol). My god father who lived like 10 minutes drive away actually came by, so I guess our plow response was on point? It's one of my earliest memories and if I remember right, it must of been the first time I was really able to play in a long time, as that had to be almost immediately after a year of being in and out of the hospital with something that kept me from being able to play like a two year old should have. So its kind of mind-blowing to think this idealized snow day was the end result of such a deadly storm. 🤯

[@terywetherlow7970]

Just watched your 77/78 N.East storm....'93:was memorable to me as well. TY

[@sknowman1424]

This is one of the top 5 Winter Storms of my lifetime. I am 59 y/o and have lived in WV my entire life. A couple other storms exceeded this one in total snow accumulation at my house but this was more memorable because it impacted such a large area. The other big storms were 1/19/1978, 4/4/1987, 1/7/1996 and 1/22/2016. All these snowstorms have a special place in my memory.

[@SMELLGOODER]

WV here, too. In the mid-late 70's I was a kid and have a few early memories of those blizzards. BUT in 93 I was an adult and TOTALLY remember THIS. I was a bartender at the time...... and ended up reluctantly getting a couple of weekend nights off 😔 because of this MONSTROSITY of snow, wind, ice, power outages.... but I persevered!! 😂

[@barbeej89]

I've been watching your chanel for a while now but I wanted to comment on the fact that you're not reading from script (and if you are you can't tell), that you're knowledgeable, and easy to understand. The first three minutes of the video I was blown away and learned so many new facts about this historical weather setup. You put in SO much effort into your videos and you deserve all the success! This channel needs to blow up!

[@EricAdamsYT]

I was 18 living in the Pittsburgh area in 1993. This snow storm transformed the world into one of the most beautiful things I have yet seen. Everything slowed down and was quiet. People were walking everywhere and helping each other. It was a magical week of digging out.

[@Darthdoodoo]

I was like 9 or 10 it was awesome

[@runronnierun7213]

This weather nerd is out here making compelling videos for weather dummies like myself to enjoy. I was at a technical school in DuBois, PA. Classes were cancelled, so like knuckleheads we were, we played football. It was so cold we had to breathe the air inside our jackets between plays. Thanks for the great video!

[@judyArsh]

I was 21 and I was in the hospital fighting for my life recovering from major lung surgery. I had always loved snow storms. I remember seeing it all happening on TV and hearing them call it the storm of the century and thinking I missed out on enjoying it.

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

Ah yes... My 11 year old self LOVED The 1993 Blizzard. Being in Alabama it was madness but as a kid, it is still my biggest blizzard story but my 40 year old self now sees how stressful it was on my parents 😆

[@Slappap]

I only vaugely remember it, just my dad asking if wanted to be thrown in the snow and dropping my sister and I off a high deck. Then they freaked out about not being able to see us in the snow. I was like 4. It was great. Just asked my father about it he jumped in behind us to search.

[@haworthlowell805]

​@@SlappapWatching my dogs react and jump through it was funny. They'd never seen that much snow in their lives. I was from Indiana and grew up with that kind snow fall.

[@5610winston]

I remember seeing the rescue of a scout troop from the tower on Mount Cheaha.

[@jacquelinekenknight9280]

I enjoyed it too as I was 6. It was the most exciting thing I’d yet experienced….Now I know how rough it was on my family. 😂

[@gw6667]

Ha, same age except in Atlanta. Good ol' blizzard of '93. I didn't realize it was a whole eastern fiasco. I also recall a blizzard of '90 but '93 was more widespread I guess

[@ZacharyRB2]

This is one of my favorite weather events , and it's one of the main things that got me into Meteorology and Atmospheric science. Thank you for making a video on the 1993 super storm , i've been looking through weather archives and old websites to dig up more data and you did a much better job then me.

[@corvidkid04]

I wasn't yet born, but I'm a Syracusan and much of my family, including both of my parents, were around for the storm and have told some pretty harrowing stories about it. To this day, the Blizzard of '93 remains our largest single-event snowfall here, narrowly beating out a 1966 event. I've seen some incredible snowfall events in my time, such as a November 2016 lake-effect snow event that dumped 27" of snow on the city and a March 2017 nor'easter that once again gave us 27", but nothing of the magnitude of the March 1993 event. This is truly some great, comprehensive coverage of the event, keep up the good work!

