I remember this storm, being in Cleveland and having just got hit a few days earlier by a blizzard, but it was nothing compared to what Buffalo experienced. That was a bad winter for everyone.
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I wasnt around then, but I love how "dancing queen" is played in the background with that old school sound quality you get from records and such. Dont like the song much, but seems to set the time period when this happened pretty well
@corvettefan96 I was only 4 yrs old when this happened and lived down the lake in Erie, PA. But I do remember that everyone listened to AM radio in the late '70s.. AM radio stations had the news, weather, and hit music... and you're right.... bad audio!!! FM just wasn't big yet.
The folks who were great during this time were the many snowmobile owners. They pitched in and were doing all kinds of things for folks. Many delivered groceries to the elderly and picked up prescriptions. They even assisted stranded motorists. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for those folks and all that they did.
We had 36 snow days on Grand Island, 42 in Buffalo. I was in 7th grade, we went to school through the end of JULY! My brothers climbed out onto the roof and dug us out! My dad was in insurance, and worked with plowers to clear the roads, finding cars with "blue" people in them. Devastating. Changes everything. Community becomes SO important. So does prepping for winter, and keeping in touch with elderly neighbors. Bless those hardworking people who saved us all.
Respond to this video... The video was, as they say "spot on!" I lived through it in Depew...spent the big night at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Always wished i could have attended a reunion of those people from that special time.
@jimhsix2 I lived there in Depew in '77...previously all my life in Kenmore. It was an unreal time, but people were so friendly...wiling to help each other out...asking, "do you have power"? Buffalo will always be my home. i'm in DFW TX now...hail and tornados every time you look around! I'll take snow every day of the year in comparison! It snows, freezes, thaws, and voia! your house is still there! Ah Buffalo!
@bflogal77 E Amherst here,70-77 prev."Kenton"(close to Kenmore East high)in Tonawanda,my toddler tears & took my first breath in NT.The blizzard seems worse from this perspective & decades later than having been there beg.to end.I remember radio & TV,conveying it was legally ok for anyone with snowmobiles to mobilize to the invisible streets,or anywhere actually.I've never seen snow piles last as far into spring as then.Been in Illinois since 6-77, WNY still home, weird to hear Irv
My cousin's girlfriend ahd her twin brother were born during this blizzard, on January 30th. They live in the Niagara region of Ontario, which is right near Buffalo.
It was fun when I was 12. Sledding off the roof across two neighbors yards. Tunneling through huge drifts. If it were to happen again....it'd still be fun.
@strongties lol Look at this guy calling someone else dumb...By the way that's how you spell that word D.U.M.B. Learn to spell and get an education before starting talking trash to people
@Buffalosportsfan21 yu fcukin buffalo butt city of losers ass city of snow ass city of nuthin to do ass butt go skiing inn july ass city of wee lost 5 super bowls inn a row ass city of wee aint been to da playoffs inn no sport in like 35 yrs go fukk urself or go play inn da snow go outside rite now and freeze ya self ta def
@strongties Like i said get an education before you talk crap. I hate when dumb ass people who are slightly above retarded try and Talk ghetto because they think they are hard. Do your self a favor go get a G.E.D and learn how to write an actual paragraph. You are the downfall of America and why other nations laugh at us you stupid ignorant piece of trash.
@Buffalosportsfan21 no asshole yu a buffalonian buffalo butt iz da reason amerikkka gets looked down on who wants to go to a place like buffalo so it starts wit ur towne dey need to demolish ya town and kill every1 dere die buffalo die buffalo die da world would bee much better without dat weird ass place nuthin butt a bunch of losers up dere itz a reason buffalo iz da laffin stock of da nation
@strongties Whatever bitch...You are seriously the dumbest mother f*cker i have ever seen on here. Trying to read what you write hurts. Your probably some ghetto trash who lives off of the government and who will never amount to anything. I wish you lived in buffalo so i could shut you up personally by breaking your jaw. get a life and learn to spell. Better yet go out and get a job.
@Buffalosportsfan21 nah fool im livin dee amerikkkan dream i sell crack inn inglewood cali butt i live inn agoura hills cali where i kan lay ma feet up and live like a king as dee great don king would say only n amerikkka and i do visit ya surry ass town fo sum konnects butt if i seen ya lil pisspott poor ass i would break ya face
@strongties you are defiantly a stereotype...doesn't that bother you? That you are worthless? You offer nothing to society and your one bad crack deal away from just being a statistic. I pity you I truly do. You post that you sell crack over the internet because you think your a "cool" guy or a "gangsta" . It makes me sick how people think that being ghetto trash is something to be proud about. I hope that one day we no longer use jail systems and police just shoot to kill..
@Buffalosportsfan21 it would take a buffalo butt buffalonian to say sum shit like dat watts inn da water up dere where yall all think alike juss born losers yu people up dere and all white peeple dere iz racist pricks sterotype 1 buffalo iz a racist hick town fact2 the most racist cities n amerikkka 1.boston 2.buffalo 3.manhattan 4.providence 5.pittsburgh
@strongties i wouldn't care if you were white, black, Hispanic or Asian...Color doesnt take away from the fact that your a Piece of shit who is a stain on society. Good luck with selling your crack tough guy and may god have mercy on your soul.
@Buffalosportsfan21 if yo buffalo butt dont shut dee fcuk up yu fuckin snowed n loser and quit hatin on da fact dat im sellin crack livin dee amerikkkan dream sumphin yu kant do
It snowed as far down as the Keys of Florida. I was in High School in West Palm at that time, and remember seeing the snow flurries while changing classes. I went back in and told one of my teachers and she just looked at me with what today would be called a 'Yeah, right!' look.
@oryxfreeride yeah dont feel stupid we had a good flash freeze lake that with a huge snow storm in some parts of michigan in january 08 i think?? I think it was cold then record warm then a huge blizzard damaging winds and such
MAN ! I REMEMBER THAT DAY WELL ! i was in the 7th grade , and was a paper boy in warren pa , and it was bad ! i woke my dad up at 5 in the morning LOL and we looked out the window and seen a 8 foot snow drift in the middle of the road ! BUT I GOT THE PAPER TO MY CUSTOMERS THAT MORNING ! AWWW TO BE YOUNG AGAIN LOL.....
i was there also, with my little brother, i remember my neighbor kept telling us to fill up the bathtub with water in case the pipes freeze, mom finally came home on a snowmobile that was a sight, and my brother and i went to the corner and climb the hill and was standing on the stop sign... I have pictures, very cool memory...
I was there, was a junior in high school, had two weeks off of school, would walk to friends houses, had alot of slumber parties, it was unbelievable, now i'm stuck in Fort Worth, TX with two inches of ice on the roads and no snow plows or ice trucks on my street. Bring back memories of those week.
first i thought it was kinda funny cause there would b no skool have fun blah blah blah but its not funny, its a sad thing and i regret for thinking that!
My sister was stuck in East Aurora for a week because of the Blizzard. My father got stuck trying to get home from his office near the airport. A neighbor got stuck at Veteran's hospital where her husband was a patient. My younger sister and I were sick that day and didn't go to school - thank goodness!
