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Sometimes it’s hard to convey how high the drifts where in a picture. In the photo in the lower right corner, the kids are leaning against the light post. Normally neither child would have been able to put their hand on the top of the post.
Journaling:
Do you remember the Great Blizzard of 1978? It was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978.
In Indiana on day two, just a half-hour after the arctic front blasted through, the Indianapolis International Airport was closed due to whiteout conditions. At 3 am, the blizzard produced peak winds of 55 mph. Temperatures dropped to zero that morning. Wind chills remained a bone-chilling 40 to 50 below zero nearly all day. Governor Otis Bowen declared a snow emergency for the entire state the morning of the 26th. Snow drifts of 10 to 20 feet made travel virtually impossible, stranding an Amtrak train and thousands of vehicles and weary travelers. During the afternoon of the 26th, the Indiana State Police considered all Indiana roads closed.
We were living in rural Indiana just outside of Royal Center. The field behind our house had little snow on it because the wind dumped most of it in our front yard. We couldn’t get out our front door or the garage. Thankfully we were able to exit out the back door. By the end of the storm, the truck was almost completely buried in snow. (Can you see the cat sitting on the snow drift on top of the truck?) It took nearly week for Sherman to clear the front porch and drive. Frank came over on his big tractor and he and Sherman put a chain on the truck to pull it out of the drift.
I’d never seen so much snow and I’d lived in Indiana my whole life. Snow drifts on the country road in front of our house were huge! When the plows came through, it was like a tunnel one blade width wide. When we were able to get out, we hoped we wouldn’t meet anyone coming the opposite way. There was no way to pass and one of the cars would have to back up.
(Pictures taken January 29th.)
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