[@ILoveOldTWC]

Birmingham, we had 13 inches of snow. We also had thundersnow, which is a thunderstorm with a snowstorm. Blizzard in the Deep South is unheard of. Atlanta was also hard hit, as was Chattanooga. Paralyzed by blizzard conditions. There were also fatalities from people having heart attacks from shoveling too much snow.

[@5610winston]

In Atlanta my Dodge Omni was the only car moving in my neighborhood. A fire truck was thwarted in its response due to a tree down across Peachtree Hills Avenue, turned out it was just a little old lady panicking because a snuffed candle had smoked a bit and set off her smoke detector.

[@mddelanoy]

I grew up in upstate NY south of Syracuse and my parent's house was on top of a hill that is always very windy and the snow drifted almost 15ft high over the road and over 8ft high in the lee of our house in the back yard. I was quite young in 1993, but I vividly remember my dad tossing me and some of my siblings off the back deck so we could land in the massive drifts there. Good times! This storm is one of my earliest clear memories and my parents talked about how crazy it was a lot over the years. Thanks for covering it!

[@MattThompsonOnGoogle]

Yes, I was not exaggerating when I said ten foot snowbanks. This guy gets it. 👍🏻 -Former Marcellian

[@rhob2422]

Lived in the Pocono Mountains of PA when this happened. That entire winter, we were mostly snowed in. This storm dumped over 3 feet where I lived. Missed so much school that winter we had to go until July that summer to make up the time.

[@geico1975]

I remember this so vividly. I was 17-years-old at the time and in the "Blue Ridge / Appalachian" mountains of NC, still here too:) I was working at a Ski Slope at the time "Beech Mountain" and everyone got stranded for 3-days. The State shut the road down that leads to the slope. Anyway, on the second day, me and several other workers went out to play in the snow. As we were headed back to our lodges I was walking a top one of the snow drifts and fell through about 3-feet. I noticed I landed on something hard and metal like, so I started sweeping away as much snow as my feet would allow. Believe it or not, I was standing on the very rooftop of a school bus folks:) HA! I will never forget that Winter, most snow I've ever seen even to this day.

[@ryancoody7069]

As an avid hiker in backpacker in the Smokies, I almost cried when I saw the condition of those hikers from Michigan. I've had some cold nights and trust me, when you're cold you can't sleep. The pain and pure shittiness of that situation had to of lasted an eternity for them.

[@mikeystanzione6467]

Living as I do in NYC, which my snow-loving friends and I refer to as the Banana Belt, I could only watch in envy as areas west of my location got feet of snow while my backyard barely managed a foot! Your video reminded me of the truly titanic and historic nature of this winter weather event. I hadn't realized that a number of areas saw over 50" of snow, my memory only seeming to recall the Mount Mitchel accumulations. At any rate, yet another terrific bit of weather content you have offered here with detail density not often found on KZbin. Great job! Looking forward to your next offering.

[@MrSpartanPaul]

I was living in East Tennessee at the time and it completely shut the place down for over a week. Being from upstate NY I had tire chains and snow tires and drove on the closed interstate in 2 feet of untouched snow. The snow was eventually packed down onto the surface of interstate 40 to form a layer of 6” thick icy bumpy snow. I drove 25 miles to work each way without ever taking the chains off all week. I actually wore the chains out and had to throw them away as a result of hundreds of miles of continuous use.

[@KattMurr]

I remember that storm well! I was 20. I live in Albany, NY, so it was hitting us hard on St. Patrick's Day. I was working at a local bar for a couple hours. They sent me home after seeing how quickly it got snowy as hell! I was still living with my mom. She got stuck at work. I was determined not to get snowed in alone, so I drove to a store to pick up my friend and brought him back to my apartment. He and I weathered the storm together, in awe of how much snow we got! Great memories.....

[@tinagoodman7256]

My daughter went to school, my 3y/o and husband were cutting corn for the cattle. I was cooking, baking bread and carrying in every pc of wood I could find a place for. I went outside to check on my son and as the school bus came around the curve I saw the first snowflake. By nightfall, we had several inches and high winds. Thank God for a wood heater and kitchen cook stove. We made it fine and even helped out a few neighbors, played games w/kids and made good memories w/them. They still talk about this.