@TimeLady8 i live in ea! haha, really wish i lived through this. mustve been a blast. my parents tell me stories about it all the time. in fact i heard on the news last week that it was its 34th anniversary.
A storm that I will NEVER forget. There are 2 pictures that I took in this video. One is at 2:35, which was on N. Milgrove Rd. in Alden, NY and the other is at 5:40, which was on Remsen Rd in Akron, NY. The 5:40 one is a house I grew up in back in the early 60's.
When the storm hit, I was pulling out of a gas station. Don't ask me how I got home but I did. The rest of the day & night I stayed up keeping the door open until I was totally snow in. Took a window out to get out of the house.
-54 wind chill!!!! LOL love the time stamp with the public service announcements fading into Abba's Dancing Queen!! And dont use the phones for social calls!! When was the last time you heard that request from the authorities??
I was born during the blizzard. mom and dad were 10min away when it got real bad and dad drove the rest of the way.im glade they made it to the hospital.
I grew up in Buffalo and joined the Air Force at age 19 in August, 1976. I came home on leave in early December, and left for my station in Georgia on December 14, 1976, so I missed the Blizzard by a few weeks.But I heard horror stories as well as stories of good will and cooperation between citizens. One horror story had the Buffalo cops throwing my sister out of an apartment building where she had gone to seek shelter from the storm. Watching a CBS documentary called Whiteout-Buffalo, was good
I was in college in Meadville, PA, where we had almost as much snow and it was quite a bit colder. I "walked" my dog by opening the 2nd story window of my apartment and letting her out onto the 12-foot snowdrift right outside.
I was in high school at the time...never have seen a storm even close to that one. We were stuck at school for several days (actually had a blast). The wind blew the snow so hard, and the snow drifts were packed so hard that you could drive over them. Nearly all the roads (I was in Niagara County) were cleared with front end loaders, plows were useless. Lots of cars were completely buried...and came out in chunks, the term Iron Snowdrift became common.
I was living in Wilson when this happened and my mom was pregnant. She had to be taken to Newfane Hospital on a snowmobile. Of course i got 1 week off from school so i loved it :)
I was living there during '75 to '81 and what I remember most about it were the drifts that were sometimes 10-12 feet high and the clean-up afterward. Trucks and heavy equipment from the U.S. and Canada came to help.
I just showed this to my 7 year old. He is the same age that I was when the storm hit. I now live in LA and work in emergency services and we go into an emergency response mode when it rains.....what a difference!
It was my last winter in buffalo, I was 17 yrs old. That August I hopped on a bus and headed to Los Angeles. Buffalo will always be my home town but not in the winter.
I was 6. My biggest memory outside of the snow was cold and boredom.Our power went out at some point.When we did have it there was just a test pattern on tv with music,then nothing including no heat.My dad was a truck driver stranded in Cleveland because they would not let him in.We had no heat and I remember walking around in many layers of clothes,socks,my coat and sleeping with mittens on.I apparently rolled over in the night and gave my sister a black eye.She was mean at the time so no tears
I grew up 25 miles east of Buffalo. This blizzard canceled my 5th birthday party. I remember my older brothers sledding off our porch roof because the snow was drifted 10+ feet in our yard. And when the snow plows made it down our street, the banks were about 15 feet high.
i live in st.louis and we just had a system go through with blizzard like conditions. i made a couple vids of it and posted to my channel. we never get to see the real thing though. id give anything to experience this.
my dad was caught in a construction trailer in niagara falls for a week i remember having no school for a week even though it was a block away....good times....lol
@poloniawarrior Anyone can understand why you live in Hawaii after some of the footage I see here. I live a few hours from Buffalo and every winter I say the same thing. Obviously there are different natural disasters in all parts of the world....it's just a decision of what we'd rather put up with.
@vidlivs Yes, the cold weather gets tougher to handle the older we get. I don't drive anymore and must rely on the bus to get to work. Hawaii makes more sense for me, also because there are no jobs to be found in Buffalo anymore. The sad part is that I have no family here and feel like an alien on another planet here. It is difficult to give up your family and culture, but survival is what is important these days. I miss the good food in Buffalo and the nice people.
People ask how can you die in a blizzard? It's quite easy. I was a child, 7, when this hit. It was an incredible natural event. We had elderly living next door that we lost contact with due to the phones getting knocked out. My mother and I shoved the east door open and had tied ropes to our waists to get to the neighbors home. You immediately suffer from spatial disorientation and mind numbing cold. The warm air gets sucked from your lungs. Yes it was an incredible event!
It is true. Buffalo is actually fairly sunny because of the lakes and relativly warmer in the winter in comparision to other cities at that latitude also because of the lake.
I live in Rochester and was in the 8th grade...I remember waiting to get a bus from downtown for several hours (we took public transportation to and from school) and having to walk 4 or 5 blocks in a white out. People die in blizzards from freezing to death...run out of fuel, pipes burst if you have hot water heat they can freeze and burst.
@theWORLDin2012 That's great! I was in college back then and it was something to see. Everything was closed for days and some of the deepest snow I have ever seen.
It was incredible. I was 19 and was being driven to work when it struck. (I didn't have a car yet) - my mother was driving to the end of our street - when it hit, we turned around and by the time we got to our house, we couldn't tell which house was ours, it was snowing so hard. All in all, we had a blast-we haven't had anything like it since. It was epic. You just had to be there.
@omph98 - they were stranded in their cars on the thruway and city streets. when this thing hit, you couldn't see and had to stop driving- it got very cold and didn't stop snowing and blowing for 3 days or so... there was also a driving ban so it was hard to rescue them. It was so bad that emergency vehicles had a hard time getting around. There were no cell phones at the time either. There were so many stranded cars that it was hard to get to all of them. Thus, people died.
I was a bank teller and stranded in the bank on Main & Court Street from Friday morning till Sunday afternoon! We all watched "ROOTS" My dad worked at Trico and made it to my apartment on Lafayette Ave. The remainder of my family was stranded in Holland NY. A copy of "THE WHITE DEATH" and the Buffalo Newspaper have relocated with me to Chesapeake VA.
Our car was buried in this storm and we did not get it back for over two weeks.Also people walked the streets for weeks waiting for the plows to get the roads clear.I was 14 at the time and it sure was a great time for me because it closed many schools for weeks.
I remember the news reports of conditions up there during that blizzard - I was living in MD at the time. I remember wondering how many people would die, not being able to get anywhere except by snow mobiles. They showed pictures on the TV news of people walking up over their house roofs - like 15 feet drifts. Glad I wasn't there.
1977, My senior year in HS. Holland NY. Two weeks off school, drinking age was 18 then and we had a two week long party, just a little more than usual. Now living in SUNNY California, no more snow shovels for me.
The pictures, in this presentation are just unbelievable. I've lived, in New England all my life; and I experienced our biggest ever snowstorm, the Blizzard of '78. That was a huge weather event for us; but I have never seen snowdrifts like the ones, in this report. Living with those lake effect snows must be a real adventure.
this was serious. this video references Buffalo, but this thjng took out the entire EAST COAST!!! I was in Atlantic City and it was almost FIVE FEET OF SNOW IN AC!!! people were trapped, my sister had the flu, 104 temp, over a mile from the hospital, in an all electric apt. with no power. my baby was 6 mos old and we needed food and water took 4h rs for us to walk 6 blocks and back . There were tragedies, people couldnt get dialysis,not good nothing moved on wheels except the ARMY trucks.
