Blizzard of 66 - Rochester, NY

I was only a kid when it hit, but I remember snow up to the gutters and almost 2 weeks off from school right after Xmas vacation! For those in the heat wave this summer, I hope this takes your mind off from it :)

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[shibez]

wow thats amazing...i was apart of the blizzard of 99 and i too had like 2 weeks off from school...but it was no where near as bad as this storm!!!

[Dave5280]

We just had a storm that brought 9 inches on the outskirts of Denver, 4 downtown, and the Governor declared a Disaster Emergency!

LOL! What would they do with a storm like this.

I suspect they were really just pitching for Federal Aid.

[Lorddavud]

I was 8 (and a half) when that bad-boy hit town. As a little kid, you love that kind of thing! We lived in Pittsford, and I remember a neighbor making grocery runs for a number of us with his Ski-Doo! (snow mobile). Living through that - even as a little kid - has made me very dismissive of people who complain about winter weather. (Ahh! They're all a bunch of sissies!)

[Dave5280]

You should hear them whine here in Denver when they get hit with 2 feet!

I laugh and they get mad.

[10144824]

I remember Rochester winters were always brutal, and of course there was the blizzard of 76 or 77 also.

ecintron

[Dave5280]

It was 77. I was going into the Army that February. From Rochester, you get processed through Buffalo. We were stranded there for 2 days! On the bright side, my orders were changed so rather than going to Ft. Dix in New Jersey, I went to Ft. Jackson in South Carolina.

[caleb6868]

ice bowl of 67' ?

[dgraves7129]

Thanks for sharing that. I weathered the Drought and worked the wildfires as an EMT here in Texas this year, and as much as I hate snow (I spent 2 years in Oswego, NY), that does give me much cooler thoughts lol.

[joecoppeta]

I miss Dave I wish he was Still on 1180 WHAM and News 8 WROC

[RochesterGT]

OMG GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bikenbare]

Great archives, thanks.

Worked for Bittker Caterers. Stuck at the Duckman wedding at Temple Brith Kodesh (or was it Temple Beth El), which lasted for three days instead of one. Red Cross and Civil Defense at the time, came in with some medical supplies by snow mobile.

W. Irondequoit Schools were shut down for the week. After college I moved out to the Southwest. No wonder! But I do miss Rochester and come back occasionally.....during the summer.

[594bolt]

I was 7 when this storm hit.Huge piles of snow everywhere.I grew up in Penfield,moved to San Diego in '78,Orlando in '80 to get away from the snow.So where am I now?Ontario,NY and I've been working for the Town of Penfield Highway Dept. since 1985!!!How about that blizzard in '93? I was on the clock at work for something like 36 hours straight.No shift work at Penfield.When it snows,you work til the storm is over!

[zirrusv]

pretty sure i was conceived during this blizzard...

[KB2ZGN]

We lived on a dead end street, and like many, we had drifts to the top of phone plles most of the way p the street. It was almost a week before there were bulldozers were used to try and clear our street, (Dearcop Drive in Gates NY) and the gouges from the dozers tracks were visible in the pavement for many years after. It was only after repaving that they were gone. The year before it was the great power outage of the Northeast. I remember wondering what was going to happen next!

[celticsarebest]

@clockworktim my grandfather took home movies that I posted on youtube.

[bulldogbarks55]

I remember '66 very well. We had a similar storm in 1958. Both storms started on Sunday and we were stuck at home in Hemlock until Thursday when they brought a rotary snow plow in from the Livingston Co. Hwy Dept. to open up Rt. 15A. Snowmobiles were new back then and someone went to Livonia 5 miles away with a sled in tow to pick up Rx and milk and other supplies. We made it through because everyone helped each other. We all cared about our neighbors.