Date: January 15, 2018 at 06:18:25 From:chaskuchar@nebr, [DNS_Address] Subject: it hit us in nebraska
it was several weeks before we could get to town. the drifts on the roads were higher than the snowplows. my dad took 16mm pictures of it on his camera and passed down to us videos of the storm. chas
Date: January 15, 2018 at 14:52:55 From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: it hit us in nebraska
and I remember those in McCloud as a young girl...and in mt shasta too when the snow was so think and high, streets so quiet with people using skis to get here and there....
Date: January 15, 2018 at 17:23:21 From: eaamon, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: it hit us in nebraska
the blizzard of '78 in MA I had a Ford Econoline van with a 4 foot CB antenna on the top middle of the roof. the snow drifted so high there was less than 9 inches of the top of the antenna showing. it took three days before plows made it to my street in the city.
Date: January 17, 2018 at 19:28:52 From: Teshuvah, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: it hit us in nebraska - hard times
It would be a great learning experience for young people to contact people in retirement homes and ask seniors about major weather events in their youth.
The issue of no insulation would be a major factor.
Today there is actually a paint developed by NASA that insulates a house.
Home Insulation With the Stroke of a Brush - painting on insulation developed by NASA https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff2003/er_4.html
Many young people today in today's welfare state think the government is here to help you. In the case of just the Juan de Fuca alone, if that goes in a major way, government can't help you because they can't get to you. So say scientists (OregonSU, if I recall correctly).
Date: January 22, 2018 at 01:15:01 From: kemokae, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: it hit us in nebraska - hard times
I was born in 1948...but through the years we have known an lot of people, I have pictures of snow in South Dakota in my younger years, every year pretty much with snow up to the heighth of telephone poles back there. We have had blizzards growing up out here in Oregon, and surprisingly we shut down bigger rooms and covered them with heavy blankets(not many doors) and slept in the combination livingroom/dining room back then and we only had an natural gas space heater...couple of times our land lady had us use an oil burner furnace if the gas line froze...but that is how we did it back then, as to the insulation, no problem as most people used newspaper back then when they built their houses. No problem on food to much either as we all cannned food back then and had pantry's. Lanterns if the electricity went out. No one really went anywhere and everyone read books or because we were young colored or played with dolls and made dresses out mom's extra material and hand sewed them. I think I was maybe about four or five when one of my Christmas presents that year was an battery operated small washing machine for dolly clothes and dolly diapers. My sister got the small kiddie stove that could bake cakes about the size of cookies. Our house was so little back then it wasn't hard to heat. It would be more like one big room these days, total size...say the livingroom alone maybe for an entire house. Teacher I had said his dad and him walked across the Columbia river one year completely frozen and really amazed me...cause it's pretty wide where he said they crossed it. No one really travelled much in the winter back then either. Didn't have to as there was not to many places to go. Next door neighbor to us was an doctor's office, and we had an little mini-mart one block up the street...we did have an black and white tv set though....could watch Mickey Mouse cartoons and westerns on it. Roy Rogers/Daniel Boone and such. MOther played both the guitar and the piano for relaxing with nights. We baked cookies an lot and cakes and pies back then also. Made homemade noodles, we kids got to roll out the cut ones when dried and she made them with beef stew meat. I remember blizzards back then but don' t remember the high snow, just an constant bone chilling wind....thick ice on everything. Dad was pretty much the one that left the house if anyone had to do that. No school either for several days. Home sheltered it through the entire time it was going on outside.