tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386243187863820022.post577674809202133587..comments2024-02-20T10:34:28.922-05:00Comments on <center>Ambridge Memories</center>: 1950's big post-Thanksgiving snowstormNancy Bohinsky Knisley, AHS '67http://www.blogger.com/profile/11605598125276458027noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7386243187863820022.post-56198575586498281882015-11-28T23:02:55.655-05:002015-11-28T23:02:55.655-05:00jd aka john domansky
great job & great blog &...jd aka john domansky<br /><br />great job & great blog & great pics, just out of school a few months & lived this storm, look in another area where I commented sbout the snow storm, nothing moved for several days, I ice skated merchant st from 14th to 3rd or so & back again, snow was packed & hard it was very cold too. reminds me of the chicago blizzard of 1967, i live near I-80 & I-94, traffic did not moved for 4 or 5 days, trucks opened their doors & gave out free food, truckers & people stranded on hiway were taken into the homes along side of 80 94 for several days, I was the last car into republic steel south chicago works 3 to 11 shift & was stuck there for 2 days, car stayed there, no food, i walked 8 miles home in waist high snow & had to shovel house & driveway out, you could get to roof of garage on a snow drift to shovel snow from the roof. that snow was & is called lake effect snow, lake michigan just miles away. that was the time our daughter was conceived, ha.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com