@danimal14222 what good things are happening here? The only good things about buffalo are the suburbs and even hamilton, ON has a higher population than buffalo now
@Ciaduff9 Actually, I live in Elmwood Village and property values around here have doubled in a decade...and us and Minneapolis are the only metro areas to add jobs in the past year. This last recession didn't kill us for a change. Lots of downtown development.
@Danimal14222 Actually i live just a few miles outside Buffalo. Its a great area with massive potential. But "as usual polictics" keep this area down.
@Danimal14222 I agree. Cuomo is going to runaway with this race. He'll destroy New York State the same way he destroyed the housing market when he was in charge of "HUD" during the Clinton years, but people have very short memorys.
@habsrule81 Quit voting those fuck'n commie democrats from downstate and WNY would be better off. I'm pulling for Paladino but I'm pretty sure that all the democrat idiots in NY state will put Cuomo in. When the hell will New York and California learn that the Democrats will just push the welfare state and tax every small business out of state.
@vidlivs All of us in the 9 western counties that voted solidly for Paladino ought to separate from "New York State" and become a state ourselves---The Commonwealth of Niagara.
Nine counties. 1.6 million population. 9000 square miles. 6 Electoral votes. And yes, Carl Paladino and Greg Edwards as our 1st governor/lieutenant-governor team.
I remember NYC sent their excess snow to Star Lake NY on a train, by the time it got there it was all melted. This was truly the "Storm of the Century".
I was 17 when this Blizzard hit. We lived in Williamsville and I remember wanting to get out of the house so badly. When it was finally over the only way we could get out was by our second story window as there was drift that went completely from the sidewalk to half way up our front porch roof. My younger brother and I slid down the drift! It was a blast.
I was 17 when this Blizzard hit. We lived in Williamsville and I remember wanting to get out of the house so badly. When it was finally over the only way we could get out was by our second story window as there was drift that went completely from the sidewalk to half way up our front porch roof. My younger brother and I slid down the drift! It was a blast.
@BNforever2009 yeah,they do-but not in heavily populated cities.This was not a big snowstorm.It was a massive blizzard that took massive amounts of snow off of a frozen lake and blew it on Buffalo.I was happy.I was 10 and missed alot of school because of this blzzard.
When this blizzard hit I was living in a big old house that was heated by water radiators. I remember my dad getting stranded at work in the city. I stayed on the phone with him all night keeping him posted on what was being said on T.V. while my mom and brother were in the basement trying to unfreeze our water pipes so they wouldn't burst. Me and my brother and sisters slept in our winter coats and mittens the first few nights and still froze all night. I would do it all again. It was a blast.
@outsidetherain1 Yeah,I know our parents were worried for us kids,but we had a blast.We were sledding off of the roof tops instead of going to school.It was great!
Buffalo has more days with temperatures over 60F than we do with snow on the ground. We are sunnier than Orlando, Fl. and we're considered the "Sunshine Capital of the Northeast". Now, will you smug out-of-towners please aim your climatological condescension at more appropriate targets?
I should have added: With winds that strong and temperatures that cold this wasn't the "powder" that skiers look for. It packs like concrete. I have had to use a round nosed shovel to dig it at times.
I grew up along L Erie just south of Buff. In 77 I lived in the hills 30 miles SE in Wyoming County. We got more snow than Buff.(always do) but out there it was just another windy snowy day. TAKE NOTE: that 3 ft of snow on the lake ice, strong winds and low temps are what made this blizzard so bad in the city. "The perfect storm".
Yup, t'was like some giant came along & POOF, blew all the accumulation right into the region! My dad got stranded downtown & some yutz stole my mother's snow shovel when she came in briefly to check on us!
Are you people kidding me. All the comments talk about anxiety and panic..........I was a freshman in high school, and I guess it should have been a little scary trying to get to my mom and grandmother, who were out shopping and decided rightly they couldn't drive in this.........We had to take a roundabout way and it took about 2 hours to drive a ten minute drive, but I don't remember being scared at all.........We got home, and that was that. Turned on the last episode of Roots
@sbubbb My family and I lived in E Amherst from start to end. I was 11 & too young to understand the real seriousness of the blizzard,it was overwhelming, exciting and stopped time for days on end.The storm was much more than the accumulated sow fall,it was all the bizarre components that contributed,the extremely high winds,thunder& lightning,sleet,rain,sub zero temps
darkness,I moved to Chicago summer 77 and in 78 a record snow storm hit the area,they imported BNY
@tjfreak - I was probably too stupid at 14 to understand the seriousness.........For some reason, I never thought we weren't going to make it home. It just took 10X longer than it should have.........I don't remember lightning, and I can assure you there was no rain with those temperatures!........But, the wind is what really technically made it a blizzard. It was insane.
@tjfreak I can't recall the 77 blizzard; I lived in SanFran at the time.
A year after, though, we lived in Brooklyn. The 78 blizzard paralyzed the New York area for a couple days.
I do, however, recall the blizzard of 85. Why they didn't have a silver anniversary commemorative, though, I don't know. From Super Bowl Sunday, all week long, no school. High drifts to run and play in when it all subsided.
Thank you for making and posting this video! I was 12 and living in West Seneca during the blizzard. My father was able to get home from work just before the roads closed in. Our house was buried, so when Dad went up on the roof to clear off some snow, we went up with him and sledded right into the back yard. Walls of snow along the driveway got so high we used a wheelbarrow to move it out in the yard. Thanks to your video, my 11-year-old can see how it compares to the MD blizzard of 2010.
that honestly just gave me chills. my dad told me about that blizzard and how his mom got in the shower and it was all hunky dorey and then a half hour later the sky was completely black and then all hell broke loose and he couldn't see across the street. and the rest of his family lived in bellevue so they drove down there after the storm and the snow was piled up higher thean the street lights on rt. 269. this just gave me chills! honestly!
I was born the year before and was 1 when this blizzard hit Ohio. I lived there and have great pics. Now I live in Baltimore and we just got more than twice the amount of snow in 5 days and more than 6 inches more than 77 in a 24 hour span. It's crazy in 2010 I can't imagine what it was like 32 years ago!
I was 6 1/2 years old when this hit. I remember high school kids had to carry me down the street I lived on. My Dad had to walk home from work, which took him 3 days. The snow was over the window panes.33 years later, and I'm in a blizzard warning down in Central PA. There's no place like home!
I was there. We didn't go outside for a week -- we couldn't open the front door. Watching this gave me an anxiety attack and I had to turn it off. Snow. I hate snow.
He was absolutely right...75 mph wind peaks at -10 F...how long do you think you'd last?
I was in 1st grade, and I got dropped off at my corner at 6PM Friday-- the day the storm hit-- because the bus couldn't make it down a side street.
In what was ordinarily a three minute walk, my hat, gloves, and scarf blew off, and the snowpile in my driveway was taller than me. If not for my mom standing at the front window, I'd have frozen to death in minutes. I'll never forget it.
