[Magdalen] snow daze

[Jay Weigel]

Most memorable blizzards of my life....1961, in Madison, when I had cajoled
my mom into letting me stay home from school because I'd hurt my knee in PE
and didn't feel like walking the 3 blocks to school in the snow. They
closed school at 11:30, and at noon my best friend appeared at our door.
She couldn't get home because the city buses had stopped running, and she
stayed with us for the weekend. 1965, St. Patrick's Day, still in Madison,
when the University of Wisconsin called off classes, and the traditional
"drinking holiday" got off to an early start. I stayed home until 8:00 that
evening, when all the obnoxious drunks had gone home to sleep it off, and
had a delightful evening out with friends. 1993 in Tennessee, the most
memorable of all. Adam had gone to a friend's to go sledding and proceeded
to get marooned for the weekend, until Sunday when the friend's mother
called one boy's dad, who she knew had a 4WD car, and begged him to get the
boys out of there because they were eating her out of house and home. Betsy
decamped to a friend's house up the street. We never lost electricity or
cable so spent the weekend watching basketball and movies and sleeping.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ... and we had one in '77 in Syracuse when I was pregnant with my oldest.
> The city went into near panic mode and nearly the whole city let people
> leave around 3 pm to go home with the thought that it would only get worse.
> Instead it created traffic jams and accidents and 2-4  hour delays in
> actually arriving home, and by then the worst of the storm was over
> suddenly.
>
> Lynn, snow memories are making me colder : (
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
> "Mercy and compassion are more than personal options. They are the
> antidotes to that fear and hatred." Mark Singel
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Charles Wohlers" <chadwohl at satucket.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 5:03 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] snow daze
>
>
> And, three weeks from today is the 40th anniversary of the  Blizzard of
>> '78, remembered vividly by anyone living in the general  Boston area at the
>> time. Like, me.
>>
>> Chad Wohlers
>> Woodbury, VT USA
>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Ronkainen
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 5:48 PM
>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> Subject: [Magdalen] snow daze
>>
>> Was musing the other day via FB with Tina, an old family friend, about the
>> blizzard of '63 in the Detroit metro area.  The snow started mid afternoon
>> on a Friday and lasted 3 days. I think it may have been February or early
>> March. That Saturday Tina, the oldest child/daughter, was getting
>> married...
>> down the main drag  *only* ~ 4 miles down Woodward Ave.
>>
>>