[@Dovietail]

We were snowed in at a Virginia boarding school for days. We knew it was coming. There was food. We were warm. It was awesome! Once it passed, there were midnight walks, bonfires, and snow shoveling contests to keep students active and entertained. We broke into the dining hall and swiped trays to sled down hills on the playing fields. Great memories....

[@XxCrystalPhoenix]

I was 4 years old and living in Alabama when this storm came through. As of the day you posted this video, my son is the precise same age I was when the storm hit, within 4 days. Neat coincidence! Oh, also, the standard fanfare: excellent content, another share from me. Keep it up, man.

[@mattfirmani-turkey]

Do the 1953 Central Massachusetts tornado next! Such a strange, unique weather event. Your editing work is getting better and better!

[@TrixyTheWonderDog]

Until now it never occurred to me how many 93/94 babies I grew up with named Stormy/Stormie -my mom said she wanted to name me Stormy but, she knew 3 or 4 other moms using it. My yearbooks have quite a few and my Uni classes had several from out of state. Guess our parents weren't that bored being snowed in after all. Lol. My mom always talks about the massive flooding we got the year she was pregnant with me. That snow had to go somewhere eventually.

[@cm1133]

We got 27” of snow in Birmingham Alabama. It was actually thundering and lightning while snowing. It was the strangest weather event I’ve ever witnessed. Thank God, I was working at a 4 star hotel with emergency generated power and satellite TV. I was warm and well fed during the ten days it took to melt all that snow so that we could all safely drive. There were 20 foot snow drifts on the back side of the hotel that didn’t fully melt until April of that year.

[@Afib95]

I was in West Palm Beach, Florida. My partner and his brother were living with me and I stayed up all night. We knew it was coming in at 5 o’clock in the morning it struck! The lightning was incredible. The wind was crazy. When the sun started to give some light, I remember opening the front door and seeing shingles thinking my roof was gone and it was the neighbor behind me. I remember this it was yesterday.

[@myname312]

this channel is criminally underrated

[@johntechwriter]

Thank you for compiling a huge amount of information into a logical progression of events, and thus persuading non-experts about the importance of paying attention to mid-range weather forecasts.

[@sethmoyer]

I was almost 2 years old when this happened, and we lived in Central Pennsylvania. still remember after the snow stopped, we went outside and my dad threw me up in the air and I would land in the snow. I think it's one of my earliest memories and I still haven't seen that much snow all at once!

[@Seeker0fTruth]

I was 13 in Central PA!! We made a killing shoveling snow for as many neighbors that wanted it done. Then we took our earnings and walked a mile to the Mister Donut (later Dunkin Donuts) and carb loaded on hot chocolate and sweet warm donuts. Now in the Philly burbs, Ryan Hall Y’all is calling for a historically snowy winter and I can’t wait! ❄️

[@TheSinisterPorpoise1]

Oh yes, I remember this storm. It was 50 degrees the day before, and I had a paper route at the time. I was thinking that we were done with snow for the year most likely but found out that the weather was forecasting a large nor'easter that would hit most of the East Coast. I remember spending the night of the storm at my mother's house. Snow came flying down and I remember seeing lightning from her orange pieced-together couch. It was the first time I saw thunder during a snow storm. When I woke up the next day, there was 3 feet of snow on the ground, and there was no way to do the paper routes at that time until 2 days later because the streets were not clear enough. My sister, who worked for the state at the time working with people with severe development disabilities, was considered essential and the National Guard had to take her to work in a hovercraft.

[@rhillsgamer4121]

This storm happened before I was born, but my parents were living in the greater Syracuse area at the time. My parents were out of town, staying with my grandmother up near Plattsburgh when the storm hit. They said that wear my grandmother lived got around a foot of ice, but not a lot of snow. The ice still took forever to clear and left my grandparents out of power for about a week. When power was restored and my parents went home, they found that their house was so snowed in that there was about 9 feet of snow in their drive way, making it almost easy to walk to the second floor. They had to request a snow plow from the town plow them out so they could get inside.

