The Lord knows I miss these days. When I was a child I didn’t think that they would ever end. Never could’ve ever imagined that I’d be 46 & wearing a mask everywhere I went. If I could get a couple more of these days to re-live, it would ease the pain of them being gone forever. God Bless whoever reads this. 🙏🏿
I am 49 and feel the same. It seems like things were way less complicated then, but then again I keep telling myself that we were kids then. I keep thinking of my grandmother that was 9 years old during the Spanish flu and imagine her having to wear a mask back then just like we are today. It is surreal.
God bless you too, I am 60 and remember this blizzard I was in high school we were off for a week it was a blast, I miss my family my parents are gone now and my two sisters also. God bless all.
@@karenchakey Thank U for your blessings, & trust me when I say, “I feel U!” I know that U miss your parents & your sisters. I am truly sorry for your losses. What were there names, & what do U remember most about each of them. 🙏🏿
@@EJulia33 The difference is that the fear was really warranted back in 1918 since the Spanish flu was 100 times deadlier for the average healthy person compared to covid-19.
My 75 Monte Carlo got stuck off of Chagrin Blvd the day the blizzard hit. Had to sit for 4 fucking hours before help arrived. Luckily I had 8 tracks of Pink Floyd "Animals", Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", King Crimson "Red", and a lid of some bad ass WEED! I listened to each of those albums twice and smoked 3 fat spliffs! What a fucking TRIP!
Well remember this storm as I was home with 3 toddlers in Seven Hills. Those kids are all in late 40’s today. It was the wind that made that storm memorable. Huge drifts everywhere. Dick Goddard was the best, such wonderful work for abused animals. How I miss those times.
Its hard to believe we lived in a time where we were all by our selves in our cars no cell phones or gps to connect us to the world and we made it just fine
We sure did. That was an aweful winter. I was 7 and we lived upstairs and ice was covering out wallsin the inside we could not open out door to get out the snow was all the way up to the second floor trapping us in our home. We could see our breath in the house. Unreal.
Haha, and ghoulardi was king, and hoolihan and big chuck were just that :D. oh yea capt penny, woodrow the woodsman, franz the toymaker, barnaby, superhost, all the important stuff :D
Ahh, the days when the "NEWS" came on three times a day, for 30 minutes at a time. Leaving the rest of the day for people to "THINK"for themselves. I sure miss those times.
Funny story....I was 16 in the summer of 1986 and my first job was at Sea World in Aurora Ohio. I was working the exit gate and Dick Goddard came up to get his hand stamped so he could get back in the park. I got excited and said OMG you are Dick Goddard...he smiled and said and you are Mary. I got this look of wonder on my face and said...how'd you know that? He looked at me like I was an idiot and said...well that's what it says on your name tag my dear. I was so embarrassed and my coworkers said I turned about 10 shades of red. I laugh now when I think about it.
When I was a kid me and my family was walking around SeaWorld I'm from Warren and big Chuck walks right past us my dad stops dead in his tracks and goes holyshit your big Chuck he stops and shook her hand and that was a special moment
I was 7 years old in 2ND. Grade. My mom, grand-mother and myself was out doing shopping downtown. Cleveland had MUCH MORE people than now. While downtown, it was in the afternoon and a few people including my grand-mother and mom was talking about finishing up their shopping quickly before that storm hit that evening. That was a year to remember and such great times.
I grew up outside of Bucyrus in the middle of the open fields, and I remember our power being out. We had the couch in the family room turned to face the fireplace so we could keep warm. Mom and Dad took some pictures of the snow after our driveway was dug out, and it was up to the roofline of our one-story house.
They made us ride a bus to a school with a coal fired boiler and called it school without schools, that sucked. Now they cancel school for 3” oh brother
Remember this like it was yesterday, never seen nothing like it since! Piles of snow as high as electric lines along some roads, which were rougher that crap from all the ice.
I was stuck in my Aunt's house just me and my boyfriend for 3 nights. One of the best memories I have. She was stuck at her boyfriend's house LOL she says it's one of her favorite memories too, she's 80 now.
@@antoniomitchell1883 unfortunately he passed away two months later. I eventually met and married the man I'm still with, 11 years after my bf passed away.
Oh yes, I lived in Copley OH. I was ten years old.Loved being off school. My family were all campers , had plenty of firewood, canned goods , etc... Guess we were preppers and didnt know it !
Yes Dick Goddard was one of the best meteorologists I watched growing up in Ohio. The combination of Wally Kinnan and Dick Goddard gave me a lot of knowledge about weather.
