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  1. Re Feb 79 blizzard, I could well have made a mistake over the precise date (ie 15th not 13th) but it was definitely a Thurs, so I guess it could have been Thurs 15th. The snow and wind were the big event!
  2. I remember Thursday February 13th 1979 as if it wre yesterday. We live on a hill top (500+ft) and the wind was screaming up our yard, the air was thick with driving snow, and it was drifting fast. Goodness only knows what todays folk would make of it!! The adults of that generation had grown up on the Winters of 1939/40, 40/41, 41/42,44/45, 1947, and 1963 not to mention several others in the 1960`s which were pretty bad. As a result they were used to proper winter weather, not the scenes of chaos we get when it comes an inch of slush in London today. After the storm in Feb 79 the road out to town was blocked by deep snow for 11 days. The council finally broke through with a huge buldozer with a 6ft x 15ft blade enormous thing it was, you could never have moved it with todays standard salt wagon plough. My Dad lived through all the winters I`ve mentioned and he said that although 63 and especially 47 were much worse winters, that particular Thursday in 79 was the worst single day he could remember. I too remember clearly the Friday in March that year when another heavy fall of snow came, these two followed a heavy fall on Sat Dec 30th 1978. I learnt a harsh lesson about the limited capabilities of a Land Rover when the going gets really tough. Where we live if it starts blowing properly you can be blocked in to anything less than a tractor in an hour. The final lot of snow came at the end of April that year after a milder spell resulting in the deaths of many hundreds of young lambs that were just not equiped to cope with such storms. Many years later although we have had cold snaps occasionally we have never had any really bad winter weather on a sustained scale, in reality nobody under about 40/45 can really claim to remember a hard winter, cold winter maybe wet certainly but not on the scale of 1979 let alone those that went before.
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