[@johnashton9678]

I remember that one. I was in Atlanta loading out from the big auto show at the Atlanta Convention Center (trucker). I carried chains and had to pull a couple of trucks out of the snow. I was barely able to drive to a hotel in Marietta and when I got there, all the rooms were full. At least I had a parking spot. It was actually a fun time. The bar/ restaurant at the motel stayed open for the three days we were stranded and everyone was pretty laid back about the whole thing. I couldn't believe that the roads would be closed for a foot of snow. I don't plow my driveway until at least a foot has fallen, of course, I own the equipment to drive over snow and remove it at my discretion. Nice report: I had forgotten about that event, and I certainly didn't know about most of the information you have provided

[@aemrt5745]

I was living in Seattle that year and remember the severe wind storm you mentioned that winter. 1993 continued being a terrible weather year that summer with the record Mississippi Floods.

[@AJKPenguin]

The authentic Superstorm. So much so it had no name. I was a toddler in Mansfield at the time; we had quite an ice storm. Thank you Steve, @weatherbox.

[@donnanemier2000]

I live in Syracuse, NY. I moved into my new house on March 13, 1993. By 3 p.m. the city was closing down, but the moving van stalled with all my belongings in it. U-Haul towed it to my new place, we had it unloaded in about 15 minutes, and my family and friends scattered to get home safely. Everyone made it safe, but I ended up sleeping on the sofa the first night because my bed didn't make it in the moving frenzy. Crazy day. Every March 13th, someone in my family reminds me of that move.

[@toddgrant4268]

That noreaster in December of 92 ill never forget. I was on a naval vessal coming back from a 7 month cruise in the Med. Our captian (my favorite skipper) decided to plow through the noreaster to get home by christmas. Ive never been in a more precarious position. It battered our ship causing extensive damage. We had lost several vent covers over night and had progressive flooding in the lower holds. We lost our forward mast and several freezer containers. Needless to say we made it home for Christmas, battered and limping.

[@securitron5]

your videos are amazingly thorough, deeply reseached, wonderfully narrsted and well produced. its apparent that a large amount of time and effort is spent on research, writing the script, shooting, and editing, and it really shows. bravo!

[@ktbear21]

I definitely remember this storm... but since I was so young, I only remembered what it did in my area, not the devastation everywhere else. I mostly remembered staying up too late hoping we were going to get a snow day the next day (we did not, lol). I was in 3rd grade just outside of Akron, and our teacher made us write a paper about it since it was supposed to be the "Storm of the Century." We all basically turned in the same couple of paragraphs of how it missed us and we wanted a snow day 😂

[@weatherboxstudios]

Man, that's so disappointing!

[@ktbear21]

@weatherbox it really was as a kid, lol. Although, now that I'm older, I can definitely see we were lucky we missed the worst of it. Plus, 7 years later, I totally made up for every snow day we never got. My 10th grade year, we had our 2 week Christmas break... and every day for the next 2 weeks as well. We kept getting pummeled with *just* enough snow and ice to close schools (plus, I lived a bit further out in the country and the township kids all had to deal with hilly roads and only cinders, no salt). Literally 10 days in addition to our break. We had one day we did *go* to school, but by the end of 1st period, they sent us back home due to an ice storm coming. I miss snow days 😂😂

[@coopergates9680]

@@ktbear21 When did schools start just adding snow days at the end of the school year to crash the party? They were the best, getting to work on some side project one normally didn't have time to

[@ktbear21]

@@coopergates9680 the year that we had 2 extra weeks of winter break, we ended up making up days during our spring break. In Ohio, we get 5 calamity days, but then after that, you've gotta make them up.. unless you get an exemption from the state (which they never grate from my understanding).

[@ktbear21]

@T Raybern the storm didn't hit until overnight Sunday into Monday in NE Ohio, so the snow day would've been Monday. As for the Blizzard of 78, yeah... not really sure your point. I wasn't alive for it, so I shared my memories of the storm he actually did a video on this time. He already did the Blizzard of 78...

[@malikabrown7439]

I was in 9th grade and I remember the snow falling like rain in class and by that evening we had thundersnow. This was rare for Birmingham,AL and it was AMAZING!

[@loficampingguy9664]

What an incredible video for such an incredible event. Every video of yours seems to knocks it out of the park, and every one just gets better and better. The explanation of the conditions before the storm, the storm itself, the technical description, the explanation of the forecasting and technology, all of it is top-notch. Shoutout for the WSR in Sterling, always nice to see local stuff pop up!

[@Nobluffbuff]

I lived in Northern Idaho during this storm. We kept the driveway clear at least, until we couldn't toss it higher than 12 feet. You could jump off the roof of our 2nd story house and catch a soft, short landing. My brothers and I built igloos with tunnels connecting them across the front yard, even spent a night or two having a camping experience! Never seen a snow storm like that since.

