In the early 1980s, they always told us Iowa State hadn’t cancelled classes since the 1950s. My guess is they had all the students on campus. All the professors lived within a mile or two of classes. That started to change when kids started to live in Boone or commute from Ankeny. The reason I lived in Friley instead of the towers was my cousin told me that the walk on Welch avenue to campus was brutal in the winter. I won the intramural wrestling championship because my opponent lived in Boone and didn’t want to drive to the match in a 6 inch snowstorm and so he forfeited.
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Son in law asked me today about the driveway and sidewalk, he told me he would drive over with his mower with the blade on it to clean it off. I told him the snow blower is parked right there at the front of the garage if he would rather use it. Him or our daughter has to come over to let the dogs out a couple times a day and feed them, plus our grandkids like playing with them and raiding the freezer for ice cream. Cruising out of Galveston, 11 days.
I would have been living on Delaware Ave then. Probably the day I had to jump start like 4 vehicles and more were asking for help but I had to get somewhere myself. I told one guy I jump started to help the others but he wouldn’t, nice guy.The one they are referencing above, it was bitterly cold the weekend before the start of class, my car was unreliable and I remember snow blowing across the road the whole way down on Sunday at the end of break thinking I was probably going to freeze to death if I had car trouble, but I made it. The next morning the bathroom water pipes on our house were frozen. Hadn't learned to let them drip a little. Got up to get ready for class and they canceled it. IIRC they gave us the next day also. I remember it being a big deal, people were like whoa ISU never cancels class.
EDIT: 1/18/1994 (first day of second semester) high temperature in Ames was -9, low was -21. The AC/DC concert was Dec. 4, 1990 in Hilton. It wasn't real cold but the night before Ames got 9 inches of snow.
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Ames Weather in 1990
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Can confirm classes were canceled in April 1973. Over 13" or so inches of snow. I got up with the alarm, looked out the window and thought "Screw this" went back to sleep. Birch Hall roomie got up and walked to class though all of that snow. Got back and told me "No classes'. I asked him "Dude, you thought professors would be able to get to campus?" We later did load up a car and with a bunch of guys pushing when it got stuck made it to Tork's and back with a keg.
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Great video
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