Blizzard Aftermath-West Fargo, N.Dakota (1/19/96)

The high temp.this day was -18F. It's nice to be living back in Florida! Thanks Daryl for the wx update!

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[cvg1099]

great footage to capture the moment. the sunniness hides how truly freezing it was. any more time outside and your camera probably would have frozen up!

[jp5784]

You're exactly right. The sunshine makes it seem not so cold, but I remember how crazy cold it was that afternoon. Snow has a unique crunch when it's 20 below that it just doesn't have at zero or warmer.

[pinkdancer4]

oh yah i remember this! right after this we have a bad flood!! but i mean people what's so bad about north dakota? lol well kinda stupid question

but yah i live in fargo right now n there hasn't been a snow like that in a LONG time!

[jp5784]

Fargo was fun for 11 years, but I'm more sane being back in Florida!

[jaelliott]

I lived in Fargo and remember this blizzard, it was my first big one since moving to North Dakota. Thanks for posting it, really brought back memories.Thank god I am back in Indiana.

[jp5784]

I hope to post the 2nd half of the video soon. I'm glad I'm out of North Dakota too, and came back to Florida. No blizzard, but hurricanes are always popping up!

[Bassimastprime2]

Here North Dakota: quiet, freezing winters, mosquitos in the summer, good farming, good place to raise a family, boring if you like going out or having a variety of things to do, spaced out country, flat on the east, low population, friendly. Like I said, good place to have a family, not very fun and exciting to live in though.

[Kaila5393]

WOO HOO! FARGO! we were literally driving in tunnels! it doesnt get this bad but almost every year!

[spartog0]

ahh the best ever we had school out for like 2 weeks memories ahh memories :)

[xjileyxfanxx]

♥i love how people from other states call this bad when they shut everything down for like 2 milimeters of snow i think there was like 4 days shut down in bismarck and bis. was ALMOST as bad as this♥

[JustinU1984]

it looks so warm with the sun out it never feels cold - at least here in south texas. is it any different there?

[seinostrifer1]

i totally agree man I was in fargo too that shit fucking suck ass. Now i live in minot, ND up here fucking suck worse

[bigronnie96]

funny alotta snow caused a flood nowhere near as bad as the one were dealin with right now

[dirtymoon]

I was living in Fargo at this time.That year sucked. We got a 130 inches of snow that year. This video shows only half of what we got that year. I remember driving home, and the snow was above the roof of my car. Gotta love ND

[vagabond4554]

I live near Buffalo now. You get the snow but it isn't near as cold here. Also, the snow melts sometimes between storms. In Fargo, it doesn't. Your stuck with it until spring. The weather is nicer here in Buffalo! Why do you think I left Fargo and live here?

[SpiriToftheSiouX]

Vagabond, your story just about made my night. And Elephant, wow!

[ElephantDrunk]

here in Buffalo, NY we got over 7 FEET of snow in ONE storm in Dec, 2001. you have to try to climb to the top of it to even walk. then when the national guard plowed it, fuggetaboutit, it was 20 feet high. nowhere to put it. had to ship it out of town. couldn't dump it in the lake cuz of the salt in in from the streets.

[vagabond4554]

I lived in Fargo at the time.  The wind chill was -100! Kept my kids home from school that morning because it was coming down so hard. That was a good call because they sent everyone home at 10 am. I decided to go to a shelter because I didn't think my furnace would make it. Good call. It didn't.