[@joeg5414]

I lived in Atlanta when this happened. First time i remember seeing snow. I was 10. I watching the weather channel all day hoping we'd get more. Kinda crazy the memories this brought back

[@erinmallard]

This is fascinating! I remember the big snow of March ‘93 - I was 7 - as the first time we had real accumulation in north Alabama (I lived outside of Huntsville), but had no idea it was part of a major storm event. To me it was just a magical few days, the only time we were able to build snow forts and sled. Interesting to learn the bigger context around my childhood memory.

[@michaelsonnon2333]

I'm from central Pa. and I remember '93 as a huge white blur. I was working as a heating oil delivery driver. It seemed to snow every other day that winter. I remember this storm particularly. That night the temp dropped so low, and the wind was blowing, that the wind chill was like 50 below zero. I had to load the truck at about 5 am while standing on top of the tank. Got it loaded and jumped into the truck and saw myself in the side mirror. I looked like I was in the arctic because my breath had frozen on my beard. I remember thinking to myself that there has got to be a better way to make a living. Worked past 9 that night. Longest day of my life. As a side note, because of those low temps, many trees shut down for the year. Our local peach orchard didn't have a single peach grow that year. Fantastic video you assembled here. Great work!

[@jam-etc]

this channel doesn't just tell you tales, it immerses you with audio and video as well, it's awesome.

[@Carstuff111]

I feel like a kid again watching this channel, and I do not mean that in a bad way. Hearing the music just brings back waves of synthy wave goodness and then bonus weather facts and the science behind it? I am so glad I found this channel :)

[@laubin]

I have a good one, the northeast and Canadian Ice Storm of 1998, that storm essentially shut down the whole of upstate NY and Quebec

[@RJARRRPCGP]

I believe Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, got hit hard, especially the Crotched Mountain area of Greenfield! I then remember going to Bellows Falls, Vermont to see my family for a weekend and noticed that there was hardly any ice, if at all! There was ice all over the trees at Crotched Mountain.

[@joeg5414]

I remember that one well i lived in northern NY near Massena. We lost power for like 3 weeks. It was pretty crazy going outside and hearing the ice creaking and trees limbs snapping. I liked it because we got weeks added to our Christmas break😂 i lived in Atlanta when this one in the video happened. It's the first time I remember seeing snow. I'll never forget watching the weather channel all day hoping we'd get more snow. I think it was about 4 inches. Quite a bit for Atlanta

[@echo7mike]

Greta video. As a child and someone who loved to see the snow, I was disappointed that I was away from my home and missed this event. It took another 25 years before I was able to finally experience a heavy snow event that was comparable.

[@cyclonepsycho330]

I definitely remember this one. Luckily we didn't get much from it in the Canton Ohio area. If I remember correctly it moved further east than the original prediction and just grazed us. Only a month or so prior we had a significant ice storm followed by extremely low temps. Schools were closed an entire week for sure, maybe longer. It was exam week and ours ended up completely cancelled. That actually happened two years in a row, 93 and 94.

[@michaelchurch1324]

I was 9 when this hit Pennsylvania and I still remember it. The snow fell as fast as summer rain, and of course there was thundersnow. I went out sledding in it; back then, kids were allowed to do such things. But I actually ended up using this storm as material for a novel I'm writing. Fantastic analysis; really gives a good sense not only of how weather works, but how our capabilities in forecasting it have progressed.

[@dailyrandomjokes9141]

Another over the top production! Thanks for the amazing content! You’re seriously underrated. If you want a video idea I’d love to see a breakdown of the 2020 Iowa derecho, keep the awesome content coming!

[@GetOffMyLog]

Yes please, from the uncharacteristically late upgrade in SPC forecasts to the strength that made it arguably the strongest derecho ever, it would make a great video. Plus I have first hand experience with it so obviously I'm biased.

