Well, I remember the Great storm of 1967 in Chicago....and this wasn't as bad.
But it had its moments.
1967 was 27 inches. I made it to school, one of a few hundred students in a High School that had close to 4000.
My bus driver(I lived more than 3 miles away) was a crazy Italian guy who managed to plow that bus through the snow drifts at 7 am and still get me to school ON TIME! For That - I thank him.
Of course, hardly anyone was there so I attended Physics(Mr. Rush lived across the street from the school and he was never absent!) and P.E. My other teachers wisely stayed home. Physical Ed was memorable because I finally had an opportunity to play volleyball with people who meant it. Boys!
Spiking and slamming, it was so exciting. Girls' Volleyball was all wimpy, screaming, dropping the ball, avoiding the ball or hitting it with a fist so that it flew high into the rafters.
It was a great storm. Dad was stuck at work, downtown for 2 days, and his kids had to shovel and shovel and shovel, with only one shovel so he could park his car. He took the train home.
A neighbor got a plow attached to his truck and plowed our street. My mother made bread for the first time. No school for two days, then the weekend!
This snowstorm, we had a snowblower! What a difference! The day was sunny and we shoveled and used the snow blower and the sunlight melted some of the thin patches...it was almost comfortable.
The bad part...we lost our electricity for 15 hours. from 7:30 PM to 10:15 AM...roughly/approximately. The 10:15 is what I remember. Because I was wondering how we would be able to handle below zero cold without heat and electricity. Our woodpile was getting low and we are too old to manually open and close the garage door...but we would have tried it.
I had not been aware of how dependent we were on electricity....that was mind opening!
So here are some pictures:
Our fire to keep us somewhat warm.
Outside the storm rages with 50 mph gusts.
The morning, after the snow plow and the electricity returned.
Mr. is 6'6" so the snow is deeper than it looks.
Then we took a ride to get more gas for the snow blower and the main streets were empty!
And the stores were all closed and so were most of the gas stations!
But we found an open one, bought more logs, just in case, and went home to widen the driveway, but didn't.
crossposted at DK4