Winter Storms (1979)

[@dalebechtel8904]

Love watching these old films. Brings back memories

[@brianarbenz1329]

In the Louisville/Southern Indiana area where I lived, the winds were so fierce that the ice sickles formed on our home’s gutters tilted at exactly the same angle, like they were lining up in formation.

[@maha77]

I can't believe I came across this, I lived in the north east during this storm and remember it well even though I was a kid. The snow drifts were higher than our house and all our water pipes froze and we had no running water for weeks.

[@mauricioespinosa39]

Man! I remember when I was a kid I loved the Blizzard of 79! the best time of my life!

[@mattkaustickomments]

Mauricio Espinosa, you bet!! We had a 2 story colonial with a front porch overhanging the roof. When we opened the front door, the front porch looked like an ice cave! We went upstairs and out a bedroom window onto the porch roof to sled down the snow drift into the front yard!!! We built snow forts that looked like the defense of Planet Hoth! Good times.

[@stevengonzalez27]

Matt Kustom Kostumes You are very lucky not to have drowned in all that snow. Very easy to get desoriented, once it covers your head. But kids just want to have fun. God surely has angels watching over many little ones.

[@janetoconnor3636]

It was 1978 not 1979 that was when the documentary was released and made available

[@JohnJones-ky8fn]

I remember it all so well. My mom & sister went for a few groceries on sleds. While my brother & I dug out. We then made lots of money shoveling snow. Since that day I try to stay prepared with food,generators & what ever else.

[@Blacktopmafia660]

I was 9 when this storm hit Missouri and it’s one to remember as was the 82 blizzard. I can remember the plows being put away and the graders and front loaders being used. Wow we’re lucky to get 6”

[@robertlandonijr2481]

was 14 when the NE 78 blizzad hit ,good ol' Gov. Dukakis , and his sweaters, that was one for the ages.

[@tomshiba51]

The weather channel gets more worked up about 8-10 inches now than the weather service did back in 1978.

[@alexm566]

clicks/retweets/likes are more important than telling people what's actually gonna impact their lives

[@59plexi]

@@alexm566 i bet you click/retweet/like, all day on social media....prove me wrong

[@59plexi]

it was '79 bruh.....

[@janetoconnor3636]

No the show came out in 1979 the storms were in January and February 1978. BRUH.

[@Wereldburger01]

Blizzards in 1979 in America. Parts of Europe were hit by extreme blizzards too during that winter. Especially in West Germany, East Germany (DDR) Denmark, the Netherlands and parts of Great Brittain were the blizzards during late december 1978 and the Valentine blizzard of 1979 extreme and unforgettable.

[@giathomas745]

Big snow storm 🌨 in 1979. The dog 🐕 having fun

[@paulalynnette64]

I lived in Union County, Illinois in 1979, was 14 years old. We had no idea there was going to be snow let alone a blizzard when we went to bed on Saturday, Jan 13th but woke up to inches of snow already on Sunday the 14th. We ended up with 3 ft of snow. No school for more than a week. My mother always shopped on Friday night or Saturday morning so we had food the first 5 days. I remember my mom didn't go to work, she worked at IGA Foodliner. I do know she walked to IGA once they got a truck in and bought some food. We had a blast building igloos, caves and tunnels. I don't remember anything stressful for our family. My mom always had a way of feeding us. My dad walked to work to make sure the factory he worked at was ok. They didn't open but he was responsible for maintenance of the building etc. All our friends enjoyed the accumulation of snow as should a 14 year old! However people all over our state and the Midwest had different sad experiences and of course the storm pushed on and the east got hit too!

[@joshuasmith6439]

My mother was in high school at the time, and lived in Northern Ohio in 1977-78. Those winters were absolutely horrendous. My mother remembers being snowed in and at that time it was more country than suburban so they were snowed in for the entire week. To this day though mom always complains that we don't get winter in Cleveland anymore because nothing like that happens anymore.

[@98grand5point9]

I was a Missouri State Highway worker in 1978-1979. We worked more than 12 hours a day for over a month beginning on December 31st 1978. I was stuck more than once even though we had chains and lots of weight. Many places in the Kansas City area where we worked could only be cleared with loaders because of the drifting. We had no more snow blower trucks in the state at that time so some roads that were severely drifted took days and weeks to clear. I hope I never go through that much snow again.

[@stevengonzalez27]

98grand5point9 We hope not, but I have a feeling we just might. This coming winter has started way early, and officially it is not even winter yet.

[@stevengonzalez27]

98grand5point9 We hope not, but I have a feeling we just might. This coming winter has started way early, and officially it is not even winter yet.

