I live in West Virginia and I can remember my sister and brother-in-law laughing at my mom who was preparing for a major storm. She got tons of canned food, dry milk, cereal, cat and dog food. We had a kerosene heater so she got three 5 gallon cans of kerosene, made sure the car was full of gas so we wouldn't get fuel line freeze up. Made sure her meds were filled. When the storm came they weren't laughing anymore. They were wishing they had taken their smart asses to the store like she did. My mom followed the weather faithfully.
My mom was still pregnant with me during this, so I have no real memories. We lived in the snow belt, so to us, this was probably not much more than a particularly intense winter storm. My mom says she doesn't remember this storm, but she also told me that she doesn't remember storms. My dad, however, remembers it better than she does. He recalls not having any electricity in our home for 5 or 6 days because of this.
I was 22 years old at the time living in Rochester. I was a letter carrier for the postal service. I can clearly remember finishing up delivering mail around 4:00pm on Saturday March 13th when the flurries started. The ground was pretty much clear from snow. By approximately 8:30pm the snow was up past me knees. I have personal videos of that storm. The next day I slipped a disc in my back shoveling the driveway. I’ve had problems in that area in my back ever since. Hard to believe it’s been 30 years!
We were out of town at my grandmother's funeral when the Governor closed all the roads in Pennsylvania. When we got back home we found that our neighbor had come over every three hours to clear the snow (23") from our driveway. Great guy!
I hitched from Youngstown, Ohio to Virginia Beach, Va. during this blizzard. Got caught on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the middle of this storm. I pitched my cold camp under a dry river overpass after it became a whiteout. After only a few hours I was burried under a three foot drift. I was brutal windy and awful cold! Thank God for wool and goosedown!
I remember visiting my Grand Parents. They had ropes tied from the house to the barn. Then you attached yourself to the rope. So you don't get lost. As they still had to feed the animals during them blizzards. Man them snow drifts were huge.
I was in Disney World for my honeymoon at the time the Storm hit(there was no snow in Orlando but it was chilly there. I lived (and still do) in NY and was supposed go home on the 13th of March but stayed at Disney World an extra day after calling my parents and they told me about the storm coming
Our daughter was born that day at Children's hospital at 8:30 pm. A normal 20 minute ride from Kenmore took us 2 and a half hours. I had a CB radio in my car and with the help of folks that were also out in the storm we made to the hospital in time. I was never able to thank them for their help but I will for ever be grateful they were their in our time of need. On the one year anniversary of the blizzard the Courier Express did an article on the blizzard that include a picture of my wife and our daughter Karen. The people of WNY are tough when it comes dealing with snow.
I experienced this storm living in Syracuse. The morning after the big snow, I could not even figure out where my car was. The parking lot outside my apartment looked like a lumpy field of snow. Took a bit of poking around just to figure out which lump was mine. CNY is unbelievably good at snow removal. Main roads near my apartment were clear and drive-able that Sunday in Syracuse. Almost anywhere else would have been down for a week with that much snow.
A storm i will never forget and neither will my son who was 5 at the time. On tuesday he and his friends were sliding down the huge snowbank at the end of my driveway. Along came a channel 9 reporter who interviewed him. He actually made the 5 o'clock news. 27 years later he still remembers
I was working as a call boy when this storm started. I pulled on my cat suit, grabbed my whips, chains and bowling bag and headed home. When I got home my nipples were frozen to my cat suit. I survived though!
Back in 1993, Syracuse University closing (15:19) was quite a monumental event. Now it closes at least twice every winter for snow, shows how soft we've become.
I was 8 years old in Williamsport pa. I’ll never forget waking up that morning and telling my mom we were snowed in she thought I was pulling her leg till she came out to the kitchen and looked out on our deck Lol. Fun fun fun wish we could have winters like that. Instead it’s November 25 and 53 degrees out.
I was around 3 years old and growing up in Solvay at that time. My Mom and I were living in a small apartment just south of Milton Ave behind a Big M, which is today a Dollar General store. All you could see was a complete wall of snow the very moment you looked right out the window.
I was 7 and I got snowed in at my grandparents house who were raising my older sister. She was jealous when I came around. It was pure hell. Moma showed up as soon as she could to get me.
I went through it, but I lived in an area where tornadoes occur often, so power outs were common. My mom refused to risk her life going the 50 miles to work. I thought the initial sound that woke me up was a part of the house collapsing, but it was a tree.
That would have scared me to death. Thankfully we didn't have trees around us. Well we had one tree. But there was a building between us and the massive oak tree.
I remember it well growing up in Connecticut. At least afterwards spring wasn’t far behind to melt it all. I remember the leaves were coming out on the trees that year and there were still snowbanks in the parking lots slowly melting away.
March 16 at 1am.......My wife woke me up saying she was in labor. So I get the car warmed up along with dusting off the new snow. It was 18 inches, so after dealing with 44, easy. So I get wifey in the car, get mom and me and get on the main road. Her mom(from Florida) was telling me how to drive in snow. Next thing she heard" Out of the car or in the trunk. I'm not listening to this shit all night". My son was born at 1:11 PM 😃
This was the most fun... I was in Baldwinsville , NY ! My mother was in the hospital and my brother and his family came to visit her. I remember driving on 690 into Syracuse to see my mother and the people at the hospital were amazed that we came in...we were the only people on the road. We had a Volvo and I don't remember having any problems on the roads, but then, Central NY knows how to deal with snow!
I also was a young adult in the Rochester blizzard of '66. We had snow to the gutter and could only get out by climbing out the windows on the 2nd floor. The has been nothing like that since.
I was 16 at the time. living coudersport, pa at the time. I used to listen to wayne mahar on the radio 95.7 wpig. anyways i remember him talking about this massive storm that was going to hit us and boy did it ever. Me i couldn't wait to have a couple days off from school. It started almost late morning by nightfall it was full on blizzard conditions out side. The next day I remember my step-father having trouble just trying to get out of our drive just to get to the road and was just after the plows came through and his jeep truck that he had at the time was having a hard time getting threw the snow. me and my brother were out playing in the snow. I actually fell through the snow just above where are car was buried under 10 to 15 feet of snow. And i could bearly get my hand up out of the snow needless to thank god my brother was there to help pull me out. Anyways that storm changed me forever.I will never forget The blizzard of '93.