[@sasz2107]

I will NEVER FORGET this storm. I was supposed to take an Amtrak Train from Durham NC to New Jersey that day. In NC we had an ice storm. My folks said, don't worry - the train always makes it through the snow! Well, while waiting at the train station, the train never arrived! This led to some scrambling to get back home - and lots of long distance phone calls (remember those?) to explain to people I wasn't going to make it. There are many stories I can tell about this storm - but the most vivid are the extremely COLD WIND, and the ICE EVERYWHERE. I met up with some friends and watched "Silence of the Lambs". Big mistake! I wanted to run home so badly, I was so scared after watching that, but I had to walk super slow or slip on the ice. I just remember the cold wind howling through the trees on that frigid night! I did eventually make it up north by hitching a ride with friends a few days later - when I got there there were about 20 inches of snow on the ground!

[@sasz2107]

I had forgotten how the interstate highways were closed. My friend's mom illegally drove on some of the Pennsylvania interstates and drove down from Philadelphia to get us. I'm not sure what day that was, I think she drove down Sunday and drove us back up there on Monday. There were hardly any cars on the roads Monday though the roads were reopened by then. I had friends drive down to Philadelphia to come get me. I remember lots of snow on the NJ Turnpike. I remember being shocked by the amount of snow there was when I finally got there. As an aside - there was a second bad storm in the first half of January of 1996 that I remember made travel by car very difficult - lots of snow and ice - but I don't know how it compared to the 1993 storm overall.

[@wesside-333]

Years have passed since the March 1993 cyclone, but the pain of losing my family in the disaster still lingers. I remember that fateful day so vividly. The storm struck without mercy, and we scrambled to take shelter in our basement. The howling winds and relentless rain battered our home, and we huddled together, praying for the storm to pass. As the cyclone intensified, a massive tree was uprooted and came crashing through the roof of our house. In a split second, my world changed forever. My family was caught in the path of the falling tree, and despite my frantic attempts to protect them, I couldn't save them from the crushing impact. The aftermath was a blur of grief and devastation as I emerged from the ruins of our home to find the landscape forever altered. The storm had taken so much from me, and the void left in my heart by the loss of my family can never be filled. I share my story as a reminder of the power of nature and the fragility of life. May we all cherish our loved ones, and may those who have faced similar tragedies find strength and healing.

[@GetOffMyLog]

One of your finest works. The scope covered in this video is truly impressive! From Pinatubo to Andrew.

[@jacobb.]

I live in central ky and was 8 at the time. We were told we would get a dusting but received 20ish inches and ice. Trees were uprooted and power was out. Pretty wild, one of my earliest memories.

[@MattThompsonOnGoogle]

I remember very well. I was in the 9th grade, too old to be playing in the snow but I had gone to the farmhouse to go sledding with my cousin. It was a quarter mile hike to the side hill, but we headed back as soon as it was too heavy to walk through easily. We got back to the barn, and the wind had blown a drift halfway up the short silo. We were climbing a poplar tree to the top to jump off and see how far into the drift we could go, which freaked my aunt right out. My father had to rescue me before dark, using his homemade payloader to clear the main road himself, as my uncle was plowing the snow with the tractor and another uncle who worked for the DOT said they wouldn’t make it out our way. I rode home a quarter of a mile in the bucket of the payloader, the only section of county road 150 in Onondaga which was plowed for about an hour. The snowbanks were about ten feet high the next day, after plows had cleared the roads but the fields were barren as it all built up the banks even higher.

[@mariagraffelner5216]

I live in the NE burbs of Philly. Ours was the only real 4WD truck. I was 22 & I loved driving in snow. Our township & roads were “closed”. I gave people rides & provided supplies to friends & neighbors for 5 days straight. I ended up becoming a professional driver & am sure this storm added to the decision to drive for a living.

[@wyndwalkerranger7421]

That year my daughter did a school science project on the storm and I have a portion of her display tacked up in my cellar. At that time her uncle was a meteorology professor at Millersville in PA and sent her some information which she included. Thank you for the video I think this is the storm that was referred to as "The Perfect Storm."

[@aeotsuka]

You gained a subscriber here! I remember sitting with my family in the living room on the 13th watching the news coverage of the storm in New Jersey (suburbs of NYC); fortunately we were further inland so we didn't have to worry about the coastal flooding.

[@lanecalaway6733]

I love these videos! Thank you for your excellent explanations. Also as a NC Native "Raleigh" is pronounced more like "Rawleigh" with the a making an o sound. We have accents down here lol.

[@PulseFireRL]

yet another historic weatherbox classic. excellence

[@weatherboxstudios]

Thank you my dude!!

