Whats the worst winter you can remember?

Question

1963 In britain was very cold for a long time.1947 was before i was born but i have seen photos of the snow ,a train was lost covered in snow.1982 was the heaviest snow i saw

Answer 1

the blizzard of '78. I was a kid living in Chicago and it was like the frozen tundra. I remember snow drifts that almost reached the 2nd floor of our building. My brother and I would jump out of our apt. windows into the snow...that's how deep it was. Fun for kids, hell for our mom! I remember people wearing the "I survived the blizzard of '78 "t-shirts. Brrrrrr!

Answer 2

Growing up I remember winters that covered the 30 MPH signs to the top, snow used to drift over the ditch's very high. Also the was the really bad storm in the 80's that caused a lot of damage.I now live with my wife and son in the High Peak so we still get snow but it is not like years ago. Our son was the only 1 born around here, my wife comes from Cornwall and I was born in Nottingham.

Answer 3

1947 is the winter that is most quoted but I think that part of the misery was due to coal shortages, transport problems etc. I lived in Wiltshire and perhaps we were lucky, but I don't remember it as out of the ordinary because all winters were cold then!

The winter of 1962/63 was the absolute worst. This was the winter when New Forest ponies froze to death standing up.
The snow started on Boxing Day 1962 and just went on and on and the temperatures, if I remember rightly, never rose above freezing - well they didn't in Norfolk where I was spending my first winter in the RAF. I'll never forget that winter. Nearly forgot, we had our last snow shower in May 63!

Answer 4

In the UK it was the winter of 1986/7.The snow started falling on a sunday night and carried on for several days.It was the year that icicles 20ft long were reported on the tv with some of them bringing down guttering and some slates on roofs.The snow in Kent in some places got up to 25 ft deep in drifts.TRUE,
I only remember it as I was working for BR at the time and we had to get one of the giant snow ploughs down from Scotland to clear the track up to london,it got stuck though as the snow was so thick and compacted,The Isle of Sheppy of the Kent coast was cut off and most shops were begining to run out of food and essentials.
It lasted for about 2 weeks ,then of course it all began to thaw out and things got back to normal,I think that the south east got the worst of it that year but all the UK suffered.
AH they don`t have weather like that anymore (thank god)

Answer 5

1993 - Here in the Southland we don't usually get more than a couple of inches of snow at a time. In late march of '93 we got 17 inches in one night! The entire region was paralyzed. my power was out for six days. The roads were treacherous for four days. Basically everybody had to put there lives on hold and struggle to obtain the basic necessities of life. Not to mention the fact that I nearly went stir crazy cooped up in my no electricity house for four days. That winter sucked!

Answer 6

Omaha, Nebraska...I believe it was 1990 or 91. Days of sub-zero temperatures, wind chill, and snow turning to ice. Part of what made it so bad for me was that I was in the AF then and had to walk about 1/3 of a mile from the parking place, wait in line to go through a security turnstyle, and up a hill to get to SAC Headquarters every day. It was brutal.

Answer 7

1963/4. In London it took an enormous pile of snow which had been dumped in an open space next to Neasden power house after having been cleared from roads in that area until May to fully melt down to nothing ! ! !

Answer 8

1947,a little after the war, as a schoolboy. all fuels were
scarce, the roads icy and dangerous, numb with the cold,
we kept our socks on in bed and put as many coats on top of us as we could find. The plumbers were kept busy!
1962/63 was also bitter, but not as bad, it was a long winter, starting on boxing day. We never had global warming then!
Cheers, keep warm.

Answer 9

1946/7 and 1963/4

Answer 10

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