I was living in galeton on pine street. my mom still walked in to work that day. she was a tough and wounderfull mother. me and my brother totally enjoyed a couple days off school. one by one my friends showed up we watched a rented movie called Rocky horror picture show and laughed our asses off smoaking cigarettes n talking about girls. we played ding dong ditch on one of the hardest snowing nights. we almost drove that miserable old man half crazy doing that so much.
Didn’t say anything about the southern states. We woke up to snow that covered our doors and we couldn’t get out till the next 2days. We had no power, no water and no heat. We had winds that’s in Georgia were up to 50 miles an hour. Just letting people know that it was awful down here too.
I was just 2wks shy of celebrating my 16th birthday when this hit here in upstate NY where im from. and boy was it ever the biggest snow storm I had ever experienced in my life so far. The snow was so tall we couldn't see out our windows and we couldn't get out our doors either because it was just feet upon feet of snow. We couldn't get back to school I think for almost 2wks or more afterwards lol And my uncle who was up here visiting us from Florida couldn't get back there because the airports were closed too. And the funny part was he was originally from here in NY and he told us when he could finally leave that he was never coming back up here around that time of year ever again lol my dad told him hey you should know how the weather can be crazy up here this time of year to begin with lol
This is actually the first blizzard from my lifetime that I remember. At the time, I'd been a sophomore in high school. That night, my mom and I had a sleepover with my now ex-stepfather, my aunt, and a family friend. My now ex-stepfather slept on the couch, my mom and my aunt slept in my mom's bed, I slept on my fold-out chair in my mom's room, and our family friend slept in my bed. The day after that, my aunt and our family friend were able to go home, but my mom's fiance--which is my now ex-stepfather--stayed an extra night, and went home on Monday. I remember we didn't have school on Monday or Tuesday that week.
Near Reading pa. We were supposed to get 36” but it turned to sleet. Had to settle for 18”. It was really nasty with 50 mph winds blowing the snow but the sleet put a stop to the drifting & made shoveling a real chore with the weight. Sleet sucks 😆
I born in this one. In Stroudsburg, PA. My dad drove the Buick through 3 feet of white with mom in the backseat. They came to northeast PA by way of Brooklyn. they still call me the Blizzard Baby, to this day. needless to say, I have a love/hate relationship with snow.
"The storm to tell your grandchildren about!" ... Until the blizzard of 96.... and hurricane katrina...and rita....and willma... and the midwest blizzards of 2010... then sandy... and matthew.... Might wanna write this all down granny. LOL
Actually the worst snow storm ever in the southern united states. The highest snow totals 22" and highest winds 80 mph ever in the southeast during a snow storm. Actually the only blizzard in the southern united states. Temps in the teens with Power out for 2 weeks, roads covered under 20" of snow with no snow plows. We had snow drifts 15 ft tall. We had to dig thru 2 ft of ice and snow to shit. We had animals/pets freeze to death. So In Atlanta GA it was hell on Earth. so YES I told my grandchildren.
@@southernload5710 Yep, I'd have to agree with that. Hurricane damage is generally pretty localized. Southern states also have almost no ability to deal with large amounts now.
I lived in Asheville n.c it had snowed alot by 1 or 2 on the 13 of March, but it started getting bad . All of a sudden there was a big Crack of lighting and it rally really started coming down it snowed like 2 ft in a hour , so crazy !!!
I was 16 yrs old in Pittsburgh, Pa...I'll never forget it. Me and a few of my buddies walked as the snow started to our buddy Matt's house, who lived a good 1/2 hour away walking distance. We fully anticipated being snowed in for a couple days. We chose Matt's house because he had the cool mom that let us smoke pot and drink. No school and pot and booze...Good times!! I love snow and almost 40 years old and still waiting for a bad MOFO like the "Blizzard of '93" to hit " The Burgh" again. We ended up with 25.3 inches, the third largest snowfall ever recorded in Pittsburgh. The two bigger were 27.4 in 1950 when my dad was 2 yrs old and 25.9 in 1890, which I surprised was even on record.
Did his mom not make him go to school? I understand wanting to be the 'cool' parent, but I think letting your kids smoke and drink is taking it a little too far.
To the haters of Matt's Mom. There was a blizzard and school was cancelled. She sounds cool and didn't let her kid and all the other kids skip school for no reason.
My Kentucky guard unit was activated and I was stationed at Eddyville prison in order to shuttle the guards back & forth to work. Later on, because I was a medic, I was dispatched to deliver a a pregnant lady from Columbus KY to a hospital in Paducah KY. I remember it being so damn cold that I saw several animals on the side of the road that had frozen solid. One looked like it was still in a standing position but had fallen over. I-24 was completely littered with vehicles. When I finally made it back home, a couple weeks later, my entire home had been flooded by bursting water pipes. I lost a lot of personal belongings in that. Losing pictures and military awards was the worst.
I was about 200 miles to the west of Syracuse, it was brutal. Yeah, i remember it was a foot and a half, the frozen and windy conditions in the aftermath were epic.
I was a kid and this was actually a whole lot of fun for my friends and i. Made a lot of money for a 12 year old lol. Always sorry to hear about the lives lost, but for me this was a winter wonderland i will never forget.
There was also the terrible blizzard of '83 that hit the south from Texas to Virginia. Temperatures in north Texas where I live, were below freezing for almost 2 weeks, what never comes close to otherwise happening. There was another blizzard what hit the south, and left Alabama frozen over, just after New Years in '88, and more recently, the great north Texas freeze what happened last February 2021
i remember this store the night before we stocked up on everything i lived on rock cut road in a trailer park right next to the highway from are yard it was a sea of headlights on the highway because all the driver were stuck in their cars and could not go anywhere the people ended leaving their cars there and walking home crazy storm
Was driving for WH JOHNS ...drove into the storm from va. Delivered in Baltimore...then picked up the next load in Lancaster....there was 1.5 feet at time ...delivered in Gettesburg ...left there at 9 pm. Went across 16 to Greencastele ....there were places drifted shut so deep at I could see were mail boxes ....made it back to virginia 24 hours after I left never got stuck.
