Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Braving the elements to call time-and-temperature, an unbelieving, shirt-sleeved student ducks out hopefully to win a weather bet. A day to remember — or to forget — was Jan. 28, when a record blizzard closed all Indiana schools, roads, and almost all businesses. 20 Winter Of 77

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It was a blast ' - ' the winter kind After two fantali ing false alarms. Mother Nature stopped her horseplay and came through with some really se- rious winter. Temperatures plunged to 18-below, closing school and delaying the end of the first semester five days. But that didn ' t end 1977 ' s jarring Jan- uary. Dire blizzard forecasts forced an early exit from school Jan. 26, followed by a Midwest winter crisis which brought business, travel, meeting schedules, and education to a paralyz- ing halt. School was not to resume until Feb. 3. Meanwhile many students, if not marooned with their families, aided other victims of the record-breaking Arctic winter. The electric heating system saved BHS from the general fuel-shortage cri- sis. However, schedule-shifting became a major problem. A seasonal field trip of Mr. Welge ' s athletic training class travels around the snowy campus to exper- ience cross-country skiing. Persistent winds repeatedly re-filled plowed roads such as Ind. 3, a usual thoroughfare tor school buses in better weather. Displaying his walking ability on snow, Bruce Edg- ington is attacked by fragniients of a mysterious shat- tered snowball. V inter of 77 21