I delivered the Cleveland Press on my 10-speed every day even in this winter storm. I remember the snow plow truck coming from behind on Rt. 82 in NR and had to ram my bike into the snow drift on the side of the road and drop off the bike. The truck kept his plow down barely missed my rear wheel and covered me in snow. Til this day I do not know if he didn't see me or was just a maniac psycho. But I love Cleveland winters especially heavy snow. I hope we get another '78 like blizzard, such good memories sled riding at Edgerton and tobogganing at Mill Stream Run.
I remember while in high school they decided to close early and send everyone home because of the weather. I had a mile walk home and when I took off my jeans they stood up themselves because they were frozen solid and my legs were beet red. Lol good times.
this was no joke, you could hardly catch your breath when the winds kicked up, they should have closed everything early that day but clevesburg is tough. the national guard came in to drive nurses to hospitals. first time i am actually seeing this, walked and bused home and took hours from downtown, could hardly see sidewalk in front of you, winds pushed strong people back. Nothing like it since, we are overdue, they normally come around every 20-25 years.
My sympathies to all fellow Cleveland area residents who had to get through this..and great to hear all the snow days the younger kids got. My story is that I watched it all on the news from my college campus in Fla, where I was in my senior year..! (Insert Big Chuck laugh here!) But when I got home, the snow was still piled all through the spring!!😁😁👍🇺🇸
I was a junior in high school and remember being off school for a week. I especially remember finding a playboy centerfold puzzle my dad had and putting it together 😂
We moved from Hough to east cleveland during that storm....I used to always wonder schools and jobs used to shut down but the newscasters use to make it to work....back then there was a holiday inn next to channel 8 on marginal road maybe the newscasters use to stay there over night
I was 6 years old and lived in Brunswick at the time. My little sister was just a newborn and Mom ran out of formula. My father was working in Italy. My Uncle saved the day and made it out from Columbia Station area to bring us baby formula and food. I remember the snow was like 10 feet up the side of our home. I can still remember the sound of the winds and heavy snow falling. We moved to Texas in 79. Needless to say, I have never been in a blizzard since nor have I ever driven in snow.
I too live in the great town of Brunswick during the time period. Love being off for school for a week. The only problem was we had to make it up on Saturday morning in the spring. I was 7 at the time and when to Towslee
I was 6 years old too and we lived in Bryan, Ohio. Our power went out and we had to burn our furniture in our fireplace to survive. I will never forget the sound of that howling wind. The freezing rain made it so we couldn’t open our doors or windows. The snow was so high that there was only about 6 inches of light from the top of our glass, patio front door. Once we got out, my older sister and I climbed the snow to the top of our neighbor’s building with our sleds and we just kept sledding off his building. I remember seeing whole cars swallowed by the snow and we could barely make out that a car was there at all. It was surreal and will never forget it.
This same 1978 blizzard hit New England. I was just a kid. I've seen a lot of storms in my life but even after almost 40 years, It was thee most fierce thing I have ever seen in my life.
@@EmmyPierz-ek7hi Different storm, you are correct. A month later? I'm not sure. This storm in Clev was Jan 26th. NE blizzard of 78 was Feb 5th. So A couple weeks.
I was seven at this time, living in Cleveland Heights, not far from Severance. Don't remember much, just the time off school and the awesome snow drifts.
I remember that day well, I was 19 and working at Lou Maliska Pontiac in Parma, spent most of the day in the back lot trying to unbury cars, now them were the good ole days.
Wow Fazios!! I was 7 years old for this blizzard. Got stuck at my grandparents house in Akron. We had a good time. Snow was over the porch. It was cold.
@@antoniomitchell1883 not really. Unless you relate the Grey beard to being old. What can I say,I went Grey early. Gained a lot of wisdom and weathered a lot of storms in my 43 years!!! Wouldn't change it for the world!!!
I was a toddler during this blizzard. My dad got snowed in at work for 2 days. My mom had to leave me alone at the house while she walked down to the corner store for diapers and formula.
Wow look at this footage! Just started driving and lived in mogadore. Gotta love those hills! Only way in and out of mogadore .BOTH WAYS!! 😄Super place to live GO WILDCATS!!!!!!
I was 9 a farmer showed up on a tractor and took my family to a friend's house that had a wood burner my dad had was stuck at Ford plant for a couple days even with 4 wheel drive and I had pneumonia.good neighbors 💖💪😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
We had no power for 4 days in Medina county. We had a fireplace & a cast iron stove. We had 2 young children & I became pregnant for the 3rd time in 3 years during that blizzard!