I was a student at Cornell University in Ithaca. I had a shovel in my car, but I didn't plan on going anywhere. Instead, I rented my shovel to 4 different people for 20 bucks each (I also held their student ID card until they brought the shovel back to me). Even after digging out the cars, it was a group effort of 10 to 15 kids from the dorm to help PUSH cars outta the parking lot, as it was uphill to get out. I have no idea where the drivers expected to go, but I bet very few of them got all the way home or wherever they were headed. Four and five days later, there were still cars on the streets that were completely covered and I remember helping to dig out a couple of those.
I dodged this bullet. I was working on temporary assignment down in New Orleans. My family in Cayuga County however, were not so fortunate. I remember the telephone calls with all the updates. Caught by surprise because it was so unseasonably warm the day prior.
I was barely a year old when this winter storm hit southern central Pennsylvania... trees fell all over the yard and the mountain we didn't have electric for a week deep snow my mom couldn't drag the kerosene space heater by herself from the shed it was kept in to the house she got it stuck in the snow trying to pull it over a big downed tree in the yard had to get my uncle to get it for her my mom always told me the story of her and just me cuddling during those days few being only a few months old she was just trying to keep me warm to ride out the winter storm.
I was 10 years old. Living in rural South Dakota, I remember being stuck at home with no school for a week. We didn't have many neighbors but I remember what neighbors we did have coming over for a party kinda.
I was also 16 at the time and living in Old Bridge Nj. I specifically remember my friend Scott Cersocimo and I walking down the middle of route 18 at about 9pm. There was one lane plowed and literally 8 foot walls of snow on each side. Barely anything was on the road! Anyway we made it half way to his house, saw lights coming at us and realized it was a commuter bus. Problem was we had nowhere to run because of the snow walls. Finally we had to burrow into those things to avoid getting run over. Haha Good times!! I'm now 40, have 4 kids and haven't seen any of my high school friends in years. God, those were the days, eh!!
Where are you now? Are you still in NJ? I was 21, lived in Cinnaminson, NJ and now have 2 kids. One still in Rutgers and the other graduated from Rowan and now living in Japan.
It was the deepest I've personally seen in one storm...but I drove from college, Loch Sheldrake, NY(near Monticello) up to my friend in Canton, from there we went to friends in Potsdam. Slept for 3 hours or so, drove to Harrisville to do laundry at my Dad's house, walking through chest high snow, then drove back to college at Loch Sheldrake, NY all in my 1985 Plymouth Reliant with all season tires. The plow drivers did good.
I lived in McLean va at the time but worked in Fairfax va at the 24 hour denny's restaurant. I was stuck there and couldn't leave...I will never forget that storm...I was 18 years old....
Loved the coach's comments, ever been in a whiteout? Many of them. Back up heat source,food,fill the tub so you can flush.,camping gear, food,and of course BOOZE. Good to go. takes a week to stock up.
harrisandrewn Buffalo,NY got labeled snow capital of the country from 1977 Blizzard. It was a bad storm, kids had 3 weeks off school. Buffalo does get 10-12 feet of snow some winters.
This was before the internet by a full 3 years.... so more accurately this was before anyone outside your particular town cared about said snow... or your cat for that matter. LOL
My husband was in New York from Australia. He had left 100F degree weather and walked into that! The revolving door to his hotel froze and they couldn't get out for 2-3 days! He said they lost power and so there were no lifts and they ate cold food at the hotel! He got so tired of the stairs he stayed in his room and ate EVERYTHING in the mini bar! INCLUDING ALL THE BOOZE!!
I remember being out Saturday night in the area helping around. Had my flannel and jeans on, working hard outside - neighbors snowblowing and gas generators working. Classic!
My son was born January 5, 1993 so he was only 2 months old. We lived in a mobile home. With no electricty, we had to use the gas stove for heat. We hung a blanket in the hallway and just heated the kitchen, living room and bathroom so the pipes wouldn't freeze. We were worried about carbon monoxide so we kept one of the crank out windows open a few inches. During the eye of the storm, our neighbor shovelled out our door because he was worried about us being trapped with a baby, and once he could get out, my husband shovelled off the roof so it wouldn't cave in. We made it through it surprisingly well considering all we had going against us. I wouldn't want to do it again though!
Michael Cuff I survived 52 Buffalo, NY winters, crazy we still get 10-12 feet every winter from Lake Erie. Our winters are so bad the Coast Guard watches Lake Erie every day. Even Buffalo Bills games in December people don't go. The worst was 1977 Blizzard it snowed every day in December & January for a total of 19 feet. City & Schools were closed for 3 weeks. The whole country called us SNOW CAPITAL OF USA. Its true Buffalo is # 1 City for most snow. No one knows why of all Citys near 5 Great Lakes why Buffalo gets most snow Don't get me talking about crazy Bills fans. Some games theres more action in the stands than on the field. It costs $ 10.00 for 1 beer. Buffalo gets a lot of Candian fans at Bills games. Theres tons of Security now a days. This is hard to believe were called Miami of the North cause we get a lot of 90 degree days in summer. Buffalo bar scene is nuts open till 4am. Always WHITE XMAS IN BUFFALO.
I lived in Montreal and we got about 20 inches. The storm lasted about 24 hours and the snow drifts were impressive. I delivered the newspaper and outside of a day when they couldn't print because of a power failure they could not print a Sunday paper. And it got cold, extremely cold for mid March
At this moment January 6th 2022 in Rockport Missouri the wind chill is -17 and expecting snow.This maybe the year heavy snow and severe weather.wexciting=weather and excitement.
I was working at the senior center up the street from where the apartment building my mom and I were living and I had that weekend off because of the blizzard.
