I remember having days like that in upstate NY back in the 70's. The snow drifts were so high you couldn't see the first floor of our house. Our pipes would freeze and you couldn't even start the car. The temps were below zero in the double digits. Somehow, we survived. We just thought that was winter at the time. I have never seen anything like it since.

Because the banks were so high you couldn't see if another car was coming around the corner. The styrofoam balls were given away at gas stations as promotional items. That was the '60s and '70s when cars had long, external antennas and gas stations were fighting for customers.

I had forgotten until you reminded me. Those were some very rough days back then. Where are you from? Our toilets used to freeze and our furnaces shut down. We would have to turn on the wood stove for heat. I think the lowest it got was about 30 below zero. That is unthinkable these days. And people still think global warming is a hoax.

The last snowfall that reminded me of those days was almost exactly a year ago, the Sunday before MLK Day, when we got around 2 feet.

That is such a beautiful area of upstate NY. I don't think many people realize how beautiful that area is, or even how lovely the rest of upstate NY is. The winters can be harsh, but the rest of the year it is just stunningly gorgeous. Even winter can be charming if you don't mind the cold.

I am pretty much a New Englander now, but I will always love upstate NY as the place I grew up in. It is one of the most beautiful places in the world. I am well traveled, but I still think our little corner of the world is just amazingly lovely. We are very lucky to have grown up in such beauty.

We had chosen that weekend to go skiing. Got stranded and ended up in Ithaca for days, partying with fellow college students.

I’m from NC and had never seen that kind of snow.

Some were worse than others, but I remember getting stranded up at the mountain we used to ski at and I had blown out my knee on a jump. We could not get to a doctor so we had to stay with some friends we knew near the mountain for about two days. It was a complete whiteout. You could not see a thing past the reach of your hand.

It was scary, but also kind of beautiful at the same time. By the time I got home (about an hour away) I was taken to a hospital and had to have surgery, that was during the early times of arthroscopy. Not a good time. Anyway, upstate NY gets more than its fair share of snow.

Stayed on with my gf at the time, who was from Syracuse.

I remember schools and highways were closed, and the highway patrol was calling for people with snowmobiles to help out. My gf said it was bad even for NY.

It was all good fun for me once we got rescued lol. I did get part of my cheek frostbitten during our long walk in the snow. That was scary.

Yes, it really was pretty though. I think that was ‘76 or ‘77. Good times.

That wasn't too far from where we lived. I believe it has been shut down since. My brother just retired from the Air Force. He was an F-16 Pilot. He flew out of Burlington, VT. Were you also a pilot?