[@robertsoto8556]

That's still a routine in Los Angeles.In the winter in rains causing it to grow brush. Summer comes around it drys out the brush causing fires. Then after the fires it all dirt. Then the winter rains come causing mudslides. Happens every year.

[@tammydriver5759]

I remember how bad the winters of 77-78 and 78-79 were in East-Central IL.

[@sodoffbaldrick3038]

I was a student going to technical school in Cranston Rhode Island and lived in Providence at the time. The storm wasn't supposed to be that bad and our teachers had said that if anybody left early they would be marked as absent for the day. My grades weren't too good there, but I took a chance and left early. The bus from Cranston to downtown Providence should have taken approximately 35 minutes, instead it took about 50, but the real storm hit just about the time we made downtown. I lived on Gano Street and had what was normally a 5 minute bus ride up the hill which ended up taking 45 minutes. I understand that I was very lucky to make that bus because they stopped running after that, and lots of people had to sleep in the lobby of the bank and inside stores. I hadn't made any provisions for that kind of weather, and had a checking account but no cash. Luckily for me the only store within walking distance that would accept my check had also been caught open. Their doors failed and so they had no choice but to literally stay open and do business. The snow was so hard that I was able to walk on top of it to the store often level with the roofs of vehicles that had been parked on the street. After several days of isolation so, my boyfriend, who worked for the state of Massachusetts was able to come down and rescue me. The difference in the highways between Rhode Island and Massachusetts was amazing. As soon as we cross the state border we had a relatively easy time of it, whereas Rhode Island was literally shut down and no traffic was moving.

[@summerrose299]

I heard about this from my Grandmother who called me while I was living in England. I'm so glad I missed this blizzard! England in '79 was warm and sunny with just a soft misty rain.

[@larrywalker6105]

Ì was in England 1979, spring and fall.. Lord Mountbatten was assinated that year over there.

[@tonyhill1141]

No one who was old enough to remember can ever forget 79. I lived in the Chicago area. Shut down my little town completely. My mom was a cop. She had to live at the station with all the other cops that week.

[@allandavis8201]

I joined the RAF in 1979 and it was (as far as memory serves) one of the mildest winters we ever had in the United Kingdom, glad I didn’t have to do my basic training in even 50% of the conditions that the USA suffered/suffers. In 🇬🇧 we only need 1/2 inches of snow and the whole country shuts down, good job we don’t have such blizzard conditions very often. I really feel sorry for the gentleman who was told by his insurance company that he was “covered for nothing”, it’s seems nothing has changed, insurance companies are quite happy to take your money, tell you how good your policy is, and that you have nothing to worry about, and then, wham, you put a claim in and you find out your policy wasn’t worth the paper it was written on,and when you complain all you get is “you should have read the small print”, if we had good enough eyesight and a week to read it then ok, but who does have the time or inclination, we trust the broker or salesperson to be honest and steer us in the right direction, will we ever learn, I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT, and the insurance companies will keep on conning us with their patter and LIES. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative film 🎥😔👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@community1949]

It was as if Indianapolis Indiana was picked up and deposited in Siberia. I have never, ever been so scared in all my life. It snowed several feet then the horrible, crushing cold set it and wind. Back then they did not plow or salt most streets and most people had rear wheel drive cars. I had a 1972 Camaro and the thing would just sit in one spot and spin - no traction whatsoever. And the forecasting was none existent. Most of us went home oblivious not knowing what was coming and very few of us went to the grocery store and stocked up on groceries. It was a nightmare.

[@armitius66]

January 28 1977 Buffalo NY got it. A cold weather hurricane came off Lake Erie at 11 30 am. I was 10 years old.

[@56demonseed]

Blizzard of 77 I was 17. I'm 63 now and lived through MANY MANY of Buffalo winters..... The recent November 2022 storm when we got over 6 feet.. The Christmas Blizzard of 2022 [ which caused 40 deaths ] The November 2014 storm dropped 7 feet , There were more here & there, but IMO The Bizzard of 77 was "THE WORST" I have ever experienced so far in my lifetime. Buffalo ALWAYS gets the bad rap about Lake Effect snow , when the countys east of Lake Ontario get POUNED almost EVERY year with much much more snow that we get here in Buffalo . its all good though .. I LOVE BUFFALO & I wouldn't what it any other way. ......🏈 GO BILLS 🏈 ......

[@Hellodarknessmyolefriend]

I do remember the snow around the great lake region.