I have pictures of me and my siblings making tunnels and "houses" in snow plow piles higher than our two story apartment. It was AWESOME!! All the roads were closed. No one was allowed to drive on Rt. 13 in Ithaca and Tompkins and Cayuga counties.
Even after 30 years, I remember every bit of this, 28”, and locked hard, I spent 3 days in equipment plowing, dozing, loading…my left leg was numb from clutching…then came the melt!
I worked for the NC prison and the night of that snow I was working a guard tower. The heater was running wide open and could not keep up with the cold wind. First shift did not come in to work in the morning. Pulled a double shift and slept in the front office till work the next day. We got 23 inches of snow that night...
Sometimes it really helps to put a specific LOCATION in the TITLE? There are many Blizzards in History to "tell your Grandchildren about" ... not to mention, in the U.S. alone, there are MANY Towns/Cities named Syracuse.
Does anyone on here remember this storm? I was still inside of my mom while this was happening (I was born during a heat wave in late June of this very same year). I asked my parents if either of them remember this storm, but neither of them do.
I remember it was on a Sunday. I was in Fayetteville in our small rental house. We were completely buried in snow. The next day school was cancelled and I was so happy. The sky was blue the next day. The storm went through the night.
I remember it VERY well! Here in Northwest Ohio, we got 12-18" of snow from early Friday afternoon to early Saturday morning with high winds and drifting. That's not why I remember though since I've been through many blizzards in my (now) 50 years. I remember this one because my son, 4yrs old at the time, woke up with an ear infection that sunny Saturday morning. Since there was so much snow, my 78 GMC (a.k.a. Jimmy) plow truck was the transportation of choice to the E.R. about 20 miles away. About 5 miles from home, we ran across our volunteer fire department's ambulance in a ditch. It had its lights/siren on so I stopped. It was carrying a woman in labor, her husband and a couple EMTs. They'd been off the road about 1/2hr. I chained Jimmy to the ambulance and pulled it out. Then, I dropped my plow, and, slowly but surely, we covered the last 15 or so miles to the hospital with the ambulance following. My son got his antibiotics and a healthy baby boy was born. The funny thing is, one of the EMTs called my house the next day and said that the new parents wanted to meet me. I went to the hospital that afternoon and after talking to and congratulating them, they told me that they'd decided to name their son James, after one of his grandfathers, but, they were going to call him Jimmy! Apparently, they heard one of the EMTs tell me thank God you and Ol Jimmy happened along, then, heard me reply, we'll have y'all out in a few minutes, just follow us. I know this was a long story, but, I still have my Jimmy, and, since we live in a community of about 600, I also know that their Jimmy has grown up to be a good person.
I kinda chuckle now seeing this, not just how some of these guys look 👀 back them😂🤨but the storm we have had sense then this is nothing! But I definitely remember my parents and neighbors making sure they took care of everyone !
I remember reading in children's books how different countries deal with lots of snow. Places like Alaska and Scandinavian countries must have to deal with these storms every winter. We also have people living on the south pole. They have blizzards at the S. Pole all the time. There must be better ways to prepare for this.
I live in West Virginia and I can remember my sister and brother-in-law laughing at my mom who was preparing for a major storm. She got tons of canned food, dry milk, cereal, cat and dog food. We had a kerosene heater so she got three 5 gallon cans of kerosene, made sure the car was full of gas so we wouldn't get fuel line freeze up. Made sure her meds were filled. When the storm came they weren't laughing anymore. They were wishing they had taken their smart asses to the store like she did. My mom followed the weather faithfully.
My mom was still pregnant with me during this, so I have no real memories. We lived in the snow belt, so to us, this was probably not much more than a particularly intense winter storm. My mom says she doesn't remember this storm, but she also told me that she doesn't remember storms. My dad, however, remembers it better than she does. He recalls not having any electricity in our home for 5 or 6 days because of this.
Elizabeth Wilson I live in WV too I was three years old. I remember making tunnels through the snow it was taller than me lol
SMART lady!!!!! Go Mom Go!!!!!!
Elizabeth Wilson...your mom a smart lady
@@danielhammond9059 Thank you. She was one of the best.
I was in Syracuse and remeber days of snow covering the front door. It was kinda cool. Everything was shut down for days. 😊
I was 22 years old at the time living in Rochester. I was a letter carrier for the postal service. I can clearly remember finishing up delivering mail around 4:00pm on Saturday March 13th when the flurries started. The ground was pretty much clear from snow. By approximately 8:30pm the snow was up past me knees. I have personal videos of that storm. The next day I slipped a disc in my back shoveling the driveway. I’ve had problems in that area in my back ever since. Hard to believe it’s been 30 years!
We were out of town at my grandmother's funeral when the Governor closed all the roads in Pennsylvania. When we got back home we found that our neighbor had come over every three hours to clear the snow (23") from our driveway. Great guy!
Awesome sounds like a nice guy
I hitched from Youngstown, Ohio to Virginia Beach, Va. during this blizzard. Got caught on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the middle of this storm. I pitched my cold camp under a dry river overpass after it became a whiteout. After only a few hours I was burried under a three foot drift. I was brutal windy and awful cold! Thank God for wool and goosedown!
Unbelievable!
I remember visiting my Grand Parents. They had ropes tied from the house to the barn. Then you attached yourself to the rope. So you don't get lost. As they still had to feed the animals during them blizzards. Man them snow drifts were huge.
smart move
Wise folks.
Ok, I lived in Florida my whole luxe and this was the year that it snowed like crazy in Jacksonville Florida. I was 14 and had a blast
I was in Disney World for my honeymoon at the time the Storm hit(there was no snow in Orlando but it was chilly there. I lived (and still do) in NY and was supposed go home on the 13th of March but stayed at Disney World an extra day after calling my parents and they told me about the storm coming
Our daughter was born that day at Children's hospital at 8:30 pm. A normal 20 minute ride from Kenmore took us 2 and a half hours. I had a CB radio in my car and with the help of folks that were also out in the storm we made to the hospital in time. I was never able to thank them for their help but I will for ever be grateful they were their in our time of need. On the one year anniversary of the blizzard the Courier Express did an article on the blizzard that include a picture of my wife and our daughter Karen. The people of WNY are tough when it comes dealing with snow.
