Comments on: Remember the Blizzard of ’78 https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/08/remember-blizzard-of-78/ Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/08/remember-blizzard-of-78/#comment-485998 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:49:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15826#comment-485998 We here in West Michigan were nailed with this storm as well. Western Michigan University was shut down for several days, reflecting the fact that Kalamazoo itself was effectively closed for the same amount of time. If you could cross-country ski, a much-more rare activity then than it is now, you could get about, even though nothing was open for several days. After the initial novelty (we could walk out our 3rd floor apartment window onto a snowbank blown against the building) it was not much fun, and has not, at least for me, become one of those incidents from years past that is remembered with the fondness that time’s passage often creates.

I too wish Joseph well.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/08/remember-blizzard-of-78/#comment-485997 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:07:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15826#comment-485997 Not only that but over the next few years that region had a handful of additional storms (bob, October storm, etc.) of similar magnitude with respect to the coastal effects. Then the super storms of the early 21st centrury. Etc.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/08/remember-blizzard-of-78/#comment-485996 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:05:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15826#comment-485996 Joe, I hope you weather the weather!

]]> By: Joseph A. Marcus https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/08/remember-blizzard-of-78/#comment-485995 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:14:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15826#comment-485995 About 8 1/2 minutes into this video, meteorologist Harvey Leonard says, “I don’t think there’s a strong probability that we’ll ever see anything like this again.” Ever. Never.

Ahem … As I write this at 2:00 a.m. Saturday, we have wind gusts of 50-70 mph, too much snow outside to assess from inside, and those good ol’ blizzard sounds that — if you grew up as I did in the Midwest — were almost comforting as you snuggled in bed under the blankets at night. How can something so cold outside make one feel so “warm” inside? Ah, the power of memory.

Cambridge and Boston have no large-scale power outages … YET. Uh, if we did I guess I wouldn’t be writing this.

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