Flashback to campus, April 10, 1973. Alarm in 2311 Birch Hall went off. Took a look outside and rolled over and went back to sleep. Roommate trudged through the snow to class and back with "No classes". Me, "Gabes, you thought professors were going to get to campus through over a foot of snow?" Turned off I was light on that estimate, think it was more like 18" in Ames.
Turned into a huge in dorm party with people getting kegs from Torks on sleds or, in our case, pushing a car through the snow over and back after Lincoln Way was partly plowed.