Wow
I experienced this storm living in Syracuse. The morning after the big snow, I could not even figure out where my car was. The parking lot outside my apartment looked like a lumpy field of snow. Took a bit of poking around just to figure out which lump was mine. CNY is unbelievably good at snow removal. Main roads near my apartment were clear and drive-able that Sunday in Syracuse. Almost anywhere else would have been down for a week with that much snow.
A storm i will never forget and neither will my son who was 5 at the time. On tuesday he and his friends were sliding down the huge snowbank at the end of my driveway. Along came a channel 9 reporter who interviewed him. He actually made the 5 o'clock news. 27 years later he still remembers
I was working as a call boy when this storm started. I pulled on my cat suit, grabbed my whips, chains and bowling bag and headed home. When I got home my nipples were frozen to my cat suit. I survived though!
LoL
Kirk Griffin 😂 😂 😂
Back in 1993, Syracuse University closing (15:19) was quite a monumental event. Now it closes at least twice every winter for snow, shows how soft we've become.
I was 8 years old in Williamsport pa. I’ll never forget waking up that morning and telling my mom we were snowed in she thought I was pulling her leg till she came out to the kitchen and looked out on our deck Lol. Fun fun fun wish we could have winters like that. Instead it’s November 25 and 53 degrees out.
I was around 3 years old and growing up in Solvay at that time. My Mom and I were living in a small apartment just south of Milton Ave behind a Big M, which is today a Dollar General store. All you could see was a complete wall of snow the very moment you looked right out the window.
I remember this storm very well. I live in North Carolina and I had close to 3 feet from this storm.
I was 17 and my gf at the time got stuck at my house for 2 days. Great times 😁
Is she still ur girlfriend now?
endofsociety best story ever.
@@mksreh he said "at that time" .
Nice. The planets aligned for you that day.
Mother Nature dapped you up like "I got you bruh"
I was 7 and I got snowed in at my grandparents house who were raising my older sister. She was jealous when I came around. It was pure hell. Moma showed up as soon as she could to get me.
I went through it, but I lived in an area where tornadoes occur often, so power outs were common. My mom refused to risk her life going the 50 miles to work. I thought the initial sound that woke me up was a part of the house collapsing, but it was a tree.
That would have scared me to death. Thankfully we didn't have trees around us. Well we had one tree. But there was a building between us and the massive oak tree.
I remember it well growing up in Connecticut. At least afterwards spring wasn’t far behind to melt it all. I remember the leaves were coming out on the trees that year and there were still snowbanks in the parking lots slowly melting away.
March 16 at 1am.......My wife woke me up saying she was in labor. So I get the car warmed up along with dusting off the new snow. It was 18 inches, so after dealing with 44, easy. So I get wifey in the car, get mom and me and get on the main road. Her mom(from Florida) was telling me how to drive in snow. Next thing she heard" Out of the car or in the trunk. I'm not listening to this shit all night". My son was born at 1:11 PM 😃
This was the most fun... I was in Baldwinsville , NY ! My mother was in the hospital and my brother and his family came to visit her. I remember driving on 690 into Syracuse to see my mother and the people at the hospital were amazed that we came in...we were the only people on the road. We had a Volvo and I don't remember having any problems on the roads, but then, Central NY knows how to deal with snow!
I also was a young adult in the Rochester blizzard of '66. We had snow to the gutter and could only get out by climbing out the windows on the 2nd floor. The has been nothing like that since.
I was 16 at the time. living coudersport, pa at the time. I used to listen to wayne mahar on the radio 95.7 wpig. anyways i remember him talking about this massive storm that was going to hit us and boy did it ever. Me i couldn't wait to have a couple days off from school. It started almost late morning by nightfall it was full on blizzard conditions out side. The next day I remember my step-father having trouble just trying to get out of our drive just to get to the road and was just after the plows came through and his jeep truck that he had at the time was having a hard time getting threw the snow. me and my brother were out playing in the snow. I actually fell through the snow just above where are car was buried under 10 to 15 feet of snow. And i could bearly get my hand up out of the snow needless to thank god my brother was there to help pull me out. Anyways that storm changed me forever.I will never forget The blizzard of '93.
I was living in galeton on pine street. my mom still walked in to work that day. she was a tough and wounderfull mother. me and my brother totally enjoyed a couple days off school. one by one my friends showed up we watched a rented movie called Rocky horror picture show and laughed our asses off smoaking cigarettes n talking about girls. we played ding dong ditch on one of the hardest snowing nights. we almost drove that miserable old man half crazy doing that so much.
Didn’t say anything about the southern states. We woke up to snow that covered our doors and we couldn’t get out till the next 2days. We had no power, no water and no heat. We had winds that’s in Georgia were up to 50 miles an hour. Just letting people know that it was awful down here too.
I was just 2wks shy of celebrating my 16th birthday when this hit here in upstate NY where im from. and boy was it ever the biggest snow storm I had ever experienced in my life so far. The snow was so tall we couldn't see out our windows and we couldn't get out our doors either because it was just feet upon feet of snow. We couldn't get back to school I think for almost 2wks or more afterwards lol And my uncle who was up here visiting us from Florida couldn't get back there because the airports were closed too. And the funny part was he was originally from here in NY and he told us when he could finally leave that he was never coming back up here around that time of year ever again lol my dad told him hey you should know how the weather can be crazy up here this time of year to begin with lol
My dad owns a sand and gravel company. I was almost 14 at the time and spent 2 straight days plowing people out of their homes in a frontend loader.
