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January 3-6th Winter Storm


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  On 1/3/2014 at 1:58 AM, jbcmh81 said:

Closest I've come to blizzard conditions was December 19, 1995 in the northern Miami Valley in Ohio.  Had about 16" with 40mph winds.  Drifts were crazy.

 

I experienced '78. I was 20 years old. Think whiskey and snowmobiles.

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  On 1/3/2014 at 2:08 AM, dmc76 said:

1978 Blizzard is one of two storms (the other 1974) my dad continuously talks about at least once every winter. 

 

I experienced both of those.  Sadly I didn't know just how special they were.  I was just a kid in middle and high school at those times. 

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  On 1/3/2014 at 2:31 AM, snowstormcanuck said:

Since we're throwing analogs around, the current model progs kind of remind me of a poor man's pre-Christmas 2004. Shifted west a bit though.

 

1/14/1992 and 2/23/2003 also come to mind.

 

But again, synoptically, this is really a poor man's bomb potential given the unimpressive southern stream wave. 

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I remember the Blizzard of '78 here in Flint. I remember there were snowdrifts 10' in spots and the snow was easily 2' deep in the lowest spots. I got up in the morning and the front room window was covered 2/3 of the way up. The entire east side of our house was drifted to almost the roofline. I remember people died in MI because of it. The only school open for miles and miles was St. Mary's Catholic. 

 

I remember another really bad winter storm when I was a kid, in I think it was 1967. My dad and i went outside to shovel at one point, it was after dark and all you could see was the streetlight. You couldn't hardly even see across the street. Out of nowhere, a blast of lightning hit something like a few houses away. My dad told me to drop the shovel and get in the house immediately! Neither of us had any clue thundersnow even existed and it scared the hell out of him. The snowflakes were the size of silver dollars and coming down like I've never seen since. We got over 20" and the whole city was pretty much shut down for two days.

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