I was there. Being a kid I loved the snow, but even this storm had me worried once I realized our house was being buried. Everyone got together and helped each other. It is remarkable how well people can come together to help others when times get tough. I live in Ohio now, I just showed my children this slideshow, they were astounded. Good job, thanks for the reminder. The radio broadcast especially, it took me right back to the day.
we live in St. Catharines , we had about 10 people staying at our house because their cars were stuck on the road ,including a snow plow! we were stuck there for three days,our uncle brought us some food in his snowmobile, it was kind of fun at the time..
Wow - we just got 20 inches Feb. 5-6 2010 her ein Cherry Hill NJ but nothing like the wind & drifts you got then. I love Buffalo - been there a few times!!
I was 10 years old when this happened and got stranded at a bar with my mother sister and family dog. Our car got stuck in front of the place and thats where we stayed for 2 days. One unlucky snowplow driver also got the plow stuck in the same spot and spent the time with us as well
@06blaksi WHAT IS THE MOST SNOW ANYBODY GOT FROM THIS STORM? WORSE THEN THE BLIZZARD OF 96, PHILLY GOT 31.7 INCHES? BTW: ITS SNOWING IN PHILLY RIGHT NOW ASS I TYPE, MAJOR STORM..
Back in 4th grade, my gym teacher (who was about 55 years old) told us all about this blizzard, I wish I could have been there :P I love snow!
Gotmilk0112 1 week ago
WOW that was pretty awesome!! Even here in Montreal we never have that much snow :P
YoshMasterTube 1 week ago
This video went viral on Caracas
robbiepeters512 1 month ago
I remember this storm, being in Cleveland and having just got hit a few days earlier by a blizzard, but it was nothing compared to what Buffalo experienced. That was a bad winter for everyone.
crazytribefan 1 month ago
good job on the clip dude! great use of the pics and am updates!
Fuckface9 1 month ago
holy bajesus
jsnyara 1 month ago
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DONT READ THIS CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS YOULL BE KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE POSSIBLE HOWEVER IF U DONT POST THIS TO ATLEAST THREE VIDEOS OR YOU WILL DIE WITHIN TWO DAYS.NOW UV STARTED READING THIS DONT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY PUT THIS ON AT LEAST FIVE VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN YOUR DONE PRESS F6 AND YOUR LOVERS NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS THIS IS SO SCARY IT ACTUALLY WORKED
fobroxsox14 2 months ago
crazy
NaturReise 4 months ago
I wasnt around then, but I love how "dancing queen" is played in the background with that old school sound quality you get from records and such. Dont like the song much, but seems to set the time period when this happened pretty well
corvettefan96 4 months ago
@corvettefan96 I was only 4 yrs old when this happened and lived down the lake in Erie, PA. But I do remember that everyone listened to AM radio in the late '70s.. AM radio stations had the news, weather, and hit music... and you're right.... bad audio!!! FM just wasn't big yet.
kris6694 4 months ago
Nothing like freezing to death having to listen to Dancing Queen. I'm not sure which is worse.
bcbp14 5 months ago
The folks who were great during this time were the many snowmobile owners. They pitched in and were doing all kinds of things for folks. Many delivered groceries to the elderly and picked up prescriptions. They even assisted stranded motorists. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for those folks and all that they did.
beentheredonethatb4 5 months ago
We had 36 snow days on Grand Island, 42 in Buffalo. I was in 7th grade, we went to school through the end of JULY! My brothers climbed out onto the roof and dug us out! My dad was in insurance, and worked with plowers to clear the roads, finding cars with "blue" people in them. Devastating. Changes everything. Community becomes SO important. So does prepping for winter, and keeping in touch with elderly neighbors. Bless those hardworking people who saved us all.
Smaxychic 5 months ago
My dad got stuck in a Grocery Store when the thing happened.
TheBillbot 6 months ago
i rember it well i was in op
MrPotdealer 6 months ago
Respond to this video... The video was, as they say "spot on!" I lived through it in Depew...spent the big night at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Always wished i could have attended a reunion of those people from that special time.
bflogal77 7 months ago
@jimhsix2 I lived there in Depew in '77...previously all my life in Kenmore. It was an unreal time, but people were so friendly...wiling to help each other out...asking, "do you have power"? Buffalo will always be my home. i'm in DFW TX now...hail and tornados every time you look around! I'll take snow every day of the year in comparison! It snows, freezes, thaws, and voia! your house is still there! Ah Buffalo!
bflogal77 7 months ago
@bflogal77 E Amherst here,70-77 prev."Kenton"(close to Kenmore East high)in Tonawanda,my toddler tears & took my first breath in NT.The blizzard seems worse from this perspective & decades later than having been there beg.to end.I remember radio & TV,conveying it was legally ok for anyone with snowmobiles to mobilize to the invisible streets,or anywhere actually.I've never seen snow piles last as far into spring as then.Been in Illinois since 6-77, WNY still home, weird to hear Irv
tjfreak 1 month ago
How do you make a slideshow???
BigCheez8682 7 months ago
my dad said he drove his snowmobile over his barn and he could reach down and touch the power lines
SporeNaruto23LOL 8 months ago
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My cousin's girlfriend ahd her twin brother were born during this blizzard, on January 30th. They live in the Niagara region of Ontario, which is right near Buffalo.
sarahedwards2 9 months ago
what the news reporter said at 2:56 to 3:15 is funny as hell LMFAO
EffingAntonia 9 months ago 2
@ strongties u are fucking stupid for that comment bitch come to buffalo and we put u in jail to bitch
tajha19 10 months ago
If you panic there is a chance you will get killed out there! And I don't want to make you panic! lol...... that didn't help..
gohan40129 10 months ago
It was fun when I was 12. Sledding off the roof across two neighbors yards. Tunneling through huge drifts. If it were to happen again....it'd still be fun.
Dirtweed 10 months ago
dey dum ass city should of not loss 5 super bowls n a row and put oj n jail for sum dum shit
strongties 10 months ago
@strongties lol Look at this guy calling someone else dumb...By the way that's how you spell that word D.U.M.B. Learn to spell and get an education before starting talking trash to people
Buffalosportsfan21 6 months ago
@Buffalosportsfan21 yu fcukin buffalo butt city of losers ass city of snow ass city of nuthin to do ass butt go skiing inn july ass city of wee lost 5 super bowls inn a row ass city of wee aint been to da playoffs inn no sport in like 35 yrs go fukk urself or go play inn da snow go outside rite now and freeze ya self ta def
strongties 6 months ago
@strongties Like i said get an education before you talk crap. I hate when dumb ass people who are slightly above retarded try and Talk ghetto because they think they are hard. Do your self a favor go get a G.E.D and learn how to write an actual paragraph. You are the downfall of America and why other nations laugh at us you stupid ignorant piece of trash.
Buffalosportsfan21 6 months ago
@Buffalosportsfan21 no asshole yu a buffalonian buffalo butt iz da reason amerikkka gets looked down on who wants to go to a place like buffalo so it starts wit ur towne dey need to demolish ya town and kill every1 dere die buffalo die buffalo die da world would bee much better without dat weird ass place nuthin butt a bunch of losers up dere itz a reason buffalo iz da laffin stock of da nation
strongties 6 months ago
@strongties Whatever bitch...You are seriously the dumbest mother f*cker i have ever seen on here. Trying to read what you write hurts. Your probably some ghetto trash who lives off of the government and who will never amount to anything. I wish you lived in buffalo so i could shut you up personally by breaking your jaw. get a life and learn to spell. Better yet go out and get a job.