Note to self: Having lived in the Valley section of “the Cuse”, get yourself a 4WD vehicle and keep the snowmobile fueled
This is actually the first blizzard from my lifetime that I remember. At the time, I'd been a sophomore in high school. That night, my mom and I had a sleepover with my now ex-stepfather, my aunt, and a family friend. My now ex-stepfather slept on the couch, my mom and my aunt slept in my mom's bed, I slept on my fold-out chair in my mom's room, and our family friend slept in my bed. The day after that, my aunt and our family friend were able to go home, but my mom's fiance--which is my now ex-stepfather--stayed an extra night, and went home on Monday. I remember we didn't have school on Monday or Tuesday that week.
Near Reading pa. We were supposed to get 36” but it turned to sleet. Had to settle for 18”. It was really nasty with 50 mph winds blowing the snow but the sleet put a stop to the drifting & made shoveling a real chore with the weight. Sleet sucks 😆
I born in this one. In Stroudsburg, PA. My dad drove the Buick through 3 feet of white with mom in the backseat. They came to northeast PA by way of Brooklyn. they still call me the Blizzard Baby, to this day.
needless to say, I have a love/hate relationship with snow.
I remember this storm. I was living with my grandmother in North Versailles, PA on 3/13/1993.
"The storm to tell your grandchildren about!" ... Until the blizzard of 96.... and hurricane katrina...and rita....and willma... and the midwest blizzards of 2010... then sandy... and matthew.... Might wanna write this all down granny. LOL
Actually the worst snow storm ever in the southern united states. The highest snow totals 22" and highest winds 80 mph ever in the southeast during a snow storm. Actually the only blizzard in the southern united states. Temps in the teens with Power out for 2 weeks, roads covered under 20" of snow with no snow plows. We had snow drifts 15 ft tall. We had to dig thru 2 ft of ice and snow to shit. We had animals/pets freeze to death. So In Atlanta GA it was hell on Earth. so YES I told my grandchildren.
@@southernload5710 Yep, I'd have to agree with that. Hurricane damage is generally pretty localized. Southern states also have almost no ability to deal with large amounts now.
Hurricanes are quite different from snow
@@southernload5710 In the mountains just 5 miles west of Ellijay GA, we had a total of 36 measured inches on my level lawn!
Yep, we in the west laugh at this stuff. 167" yearly total WAS a record? 60 miles from me the average is over 500" for a year.
I lived in Asheville n.c it had snowed alot by 1 or 2 on the 13 of March, but it started getting bad . All of a sudden there was a big Crack of lighting and it rally really started coming down it snowed like 2 ft in a hour , so crazy !!!
I was 16 yrs old in Pittsburgh, Pa...I'll never forget it. Me and a few of my buddies walked as the snow started to our buddy Matt's house, who lived a good 1/2 hour away walking distance. We fully anticipated being snowed in for a couple days. We chose Matt's house because he had the cool mom that let us smoke pot and drink. No school and pot and booze...Good times!! I love snow and almost 40 years old and still waiting for a bad MOFO like the "Blizzard of '93" to hit " The Burgh" again. We ended up with 25.3 inches, the third largest snowfall ever recorded in Pittsburgh. The two bigger were 27.4 in 1950 when my dad was 2 yrs old and 25.9 in 1890, which I surprised was even on record.
Did his mom not make him go to school? I understand wanting to be the 'cool' parent, but I think letting your kids smoke and drink is taking it a little too far.
Matt'sMom was probably aiming to "Polanski" all-the-young-dudes...Pittsburgh....Pot...Pedophilia...LoL
Doesn't sound like a cool Mom to me, more like an IRRESPONSIBLE Mom.
To the haters of Matt's Mom. There was a blizzard and school was cancelled. She sounds cool and didn't let her kid and all the other kids skip school for no reason.
Chris Pap Talk about that guys mom failing as a parent. Holy shit lol
My Kentucky guard unit was activated and I was stationed at Eddyville prison in order to shuttle the guards back & forth to work. Later on, because I was a medic, I was dispatched to deliver a a pregnant lady from Columbus KY to a hospital in Paducah KY. I remember it being so damn cold that I saw several animals on the side of the road that had frozen solid. One looked like it was still in a standing position but had fallen over. I-24 was completely littered with vehicles. When I finally made it back home, a couple weeks later, my entire home had been flooded by bursting water pipes. I lost a lot of personal belongings in that. Losing pictures and military awards was the worst.
I was about 200 miles to the west of Syracuse, it was brutal. Yeah, i remember it was a foot and a half, the frozen and windy conditions in the aftermath were epic.
I was 17 and a junior in high school ... Made lots of money shoveling 500 for a day of fun
GOOD you Worked ....Not sit around Crabbing....Bet you had a few buddies Jealous, envious...
I was 8 years old I remember that storm in Massachusetts I had a great time playing and building in the snow.
My daughter was 3 months old. My brother died 3 months later. NEVER forget this year, storm, blizzard.
I was a kid and this was actually a whole lot of fun for my friends and i. Made a lot of money for a 12 year old lol. Always sorry to hear about the lives lost, but for me this was a winter wonderland i will never forget.
I recall this blizzard, the winter that refused to go away😑
i was about 5 i remember my father taking me to the park so i can play in the snow i still have the picture with my pink snowsuite lol 😍
Nice Dad!
30 years old now
There was also the terrible blizzard of '83 that hit the south from Texas to Virginia. Temperatures in north Texas where I live, were below freezing for almost 2 weeks, what never comes close to otherwise happening. There was another blizzard what hit the south, and left Alabama frozen over, just after New Years in '88, and more recently, the great north Texas freeze what happened last February 2021
i remember this store the night before we stocked up on everything i lived on rock cut road in a trailer park right next to the highway from are yard it was a sea of headlights on the highway because all the driver were stuck in their cars and could not go anywhere the people ended leaving their cars there and walking home crazy storm
Was driving for WH JOHNS ...drove into the storm from va. Delivered in Baltimore...then picked up the next load in Lancaster....there was 1.5 feet at time ...delivered in Gettesburg ...left there at 9 pm. Went across 16 to Greencastele ....there were places drifted shut so deep at I could see were mail boxes ....made it back to virginia 24 hours after I left never got stuck.
