Weather or Not

Where can you find the photos that were shown on 9:00 weather, 01-31-2007?

TOday is my birthday, so on that weekend I had some friends over to my house after our basketball game for pizza and Dungeons and Dragons....it was my 13th birthday. It started to snow and we said wouldn't it be great to be off school Monday, not thinking it would happen....until we looked back outside when it was time to go home ...needless to say we were off for days.

The other thing I remeber was having to walk down Manchester road in Ballwin, only about 1.5 miles, to shop for family because we were snowed in, bottom of a hill. Manchester road, usually the epitomy of hustle and bustle, looked like a snowy version of a Mad Max movie with the only cars for miles being those on the side of the road abandoned.

Great time for the kids...not so much for the adults.

jan 30 my 9th bday remember living on farm in desoto mo. had to bring in firewood and feed all the animals walking in snow up to my knees or more
so much snow what a great bday as a kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was lucky that year, I was living in Phoenix and missed it all.

wrfd15
I remember the snow storm of 1982 very well, I live in Wood River, IL and the night before they had predicted only flurries but when morning arrived, there was 2 to 4 foot snow drifts covering my cars in my driveway, spent 1 hour digging out to go to work. All of Wood River was shut down, could not go anywhere unless with a 4 wheel drive.

I have two memories of the snow. The first was the view out my kitchen window of the appartment I was living in near Lambert airport. I lived on the first floor with the parking lot outside. My 1974 Dodge Dart was parked just below the window. When the snow stopped, all that was visible of that Dart was the top 12 inches of the antenna. And right behind me was a trapped cab that took 3 days to leave. I had no way to move without him leaving first.
The second memory is digging out after it stopped snowing. My roommate and I dug our cars out because we had to get to work that night. Then with time on our hands we began clearing snow for others in the building. One by one we cleaned enought for the owners to get in and move out of the way.
Then the last two cars were owned by girls in the next building. We had seen them move in a couple of weeks earlier. This was our way to introduce ourselves to them. It worked because the older of the girls (two sisters in the apartment) I then dated and later married. We have been married now for 22 years. If it was not for the storm, I would not have met my future wife. So there is goodness in the storm.

Ahh yes, how well I remember this Blizzard! My son was born on the 28th of January 1982. I got to the hospital just on time. The very next day the snow started to fall. The morning of the 30th very few Doctor and Nurses were able to show for work. All the mothers had to take care of their babies in their own room. My doctor (Dr Robert Kovac) walked to the hospital in that horrible storm to visit and care for his patients. Which was one of the very few doctor that they ended up having. There was a call out on the news for every person with a 4 wheel drive to help pick up the hospital staff and for other important needs for those that could get through the snow. They were very short on food. The nursing mothers were the only patients that received a glass of milk each morning and the food was a single donut. The hospital got my son confused with another baby which had a close last name to mine and had problems eating. Thinking it was my baby they would not let me feed him anything but sugar water he ended up in the ICU. I would visit the ICU in the middle of the night to find I was stepping on visitors that were sleeping in the halls because they were stranded. The snow was bottoming out all the cars since it was so deep. My family and friends could not get in to visit. So I told my husband to enjoy whatever part of this that he could soooo when all else fails...Go sleigh riding and that is exactly what he and my 3 year old daughter did. I was in the hospital for 5 days and the first chance I could make it home I grabbed it.

I was 18 months old when this happened. I have a forever reminder of this blizzard. My mother had one of those refrigeraters that has the pull out drawer freezer on the bottom. My brother wa four years old at the time and he thought that I maybe wanted to see the snow. So he picked me up to show me out the window and he dropped me. I split my chin wide open and had to go to Children's hospital by ambulance in two feet of snow. I lived in Lemay at the time. I had to get eight stitches and I have the worst scar as an after effect, it is still very visible and I am now 26 years old.

I was 16 years old at the time living in a small town in Illinois. I have two vivid memories of this snowstorm. The first is the ENDLESS shoveling of snow. My mom, now admitting to just wanting to get me out of the house, insisted that the driveway, front porch, all the city sidewalks along our property be completely shoveled. The second is that my dad's small restaurant looked as if it were deserted from the outside. Not a car to be seen, but inside it was standing room only, full of people who had walked to get out of their houses for awhile.

I remeber the blizzard of 82. My father had a Blazer with big tires and wheels, 4 wheel drive and a winch. We went to the police department at that time by carondelet park to help. We went around with a police officer helping emergency workers get to work. We pulled ambulances out from being stuck. When other police officers heard on the radio that we had a winch and could pull emergency vehicles out of ditches and snow drifts we were dispatched all over the place to help. We helped people who were stranded on highway 55 they had no place to go so we took them to the police station at carondelet and some of the woman would make coffee for us to stay warm. What an experience that was ,thats when I really understood what police officers go through and how people in St. Louis pulls together when there is an emergency. We helped out for a couple of days and it really was an experience to help people in need. I will never forget all that snow. Dump trucks would come down Gravois with tractors and haull the snow away trying to get the street open. That is the first time I saw it thunder and lighting and snowing. I have told my children when it starts snowing we are ok as long as it doesn't start lightning and thunder. Wow what a look back thanks for the memories.