Buffalosportsfan21 6 months ago
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@Buffalosportsfan21 nah fool im livin dee amerikkkan dream i sell crack inn inglewood cali butt i live inn agoura hills cali where i kan lay ma feet up and live like a king as dee great don king would say only n amerikkka and i do visit ya surry ass town fo sum konnects butt if i seen ya lil pisspott poor ass i would break ya face
strongties 6 months ago
@strongties you are defiantly a stereotype...doesn't that bother you? That you are worthless? You offer nothing to society and your one bad crack deal away from just being a statistic. I pity you I truly do. You post that you sell crack over the internet because you think your a "cool" guy or a "gangsta" . It makes me sick how people think that being ghetto trash is something to be proud about. I hope that one day we no longer use jail systems and police just shoot to kill..
Buffalosportsfan21 6 months ago
@Buffalosportsfan21 it would take a buffalo butt buffalonian to say sum shit like dat watts inn da water up dere where yall all think alike juss born losers yu people up dere and all white peeple dere iz racist pricks sterotype 1 buffalo iz a racist hick town fact2 the most racist cities n amerikkka 1.boston 2.buffalo 3.manhattan 4.providence 5.pittsburgh
strongties 6 months ago
@strongties i wouldn't care if you were white, black, Hispanic or Asian...Color doesnt take away from the fact that your a Piece of shit who is a stain on society. Good luck with selling your crack tough guy and may god have mercy on your soul.
Buffalosportsfan21 6 months ago
@Buffalosportsfan21 if yo buffalo butt dont shut dee fcuk up yu fuckin snowed n loser and quit hatin on da fact dat im sellin crack livin dee amerikkkan dream sumphin yu kant do
strongties 6 months ago
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It snowed as far down as the Keys of Florida. I was in High School in West Palm at that time, and remember seeing the snow flurries while changing classes. I went back in and told one of my teachers and she just looked at me with what today would be called a 'Yeah, right!' look.
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oryxfreeride 11 months ago
@oryxfreeride 26 F the entire month was below freezing
ajgolfer1 11 months ago
@ajgolfer1 oh haha, that makes me feel stupid. but 26C meeting a freezing arctic storm must also do something crazy...
oryxfreeride 11 months ago
@oryxfreeride yeah dont feel stupid we had a good flash freeze lake that with a huge snow storm in some parts of michigan in january 08 i think?? I think it was cold then record warm then a huge blizzard damaging winds and such
ajgolfer1 10 months ago
they were mentioning oh this is a story you can tell your grand-kids
oh yeah! my grandpa has told me stories about being trapped in the blizzard, crazy!
taryndancer29 11 months ago
after that blizzard my parents sold everything and moved to phoenix lol. now we deal with extremely hot temps
inNrf3cti0nt0brAinZz 11 months ago
and what really sucked is that almost everyone was still driving "rear wheel drive" cars back then. Rear whell drive in the snow = LOL
inkey2 11 months ago
MAN ! I REMEMBER THAT DAY WELL ! i was in the 7th grade , and was a paper boy in warren pa , and it was bad ! i woke my dad up at 5 in the morning LOL and we looked out the window and seen a 8 foot snow drift in the middle of the road ! BUT I GOT THE PAPER TO MY CUSTOMERS THAT MORNING ! AWWW TO BE YOUNG AGAIN LOL.....
snakepliskinism 11 months ago
here in missouri... we just got a bad blizzard.
2 inches of just ice and on top of that a foot of snow. my school had all last week off (monday-friday) and no school today:)
TheFruitcakeGirlz 11 months ago
when the blizzard of 77 hit i didnt exist
evergirl1231 11 months ago 19
i was there also, with my little brother, i remember my neighbor kept telling us to fill up the bathtub with water in case the pipes freeze, mom finally came home on a snowmobile that was a sight, and my brother and i went to the corner and climb the hill and was standing on the stop sign... I have pictures, very cool memory...
hduckett4 11 months ago
Every year of the 70's in Ohio was a blizzard from hell.
kathleengalful 11 months ago
WELL DAM! freaking lot of snow......
YoungChapz 11 months ago
I was there, was a junior in high school, had two weeks off of school, would walk to friends houses, had alot of slumber parties, it was unbelievable, now i'm stuck in Fort Worth, TX with two inches of ice on the roads and no snow plows or ice trucks on my street. Bring back memories of those week.
kellykea1 1 year ago
5:25 omg is that someone's HOUSE?!
spikeschilde621 1 year ago
i thought my parents were exaggerating when they said that snow drifts were over their heads, some even up to 2nd story balconies. crazy.
spikeschilde621 1 year ago
first i thought it was kinda funny cause there would b no skool have fun blah blah blah but its not funny, its a sad thing and i regret for thinking that!
RIP FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIED
misspennyjenny 1 year ago
@misspennyjenny so what was the offical count of people who died?
YoungChapz 11 months ago
Buffalo man!
JayGEimaJ 1 year ago
My sister was stuck in East Aurora for a week because of the Blizzard. My father got stuck trying to get home from his office near the airport. A neighbor got stuck at Veteran's hospital where her husband was a patient. My younger sister and I were sick that day and didn't go to school - thank goodness!
TimeLady8 1 year ago
@TimeLady8 i live in ea! haha, really wish i lived through this. mustve been a blast. my parents tell me stories about it all the time. in fact i heard on the news last week that it was its 34th anniversary.
LedZepp1193 1 year ago
Buffalo people are tough! No whining candy asses when it coes to snow.
Amber1ize 1 year ago 2
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A storm that I will NEVER forget. There are 2 pictures that I took in this video. One is at 2:35, which was on N. Milgrove Rd. in Alden, NY and the other is at 5:40, which was on Remsen Rd in Akron, NY. The 5:40 one is a house I grew up in back in the early 60's.
When the storm hit, I was pulling out of a gas station. Don't ask me how I got home but I did. The rest of the day & night I stayed up keeping the door open until I was totally snow in. Took a window out to get out of the house.
chuckrl 1 year ago
Recalling thee blizzard of 78, equally as nasty got snowed at work..still have dreams about that one.
TheFlyDrifter 1 year ago
Cleveland was shut down for weeks, factories and schools had the gas shut off. Luckily, I was 15 and just got back from Hawaii with thai sticks
mrmott44 1 year ago
-54 wind chill!!!! LOL love the time stamp with the public service announcements fading into Abba's Dancing Queen!! And dont use the phones for social calls!! When was the last time you heard that request from the authorities??
tommiej3 1 year ago
@tommiej3 well remember back then they only had party lines...
YoungChapz 11 months ago
-54 wind chill!!!! LOL love the time stamp with the public service announcements fading into Abba's Dancing Queen!!
tommiej3 1 year ago
I was born during the blizzard. mom and dad were 10min away when it got real bad and dad drove the rest of the way.im glade they made it to the hospital.
IRISHCAT77 1 year ago 2
Not meaning any offense to the snow blizzards of nowadays in 2011, but the blizzard of 77 was a monster snow blizzard big time.