OK, I don't think this is from the Blizzard of '78. I'm pretty sure it's from January 10, 1977. The weather forecast makes it sound like it was done on a Monday (it says Tuesday is "tomorrow") at 9:41 but the blizzard of 1978 struck on a Wednesday night into Thursday (January 25-26). The January 10, 1977 storm, which did hit on a Monday, was severe enough to be called a blizzard but it's not as well remembered as the blizzard that hit later that month or the 1978 storm. There's another two-part video on RUclips from January 10, 1977 that's from Channel 5 with very similar footage.
No it's 1978. In January 1977 they were WJW, which was changed to WJKW in April 1977. And in Summer 1977 they changed the Intro of Newscenter 8 from MacArthur Park to the one you see at the beginning.
it’s fun to watch these as someone born in 81 and go omg yes I remember that person! even if now they are gone or retired or moved years ago … fun to see how long they did news in cleveland
This broadcast is of the blizzard that hit Cleveland on January 8 and 9, 1978. It's actually from January 9, which was a Monday. The weather forecast at 9:40 says the next day is Tuesday, so this isn't the January 26 blizzard which hit on a Thursday.
I absolutly LOVE it when people say "The new year" or "The Modern World" or something like that on the news because in the future, you watch it, and just like this, you realize, 1978, isnt exactly NEW. in fact its 36 years old.
yeah well it was NEW at the time! you expect them to say well Back in 1978? they, the news & People always mention the "New year" in January. any one has to be dumb to not get it.
This was a BIG deal. I was 10 years old. I was in Canton, but we had it BAD, too. I remember we got let out of scool early. We lost power for a whole day.
Oh fu@k ! I’m old enough to remember this. My brothers and sisters were in the repository for building a huge snow man. I was in that picture. A very young person. Lol
I lived on Grandview Lake in Columbus, Indiana. My dad was gone on out of town business. Three strange men got stranded at our place for two days. Very weird but luckly they were good men and we were safe.
Here is how great the rock fans are and were the nite this hit rush was playing the public hall to a sold out show yeah thats why cleveland is, the fans noke cleveland. 10000 fans showed up true story.
I just got back from a visit to Southern California and the blizzard hit. I swore I was not going to live in NW Ohio anymore, sold the house, quite my high pay job, packed up the Uhaul and moved to Southern California. Unloaded the Uhaul exactly one year to the day the blizzard of 78 hit.
I'll Never forget That Week. I Was in Junior High School 🏫🎒 I made a lot of Money shoveling snow ❄️🌨️ for My Elderly Neighbors because Of Whole greater Cleveland Area School Area we're Shut Down because of the Blizzard 🥶
Remember it well - was fortunate to be working 2nd shift so they phoned at 11 am to tell me I certainly didn't have to worry about going in to work for 4 pm. Since I'd been reading a book until 5 am, I hadn't looked outside yet. YIKES! My Corvette was completely covered with snow from the amount and the drifting - only the very top of the antennae was visible! Our governor shut down the highways and ordered everyone but essential personnel (police, EMT, firefighters, doctors, nurses and snow-plow drivers) were to stay off the roads until further notice. Two days! Our place never lost power but most were not as fortunate.....Would not want a repeat, ever!!
January 26,1978 Early am 43* & lite drizzle Then it hit White Hurricane Superstorm Hit Cleveland Thursday morning All day & nite Took us Fri. Sat.Sun. to dig out. Monday BrookPark rd. By N. A. S. A. 8-10 foot snow drifts On either side Like driving thru a roofless White tunnel... Very Eerie. The worst I remember. CB
I had immigrated to the US from England three years before. Both me and my Cleveland wife had had enough of the weather and headed out to California to escape it all.
I remember like it was yesterday I was 16 and I stayed up all night my Gina was 1 year old loved the old days every day was so easy 😢 rent $65 dollars good old days I don’t fit in the new world
I was 9 when this storm hit. I wanted to play outside so my Mom had me so bundled up I looked like Randy from"A Christmas Story".😨 I wonder if Dick Goddard has broken any records by having such a long career with the same news station for 40 plus years?
It was announced yesterday that he is now in the Guiness Book of World Records for being a Weather Forecaster longer than anyone. He also reired yesterday! 55 yrs
Amen black is not a blatant racist term anymore than white. Its the scared Caucasian media thats sooooo afraid of not being pc, well boohoo n I seriously doubt while the black mans on the run from the law hes gonna stop n call a lawyer
Tim Taylor Didn't start at Channel 8 until the Summer of 77... So this is probably 1978. Tim Taylor joined WJW-TV as consumer reporter in the summer of 1977, having been hired away from a similar role at WEWS.
