1978 file: How West Michigan responded to the blizzard

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Жыл бұрын

These reports originally aired in January 1978 when West Michigan was pummeled by a blizzard.

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@gloriasmith4061 6 ай бұрын

I was 12 and loved those snow days off school!

@Mgoblue1023 Жыл бұрын

I was just born! The reason everyone was stuck was because all the cars were these giant old REAR wheel drive tanks. Sandbags in the trunk for weight. Now we have front wheel drive or half are all wheel drive. Big difference!

@mikeskidmore6754 Жыл бұрын

Sorry to tell you @GoldezzStreams There were snow Drifts 15' Deep on many rural roads.. I was 16 years old and had a cast on one foot. I plowed snow with my Fathers Front end loader for 7 days straight 18 hour days. My Dad's snowmobile even tended to get stuck .. I was in Kindergarten during the Snow Storm of 1967 and got at least a week off from School .. My Father Plowed snow for the Kalamazoo County Road Commission with a Larger front end loader for a Week too .

@DreamState71822 Жыл бұрын

I was all of 4 years old when this blizzard happened living in north east Grand Rapids. I vaguely remember my dad having to take the back door off from inside to be able to dig out of the house as a kid i remember it was funny dad shoveling snow into the house...

@ProlificInvention Жыл бұрын

My dad told me about this, he said no cars were out-mostly only snowmobiles for a week

@aandrus2169 Жыл бұрын

I was 12. The neighbor drove his snowmobile 8 miles to Caledonia to get bread and milk for us and other neighbors.

@kellyi.4353 Жыл бұрын

I was 9 years old living and Grand Rapids. I miss my hometown 😢.

@gregoryfuzi4745 Жыл бұрын

I was 18 years old out digging out cars and asking the elderly in the houses on our block's if they needed to have the snow shoveled . We did what we could.

@billwaters320 Жыл бұрын

I was 16 and we had the time of or life. I grew up in Ionia Mich Dad let the local PD too use his snowmobiles and never got compensated for it he was pissed for years.

@mikeskidmore6754 Жыл бұрын

Back in the good Ole Days before Gullable Warming and the Plandemic .. I was 16 years old and I plowed snow for 18 hours per day for 7 days running my Fathers Front end loader. In the Blizzard of 1967 we got a week off from School .. Kindergarten for me. My Father Plowed snow for the Kalamazoo County Road Commission for a week .. He pulled out a School bus and a County Plow Truck too.

@retroplank Жыл бұрын

Hey News 8…. This is at least the 3rd story about that blizzard. Is news really that slow?? Or is it that you guys are just doing your part in the real agenda? How about telling the viewers what’s really going on… like Agenda 21. We are sick of your old news. It’s ridiculous.

@mikeskidmore6754 Жыл бұрын

Back in the Good ole days before Weather Modifications HARP and Gullible Warming ..