The Great Charlotte Blizzard of '18!!!

[MU82]

At 5:30 today, they announced school is closed tomorrow, too.

It's gonna be sunny all day, with high of 39. But it will be in the high teens in the early morning and they're afraid of ice.

The big wussiness test will be Friday, when it will again be sunny all day with a high around 50. Will it still be too chilly at 7 a.m. for the cherubs? Maybe they'll just do a 10 a.m. opening.

Hey, it's actually been nice getting a couple days off basketball practice and getting to go right to Friday night's game (assuming there will be school that day).

[muwarrior69]

My time at MU 65-69 we never closed for snow, but they did cancel classes when we had 3 days of -20 degree temps.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

We had one snow day at Marquette and maybe two cold days as well.

[GooooMarquette]

78 was fun. Jumping off the garage roof into a snow pile.

I did that too...except the fall was only about two feet after we had pushed the snow off the garage roof.

[MU82]

I honestly cannot remember a single snow or cold day from when I was at MU, but maybe there was one.

My memory isn't what it used to be.

I honestly cannot remember a single snow or cold day from when I was at MU, but maybe there was one.

[drewm88]

It was my senior year of high school (2010-11) and it took snowpocalypse for the schools to be shut down for just two days (and school wasn't out of the question on day two). What was that, like two feet of snow?

Like the good Chicagoans we were, instead of hunkering down indoors, I walked over to my friends house to next day and spent a good few hours sledding.

Groundhog's Day. LSD was filled with cars that got stuck. My now-wife lived in a River North high-rise with floor to ceiling windows. Watched it pile up on streets, balconies, and roofs all day and night. Walking around the next day was crazy. Empty streets, neighbors working together to clear tiny paths on the sidewalk, snowbanks to my ribs. It was awesome.

[drewm88]

My time at MU 65-69 we never closed for snow, but they did cancel classes when we had 3 days of -20 degree temps.

December 2006 MU had a perfect snow day. Not too cold, and the snow was ideal for snowballs and snow football. Another one Ash Wednesday of 2008. That day was awful. Freezing rain and howling wind. A good day for staying inside and drinking all day, but feeling guilty about it because of Ash Wednesday.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I honestly cannot remember a single snow or cold day from when I was at MU, but maybe there was one.

My memory isn't what it used to be.

I honestly cannot remember a single snow or cold day from when I was at MU, but maybe there was one.

I recall one snow day at Marquette.  Freshman year, December 1987.
I was so mad because my Chemistry final got canceled.  I was prepared to do well on the final and I needed it to bring my grade up.  The option became available to take the final sometime in February else retain the current grade.  Forget it.  I forgot everything by then and was too tied up with spring semester at that point.

Blizzard of 78.  I still remember that one very well also.  Snow piles twice the height over the mailbox.  Cars stuck on I-95 buried in snow for days.  I still wonder how my parents shoveled the driveway?  It was a 9 years old winter paradise for sure.

[CTWarrior]

I recall one snow day at Marquette.  Freshman year, December 1987.
I was so mad because my Chemistry final got canceled.  I was prepared to do well on the final and I needed it to bring my grade up.  The option became available to take the final sometime in February else retain the current grade.  Forget it.  I forgot everything by then and was too tied up with spring semester at that point.

Blizzard of 78.  I still remember that one very well also.  Snow piles twice the height over the mailbox.  Cars stuck on I-95 buried in snow for days.  I still wonder how my parents shoveled the driveway?  It was a 9 years old winter paradise for sure.

We got a whole week off, if I remember correctly.  Ella Grasso closed the state for the week.  As a 16 year old my 18 year old brother and I had the unenviable task of shoveling that monster.  Not fun.  My parents had this old fashioned rocky driveway pavement that looked like loose stones but wasn't, so there was the added bonus of a forearm shiver down to your spine every tenth time you shoved the shovel into the snow and snagged a protruding stone.

I have a short driveway (just two car lengths)  two cars wide and a standard lot sidewalk, so I haven't bothered getting a snowblower, but that storm in 2013 *34") took me 6 hours to clean out.

[StillAWarrior]

At 5:30 today, they announced school is closed tomorrow, too.

My son at Elon told me that they cancelled class again today because of the snow.  When we spoke last night, he said they had announced a four-hour delay for today, but he predicted then that they'd probably cancel because it was still snowing at the time.  Apparently he was correct.  They're probably going to have to schedule a make-up for Saturday because with this shortened J-Term they do in January at Elon, missing two days of class is like missing two weeks during a regular semester.

[MU82]

My son at Elon told me that they cancelled class again today because of the snow.  When we spoke last night, he said they had announced a four-hour delay for today, but he predicted then that they'd probably cancel because it was still snowing at the time.  Apparently he was correct.  They're probably going to have to schedule a make-up for Saturday because with this shortened J-Term they do in January at Elon, missing two days of class is like missing two weeks during a regular semester.

I was stunned when I got the call at about 5:45 today that Charlotte public schools canceled Friday's school. I thought they might delay the start until 10 a.m. or something to allow the last of the ice to melt. But canceling the whole day? The snow is already gone from most roads, and it is supposed to be 50 and sunny tomorrow.

That's right: 50 and sunny, yet they canceled school because they were worried that a few students on the outer edges of the district might still have ice on the ground.

What a bunch of effen wusses!!!! No other way to put it.

[tower912]

http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2018/01/great_blizzard_of_78_textbook.html#incart_river_home

Blizzard of 78, revisited. 

[T-Bone]

I keep reading this subject as The Great Chocolate Blizzard.  And thinking that Faisal Abraham is up to something.

[real chili 83]

Fun ride today.

[tower912]

http://woodtv.com/2018/01/26/40-years-later-the-great-blizzard-of-1978/

More pictures of the 78 Blizzard.