Today, we look back at the Blizzard of ’78. For three days from January 25 to January 27, massive snow fell and temperatures plummeted., with wind chills dropping to -51 degrees,
Indiana historian Dan Miller discussed this at a lunch lecture at the Columbia Club this past week.
He talks about the storm’s impact on Hoosier’s life, and there’s an interesting story about then-Governor Otis Bowen picking up a nurse at her home so she could get to work as she was an essential employee at her hospital.
The discussion runs for about an hour.