Every once in a while some genius millenial or gen x talk about some big winter storms and we just laugh. If you didn't experience the blizzard of '78 you haven't experienced a really bad snow storm. 😆
The Lord knows I miss these days. When I was a child I didn’t think that they would ever end. Never could’ve ever imagined that I’d be 46 & wearing a mask everywhere I went. If I could get a couple more of these days to re-live, it would ease the pain of them being gone forever. God Bless whoever reads this. 🙏🏿
I am 49 and feel the same. It seems like things were way less complicated then, but then again I keep telling myself that we were kids then.
I keep thinking of my grandmother that was 9 years old during the Spanish flu and imagine her having to wear a mask back then just like we are today. It is surreal.
@@EJulia33 God bless U & your grandmother. 🙏🏿
God bless you too, I am 60 and remember this blizzard I was in high school we were off for a week it was a blast, I miss my family my parents are gone now and my two sisters also. God bless all.
@@karenchakey Thank U for your blessings, & trust me when I say, “I feel U!” I know that U miss your parents & your sisters. I am truly sorry for your losses. What were there names, & what do U remember most about each of them. 🙏🏿
@@EJulia33 The difference is that the fear was really warranted back in 1918 since the Spanish flu was 100 times deadlier for the average healthy person compared to covid-19.
My 75 Monte Carlo got stuck off of Chagrin Blvd the day the blizzard hit. Had to sit for 4 fucking hours before help arrived. Luckily I had 8 tracks of Pink Floyd "Animals", Black Sabbath "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", King Crimson "Red", and a lid of some bad ass WEED! I listened to each of those albums twice and smoked 3 fat spliffs! What a fucking TRIP!
That's one tale for your grandkids! 😆
That is awesome. I was only six when this blizzard happened, but remember it vividly.
Survival kit!😊
Well remember this storm as I was home with 3 toddlers in Seven Hills. Those kids are all in late 40’s today. It was the wind that made that storm memorable. Huge drifts everywhere. Dick Goddard was the best, such wonderful work for abused animals. How I miss those times.
Its hard to believe we lived in a time where we were all by our selves in our cars no cell phones or gps to connect us to the world and we made it just fine
How dare technology advance like it always does. I'm sure people complained about how people used to get around just fine without cars.
@@lugialover09 technology sucks its made people more lazy and dependent and taken away social lives
We sure did. That was an aweful winter. I was 7 and we lived upstairs and ice was covering out wallsin the inside we could not open out door to get out the snow was all the way up to the second floor trapping us in our home. We could see our breath in the house. Unreal.
@cockyhemi "...and we made it just fine" implies that the technology is superfluous. It seemed to carry a "back in the good ol' days" vibe.
Danimal1978 Yep and it sucks. Makes people look like Karen
I my, I remember these broadcasts. I'm officially old. This was when news was news and not fluff.
Haha, and ghoulardi was king, and hoolihan and big chuck were just that :D. oh yea capt penny, woodrow the woodsman, franz the toymaker, barnaby, superhost, all the important stuff :D
Oh my goodness! I remember the polka!!!! I’m ancient!!!!
It wasn't that good.
Facts
Ya gotta love the You Tube. For 10 minutes I was 14 years old and back in Chesterland, Ohio.
Man I feel U! 👍🏿
Ahh, the days when the "NEWS" came on three times a day, for 30 minutes at a time. Leaving the rest of the day for people to "THINK"for themselves. I sure miss those times.
I was 15 & living in Maple Hts then. I still remember this like it was yesterday!
Maple hts is a lot different now lol
@@mrhaha1980 Yeah, I know. I don't live that far away now.
Good in high school football.
Funny story....I was 16 in the summer of 1986 and my first job was at Sea World in Aurora Ohio. I was working the exit gate and Dick Goddard came up to get his hand stamped so he could get back in the park. I got excited and said OMG you are Dick Goddard...he smiled and said and you are Mary. I got this look of wonder on my face and said...how'd you know that? He looked at me like I was an idiot and said...well that's what it says on your name tag my dear. I was so embarrassed and my coworkers said I turned about 10 shades of red. I laugh now when I think about it.
When I was a kid me and my family was walking around SeaWorld I'm from Warren and big Chuck walks right past us my dad stops dead in his tracks and goes holyshit your big Chuck he stops and shook her hand and that was a special moment
I got a tour of Sea World just before it opened. My dad was a contractor on the project.
