Fireside Friday: The Blizzard of '77
Channel: Uplook
Date: 2020-10-16

The Blizzard of ’77 was a five-day nightmare. In the end, snowdrifts reached 40 feet in places, and didn’t fully melt till June! When a fire broke out in Buffalo, the pumper trucks became frozen in ice from the water with nowhere to go, and the vehicles had to be liberated with jackhammers. The snow was so dense in places, snowplows couldn’t cut through and they used trenchers to cut paths to homes. Police could only maneuver on borrowed snowmobiles, and we were caught in the middle of it. Then God gave us a lesson in caring for others.