1 song the week of the Blizzard of ’78, Bill Priest said, was by the Bee Gees - “How Deep is Your Love.” Our thanks to Don (who is also a trustee of the Stryker Area Heritage Council) and the Bryan Times for sharing the story: The story was written by Stryker native Don Allison, Senior Editor of the Bryan Times newspaper, and is reprinted here with their permission. Many people tuned into the radio during the blizzard to see what the latest news was or just to keep them company. The weather service also recorded winds running between 35 to 45 mph with higher gusts, which helped to build the big drifts and create whiteouts while dropping visibility to 1/16 of a mile or less at times (The Cleveland airport recorded a gust at 82 mph during the storm!).įor those of you who would like to post some photos of the blizzard in the Stryker/Evansport/Lockport area and add some of your memories, please send them to us at first story we have concerns the memories of Bill Priest, one of the broadcasters from WBNO radio in Bryan (and one of the trustees of the Stryker Area Heritage Council). They say it snowed 1 to 2 inches an hour for part of the storm. The weather service says the county received between 14 and 22 inches of snow, depending upon where you were.but there were places where the snow was much deeper than that. The snow came hard, the winds blew and drifts formed that blocked driveways, streets, roads, windows and doors all through the next day and into the night. ![]() It had been raining and the roads were wet that night in Williams County, but the weather quickly changed. ![]() The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning Wednesday night, January 25. Anyone living in northwest Ohio in January of 1978 remembers where they were during the big blizzard.
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