[@catrinlewis939]

I lived in Center City Philly that winter. People were remarkably cheerful about the whole thing, not to say punchdrunk. Happily for us, the sun came out the day after the second storm and people took to the streets to play in the snow.

[@dannynicastro3207]

Catrin Lewis ...We are always, n I mean ALWAYS, cool in Philly!!!🤗 cn only speak for So. Philly. But for the most part, we are good all over. 90 percent of the time.😐🤗😎😁😀😆

[@thomasmurray6883]

True

[@tompotter5981]

I lived close to Poughkeepsie, New York when this happened. It was bad but l don't remember it being quite a serious bad deal as all of this. Ironically we had a snowstorm a week before Memorial Day.

[@trainsupporter9088]

Those 3 winters: 1976-77, 1977-1978, 1978-1979 were awful - I remember them well. Lived in upstate NY and then Washington, DC and we hadn't seen anything like that in many years.

[@armitius66]

Nobody though about global warming . We feared an ice age.

[@dgwaters]

Sweet film! This and Day of the Killer Tornadoes!

[@norobbery]

That would be the winter of '78. '77 had been a bad winter in Ohio Valley but not as bad as '78. So cold that large creeks and rivers froze solid in Kentucky. We couldn't believe we could walk over our swimming hole. Loved hearing "no school today" on the radio.

[@janetoconnor3636]

Both were bad but to me it was colder in seventy seven and more snow in seventy eight.

[@FortisKnight]

It was equally as long and terrible a winter in Wyoming, where I moved to from Los Angeles as a youth in 1978. Culture shock and some of the worst winters on record

[@caturdaynite7217]

Made a lot of money for a sixteen year old in ''79. Shoveled lots of snow. I remember the ice falling off the buildings downtown. Saw the same clip as in the video on the news.

[@ericpitcher5679]

I grew up in Oswego, it is like that almost every year.

[@tomshiba51]

Smoking , smoking everywhere. And I lived among many who smoked back then, but never gave it a thought or consideration.

[@Theheavymetalshop]

You know what's sad is how judgemental people have become back then people were willing to help out and without backstabbing and Judging you people would get you a pack of smokes weather they smoked or not now not only would they not help you but give you an unwanted lecture about smoking thinking they are doing something to help you. B.S.! I fully understand the dangers of smoking it as just an example of how people have changed from willing to help you no matter what to finding any reason possible so they don't feel guilty about ignoring the situation.

[@janetoconnor3636]

I agree. Nobody is perfect. Back then smoking was in vogue. Please stop judging the past by today's standards.

[@JanetOConnor-tl4bb]

I agree everybody is judging the past by today's standards. Unless you were around at the time just stop complaining about others look at yourself in the mirror and do right by yourself STOP PLAYING GOD.

[@grizzlycountry1030]

I was born in this snowstorm. A friend of the family took my mom to hospital in his work truck not stopping and slamming through snow drifts until he got her there.

[@steviedirksen1938]

Our snow drift was at the top of the telephone poles

[@debrapaulick4619]

Hi I am in Wisconsin it's been -30 to -70 % for almost a week now we are in a polar vortex ☃️

[@altarique123]

I have no words

[@MrMenefrego1]

I was 17 and made a bundle with our old hardly-running snowblower; (it took me hours to get it running). When my father returned home from doing nothing, he discovered that I had made over $200.00 with *his snowblower* he just put his hand out and said, "Fork it over!" I think I had steam shooting out of my ears lol; I was so angry! But my brother and I had a blast making gigantic tunnels and forts to have snowball fights in the snow!

[@rebeccabilbrey1849]

Worked at the airport in indy. Took 2 weeks to find my white 66 mustang. Dad came and got me. Guess we were some of the very last to get out before it shut the air port down.

[@norobbery]

Bet you wish you still had that '66 Mustang!

[@stevengonzalez27]

Rebecca Bilbrey At least you made it home safely. Would have been hungry and maybe cold too at that airport.

[@lilred00051]

Insurance, f#cking people since 1979!

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Insurance fucking people since insurance began.

[@allandavis8201]

I don’t know how insurance firms operate in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, and in my personal experience, insurance policies I have had, have worked for me, just last month (August 2019) my television decided to break down, and having rung the insurance company, a tv 📺 engineer came out and took my tv for repair, within 24 hours they said it was beyond repair, and within three days I had a brand new tv, to a higher specifications than my old one, at no extra charge to me. That’s not my only positive experience with insurance companies. Ok, I might be the exception to the rule, but they aren’t all bad in my opinion.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

@@allandavis8201 Unless you had a warranty or extended warranty with the manufacture you wouldn't get it fixed. If you did then you'd take the set to an authorized dealer or pay to ship it to the manufacturer to be repaired.

