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5. Looks like a whole lot of exertion

Reply to LuckyCharms (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:06 PM

Dec 2025

You would have needed your cookie fuel that day, Lucky!

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Worst snow storm you've experienced? [View all] True Dough Dec 2025 OP

This one, I think. 2020. 40 inches? (pics) LuckyCharms Dec 2025 #1

Looks like a whole lot of exertion True Dough Dec 2025 #5

The worst part was.... LuckyCharms Dec 2025 #7

Great Blizzard of '78 in Massachusetts Ritabert Dec 2025 #2

Wow. Just saw yours after finishing mine yorkster Dec 2025 #4

We got 4 feet in a Boston suburb Ritabert Dec 2025 #11

I remember the sinking of the SS Peter Stuyvestant during the blizzard Ritabert Dec 2025 #18

I had forgotten about that. . yorkster Dec 2025 #24

I hear they left it there on the bottom. Ritabert Dec 2025 #32

It was the day of my father's memorial service. intheflow Dec 2025 #35

The Pike was just very windy and the snow kept blowing up onto the engine Ritabert Dec 2025 #45

The whole North East got clobbered with that one. The '77-'78 winters are what drove me to Florida...nt mitch96 Dec 2025 #48

LOL! I hear you. Ritabert Dec 2025 #50

Boston: Our side street was snowed in for more than a week. Eugene Dec 2025 #52

I remember it well. We took a sled to the market which was a mile away. Ritabert Dec 2025 #64

Blizzard of 78. Was able to x-country ski yorkster Dec 2025 #3

We used a sled to walk to the supermarket and see what food we could get. Ritabert Dec 2025 #13

As a skier the "worst" storms are the ones that end with freezing rain or GreatGazoo Dec 2025 #6

Chicago, 1967 CanonRay Dec 2025 #8

See my post #27 (n/t) PJMcK Dec 2025 #29

I was 9, our house was near Midway Airport. Martin Eden Dec 2025 #36

Me too. We jumped off the roof into snowdrifts. Demobrat Dec 24 #76

New York City metro area blizzard, 1996 Rocknation Dec 2025 #9

I lived in Utica, NY PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2025 #10

Me, too. Just a babe in Utica 1950-1956. quaint Dec 2025 #19

FL 1980's White stuff was everywhere. Lochloosa Dec 2025 #12

We're talking True Dough Dec 2025 #14

....maybe Lochloosa Dec 2025 #22

I vaguely remember a few snow storms Niagara Dec 2025 #15

I think I remember that MorbidButterflyTat Dec 2025 #62

Luckily I live in the north towns and not the south towns Niagara Dec 2025 #63

You might appreciate this... electric_blue68 Dec 2025 #68

I certainly appreciate that, electric_blue68 Niagara Dec 2025 #70

I though you'd get a kick out of that! electric_blue68 Dec 2025 #71

Worst I remember was the Blizzard of '78... malthaussen Dec 2025 #16

There was so much snow in Boston following the blizzard Ritabert Dec 2025 #17

Denver (several, but most snow 31.8 inches March, 2003) hlthe2b Dec 2025 #20

Blizzard of '93, one of those "Storm of the Century" things. I was in Georgia, so it was bad. Solly Mack Dec 2025 #21

The Great Blizzard of 1978. Southeast, Ohio. SamKnause Dec 2025 #23

It sounds like you got it worse than Boston did Ritabert Dec 2025 #33

I live in Battle Creek, I remember both of these. Americanme Dec 2025 #25

Chicago 1967. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2025 #26

See my post #27 (n/t) PJMcK Dec 2025 #28

I was in Valparaiso, Indiana during that blizzard. murielm99 Dec 2025 #43

Suburb of Chicago 1967 PJMcK Dec 2025 #27

LOL, that sounds like fun. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2025 #30

Which suburb? Martin Eden Dec 2025 #37

We lived in Downers Grove PJMcK Dec 2025 #38

I've lived in Downers Grove since 1986 Martin Eden Dec 2025 #39

We lived at 6208 Fairmont Drive PJMcK Dec 2025 #40

I'm 3 miles west of your old house Martin Eden Dec 2025 #44

Fun conversation PJMcK Dec 2025 #56

Happy holidays for you and yours as well Martin Eden Dec 2025 #59

I remember that blizzard Cadfael Dec 2025 #72

Worst winter, NYC 1996 PJMcK Dec 2025 #31

One particular period in January, 1996 no_hypocrisy Dec 2025 #41

Gosh, what a travail! PJMcK Dec 2025 #69

Mid 1960s, Loring Air Force Base, Maine piddyprints Dec 2025 #34

I remember getting two feet on the day before MLK Day a few years ago nuxvomica Dec 2025 #42

Probably 1977 or 78 in eastern Ohio. doc03 Dec 2025 #46

The winter of 1983 in South Lake Tahoe, CA 10 Turtle Day Dec 2025 #47

Indiana blizzard of 1978 Emile Dec 2025 #49

As above, the Blizzard of 1978. I was living on Fort Knox, Kentucky at the time. Aristus Dec 2025 #51

Halloween Blizzard of 1991 in MN - 37 inches of snow in Duluth without accounting for drifts. waterwatcher123 Dec 2025 #53

On that day, True Dough Dec 2025 #54

You are quite right - seared into memory after following a plow truck for hours and hours trying to get home. waterwatcher123 Dec 2025 #58

not really a snowstorm per se but Skittles Dec 2025 #55

I was going to say Blizzard of 1969 until reminded of the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Boston. Eugene Dec 2025 #57

my ex was in grad school at Harvard when the 1969 storm happened yellowdogintexas Dec 2025 #66

In England in the mid-80s LogDog75 Dec 2025 #60

NJ in the early '60's mnhtnbb Dec 2025 #61

1967 ProfessorGAC Dec 2025 #65

The worst was in New York, probably 1975 or 6. surrealAmerican Dec 2025 #67

NW OH 78 VGNonly Dec 23 #73

North Dakota 1966 AuntieKatie Dec 23 #74

Blizzard of '79 in Illinois/Wisconsin AllyCat Dec 24 #75