[@inquirewue2]

Quite literally my first memory. Parents explained what was happening and I got to walk in dad's footprints in the snow. I remember my entire leg would go in his footsteps. This was in Northern Virginia.

[@anneglass8084]

People were cross country skiing down Court Street in Athens, Ohio. Ohio University shut down and the bars ran out of beer. I had so much fun that week!

[@215_Philly_4for4]

I was born in this. Just outside of Philly. My parents talk about how their relatives and in-laws nearly got trapped traveling from New England/south Philly. The hotel near the hospital I was born at wasnt far at all, but my grandparents didn’t make it on time to see my birth. Wild to think about

[@maxkassel1765]

I've always loved your intros, the cool synth paired with retro disaster footage creates such a vibe that absolutely draws you into the video. I have to ask, do you write/produce the music in your intros yourself, or is it from an open source? They sound really neat.

[@weatherboxstudios]

Thanks Max! I do write the intro music as well as a third of the music I use in the rest of the videos. I'm planning on releasing a weather-themed electronic album this summer

[@jasoncoates1835]

@@weatherboxstudios Awesome! As a weather nerd who makes analog synths for a living, this appeals to me on many levels.

[@Rudreax]

@@weatherboxstudios Let's goooooooo post that everywhere when you release it!

[@shinjiblack9460]

I remember this. I was 10 years old living in North GA and was excited for seeing measurable snow for the first time. Little did we know over the course of the next few days we'd be without power and have a mountain of firewood frozen in ice

[@MetallicAAlabamA]

Here in northwest Alabama the wind was ridiculous. I was 14 at the time, and me and a couple of friends thought we would go have a fun day in the snow. I think I spent 10 minutes outside, and the wind wasn't allowing anyone to have fun lol. I think we only had around 5"-6" of snow that day. And almost a year later on February 10th 1994, one of the most devastating ice storms hit Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama, with the Memphis area getting the worst of it. The winters of 1993, and 1994 wasn't the coldest that I remember, but those 2 storms are the worst that I can remember, if that makes sense lol.

[@tspot816]

We lived in Stephentown, NY. We had several large storms that winter and had no place left to push snow before this storm hit. I was riding to work on Tuesday, when the weatherman said on the radio that 2-3 feet of snow was forecast for Saturday. I have never heard a forecast like that in my life. Not before or since. I was shocked. I found it almost impossible to believe that they had the first clue that we would get that much snow 5 days in advance! We got 63 inches. I have never seen it snow like that in my life. That storm was truly in a class of its own.

[@brob-zy8zi]

I grew up in the mountains of SW Pennsylvania. I remember getting 36" of snow from that storm. And then, having to help my dad shovel a 250 foot driveway... It was the craziest snowstorm I've been in. The day after, when we were shoveling, it was almost 65 degrees. There was definitely a lot of lightning. The only other time I saw that much lightning in a snowstorm was when hurricane Sandy went through and dumped about 11" of snow before turning to rain.

[@ourlifeinwyoming4654]

This video showed up in my feed and we're now subscribed to you. We were stationed outside the CONUS when this occurred (US Air Force). We were on the Island of Okinawa. My wife's family lives close to Mt. Pinatubo and was greatly affected. I remember hearing the news stories of the big storm in 93' and hearing from my family in GA. Now I see the connection. Fascinating! In 2006, my oldest son and I hiked to crater rim of Mt. Pinatubo. It's stunning to see how much earth was ejected and sent skyward, and now I know more about it's affects on the planet. Great video!

[@Katy0303]

I live in the UK and while we don't get a lot of extreme weather events I have seen/heard thunder snow on many occasions - it surprises me that people find it an odd phenomenon when basically if you get slightly wet snow here it's going to make a bang!

[@nealg6810]

I was in the 6th grade that year. I can remember being on the recess ground that whole week leading up to the storm in just a short sleeve shirt. That Saturday, I was shoveling snow with my older brothers.

[@donaldlahoda8693]

The hills of West Virginia were covered for weeks after that storm. It took several days for crews to clear the roads and was the only time I can recall the interstates being closed. Me and my buddies took to snow shoveling folks driveways for a few dollars. I remember that snow being awfully heavy for a twelve year old. Had to scoop it up in layers to get down to the concrete. The piles we left behind must have took a month to finally melt away.