Zippertheslipper 1 year ago 6
my dad lived throw this
shoelacebubblegum111 1 year ago
I grew up in Buffalo and joined the Air Force at age 19 in August, 1976. I came home on leave in early December, and left for my station in Georgia on December 14, 1976, so I missed the Blizzard by a few weeks.But I heard horror stories as well as stories of good will and cooperation between citizens. One horror story had the Buffalo cops throwing my sister out of an apartment building where she had gone to seek shelter from the storm. Watching a CBS documentary called Whiteout-Buffalo, was good
bigsherm7 1 year ago
I was in college in Meadville, PA, where we had almost as much snow and it was quite a bit colder. I "walked" my dog by opening the 2nd story window of my apartment and letting her out onto the 12-foot snowdrift right outside.
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eme456 1 year ago
I was in high school at the time...never have seen a storm even close to that one. We were stuck at school for several days (actually had a blast). The wind blew the snow so hard, and the snow drifts were packed so hard that you could drive over them. Nearly all the roads (I was in Niagara County) were cleared with front end loaders, plows were useless. Lots of cars were completely buried...and came out in chunks, the term Iron Snowdrift became common.
idahorenegade 1 year ago
I was living in Wilson when this happened and my mom was pregnant. She had to be taken to Newfane Hospital on a snowmobile. Of course i got 1 week off from school so i loved it :)
nyadam 1 year ago
I was living there during '75 to '81 and what I remember most about it were the drifts that were sometimes 10-12 feet high and the clean-up afterward. Trucks and heavy equipment from the U.S. and Canada came to help.
Swingreach 1 year ago
I just showed this to my 7 year old. He is the same age that I was when the storm hit. I now live in LA and work in emergency services and we go into an emergency response mode when it rains.....what a difference!
KI6RBW41 1 year ago
wow!
fiarydeath 1 year ago
It was my last winter in buffalo, I was 17 yrs old. That August I hopped on a bus and headed to Los Angeles. Buffalo will always be my home town but not in the winter.
The people are the nicest in the world.
dunningda 1 year ago
I was 6. My biggest memory outside of the snow was cold and boredom.Our power went out at some point.When we did have it there was just a test pattern on tv with music,then nothing including no heat.My dad was a truck driver stranded in Cleveland because they would not let him in.We had no heat and I remember walking around in many layers of clothes,socks,my coat and sleeping with mittens on.I apparently rolled over in the night and gave my sister a black eye.She was mean at the time so no tears
slosh29 1 year ago
I grew up 25 miles east of Buffalo. This blizzard canceled my 5th birthday party. I remember my older brothers sledding off our porch roof because the snow was drifted 10+ feet in our yard. And when the snow plows made it down our street, the banks were about 15 feet high.
lklossner 1 year ago
i live in st.louis and we just had a system go through with blizzard like conditions. i made a couple vids of it and posted to my channel. we never get to see the real thing though. id give anything to experience this.
StormsFishingNMore 1 year ago
my dad was caught in a construction trailer in niagara falls for a week i remember having no school for a week even though it was a block away....good times....lol
unstabledavid 1 year ago
And I thought Minnesota had snow........Geesh!
pillowbugg 1 year ago
Whats the coldest temperature in cuba? 33.08 degrees farenheit on Feb 16, 1996.
hancocklicata 1 year ago
I was living in Derby, NY and working downtown Buffalo at Marine Midland Bank. I had a St. Bernard dog named Archie. Now I live in Hawaii.
poloniawarrior 1 year ago
@poloniawarrior Anyone can understand why you live in Hawaii after some of the footage I see here. I live a few hours from Buffalo and every winter I say the same thing. Obviously there are different natural disasters in all parts of the world....it's just a decision of what we'd rather put up with.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vidlivs Yes, the cold weather gets tougher to handle the older we get. I don't drive anymore and must rely on the bus to get to work. Hawaii makes more sense for me, also because there are no jobs to be found in Buffalo anymore. The sad part is that I have no family here and feel like an alien on another planet here. It is difficult to give up your family and culture, but survival is what is important these days. I miss the good food in Buffalo and the nice people.
poloniawarrior 1 year ago
Well at least it helped keep the crime down!
GaryBoy54 1 year ago
People ask how can you die in a blizzard? It's quite easy. I was a child, 7, when this hit. It was an incredible natural event. We had elderly living next door that we lost contact with due to the phones getting knocked out. My mother and I shoved the east door open and had tied ropes to our waists to get to the neighbors home. You immediately suffer from spatial disorientation and mind numbing cold. The warm air gets sucked from your lungs. Yes it was an incredible event!
toddburt321 1 year ago
It is true. Buffalo is actually fairly sunny because of the lakes and relativly warmer in the winter in comparision to other cities at that latitude also because of the lake.
postpolo1 1 year ago
I live in Rochester and was in the 8th grade...I remember waiting to get a bus from downtown for several hours (we took public transportation to and from school) and having to walk 4 or 5 blocks in a white out. People die in blizzards from freezing to death...run out of fuel, pipes burst if you have hot water heat they can freeze and burst.
wrdwrthy 1 year ago
i can say , i SURVIVED the BLIZZARD OF 1977
lesrenemckeown 1 year ago
@lesrenemckeown if it wasnt 4 the blizzard of 77 i would not be here my dad said they were stuck in the house and they had nothing else to do
theWORLDin2012 1 year ago 51
@theWORLDin2012 it was a boom boom room huh?
YoungChapz 11 months ago
@theWORLDin2012 ajajajajajajajajjajaja!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
alexrocksjuma 11 months ago
@theWORLDin2012 That's great! I was in college back then and it was something to see. Everything was closed for days and some of the deepest snow I have ever seen.
beentheredonethatb4 5 months ago
@theWORLDin2012 born september 77 never thought about it before, but i guess your right
ENDER1477 3 weeks ago
It was incredible. I was 19 and was being driven to work when it struck. (I didn't have a car yet) - my mother was driving to the end of our street - when it hit, we turned around and by the time we got to our house, we couldn't tell which house was ours, it was snowing so hard. All in all, we had a blast-we haven't had anything like it since. It was epic. You just had to be there.
Jon21Ry2 1 year ago
3:00 dark humor :D
TanelFreak 1 year ago
How would people die from a blizzard?
omph98 1 year ago
@omph98 trapped in their cars
peppersprite 1 year ago
@omph98 - they were stranded in their cars on the thruway and city streets. when this thing hit, you couldn't see and had to stop driving- it got very cold and didn't stop snowing and blowing for 3 days or so... there was also a driving ban so it was hard to rescue them. It was so bad that emergency vehicles had a hard time getting around. There were no cell phones at the time either. There were so many stranded cars that it was hard to get to all of them. Thus, people died.
Jon21Ry2 1 year ago
I was a bank teller and stranded in the bank on Main & Court Street from Friday morning till Sunday afternoon! We all watched "ROOTS" My dad worked at Trico and made it to my apartment on Lafayette Ave. The remainder of my family was stranded in Holland NY. A copy of "THE WHITE DEATH" and the Buffalo Newspaper have relocated with me to Chesapeake VA.
