My kids had another snow day today,
that's 2 in one week if anyone is counting.
This time my mind wandered back
to the blizzard of 67.
I was in high school,
around the same age as my daughters,
A friend invited about 20 gals to a pj party
that ended up lasting 2 days,
because none of us could get home!
Today when I think about it,
I feel terribly sorry for the the birthday girls
poor parents.
What a nightmare it must have been for them,
just feeding all of us.
All I remember was having the time of my life!
We spent 2 days jumping off their garage roof
on to a big pile of snow
and watching families walking down the street with food supplies strapped to their sleds.
It was all such an adventure.
It seemed like everyone,
no matter what age bracket,
spent the entire time frolicking
and having a good time.
Every neighborhood was bustling with people
all bundled up
making forts and having snow ball fights.
Those were the good old days.
Where were you?
Tell me
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In a WGN Weather Center Blog
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling said
Friday was a breeze compared to crippling blizzard of ‘67
Few heading to work on this date 40 years ago realized the storm through which they trudged would end up lasting 29 hours and producing wind gusts as high as 69 m.p.h.—becoming this city’s worst blizzard on record. By the time snow ended late the following morning, an estimated 20,000 vehicles, and 500 CTA buses had been abandoned on area expressways, unable to move in snow drifts piled 4-6 feet high. The crippling winter storm occurred only two days after a record 65° high—warmth which included the Chicago area’s only tornado watch to be issued in January.
Friday’s brief but impressive temperature surge is a far cry from the weather of January, 1967. Gusty winds above ground as the day opens mix down to the surface pushing temperatures within striking distance of 40°—the first above freezing reading here in 11 days and most likely the last we’ll see over the coming two weeks.
--By Tom Skilling, WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist
Posted by wgnweather on January 25, 2007 11:04 PM | Permalink
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