I love these documentaries of blizzards, worst I've experienced so far was Snowvember
I was a student at Cornell University in Ithaca. I had a shovel in my car, but I didn't plan on going anywhere. Instead, I rented my shovel to 4 different people for 20 bucks each (I also held their student ID card until they brought the shovel back to me). Even after digging out the cars, it was a group effort of 10 to 15 kids from the dorm to help PUSH cars outta the parking lot, as it was uphill to get out. I have no idea where the drivers expected to go, but I bet very few of them got all the way home or wherever they were headed. Four and five days later, there were still cars on the streets that were completely covered and I remember helping to dig out a couple of those.
How many stores were emptied of hair gel and hair spray for everyone on camera?
Boyd W 😂😂😂
I KNOW! The hair on that one Weather guy, Holy Smokes!!
I dodged this bullet. I was working on temporary assignment down in New Orleans. My family in Cayuga County however, were not so fortunate. I remember the telephone calls with all the updates. Caught by surprise because it was so unseasonably warm the day prior.
I was driving cab in Utica and I was stuck there because they closed all the roads. I ended up staying at a local motel.
I was barely a year old when this winter storm hit southern central Pennsylvania... trees fell all over the yard and the mountain we didn't have electric for a week deep snow my mom couldn't drag the kerosene space heater by herself from the shed it was kept in to the house she got it stuck in the snow trying to pull it over a big downed tree in the yard had to get my uncle to get it for her my mom always told me the story of her and just me cuddling during those days few being only a few months old she was just trying to keep me warm to ride out the winter storm.
I remember this storm when I was only a Sophomore in High School. I was only 16 years old at the time.
I was 10 years old. Living in rural South Dakota, I remember being stuck at home with no school for a week. We didn't have many neighbors but I remember what neighbors we did have coming over for a party kinda.
I live in VT and was 6 years old and will never forget it. It was crazy is all i remember.
Me and my Uncle rebuilt a engine during that storm in NW PA. We just built a good fire in the wood stove and waited it out.
I was in Fort Lauderdale and I got pelted by Ice and winds were 80 miles per hour at 1 A.M. I did not go to work for 2 days! A snow a cane
I was also 16 at the time and living in Old Bridge Nj. I specifically remember my friend Scott Cersocimo and I walking down the middle of route 18 at about 9pm. There was one lane plowed and literally 8 foot walls of snow on each side. Barely anything was on the road! Anyway we made it half way to his house, saw lights coming at us and realized it was a commuter bus. Problem was we had nowhere to run because of the snow walls. Finally we had to burrow into those things to avoid getting run over. Haha Good times!! I'm now 40, have 4 kids and haven't seen any of my high school friends in years. God, those were the days, eh!!
Remember Chi Ch’s on Route 18 oh so many years ago?? Lol.
Where are you now? Are you still in NJ? I was 21, lived in Cinnaminson, NJ and now have 2 kids. One still in Rutgers and the other graduated from Rowan and now living in Japan.
It was the deepest I've personally seen in one storm...but I drove from college, Loch Sheldrake, NY(near Monticello) up to my friend in Canton, from there we went to friends in Potsdam. Slept for 3 hours or so, drove to Harrisville to do laundry at my Dad's house, walking through chest high snow, then drove back to college at Loch Sheldrake, NY all in my 1985 Plymouth Reliant with all season tires. The plow drivers did good.
I love to see this again here in Georgia, and throughout the Southern U.S. too!
I lived in McLean va at the time but worked in Fairfax va at the 24 hour denny's restaurant. I was stuck there and couldn't leave...I will never forget that storm...I was 18 years old....
Loved the coach's comments, ever been in a whiteout? Many of them. Back up heat source,food,fill the tub so you can flush.,camping gear, food,and of course BOOZE. Good to go. takes a week to stock up.
The Storm of 1993 has first occurred 28 years 10 months and 2 weeks and 1 day ago.
Enjoyed this storm. Loved them days off from school.
harrisandrewn Buffalo,NY got labeled snow capital of the country from 1977 Blizzard. It was a bad storm, kids had 3 weeks off school. Buffalo does get 10-12 feet of snow some winters.
Watching Jerry Springer and Price Is Right lol.
This was before winter storms got named! (by the Weather Channel cable network).
This was before the internet by a full 3 years.... so more accurately this was before anyone outside your particular town cared about said snow... or your cat for that matter. LOL
@@Phoenixesper1 😆
My husband was in New York from Australia. He had left 100F degree weather and walked into that! The revolving door to his hotel froze and they couldn't get out for 2-3 days! He said they lost power and so there were no lifts and they ate cold food at the hotel! He got so tired of the stairs he stayed in his room and ate EVERYTHING in the mini bar! INCLUDING ALL THE BOOZE!!
And the western portion of Upstate New York was struck by a devastating ice storm in early spring 10 years later.
I was 10 years old living in Weirton, West Virginia. We had a whole week off from school and I loved it! lol
What song is that on the radio at 8:43
I remember being out Saturday night in the area helping around. Had my flannel and jeans on, working hard outside - neighbors snowblowing and gas generators working. Classic!
My son was born January 5, 1993 so he was only 2 months old. We lived in a mobile home. With no electricty, we had to use the gas stove for heat. We hung a blanket in the hallway and just heated the kitchen, living room and bathroom so the pipes wouldn't freeze. We were worried about carbon monoxide so we kept one of the crank out windows open a few inches. During the eye of the storm, our neighbor shovelled out our door because he was worried about us being trapped with a baby, and once he could get out, my husband shovelled off the roof so it wouldn't cave in. We made it through it surprisingly well considering all we had going against us. I wouldn't want to do it again though!
Yep! People of the East coast are a tough breed! They will always overcome the biggest hurddles!
