When you think blizzards, think about the misery of 1978

Folks too young to remember 1978 haven't yet experienced blizzard misery nor anything close, no matter what TV's talking heads are saying about the recent weather.

The '78 storm was vicious and painfully cold. My kids were home for a week, three days of which they spent huddled under blankets in the room with a wood burner because power lines had snapped all over Licking County. Many families without wood burners took to public shelters and some rural areas were without power for weeks.

As for the tribulations of producing a newspaper under blizzard conditions, check my old clippings over at the Tea Party. It'll warm your world and remind you of what you narrowly missed in 2008. Here's the link.