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing! 👍🏿
Any relation to "Henry Goddard"?
awesome. i worked at sea world too. 1987. sad what happened to geauga lake and sea world. sigh. days of yore....
I was 7 years old in 2ND. Grade. My mom, grand-mother and myself was out doing shopping downtown. Cleveland had MUCH MORE people than now. While downtown, it was in the afternoon and a few people including my grand-mother and mom was talking about finishing up their shopping quickly before that storm hit that evening. That was a year to remember and such great times.
I grew up outside of Bucyrus in the middle of the open fields, and I remember our power being out. We had the couch in the family room turned to face the fireplace so we could keep warm. Mom and Dad took some pictures of the snow after our driveway was dug out, and it was up to the roofline of our one-story house.
I just rember all the snow days off school we had 😁
They made us ride a bus to a school with a coal fired boiler and called it school without schools, that sucked. Now they cancel school for 3” oh brother
Remember this like it was yesterday, never seen nothing like it since! Piles of snow as high as electric lines along some roads, which were rougher that crap from all the ice.
God Bless You Mr. Goddard
I remember the day before being so warm and no school next day. I lived in Upper Sandusky and would have been 6 about to turn 7.
I was stuck in my Aunt's house just me and my boyfriend for 3 nights.
One of the best memories I have.
She was stuck at her boyfriend's house LOL she says it's one of her favorite memories too, she's 80 now.
Did either of you get married?
@@antoniomitchell1883 unfortunately he passed away two months later.
I eventually met and married the man I'm still with, 11 years after my bf passed away.
Oh yes, I lived in Copley OH. I was ten years old.Loved being off school. My family were all campers , had plenty of firewood, canned goods , etc... Guess we were preppers and didnt know it !
traxxas man nice
RIP Dick Goddard. He was the best!
The very best! Always talkin about that Alberta Clipper! 😆
Yes Dick Goddard was one of the best meteorologists I watched growing up in Ohio. The combination of Wally Kinnan and Dick Goddard gave me a lot of knowledge about weather.
@@maclac48right, and Woolley Bears and the annual Woolley Bear Festival 😂
@@cdubz265 EXACTLY!!! 🎯
I delivered the Cleveland Press on my 10-speed every day even in this winter storm. I remember the snow plow truck coming from behind on Rt. 82 in NR and had to ram my bike into the snow drift on the side of the road and drop off the bike. The truck kept his plow down barely missed my rear wheel and covered me in snow. Til this day I do not know if he didn't see me or was just a maniac psycho. But I love Cleveland winters especially heavy snow. I hope we get another '78 like blizzard, such good memories sled riding at Edgerton and tobogganing at Mill Stream Run.
That was me. I just wanted to how fast you could move your little ass!
I remember while in high school they decided to close early and send everyone home because of the weather. I had a mile walk home and when I took off my jeans they stood up themselves because they were frozen solid and my legs were beet red. Lol good times.
Who would ever think you would reproduce. Lol
I was 15 when lived in Brunswick when this happened. Pretty awesome bumper skiing down Wolff Drive.
I was 6 yrs old and lived off Route 303 in Brunswick during this storm
I was 15 and lived in Brook Park near Hopkins Airport.
We were off school for a week.
this was no joke, you could hardly catch your breath when the winds kicked up, they should have closed everything early that day but clevesburg is tough. the national guard came in to drive nurses to hospitals. first time i am actually seeing this, walked and bused home and took hours from downtown, could hardly see sidewalk in front of you, winds pushed strong people back. Nothing like it since, we are overdue, they normally come around every 20-25 years.
You said it. It was No Joke!!!
My sympathies to all fellow Cleveland area residents who had to get through this..and great to hear all the snow days the younger kids got. My story is that I watched it all on the news from my college campus in Fla, where I was in my senior year..! (Insert Big Chuck laugh here!) But when I got home, the snow was still piled all through the spring!!😁😁👍🇺🇸
I was like 12 years old I remember shoveling snow to buy records at peaches 🍑 music store. We were off school for about a week
I was a junior in high school and remember being off school for a week. I especially remember finding a playboy centerfold puzzle my dad had and putting it together 😂
We moved from Hough to east cleveland during that storm....I used to always wonder schools and jobs used to shut down but the newscasters use to make it to work....back then there was a holiday inn next to channel 8 on marginal road maybe the newscasters use to stay there over night
Hough to East Cleveland? Now I see why East Cleveland became the arm pit of NE Oho.
