Snow.... it's coming

[Sled Dog]

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, that means winter is too.... For all you fellow Northerners, what was the craziest snowfall you've been in?

For me, here in Buffalo, we got over 70 inches in about 36 hours. I took my wife to see a movie that night, went in to the theater and the stars were out. We came out 2.5 hours later and there was a foot of snow on my car. The next day I was delivering cans of gas throughout the neighborhood via my snowmobile....

[Chainsaw13]

Originally Posted by Sled Dog

The next day I was delivering cans of gas throughout the neighborhood via my snowmobile....

For me it was the snowstorm we got here in the Detroit area in 1974. Nearly 20 inches in the course of a day. Combined with heavy winds and the snow plows coming down the street, we had drifts close to 10ft. Down the street from me, the church plowed the sidewalks, so we had 3-4 ft "canyon"s to play in. Granted I was 6 at the time, so everything was HUGE to my friends and I.

I hope we get hit like that again this year. Can't wait to try out my new snowmobile.

[Sled Dog]

Originally Posted by Chainsaw13

I hope we get hit like that again this year. Can't wait to try out my new snowmobile.

Mine's not new, but I just had it clutched and re-charged the rear shock.... i'm getting the itch!!

[E.J.]

Not sure of an exact amount, but assume about 2' in a few days in the suburbs of SLC....

Love HUGE snowstorms, but I have never been in anything that changed how I lived my life...

[Subvet642]

I friggin' hate snow.

[Blueface]

I remember one year there were flurries in Miami.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by Blueface

I remember one year there were flurries in Miami.

And this last year in Chattanooga, we had a grand total of 6 inches. For the whole season.
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[pektel]

Not the biggest snowstorm I was in, but the BEST one, was about 10 years ago. I drove about 300 miles through a whiteout blizzard to make it to a ski resort. Got SO damn much snow (forget exactly how much), but the mountain was still open. BEST snowbaording weekend of my life. No better place to be snowed in!

[Secret Santa]

[markem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUL0KCIc48

Too many memories of growing up at 6000' in the Rockies where we had to get up every two hours to shovel snow. Often had over 5' of snow in the front yard.

Worst winter memory was having the car freeze solid for two weeks in spite of a lower radiator hose heater. Had to run extension cords out there and run high wattage bulbs to finally thaw it out. Standing temp was below -40* and wind chill was way south of that. Had to walk a lot, but met some nice people who offered rides.

Don't miss that at all.

[mhailey]

Blizzard of 1982

I remember this so much as we flew out to Hawaii, and the flight I was on was the first flight to take off from Stapelton Airport after it was reopened from the Blizzard. My mom and dad had three kids, aged 7, 9 and 12, and we spent 36 hours in the closed airport. When we finally left we could not get seats together on the plane from Stapelton to LA (as every possible seat was filled). My Dad was very worried about having all of his kids spread out across the plane, and so he sat me down and firmly stated that "Matt, you don't have to scream this entire flight, I am only 9 rows up from you and you will be fine." (paraphrase, not actual quote). Both people on either side of me asked if he wanted to change seats with them, he then sat my sister and my brother on either side of me, and told my brother that "if you needed to vomit, use the little bag and don't turn your head to the side like you did last time." The person this his side asked if he wanted to change seats. in the end he got all three kids, himself and my mom in one row. Impressive move!!

[Thammy]

I was about to laugh and say we have not got snow yet so far, until I looked out the window and alas it is finally snowing. I like cold weather.
Up here minus 50 weather and snowstorms are pretty regular so I cant really pick a standout day.

[replicant_argent]

This one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Blizzard
Had a blast, it was quite a time.

Originally Posted by replicant_argent

This one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Blizzard
Had a blast, it was quite a time.

I was a senior in high school when that one hit. I remember we got about 6 inches during football practice. Took a while to dig out of my parents driveway the next day.

[hotreds]

My sister and parents got nailed by the big snow in the DC area last year. We had 2 feet one year here, when we had to stay in a motel for two days because we were unable to come back to the house some 20 miles away via backroads.

In college I remember going to a basketball game in Buffalo after the worst of the snow from the storm the OP mentioned and the drifts were still as high as the street lamps! And up the road from Ithaca in Fulton they'd get five/six feet overnight from lake effect!

[Blueface]

Florida kidding aside, will never forget my NJ send off in 1996.
Three months before moving (which ultimately made the decision easier and faster) we got hit with an epic storm in the NYC area.
32 inches. Shut down the area for 3 plus days.
Don't think I had ever seen that much snow in one fall before.

[gvarsity]

Originally Posted by replicant_argent

This one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Blizzard
Had a blast, it was quite a time.

This one for me too. Shut the city down for about four days because the snowplows were still fitted for leaf collection. I was in college and had a great time. Funny thing was around Thanksgiving that year there was another huge storm and they had it cleared by morning with no interruption because the plows were all set to go.

[Gophernut]

Originally Posted by gvarsity

This one for me too. Shut the city down for about four days because the snowplows were still fitted for leaf collection. I was in college and had a great time. Funny thing was around Thanksgiving that year there was another huge storm and they had it cleared by morning with no interruption because the plows were all set to go.

Yep same with me here. Left a night class at break because of the snow, and didn't have to go back for the week.

Got stuck up in St Cloud for the next one when me and my dad were visiting my brother who was going to school there.

Both were memorable fun times.

[gvarsity]

Originally Posted by Gophernut

Yep same with me here. Left a night class at break because of the snow, and didn't have to go back for the week.

Got stuck up in St Cloud for the next one when me and my dad were visiting my brother who was going to school there.

Both were memorable fun times.

I walked to a party the night of the first storm and we walked right down the middle of University ave because there were no cars and no plows. (For non-MN people it's a 4 lane one way major street usually super busy)

I also just missed the huge 1993 march Blizzard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century that shut down much of the east coast. I was in NJ for the year and left work early and drove to the airport and spent the night in the airport lobby sleeping on my bag. If I hadn't gone then I would never have made it to the airport. I had an early flight out, maybe 6:30ish, to Las Vegas to visit my folks. It was one of the last flights out before they shut down the airport. When I got back a month later they were still doing cleanup. The worst part was after it snowed it rained on like a foot of snow and saturated it and then it froze solid so there was a foot of ice on everything.

Another time in the 70's my family got stuck in a motel in Duluth for 3-4 days due to a blizzard.

Blizzards are adventures for sure.

[Lumpold]

Did you guys hear much about the blizzards we had in Europe in January this year? I had the fun of driving 500miles home in a splitter van, through 5 countries, uphill, while the weather laid approx 5ft of snow over northern Europe!