[@Tirani2]

I was 15, living in Roanoke, Virginia. My high school chess team had gone to Chesapeake Virginia for the state championship that weekend. It took us an extra 2 days to get home. Once we got back into Roanoke, school was closed the following week. I ended up hiking over to my boyfriend's house, with two of his friends, and we spent the entire week in his basement playing D&D and eating pizza. Good times.

[@aprilrichards762]

I remember this storm, I was near Pittsburgh, PA. We had so much snow from this storm, a December Nor'easter and a winter of smaller storms that we had enough snow that lay in piles in areas up against houses even in May. So as I was finishing up my Junior in May 1993, kids were in shorts and throwing gritty ice balls at school buses. And it took until the 4th of July for the piles of snow from the plows clearing parking lots to fully melt.

[@RJARRRPCGP]

Yikes! Even 2004 wasn't that bad, despite having big piles and easily snow to my waist in southern Vermont, IIRC. Same with December, 2010-2011, which was the meme of Great-Lakes-region-like seasonal snow tallies in the Connecticut River valley region of Vermont! (easily 60"+) 2011 was full of wet snow and there were roof leaks that year for sure!

[@djg3996]

Bullshit . I live 30 Mi east of Pittsburgh we had over 30 inches during that storm. The storm came over the weekend and on Monday it was sunny and in the 40s. Most of the snow was gone within the week I don't think there was ever a bit of snow still present in July

[@aprilrichards762]

@@djg3996 I remember the gritty piles of snow in the spring 1993. I also remember the big piles of snow. I'm pretty sure that was 1993. The next winter, I remember a lot of very cold weather and schools being shut down.

[@aprilrichards762]

@@RJARRRPCGP I saw the pictures out of Boston several years ago. Looked like Hoth!

[@chriscarter1543]

I think bro’s been lifting. Way to go dude. Great vid.!

[@walkthroughsepic]

This storm actually cancelled a NASCAR race which had been scheduled for the 14th, the Motorcraft 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. As a result, it was moved back a week to the 20th of March.

[@Ally_Rayne6]

Yep! Jeff Gordon almost won the postponed race. But made a huge rookie mistake which ended up giving Morgan Shepherd the win.

[@ryanb.31funky]

I was 12 living in Cresson, PA. 2 hours from Pittsburgh. We didn't have school for about 2 weeks! This is when my dad taught me how to plow and shovel correctly

[@ethanmcintyre7148]

My mother remembers living through this storm in Upstate NY, (Binghamton). Interesting to see much more in depth documentaries coming out about it. This set snow records in Binghamton, only broken by the December 2020 Nor’easter. I’d love to see some breakdown of that, as well. We got over 40 inches in one night.

[@philipricciardi8622]

I was 33 living in Central New Jersey. I went outside on the 13th and heard thundersnow for the first time. On the 14th I was out the door of our little townhouse at 8:00 and started to shovel. Hardest shoveling I’ve ever done because there was no place to put it and between cars it piled up at least 4 feet deep. Neighbors came out at around 10:00 and couldn’t believe how little progress I had made in 2 hours. It wasn’t until 4:00 that I finally cleared one car. A storm to never forget.

[@douggetchess4732]

I was working for an electric utility near Tallahassee during this storm. It caused Cat 1 type hurricane damage and caught everyone off guard. I remember going into work that Saturday morning and seeing blowing snow on US 90 in Quincy, something that is exceeding rare in Florida. And when I had gone to bed the night before temps had been in the 70s. It was truly a freakish event.

[@JBinFL]

We live in Live Oak and had gone to bed with no idea what was on the way ( 13:40 ) We were living in a mobile home at the time and were awakened in the middle of the night by the house shaking. We would find out later that day that we had lost friends to the storm surge at Keaton Beach.

[@jennieambrose]

5:13 72 was the temp in Wilmington, NC- Raleigh (Rah-Lee) is the 67/42 temp. Please don’t take as negative criticism because I absolutely love your channel and am currently binge watching!

[@rebeccamd7903]

I was in Metro Detroit but I don’t remember it being any different then any other winter storm. However, I do believe that was the winter we had -70° with windchill that year. Boy that was horrific! Car broke down and I got frostbite on various parts and it took half a day to warm up. I also remember the summer Mt St Helen’s erupted. A whole summer of cold weather and that sucked!