[@littlejennhunter1803]

I was a yr old in '79. The blizzard of '78 i was born a month later. I was living in Massachusetts

[@indy_go_blue6048]

I lived in Georgia from '73 to 79 then moved back home to Illinois in Dec. '79. I must've brought the heat back to the Midwest because we haven't had anything like this since. That winter we had temps in the single digits and a bad ice storm in January in Georgia. I'm not sorry I missed this.

[@johnnyhawkins43]

We had it kinda rough here in Kentucky back in those days!!!!!!!!!

[@jamesogrady6612]

Johnny Hawkins 1977 Blizzard in Buffalo, NY was bad 19 feet of snow City & Schools were closed for 3 weeks. People were afraid to come here like people were afraid of the movie JAWS. Wasn't funny the Whole Country called us SNOW CAPITAL OF USA. It sucks we still average 10-12 feet every winter from Lake Erie. Why of all other Citys near 5 Great Lakes does Buffalo get most snow. Some years we have to cancel ST PATS PARADE because of too much snow & that's in March. That's not all wrong with Buffalo we lost 4 Superbowls. Are Bars are open till 4am. I think bars are open because we have a lot of Irish & Polish Folks here. This is hard to believe they call us Miami of the north because we have lots of 90 degree days in summer. Always WHITE XMAS IN BUFFALO.

[@giathomas745]

Big snow storm ☔️

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Remember: "If it didn't happen in the East, it didn't happen." -A. Lincoln, 1862

[@dannynicastro3207]

indy_go_blue60 ...Abe....good ol Abraham Lincoln...one of the few best.

[@tomshiba51]

It amazes me how poorly prepared we were back in the seventies, even those areas that traditionally dealt with heavy snow.

[@stevengonzalez27]

tomshiba51 Most individuals and families are not any better prepared today. Only a few things in their fridge and much empty space in kitchen cupboards. 😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕😕 Not that hard to place some packages of spaghetti and cans of sauce in there. Cheap enough, and easy to prepare. Sure can safe the day, any winter blizzard times. 😀😁☺😀😀😀😀😀☺☺😊

[@mariolopez-ri8wd]

I remember been working at the time and here in michigan was terrble thanks Gpd we made it the roads where 2 3 feet snow

[@JadeB628]

If I'm not mistaken the blizzard of 1978 was worse. so was 79. but I even remember the forecast for that night in Boston in 1978. they said 4-6 inches of snow. we ended up between 5-6 feet of snow. I could touch the snow from a second-floor window. it was a state of emergency for 3-4 weeks. it took 3 days just to clear the snow from the front door. but you couldn't go anywhere.

[@mikedougherty9773]

Worked at Wisconsin steel lots of overtime

[@robertlock5501]

I believe it was the storm of '79 which made my grandparents sell their place in Chicagoland and move down to Arkansas

[@patricadyson778]

I remember this snow had fun.

[@BellyLover06]

Just goes to show that what's happening now is the same as what's happened from this documentary. It's totally normal.

[@wandajames6234]

In Northern Ontario we call this Spring.... but even the Northern parts of the U.S. don't seem to know how to prepare with the proper amount of equipment.

[@norobbery]

@ 9:08 Bless their little hearts.

[@jffsmth330]

Thanks for your first hand experience, 98grand5point9!

[@katherinea.williams3044]

Can you imagine what that (people) would be like nowadays? I think there would be looting & chaos; which is what we saw in Katrina & possibly any other massive storm, were it to happen again. I’m up for looting pharmacies though✨✌🏼

[@deborahchesser7375]

BAD ass chopper pilot flying in that shit wow

[@williamrogers.]

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !!!!!🏃‍♂️!!🏃‍♀️!!🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️!!!!!!

[@MichelleSantos-kv9zs]

Floodinformsenter.that got me lafffy

[@cwspod]

Praise technology!

[@cecea665]

Fast forward to 2021.... 😒

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

I was only 1 yrs old literally

[@stupendor1]

13:17 Future presidential candidate Michael Dukakis

[@jas0707]

And now Asshole.

[@joespitler3929]

Massachusetts Governor at the time

[@AshevilleAussie]

Looks very familiar. Must be cyclic (dah) Asheville Aussie 🐨

[@markbrown4039]

3:39. Boom-bah!

