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15. I vaguely remember a few snow storms

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 01:37 PM

Dec 2025

Here's the Snowvember of 2014.

https://www.weather.gov/buf/lake1415_stormb.html

I believe the worst one was the Buffalo blizzard of 2022, two days before Christmas. Reed Timmer came to Buffalo and literally saved people who were out and got stuck in this blizzard.

https://blog.ametsoc.org/2023/10/12/once-in-a-generation-the-2022-buffalo-blizzard/

I told my boss and my clients family that I would not be going to work on Friday December 23rd. I would have been stranded for over a week at a clients home for Christmas. Yes, I would have been on the clock and received pay for the entire duration of being stranded during and after the blizzard. It's not where I wanted to be stranded for Christmas.

I take Buffalo No Travel Bans seriously. There's a reason why travel bans are enacted, to save lives. emergency services can't reach you if you get into trouble.

A young woman (originally from a southern state) just moved to Buffalo and she was driving home from work. She got stranded and froze to death waiting for help. I felt awful for her loved ones.

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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 2025 #73

North Dakota 1966 AuntieKatie Dec 2025 #74

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