[BC] TV Weather

[Tom]

Um; Randy...

Timeline here in Hoosierland was a bit different; I know, because The 
Daughter was born that Saturday Morn; 1/21/78, at 4:16 AM EST... there 
was a minor problem, so she and momma were held over until Wednesday... 
I left the station (W X T A>W J N Z,  Greencastle, IN) at 3 PM, and it 
was really coming down.  My plan was to pick up the car seat for 
Munchkin, then head home with new family.  Got Car Seat, but never made 
it past end of the street - Police Officer (State Trooper; knew him well 
because I was News Guru was sideways in the road, with info that road 
between where I was and the Hospital was drifted shut - the SNOWPLOW was 
buried in it!  Fortunately, through all that, both the power and the 
phones stayed up - Kudos to the co-op folks in both cases (both power 
and phone were (separate) co-operatives). 

THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK!

SHAFFER, RANDY L wrote:
> The thing I remember about the 1978 blizzard was that it hit on a Sunday night/Monday morning. I was working
> the Sports desk/ news assistant. position at 910 WSBA. Accu Weather had been predicting just a few inches at first and
> bumped it up to something like 4-6 inches by midnight. I was still writing at about 2am when Elliott Abrams called
> with an update. The forecast was bumped up to something like over 12 inches.
>
> I was driving a 1975 El Camino which didn't have any weight in the back and wasn't the best in snow. I had a 25 min
> drive to get home. I decided I needed to get out now before I got stuck there. I barely made it home.
>
> Tuesday night, the news director called me and asked if I could come in to relieve the people who had been
> stuck there since Monday morning. The station was in the middle of corn fields and the lone road to the building
> had drifted shut and if I remember correctly they ran out of fuel oil. They had to bring in big front end loaders to get
> the fuel truck there. That opened the road for access to the station. I drove in in my '69 Ford Econoline (weighted with
> bags of concrete mix over the axel) down the road which was like driving through a tunnel. Snow was much higher
> than the van at spots.
>
> Randy Shaffer
> Harrisburg, PA
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