The Great Blizzard of 1977
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Published 2008-04-06
In case someone is wondering if I picked this up, yes, I know I spelled "Broadcast" wrong.
This presentation is in memory of all those who lived through and died in the great blizzard of 1977 in Pennsylvania and New York State.
I would like to thank my grandfather, Ralph Jones, who lived through and saw the whole thing, for taping the original "brodcast" which you are about to hear
All Comments (21)
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Ah the good old days. I remember this like it was yesterday. I was 11 and loved every minute of it. Now, not so much.....
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What an awesome piece of history. Major props to the uploader. I love old broadcasts!
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I remember my cats using the snowdrifts to walk up to my bedroom window. We tried to keep them in but they were insistent about going out. They changed their minds QUICKLY.. :)
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My dad and the rest of my family made it through this in buffalo! Glad to hear of this now! Thanks bondfan91!
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Thank you for taking the time to compile this for all of us that lived thru it. Deeply appreciated...
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Awesome video! It sure brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting!
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I lived through this and I can tell you it was amazing and really scary!!!
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Thanks for sharing, this brings back memories.
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Fantastic post! Thank you! I remember it well from here in Ohio. Those two winters were unlike anything before or since. The pictures were tremendous! I'll never forget the young people nearly touching the traffic signal. Wow!
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I remember that blizzard very well, I was hauling supplies with my snowmobile to people out of town, who were snowed in, and as I recall I did a lot of beer, and cigarette runs.
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Thanks for the recordings of news and weather! I was 27, living in Minneapolis in the autumn of 1976 (the cold weather started in early September, and seemed to never end.) By early 1977, I had set up interviews in Silicon Valley and SoCal, and left on January 9 (after the Vikings last Super Bowl appearance) when the temp was -15F (the low that day was -32, still the record for that day) and the high -9F. On the drive down to Dallas I was listening to the radio and the reports were exactly like.
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Great job, it was this blizzard that gave Buffalo our snowy reputation! The pics really bring back the memories, stuck at home for days, walking over mountains to try to get to the store for milk and bread before they ran out....thanks for posting.
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Thank you for sharing this historic broadcast.I was only two and I wasn't there bit I had family in upstate New York.
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ya kudos indeed to your grandpa for taping this, super cool!
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Once we were able to get outside we, as kids, made so much fun. We were walking in the roofs of the houses. The snow banks and drifts were incredibly high. We were without power for quite a while but as kids were not too concerned... Not like today... Kids would b freakin out without Internet & cell phones!! It was scary too thou, my dad couldn't get home, many ppl died. The pics on YouTube were nice to see, brings back alot of me memories & helps tell my kids the story. Thanks 4 Uploadin
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I was in my early twenties and work for the New York City Department of Sanitation. I think we worked for 3 months without a day off 12 hour days. the coffee truck stops in the garage. He couldn't get home so stay for several days. We ate cheesecake for days.
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That jingle thingy at the beginning of the news broadcast will always remind me of the Blizz…one of the Chicago radio stations still uses it & it brings me back to this each & every time.
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I was 14 and living in Illinois at the time. We got hit hard too and there was a snow drift across my drive way tall enough I could have stepped onto the roof of the garage if there wasn't a 4 foot gap between the roof and the drift. Dad parked one of his cars on the street and it got buried by snow plows. We didn't see it for nearly a month.
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I was a freshman at SUNY Oswego during this storm. Typical 18 year olds, rather than being concerned with the storm, instead we were jumping off the roof into snow banks, and making road trips to IGA for beer (18 was the drinking age back then.) - Great memories
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love it! that audio is AWESOME! Thanks for sharing!
