Back home we lived on a dead end street and my house is a raised ranch and the snow was plowed to the end of the street and was higher then the roof of my house. Strangers becoming friends. But Sheriff Newgent took them for a helicopter ride to see how bad the roads were drifting shut over and over. [26] The parking lot of Fenway Park was used for the National Guard to stage its efforts. As I headed towards the front hallway of the store, I noted it to be crowded with many employees. We could not get to the highway from our road County Road 350 South so we walked the quarter mile to the U.S. 31 where Bill picked us up and took us to town. Calvert remembers standing at Junkyard Junction Indiana 14 and US. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Far from Russia, a pro-Moscow sliver of land tries to cling to its identity and keep war at bay, Man who lost wife, son in Texas mass shooting tells story, For 40 years he blamed himself for a girls murder. We went back inside the bar and continued our conversation. I lived through it as a 20 year old. About 20people died as a direct or indirect result of the storm, most due to heart attacks or traffic accidents. 18.4 inches. January 29 - February 2, 1966. How could one forget? Other notable happenings? Photos of cars half hidden in huge snow banks were on the Sentinels front page every day. Several people were found dead in downtown Providence, near the central police station; they may have been seeking shelter. The poor visibility and the depth of the snowfall stranded many motorists, who, due to inaccurate forecasting, were not prepared for a blizzard. Thousands of employees were sent home starting in the early afternoon of February 6,[11] but thousands more were still caught by the storm. Muskegon, Michigan, had up to 33.8 inches of snow[4] in four days due to heavy lake-effect snow squalls after the blizzard began. Worst Storms of All Time - The Ground Blizzard of 1977 When I got to work, nobody was there except a security guard, two other tirebuilders and a foreman.

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