SuperKathy1953 1 year ago
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My Dad worked at Trico as well and was stranded there for 5 days. Does the name Frank Sorrentino sound familiar to you?
mommyof2cutekids2 1 year ago
Buffalo at it's finest moments.
spg5812 1 year ago
i was 10 at maple east elementary school on Maple next to Millard Filmore Hosp.Snow came up to my 2nd story window.As a kid it was fun.
canabeans08 1 year ago
@canabeans08 Just curious, did you have a Mrs. Dawson who worked in the front office?
FlaGuy66 1 year ago
This event made us all scared to death to listento to any weather report even in June
19finbar 1 year ago
Kite anyone?
Elvarks 1 year ago
Our car was buried in this storm and we did not get it back for over two weeks.Also people walked the streets for weeks waiting for the plows to get the roads clear.I was 14 at the time and it sure was a great time for me because it closed many schools for weeks.
sdbustogo 1 year ago
I remember the news reports of conditions up there during that blizzard - I was living in MD at the time. I remember wondering how many people would die, not being able to get anywhere except by snow mobiles. They showed pictures on the TV news of people walking up over their house roofs - like 15 feet drifts. Glad I wasn't there.
praheelie 1 year ago
1977, My senior year in HS. Holland NY. Two weeks off school, drinking age was 18 then and we had a two week long party, just a little more than usual. Now living in SUNNY California, no more snow shovels for me.
storkfmny 1 year ago
heaven one of the best weeks of my life
virus56777 1 year ago
WOW!!! Thanks for sharing! Amazing pictures. The radio broadcast was a great accompaniment to the photos.
Winterlore 1 year ago
The pictures, in this presentation are just unbelievable. I've lived, in New England all my life; and I experienced our biggest ever snowstorm, the Blizzard of '78. That was a huge weather event for us; but I have never seen snowdrifts like the ones, in this report. Living with those lake effect snows must be a real adventure.
nonameslefttotake 1 year ago 3
this was serious. this video references Buffalo, but this thjng took out the entire EAST COAST!!! I was in Atlantic City and it was almost FIVE FEET OF SNOW IN AC!!! people were trapped, my sister had the flu, 104 temp, over a mile from the hospital, in an all electric apt. with no power. my baby was 6 mos old and we needed food and water took 4h rs for us to walk 6 blocks and back . There were tragedies, people couldnt get dialysis,not good nothing moved on wheels except the ARMY trucks.
kalifson 1 year ago
i love how at 4:26 the radio station starts playing dancing queen. sure we're buried under 10 feet of snow, but what the heck, lets party!
corvettefan96 1 year ago 2
Don't panic or you could get killed
mocus1 1 year ago
@danimal14222 what good things are happening here? The only good things about buffalo are the suburbs and even hamilton, ON has a higher population than buffalo now
Ciaduff9 1 year ago
@Ciaduff9 Actually, I live in Elmwood Village and property values around here have doubled in a decade...and us and Minneapolis are the only metro areas to add jobs in the past year. This last recession didn't kill us for a change. Lots of downtown development.
Danimal14222 1 year ago
i miss buffalo =(
katbulldogs 1 year ago
@katbulldogs Your not missing much.
habsrule81 1 year ago
@habsrule81 Says the Montreal fan. Like you're (not your) an authority. Lots of good things hapening in the area.
Danimal14222 1 year ago
@Danimal14222 Actually i live just a few miles outside Buffalo. Its a great area with massive potential. But "as usual polictics" keep this area down.
habsrule81 1 year ago
@habsrule81 Fair enough. I defend my town. Paladino actually had a shot, if he could have stopped foaming at the mouth.
Danimal14222 1 year ago
@Danimal14222 I agree. Cuomo is going to runaway with this race. He'll destroy New York State the same way he destroyed the housing market when he was in charge of "HUD" during the Clinton years, but people have very short memorys.
habsrule81 1 year ago
@habsrule81 Quit voting those fuck'n commie democrats from downstate and WNY would be better off. I'm pulling for Paladino but I'm pretty sure that all the democrat idiots in NY state will put Cuomo in. When the hell will New York and California learn that the Democrats will just push the welfare state and tax every small business out of state.
vidlivs 1 year ago
@vidlivs All of us in the 9 western counties that voted solidly for Paladino ought to separate from "New York State" and become a state ourselves---The Commonwealth of Niagara.
Nine counties. 1.6 million population. 9000 square miles. 6 Electoral votes. And yes, Carl Paladino and Greg Edwards as our 1st governor/lieutenant-governor team.
Spread the word... the Commonwealth of Niagara!
StukInBuf 1 year ago
I like how the gas companies were expecting you to use less gas when got below zero.
kfinnguy 1 year ago
I remember NYC sent their excess snow to Star Lake NY on a train, by the time it got there it was all melted. This was truly the "Storm of the Century".
belair55zz56 1 year ago
that snowstorm is equivalent to the ones they have in Northern california--Donner Pass.
BNforever2009 1 year ago
I remember this blizzard we had to clime out our top windows to get out the house and power was down for three days
mrmack2067 1 year ago
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I was 17 when this Blizzard hit. We lived in Williamsville and I remember wanting to get out of the house so badly. When it was finally over the only way we could get out was by our second story window as there was drift that went completely from the sidewalk to half way up our front porch roof. My younger brother and I slid down the drift! It was a blast.
blaznladyful 1 year ago
I was 17 when this Blizzard hit. We lived in Williamsville and I remember wanting to get out of the house so badly. When it was finally over the only way we could get out was by our second story window as there was drift that went completely from the sidewalk to half way up our front porch roof. My younger brother and I slid down the drift! It was a blast.
blaznladyful 1 year ago
and they have this kind of storms in alaska every winter!!!!
BNforever2009 1 year ago
@BNforever2009 yeah,they do-but not in heavily populated cities.This was not a big snowstorm.It was a massive blizzard that took massive amounts of snow off of a frozen lake and blew it on Buffalo.I was happy.I was 10 and missed alot of school because of this blzzard.
peak199 1 year ago
I was out of school for a week!!! I was in 7th grade
redlackawanna 1 year ago
When this blizzard hit I was living in a big old house that was heated by water radiators. I remember my dad getting stranded at work in the city. I stayed on the phone with him all night keeping him posted on what was being said on T.V. while my mom and brother were in the basement trying to unfreeze our water pipes so they wouldn't burst. Me and my brother and sisters slept in our winter coats and mittens the first few nights and still froze all night. I would do it all again. It was a blast.
outsidetherain1 1 year ago 27
@outsidetherain1 Yeah,I know our parents were worried for us kids,but we had a blast.We were sledding off of the roof tops instead of going to school.It was great!
peak199 1 year ago 2
2:18 that poor dog
laura20022004 1 year ago
Lets hope this doesn't happen again
spiner507 1 year ago
i love how theyre playing abba!
taryndancer29 1 year ago
Is that a young Sandy Beach giving the stay in your car warning?
Eldorado14216 1 year ago
@Eldorado14216 Yeah, sure sounds like him, He worked at almost every station in Buffalo, I was waiting to hear "Shane" or Jim Quinn.