How are u today
I was 6 years old and lived in Brunswick at the time. My little sister was just a newborn and Mom ran out of formula. My father was working in Italy. My Uncle saved the day and made it out from Columbia Station area to bring us baby formula and food. I remember the snow was like 10 feet up the side of our home. I can still remember the sound of the winds and heavy snow falling. We moved to Texas in 79. Needless to say, I have never been in a blizzard since nor have I ever driven in snow.
Haha I was 10 and lived in Brunswick at the time!! moved to Texas 2 yrs later! But I'm back home now.....
@@ericm4815 I was 7. I ended up Nashville but like u im back home too. That storm really was a mess.
I too live in the great town of Brunswick during the time period. Love being off for school for a week. The only problem was we had to make it up on Saturday morning in the spring. I was 7 at the time and when to Towslee
@Candy Smith Until this year (2/2021) when the deep freeze hit Texas
I was 6 years old too and we lived in Bryan, Ohio. Our power went out and we had to burn our furniture in our fireplace to survive. I will never forget the sound of that howling wind. The freezing rain made it so we couldn’t open our doors or windows. The snow was so high that there was only about 6 inches of light from the top of our glass, patio front door. Once we got out, my older sister and I climbed the snow to the top of our neighbor’s building with our sleds and we just kept sledding off his building. I remember seeing whole cars swallowed by the snow and we could barely make out that a car was there at all. It was surreal and will never forget it.
This same 1978 blizzard hit New England. I was just a kid. I've seen a lot of storms in my life but even after almost 40 years, It was thee most fierce thing I have ever seen in my life.
That NE storm was a month later. CB
@@EmmyPierz-ek7hi Different storm, you are correct. A month later? I'm not sure. This storm in Clev was Jan 26th. NE blizzard of 78 was Feb 5th. So A couple weeks.
@@100chuckjones yeah
was just guessing. Both storms
on u-tube. CB
I was seven at this time, living in Cleveland Heights, not far from Severance. Don't remember much, just the time off school and the awesome snow drifts.
I remember that day well, I was 19 and working at Lou Maliska Pontiac in Parma, spent most of the day in the back lot trying to unbury cars, now them were the good ole days.
I was six then and remember this so clearly!
No you don’t.
Was a kid in Summit county when it hit. We were all happy school would be closed lol
Wow Fazios!! I was 7 years old for this blizzard. Got stuck at my grandparents house in Akron. We had a good time. Snow was over the porch. It was cold.
Fischer Fazios’ Costa Foods.
Not to be mistaken for Fisher Foods in Canton.
Worked for their chief competitor:
Pick-n-Pay for ~10 yrs.
I lived in Garfield Heights during that storm. I was 15 at the time. Sure remember this!
By McCracken or Turney rd?
This was broadcast 9 months before I was born!!! This is pretty cool to see!!! Thanks for the upload! 💯
I was born that July,. Maaan you look old as hell like Fred G. Sanford
@@antoniomitchell1883 not really. Unless you relate the Grey beard to being old. What can I say,I went Grey early. Gained a lot of wisdom and weathered a lot of storms in my 43 years!!! Wouldn't change it for the world!!!
This was our favorite news channel 😁 how cool is this shit.
Dick Goddard Tim Taylor. Wow.
Those were rough winters: 1976-1978!! I was 18-20 years old!!
I lived in Cleveland when this happened
Lived in Massillon. We had a ranch house. My dad and brothers shoveled snow off the roof. I was too young.
I was a toddler during this blizzard. My dad got snowed in at work for 2 days. My mom had to leave me alone at the house while she walked down to the corner store for diapers and formula.
I’m surprised you didn’t burn the house down while she was gone.
Stay classy, Cleveland.
Judd Hambrick was probably summoned back from vacation but couldn't make it back to Cleveland thanks to the snow!
I lived in Orrville, Ohio when this happened what a mess
Nice to see these guys looking all young!
WOW !!!! These Were truly "Tha' Guud Ole Dayz" In N.E.Ohio
Yes they were man...yes they were. 🙏🏿
Wow look at this footage! Just started driving and lived in mogadore. Gotta love those hills! Only way in and out of mogadore .BOTH WAYS!! 😄Super place to live GO WILDCATS!!!!!!
I was 9 a farmer showed up on a tractor and took my family to a friend's house that had a wood burner my dad had was stuck at Ford plant for a couple days even with 4 wheel drive and I had pneumonia.good neighbors 💖💪😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wow...really takes me back...I was 8 years old...I totally remember this
I saw Dick Goddard at Gale's in Westlake in the early 90s. He was a lot shorter than he looked on TV!