Michael Cuff I survived 52 Buffalo, NY winters, crazy we still get 10-12 feet every winter from Lake Erie. Our winters are so bad the Coast Guard watches Lake Erie every day. Even Buffalo Bills games in December people don't go. The worst was 1977 Blizzard it snowed every day in December & January for a total of 19 feet. City & Schools were closed for 3 weeks. The whole country called us SNOW CAPITAL OF USA. Its true Buffalo is # 1 City for most snow. No one knows why of all Citys near 5 Great Lakes why Buffalo gets most snow Don't get me talking about crazy Bills fans. Some games theres more action in the stands than on the field. It costs $ 10.00 for 1 beer. Buffalo gets a lot of Candian fans at Bills games. Theres tons of Security now a days. This is hard to believe were called Miami of the North cause we get a lot of 90 degree days in summer. Buffalo bar scene is nuts open till 4am. Always WHITE XMAS IN BUFFALO.
I was 11 years old at the time and for a kid, this was the coolest f*****g thing EVER!
I was in buffalo, could not drive home until Monday. But 66 was still worst
I lived in Montreal and we got about 20 inches. The storm lasted about 24 hours and the snow drifts were impressive.
I delivered the newspaper and outside of a day when they couldn't print because of a power failure they could not print a Sunday paper.
And it got cold, extremely cold for mid March
At this moment January 6th 2022 in Rockport Missouri the wind chill is -17 and expecting snow.This maybe the year heavy snow and severe weather.wexciting=weather and excitement.
You bleeped the coach saying sh#%. But Not using the Lords name in vain. How Rude and Tacky.
I was working at the senior center up the street from where the apartment building my mom and I were living and I had that weekend off because of the blizzard.
I have pictures of me and my siblings making tunnels and "houses" in snow plow piles higher than our two story apartment.
It was AWESOME!! All the roads were closed. No one was allowed to drive on Rt. 13 in Ithaca and Tompkins and Cayuga counties.
Even after 30 years, I remember every bit of this, 28”, and locked hard, I spent 3 days in equipment plowing, dozing, loading…my left leg was numb from clutching…then came the melt!
I turned 10 right in the middle of the blizzard of 93, we didn't have electricity for 2 weeks, same for water, it was alot of fun.
Looks like so much fun... wish we got snow in nj. Haven't gotten snow for a few years now
Will we ever get another storm like this?
I worked for the NC prison and the night of that snow I was working a guard tower. The heater was running wide open and could not keep up with the cold wind. First shift did not come in to work in the morning. Pulled a double shift and slept in the front office till work the next day. We got 23 inches of snow that night...
93 was a great storm! I stayed off school 1 week. My father was a lineman, i didn't see him for 2 weeks.
im always amazed at how many people r out in that crap with no hat or head protection at all- crazy!!!
Tornado in Western Mass on June 1, 2001. Then a storm, no electricity for a week, around Halloween. Weird.
Did this happen around December 10? Grew up in Brighton Ontario and I remember it cancelled our Santa parade.
Nope. March, 1993.
I got a half sister because of this storm.
Sometimes it really helps to put a specific LOCATION in the TITLE? There are many Blizzards in History to "tell your Grandchildren about" ... not to mention, in the U.S. alone, there are MANY Towns/Cities named Syracuse.
Does anyone on here remember this storm? I was still inside of my mom while this was happening (I was born during a heat wave in late June of this very same year). I asked my parents if either of them remember this storm, but neither of them do.
I remember it. I also had my Communion May 1993 and it was hot. We ran around in the sprinkler after Mass and opening up my gifts.
I remember it was on a Sunday. I was in Fayetteville in our small rental house. We were completely buried in snow. The next day school was cancelled and I was so happy. The sky was blue the next day. The storm went through the night.
I remember it VERY well! Here in Northwest Ohio, we got 12-18" of snow from early Friday afternoon to early Saturday morning with high winds and drifting. That's not why I remember though since I've been through many blizzards in my (now) 50 years. I remember this one because my son, 4yrs old at the time, woke up with an ear infection that sunny Saturday morning. Since there was so much snow, my 78 GMC (a.k.a. Jimmy) plow truck was the transportation of choice to the E.R. about 20 miles away. About 5 miles from home, we ran across our volunteer fire department's ambulance in a ditch. It had its lights/siren on so I stopped. It was carrying a woman in labor, her husband and a couple EMTs. They'd been off the road about 1/2hr. I chained Jimmy to the ambulance and pulled it out. Then, I dropped my plow, and, slowly but surely, we covered the last 15 or so miles to the hospital with the ambulance following. My son got his antibiotics and a healthy baby boy was born. The funny thing is, one of the EMTs called my house the next day and said that the new parents wanted to meet me. I went to the hospital that afternoon and after talking to and congratulating them, they told me that they'd decided to name their son James, after one of his grandfathers, but, they were going to call him Jimmy! Apparently, they heard one of the EMTs tell me thank God you and Ol Jimmy happened along, then, heard me reply, we'll have y'all out in a few minutes, just follow us. I know this was a long story, but, I still have my Jimmy, and, since we live in a community of about 600, I also know that their Jimmy has grown up to be a good person.
@@MikeBrown-ii3pt Did you guys lose power?
I was 9 and lived in Wayne County. Good times.
Made alot of shoveling money as a kid in Pennsylvania.
I was 7 when this storm hit I remember being so happy when the snow was as high as I was tall,
I was in Philadelphia and remember this well. Forecast missed it.
in the UP of Michigan, the record was 32 feet !
Get your Milk and Bread now, before the store runs out!!!
DONT FORGET THE TOILET PAPET
Lol.
In Western NC we got 5 ft from this storm with 90 mph gusts.
In some places we had 10 ft drifts.
You went nowhere and had no power for 2 wks.
That's like an average storm in Canada lol
I kinda chuckle now seeing this, not just how some of these guys look 👀 back them😂🤨but the storm we have had sense then this is nothing! But I definitely remember my parents and neighbors making sure they took care of everyone !
I was 23 yrs old and two months out from having my first son...who is now 26 yrs old
I remember reading in children's books how different countries deal with lots of snow. Places like Alaska and Scandinavian countries must have to deal with these storms every winter. We also have people living on the south pole. They have blizzards at the S. Pole all the time. There must be better ways to prepare for this.