Gunfighter1b 1 year ago
At 3.57 it is a military 6x6 pulling the car out Maybe an m816. But it has added tow bar so it was probably privet owned from a military surplus.
bfrance2002 1 year ago
in oakfield we were stranded for 2 weeks.& 70 mph gusts
LetArtsLive 1 year ago
I was 8 years old and we had a blast.
captainimij 1 year ago
halo
foxxyryan 1 year ago
Buffalo has more days with temperatures over 60F than we do with snow on the ground. We are sunnier than Orlando, Fl. and we're considered the "Sunshine Capital of the Northeast". Now, will you smug out-of-towners please aim your climatological condescension at more appropriate targets?
BearsysRevenge 1 year ago 6
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DjiThor 1 year ago
I should have added: With winds that strong and temperatures that cold this wasn't the "powder" that skiers look for. It packs like concrete. I have had to use a round nosed shovel to dig it at times.
popspop71 1 year ago
I grew up along L Erie just south of Buff. In 77 I lived in the hills 30 miles SE in Wyoming County. We got more snow than Buff.(always do) but out there it was just another windy snowy day. TAKE NOTE: that 3 ft of snow on the lake ice, strong winds and low temps are what made this blizzard so bad in the city. "The perfect storm".
popspop71 1 year ago
Yup, t'was like some giant came along & POOF, blew all the accumulation right into the region! My dad got stranded downtown & some yutz stole my mother's snow shovel when she came in briefly to check on us!
tommyt1971 1 year ago
Snow cream!
mrsparex 1 year ago
im pretty sure it was really bad in the niagara region (Canada) as well
jamariogoon 1 year ago
I was a kid in the UK in 1977 and we had a similar winter... 50ft waves hit the east coast and it was awesome to watch....
Panic? No way... we loved it
marcN19 1 year ago
Are you people kidding me. All the comments talk about anxiety and panic..........I was a freshman in high school, and I guess it should have been a little scary trying to get to my mom and grandmother, who were out shopping and decided rightly they couldn't drive in this.........We had to take a roundabout way and it took about 2 hours to drive a ten minute drive, but I don't remember being scared at all.........We got home, and that was that. Turned on the last episode of Roots
sbubbb 1 year ago
@sbubbb My family and I lived in E Amherst from start to end. I was 11 & too young to understand the real seriousness of the blizzard,it was overwhelming, exciting and stopped time for days on end.The storm was much more than the accumulated sow fall,it was all the bizarre components that contributed,the extremely high winds,thunder& lightning,sleet,rain,sub zero temps
darkness,I moved to Chicago summer 77 and in 78 a record snow storm hit the area,they imported BNY
snow crews to aid
tjfreak 1 year ago
@tjfreak - I was probably too stupid at 14 to understand the seriousness.........For some reason, I never thought we weren't going to make it home. It just took 10X longer than it should have.........I don't remember lightning, and I can assure you there was no rain with those temperatures!........But, the wind is what really technically made it a blizzard. It was insane.
sbubbb 1 year ago
@tjfreak I can't recall the 77 blizzard; I lived in SanFran at the time.
A year after, though, we lived in Brooklyn. The 78 blizzard paralyzed the New York area for a couple days.
I do, however, recall the blizzard of 85. Why they didn't have a silver anniversary commemorative, though, I don't know. From Super Bowl Sunday, all week long, no school. High drifts to run and play in when it all subsided.
StukInBuf 1 year ago
Thank you for making and posting this video! I was 12 and living in West Seneca during the blizzard. My father was able to get home from work just before the roads closed in. Our house was buried, so when Dad went up on the roof to clear off some snow, we went up with him and sledded right into the back yard. Walls of snow along the driveway got so high we used a wheelbarrow to move it out in the yard. Thanks to your video, my 11-year-old can see how it compares to the MD blizzard of 2010.
aspenarabian 1 year ago
o my god the voices in this video made me have an anxiety attack! this is honestly kinda scary!
SteelMan036 1 year ago 2
that honestly just gave me chills. my dad told me about that blizzard and how his mom got in the shower and it was all hunky dorey and then a half hour later the sky was completely black and then all hell broke loose and he couldn't see across the street. and the rest of his family lived in bellevue so they drove down there after the storm and the snow was piled up higher thean the street lights on rt. 269. this just gave me chills! honestly!
SteelMan036 1 year ago
I was born the year before and was 1 when this blizzard hit Ohio. I lived there and have great pics. Now I live in Baltimore and we just got more than twice the amount of snow in 5 days and more than 6 inches more than 77 in a 24 hour span. It's crazy in 2010 I can't imagine what it was like 32 years ago!
TheDirker 1 year ago
I was 6 1/2 years old when this hit. I remember high school kids had to carry me down the street I lived on. My Dad had to walk home from work, which took him 3 days. The snow was over the window panes.33 years later, and I'm in a blizzard warning down in Central PA. There's no place like home!
iluvbflo 1 year ago
I was there. We didn't go outside for a week -- we couldn't open the front door. Watching this gave me an anxiety attack and I had to turn it off. Snow. I hate snow.
caraphyllis 1 year ago
This is awful but c'mon! "If you panic ....there's a chance your may get KILLED out there!" lol Sorry this isn't funny.
CountryGirlatheart9 1 year ago
He was absolutely right...75 mph wind peaks at -10 F...how long do you think you'd last?
I was in 1st grade, and I got dropped off at my corner at 6PM Friday-- the day the storm hit-- because the bus couldn't make it down a side street.
In what was ordinarily a three minute walk, my hat, gloves, and scarf blew off, and the snowpile in my driveway was taller than me. If not for my mom standing at the front window, I'd have frozen to death in minutes. I'll never forget it.
What now?
Danimal14222 1 year ago
That is something when drivers of their vehicles leave their cars where they were stopped and quickly find shelter.
crlaw75 1 year ago
I was there. Being a kid I loved the snow, but even this storm had me worried once I realized our house was being buried. Everyone got together and helped each other. It is remarkable how well people can come together to help others when times get tough. I live in Ohio now, I just showed my children this slideshow, they were astounded. Good job, thanks for the reminder. The radio broadcast especially, it took me right back to the day.
gdigir 1 year ago 2
we live in St. Catharines , we had about 10 people staying at our house because their cars were stuck on the road ,including a snow plow! we were stuck there for three days,our uncle brought us some food in his snowmobile, it was kind of fun at the time..
lakings13 1 year ago
@lakings13 that sounds awesome, truely.
xXmilesdavisXx 1 year ago
Wow - we just got 20 inches Feb. 5-6 2010 her ein Cherry Hill NJ but nothing like the wind & drifts you got then. I love Buffalo - been there a few times!!
tommiej3 2 years ago
I was 10 years old when this happened and got stranded at a bar with my mother sister and family dog. Our car got stuck in front of the place and thats where we stayed for 2 days. One unlucky snowplow driver also got the plow stuck in the same spot and spent the time with us as well
06blaksi 2 years ago
@06blaksi WHAT IS THE MOST SNOW ANYBODY GOT FROM THIS STORM? WORSE THEN THE BLIZZARD OF 96, PHILLY GOT 31.7 INCHES? BTW: ITS SNOWING IN PHILLY RIGHT NOW ASS I TYPE, MAJOR STORM..
ReganMarcelis 2 years ago