[Fwd: Re: [Publib] Conference blizzard]

[Judy McBrian]

Oh yes, the great World Series celebration and Halloween  blizzard!   I 
watched men try to push the snow from the dome.  A bunch of tough 
winterloving people from Minnesota!
They were tied to the top of the dome and pushing the snow off with so 
the whole thing wouldn't collapse.
I guess several roofs did fall that time.
We went to the last of the meetings in a cab.  (Who thought to bring a 
winter coat!) The driver promised to get us there and back if we 
promised not to scream ;-)
It was a blast.  My flight was canceled, and the rest of the day I spent 
eating peanuts and watching  hardy souls on skis going up and down the 
interstate ramps....shovel, shovel, shovel, push, shove, etc. and get a 
stuck car back on the ramp only to do it all over again.
Judy McBrian
Systems Administrator
Boonville Warrick PL

Connie Jo Ozinga wrote:

> Someone was trying to remember at which conference they experienced a 
> blizzard.  Perhaps you were with us at the MWFLA conference in 
> Minneapolis in 1991.  The day our plane landed the Twins had their 
> world series victory parade.  On the next day, Halloween, the snow 
> began about 4 p.m., and by morning 36 inches had shut down the region 
> ... but not our conference.  Since we were all snowed in together at 
> the conference site we still had programs, but only if the speaker was 
> also snowed in with us.  Even Eric Carle was snowed in with us.
>  
> Or perhaps you remember the great blizzard of 78 as it known in these 
> parts.  I was part of a grad student group that took the train to 
> Chicago for midWinter.  We left on the 4 p.m. train and made it back 
> to Ann Arbor.  Many of our bosses and professors took the 7 p.m. 
> train, and ended up spending several days in the Gary Indiana Armory 
> shelter.
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> Connie
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