After a relatively slow start to the winter season, snowfall totals remained well below the 2010-2011 seasonal totals, but how do they compare to normal and other seasons? Also, how do temperatures this winter compare to past seasons? Looking back at last winter (2010-2011), top ten seasonal snowfall totals were recorded at both Fort Wayne and South Bend. Here are photos our hardworking staff took during the Blizzard of 1978.As the winter season wraps up, crunching the numbers reveals interesting statistics about this winter season. We were among maybe a couple of dozen parishioners who made it to services in the large church. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 4500 Fairfield Ave., for Mass. It meant no school, but I remember trudging along the sidewalk between piles of snow to walk a block to St. He took money from my skeptical mother, and returned later in the day with the goods from Roger’s. On the slope in the backyard, I built a snow chair.Ī young man came to our door, I seem to remember on skis. I only knew that I had my little orange snow shovel, and I dug a snow cave in the front yard. The 9-year-old me didn’t know what a logistical nightmare this Blizzard of 1978, as it’s now known, would be, with streets overrun with snow so people couldn’t get through to work, the grocery, anywhere. When my mother opened our front door the next day, it was blocked by a mass of white snow. Two reporters, a photographer and a couple of editors who made it to the office put together a 12-page paper, that couldn’t get delivered. The city got 17 inches of snow added to that already on the ground, which wind blew into high drifts. 25, 1978, warned readers with the headline: “Major Snowstorm Fort Wayne-Bound.” ( file photo)Īs former News-Sentinel editor Kerry Hubartt wrote for the 30th anniversary of the blizzard, the newspaper’s front-page story on Wednesday, Jan. South Anthony Boulevard was almost a no-man’s land in this photo first printed Jan. ( file photo)Ĭontractors work to remove snow from the Southgate Center parking lot. A fire captain was treated for frostbite. Heavy snow prevented a quick response from firefighters and later prevented runoff so firefighters were waist-deep in water. ( file photo)įire levels the Inland Chemical Corp. 27, 1978 – in search of emergency food supplies – trudge along South Anthony Boulevard near McKinnie Avenue. Some of the thousands of city residents who took to the streets Jan. 25, 1978, reads to Steve Haby, son of Red Cross volunteer Michael Haby The Mennonite Church youth group had traveled to Fort Wayne for a hockey game and ran into mechanical problems and the blizzard. ( file photo)Īnn Shrock, one of 37 Archbold, Ohio, teens stranded in Fort Wayne after their bus broke down Jan. ( file photo)īob Dick glides along Calhoun Street on cross-country skis. Shoppers pack Rogers’ Market Jefferson Boulevard on Jan. ( file photo)Ĭity crews haul away snow at the intersection of Main and Calhoun streets. ( file photo)Ī house in the 1100 block of West Hamilton Road is one of many snowbound homes. ( file photo)Īn Oxford Street resident stakes a claim to a parking space after clearing it. Kensill Wrecker Service clears abandoned autos. Henry’s Catholic School on Paulding Road provided a makeshift ski slope for Jeff Grossman, a student at Harding High School and member of the Fort Wayne Ski Club. When this “giant” semitrailer became mired at the intersection of West State Boulevard and Sherman Street, two much smaller “David” light trucks hooked up with a log chain and, with a couple of good tugs, gave the giant Mack tractor enough of a boost to set its wheels rolling. Goliath: As hundreds of Fort Wayne drivers learned, sometimes all you really need is just a little extra oomph. ( file photo)Īfter the snowfall, Fort Wayne learned the true meaning of delay. Work crews freed of traffic snarls clear Coliseum Boulevard near East State Boulevard. A spokesman said the wind blew snow from the store’s main roof onto the lawn and garden section. 28, 1978, because of heavily drifting snow. The roof of the lawn and garden section of Ayr-Way north, 3801 Coldwater Road, collapsed sometime in the night of Jan. 28, 1978, blizzard newspaper, from Marilyn Ondecker’s collection of historic News-Sentinel newspapers. The News-Sentinel’s nameplate from the Jan. Some of the papers were collected by her mother. The News-Sentinel from Jan.y 28, 1978, blizzard, from Marilyn Ondecker’s collection of historic News-Sentinel newspapers. A car drives through piles of snow during the Blizzard of 78, ( file photo)
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