[@tammysims8716]

Wait, they didn't have color tv when this was made? Starsky and Hutch did! Lol

[@raf1425]

I remember that brutal winter. Don't remember anyone blaming it on global warming/climate change that I recall.

[@dannynicastro3207]

raf 1 ....dont think that wasnt even a talked about issue...unless one was a meteorologist. Hmmmmm...

[@faykguru]

Thank God scientists have been working and discovering, over the last 40 years.

[@loopthetube]

@@faykguru the said mid 70s we were headed for a new ice age. That turned out not to be lucrative enough.

[@janetoconnor3636]

No not global warming but the return of the Little Ice Age after both 77 and 78. Even in 1983 and 85. Warming started after the hot dry summer of 1988 when NASA came up with this theory first GREENHOUSE EFFECT than Global Warming now Climate Change. Fact is the climate and weather are not even the same things.

[@LuigiGodzillaGirl]

Good to know little has changed in the last 40 years in regards to natural disasters and insurance companies screwing people over.

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

It's always sunny in California

[@myphonyaccount]

stock clip on plows and winches so locals with 4x4 trucks/SUVs can help. install EV outlets at crucial buildings so electric cars can donate power in outages.

[@miltonsteele6676]

wheres greta when u need her!!

[@normlor8109]

very few other Countries would go to this trouble to save one life!!

[@jcrider3656]

unlike the movie I remember it in color, why did they depict this as black and white tv of the 60's ?

[@stevengonzalez27]

Jc rider Black and white did cost a lot less then. Still informed us all the same. I still don't mind.

[@jamesburke4358]

If this weather keeps up, this Climate Change is gonna get us for good by 1985.

[@joejohnston2035]

Year i got my drivers license

[@SuV33358]

Smoke em if ya got em 😂 Everybody smoked then. I was 9

[@shinobogema3538]

Non smokers.bet u like ur fast food and processed food etc etc.

[@peterf.229]

yes because eating food gives other people cancer and migraines that don't make your horrible choices?

[@dannynicastro3207]

Smokey Bear ....that is so damn funny. I mean it....second hand calories.LMAO....😀😆😉

[@stevengonzalez27]

Shinob Ogema Nope. My family likes whole grain bread, grass fed beef and organic vegetables. Home cooked of course. We are also much healthier and stronger then average, because we care what we do and how we do it.

[@stevengonzalez27]

Shinob Ogema Nope. My family likes whole grain bread, grass fed beef and organic vegetables. Home cooked of course. We are also much healthier and stronger then average, because we care what we do and how we do it.

[@kennyp507]

Can we make FEMA watch this again...they fell off the wagon

[@butchknouse8316]

How much tobacco money did they get?

[@mattkaustickomments]

Brother 1: “I’m not gonna donate, YOU donate! Brother 2: “Let’s hook up Mikey. His body rejects everything.” [Camera follows IV tube up to Close up on bottle of LIFE brand blood platelets] [Mikey’s pale, listless face brightens into a warm smile] Brother 1: “He likes it!! Hey Mikey!!!”

[@dannynicastro3207]

Matt Kustom Kostumes ....strange but I like it!!!!😆😁🤗 hoping Mikey is okay now, as we speak! Yo, Mikey...you out dere???? There.🤔

[@stanleyrakoski1851]

We're all going to die !! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas.!!!!

[@alexm566]

I feel sorry for drug addicts. They probably get forceful very painful detox.

[@Thatguyjack758]

sorry 1979, 2020 is still the worst year ever

[@lhsouthern1988]

At least Mike Johnson isn’t speaker of the house yet and using relief money as a political weapon

[@celticlofts]

She's worried about getting her son to the hospital for his appointment while she's puffing on a cigarette .. way to go mom..

[@tfurru]

Hopefully the National Guard got her some more smokes!

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Ppl weren't so judgmental about smokers and parenting in 1979.

[@summerrose299]

While in hospital. my Doctor and nurses told me to stop smoking BUT I could DRINK all I wanted too. Reason? They didn't smoke but they all drank! FOOLS!

[@williammontroy9024]

Smoking was still good for ya back then ..I believe it was Clinton that had the cancer put in tobacco back in nineteen hundred and ninty two

[@txarguy8750]

Your post gave me cancer.

[@YellowMosquito]

This year its gonna be much worse

[@dannynicastro3207]

Weird to see her smoking in house with an immunocompromised child...his leukemia!!! Take that ciggie out in the yard, or on the porch. 🤗😁😉😃 I remember this storm...was 12 yo n had 4 days off from school!!!!😆😜🤓

[@59plexi]

a lotta coffee/cigs/paneling.....