I think I was in Incredible Hulk underwear loving the drama outside shutting down the schools. I miss those days.
I was 13 when that blizzard hit I remember it like it was yesterday
Rta bus was 13 cents for students
25 cents for adults.
We had no power for 4 days in Medina county. We had a fireplace & a cast iron stove. We had 2 young children & I became pregnant for the 3rd time in 3 years during that blizzard!
I'll bet you're husband had fun, too!
Tomorrow will be my 45th birthday 🥳🎉 and I remember my mom telling me I was born in this blizzard on Friday January 13th 1978. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
OK, I don't think this is from the Blizzard of '78. I'm pretty sure it's from January 10, 1977. The weather forecast makes it sound like it was done on a Monday (it says Tuesday is "tomorrow") at 9:41 but the blizzard of 1978 struck on a Wednesday night into Thursday (January 25-26). The January 10, 1977 storm, which did hit on a Monday, was severe enough to be called a blizzard but it's not as well remembered as the blizzard that hit later that month or the 1978 storm. There's another two-part video on RUclips from January 10, 1977 that's from Channel 5 with very similar footage.
I heard 79 had a bad one too
@@antoniomitchell1883 It did! For a span of time (1976-1983 or 84) we had blizzards just about every year in NW Ohio.
@@Sueb18631 I’m born in 78
@@antoniomitchell1883 Cool! :)
No it's 1978. In January 1977 they were WJW, which was changed to WJKW in April 1977. And in Summer 1977 they changed the Intro of Newscenter 8 from MacArthur Park to the one you see at the beginning.
Wow.. i remember them saying school was closed for a week. Pj's and snacks were not a stranger to me.. good time to be a kid.
it’s fun to watch these as someone born in 81 and go omg yes I remember that person! even if now they are gone or retired or moved years ago … fun to see how long they did news in cleveland
Boy
did YOU miss a doosie!!! CB
This broadcast is of the blizzard that hit Cleveland on January 8 and 9, 1978. It's actually from January 9, which was a Monday. The weather forecast at 9:40 says the next day is Tuesday, so this isn't the January 26 blizzard which hit on a Thursday.
These guys all had pipes. The only thing missing was that rhythmic teletype sound in the background.
I absolutly LOVE it when people say "The new year" or "The Modern World" or something like that on the news because in the future, you watch it, and just like this, you realize, 1978, isnt exactly NEW. in fact its 36 years old.
yeah well it was NEW at the time!
you expect them to say well Back in 1978?
they, the news & People always mention the "New year" in January.
any one has to be dumb to not get it.
We have this to look forward to in the year 2020!!!
I was almost six years old when this occurred.
This was a BIG deal. I was 10 years old. I was in Canton, but we had it BAD, too. I remember we got let out of scool early. We lost power for a whole day.
I think pretty much the whole state got nailed...😬❄❄⛄
Dick Goddard is still on the air too!!
But he dont use a marker or paper cut outs any more this is way too cool. I was born in 83 so to see this was a real treat
no his not
He will come to your house and do the weather.
Oh fu@k ! I’m old enough to remember this. My brothers and sisters were in the repository for building a huge snow man. I was in that picture. A very young person. Lol
No he is not he retired last November.
This historic storm was the Hurricane Sandy version of a blizzard!!!
I lived on Grandview Lake in Columbus, Indiana. My dad was gone on out of town business. Three strange men got stranded at our place for two days. Very weird but luckly they were good men and we were safe.
The old weather map of Ohio. Those were days.
I was 13 and remember this blizzard well because we were off school for
3 days
14 years old me and my buddy walked down w140 street towards john Marshall over I71 the freeway was shut down cars buried everywhere
R.I.P. Jeff Maynor & Dick Goddard
Here is how great the rock fans are and were the nite this hit rush was playing the public hall to a sold out show yeah thats why cleveland is, the fans noke cleveland. 10000 fans showed up true story.
Dick Goddard, YEAH!!! I probably watched this back then.
The NewsCenter 8 intro bumper and the WJKW Station ID was v/o by the late Joe Grant.
I just got back from a visit to Southern California and the blizzard hit. I swore I was not going to live in NW Ohio anymore, sold the house, quite my high pay job, packed up the Uhaul and moved to Southern California. Unloaded the Uhaul exactly one year to the day the blizzard of 78 hit.
this was a bad storm--still recall it well
I was born January 29th, 1978 in Cincinnati.
