March 29, 1970 Easter Snowstorm... 43 years ago

[tim-from-pa]

Just thought I'd start a little reminiscent type talk today. How many here are old enough and lived in the east here where this happened?

I remember being in Sunday School as an 11-year old kid and my brother (20 at the time) just got his new VW bug. I remember as clear as the day it happened looking out the back door of the church after class was over and the snow was getting bad. My parents found me and said we were not staying for Easter services. My brother's VW bug chugged us all home thru that snow, but I remember he was having a hard time. I remember we approached our house from the back alley going the downhill direction so we would not get stuck.

Next day I was off from school and I remember how deep it was, and my mother was an LPN nurse at a nursing home a few blocks away and walked to work instead. It was a bad snowstorm.

 

[Sparkey]

You were on the right coast, I was on the left so I missed the storm. But it's interesting to me because my sister owned a '64 Mustang, my mother was a nurse. I also owned (but not that year) a modified 1959 VW bug with a type II engine (from their VW van) and loved looking for trouble in the snow. That thing was too much fun. "Trouble" means going out in the snow and trying to find the steepest hills to climb and/or go down. Loved that, never got stuck and had great fun.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane... Oh, and Happy Easter, tim-from-pa. I am "Sparrow-from-the-Great-Pacific-Northwest" and currently reside at the North-western corner of the contiguous states, up near Canada, in Bellingham, WA. I've visited your state often.

 

[tim-from-pa]

You were on the right coast, I was on the left so I missed the storm. But it's interesting to me because my sister owned a '64 Mustang, my mother was a nurse. I also owned (but not that year) a modified 1959 VW bug with a type II engine (from their VW van) and loved looking for trouble in the snow. That thing was too much fun. "Trouble" means going out in the snow and trying to find the steepest hills to climb and/or go down. Loved that, never got stuck and had great fun.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane... Oh, and Happy Easter, tim-from-pa. I am "Sparrow-from-the-Great-Pacific-Northwest" and currently reside at the North-western corner of the contiguous states, up near Canada, in Bellingham, WA. I've visited your state often.

Thanks Sparrowhawke. I visited your state once to see Mt Rainer over 10 years ago. I loved not only the state, but the people there, too. The ones we met were very nice.