Remember the BIG snow storm
Does anybody remember the big snow storm of 2010? The first wave of storms hit Ellwood City Friday evening on the sixth of February. When we woke up Saturday morning to a very beautiful day, the storm had dumped 20.75″ of snow on our little town. Just about the time most people had finally got their sidewalks shoveled off, their neighbors sidewalk shoveled, and their cars dug out (and re-dug out after the plow trucks came by); the news broke that another storm was coming. Tuesday/Wednesday, Ellwood City got hit with another storm getting an additional eight to ten inches of the white stuff. While lying on the couch with the heating pad on my back, after shoveling the driveway again, I started recalling the other big winter storms Ellwood City has seen through the years.
Of course, anyone that remembers the storm of 1950, quickly points out that this is nothing compared to that storm. Though the actual snowfall from Thursday to Saturday of that year was thirty three inches of snow (setting the record), those that remember it usually remember a larger number than that.
I personally recall the storm of 1993 that left twenty seven and a half inches of snow on the ground. Those snow storms also hit us on a weekend as I was a dishwasher at Christy’s Restaurant at the time and recall the State Police coming into the restaurant and telling us we had to close. However the snow and police did not close everything down as I recall making our way to Pe’Wee’s Lunch around ten o’clock that night and the place was busy. The only tracks up and down Lawrence Avenue belonged to the snowmobiles parked in front of Pe’Wees as the drivers enjoyed a couple of hot dogs.
The winters of 1977 seem to stick in a lot of people from Ellwood City’s mind. Whether they are recalling the cold winter of 76/77 or the amount of snow all winter long in 77/78.
What storms do you personally recall? If you would like to share your memories of Ellwood City snow storms, please leave a comment below or email us at info@ellwoodcitymemories.com by CLICKING HERE.
If you remember the snow, then it is safe to assume that you remember sled riding in Ellwood City. Be sure to join our discussion as to where the greatest sled riding hill in Ellwood City is located.
At the time of the Blizzard of 1950 we lived a quarter mile from the now Del Mar Golf Course on Bridge Street Extension. Our neighbor Allan Houk came and plowed out our driveway with his tractor.
And plowed the road as much as he could. Bridge Street was impassable so my Uncle Robert Brown & Uncle Ken Brown made arrangements to walk and meet my dad Dale Sr. half way and bring groceries with them. And during the years that passed when the weather would turn bad we would attempt to make it home up the old Bridge Street Hill. And if that was not possible we would attempt Line Avenue Extension. If that was not possible we would turn around and stay at my Grandmothers who lived on Hazel Avenue. Winters then were an adventure now 60 some years later they have lost their magic!! But it is good to remember winter in Ellwood City through the eyes of a youngster. Those were good days and there were alot less problems and complications, or at least that was the way it seemed to me.
In the storm of 1950 we were off school for at least a week. It is the only time in my entire school career that school was ever closed because of snow. The PA Turnpike was being constructed down by Homewood and they brought up large earthmowers and ran them right down Lawrence Ave to clear the snow.
I remember the snow storm of 1950. We lived on Wampum Road next door to the Bartolmeo`s road that went to Rainbow Grove Picnic area. We had to shovel our driveway so we could get my sister, Dorothy to the hospital to give birth to my nephew, Leonard, (Buddy), Newton. When they arrived at Line Ave. and Pershing she had to walk up the hill to the Mary Evens Hospital to deliver.
I remember the blizzard of 93′. I just got back from a friends house in Pittsburgh and the snow started shortly after I go home. I remember my brother and I venturing out to walk to Prime Time video to rent some video games. We were the only people outside, the snow on the bridge walkways was up to our hips. We still laugh about it.
I was born in April 1960,and my mother,Georgianna Fosnaught Bartoe related the story of how there was almost a foot of snow that day.I live in New Orleans now and don’t miss snow that much,but do miss the Autumn and the smell of the leaves.