I'll Never forget That Week. I Was in Junior High School 🏫🎒 I made a lot of Money shoveling snow ❄️🌨️ for My Elderly Neighbors because Of Whole greater Cleveland Area School Area we're Shut Down because of the Blizzard 🥶
Wow. The Great Blizzard of '78, also known as the Cleveland Superbomb--one of the top 10 worst weather events in the nation's history.
OH YEAH I REMEMBER THIS BABY !! If i remember correctly it was so bad that the school i went to closed and it never closed for any reason. Pretty bad.
Remember it well - was fortunate to be working 2nd shift so they phoned at 11 am to tell me I certainly didn't have to worry about going in to work for 4 pm. Since I'd been reading a book until 5 am, I hadn't looked outside yet. YIKES! My Corvette was completely covered with snow from the amount and the drifting - only the very top of the antennae was visible! Our governor shut down the highways and ordered everyone but essential personnel (police, EMT, firefighters, doctors, nurses and snow-plow drivers) were to stay off the roads until further notice. Two days! Our place never lost power but most were not as fortunate.....Would not want a repeat, ever!!
I remember that storm. I was 16. Actually i was kind of scared because i never seen it snow like that. I thought it was the end of the world.😮
January 26,1978
Early am
43* & lite drizzle
Then it hit
White Hurricane
Superstorm
Hit Cleveland Thursday morning
All day & nite
Took us Fri. Sat.Sun. to dig out.
Monday BrookPark rd.
By N. A. S. A.
8-10 foot snow drifts
On either side
Like driving thru a roofless
White tunnel... Very Eerie.
The worst I remember. CB
I had immigrated to the US from England three years before. Both me and my Cleveland wife had had enough of the weather and headed
out to California to escape it all.
Wait, you mean you’re the Beverly Hillbillies???!!!
i was 8 when this blizzard hit and we lived about 45 min outside of Cleveland.
I remember like it was yesterday I was 16 and I stayed up all night my Gina was 1 year old loved the old days every day was so easy 😢 rent $65 dollars good old days I don’t fit in the new world
Got stuck on my way home from college at a truck stop in Mansfield.
Funny how the news used to be the news and not propaganda.
I lived in Salem Ohio when this happened. Didn't seem too bad to me. Had to shovel about 100 feet of driveway though.
I don’t think Salem is as close to the Lake Erie. What do you think?
What gets me about these events is the fact that they are _predictable_ - trying to go against nature is a losing battle.
Wow, if this year is anything like the 78 storm we are screwed.
I was on third shift day. shift never made it in when I got relieved there wasn't a car on the road
that was the last time I saw snow
Wasn't that big blizzard in 1977?
My brother was born in the middle of a blizzard . It was Dec 9 77
I was 9 when this storm hit. I wanted to play outside so my Mom had me so bundled up I looked like Randy from"A Christmas Story".😨 I wonder if Dick Goddard has broken any records by having such a long career with the same news station for 40 plus years?
It was announced yesterday that he is now in the Guiness Book of World Records for being a Weather Forecaster longer than anyone. He also reired yesterday! 55 yrs
+Jennifer E. I watched him lastnite and I was in tears. Dick is such a kind and humble man. He truly loves his animals.
Donna Gilhousen I was 5
Tracyowens663 Owens 😃😃
Dick is a sweetheart. God bless him. I love dick!
Remember this well spent the night on 271 near Miles stuck on the freeway. National Guard had to rescue us.
This was when the news said the suspect was a black man when the suspect was a black man.
Amen black is not a blatant racist term anymore than white. Its the scared Caucasian media thats sooooo afraid of not being pc, well boohoo n I seriously doubt while the black mans on the run from the law hes gonna stop n call a lawyer
+Sarah Engel ever dated a black man
before the plague of political correctness swept the country
Those cars probably got 12 miles to the gallon.i bet a lot of people ran out of gas.
Tim Taylor chyron as Troublecenter 8. This was likely a reference to Tim Taylor working as a troubleshooter for Newscenter 8.
Tim Taylor made a pass at my mom once. My dad then made a pass at tim Taylor.
Tim Taylor Didn't start at Channel 8 until the Summer of 77... So this is probably 1978.
Tim Taylor joined WJW-TV as consumer reporter in the summer of 1977, having been hired away from a similar role at WEWS.
The Big Blizzard was Jan 1978..
😁
Every once in a while some genius millenial or gen x talk about some big winter storms and we just laugh. If you didn't experience the blizzard of '78 you haven't experienced a really bad snow storm. 😆
My parents went through the blizzard at the ages of 8 and 9.
No they didn’t.
What a mess that was.