I saw a truck out on the ice in '77 in Ripley Ohio and Maysville ky.......worst winter of my life.

Was 19. Remember well. So cold. Didn't walk the river, but sometimes I wished I had.

I lived in Sturgis Kentucky and I recall going down to the river and watching people with their automobiles cut donuts in the middle of the Ohio river on the frozen ice. I swallowed hard thinking one of those cars was surely going to break through and disappear forever, thank God it didn’t. Later in the winter when the ice broke up I saw that the ice was approaching 2 feet thick. At our location of the river it was about a mile wide. I’ve never seen that happen again other than maybe the next winter in 1978 but not quite as bad.

I was 16 , remember it well .

In Louisville, winter of 1976-1977, the Ohio froze. A painful memory for me, because I had to ride a motorcycle to work until mid January. (I didn't get a car, I left that job for a closer one.). I do not remember the river freezing the following year, but there was a LOT of snow. And I had a car. With snow tires. I have a few pictures of the frozen river. If I can find them...

@clarkewi

4 жыл бұрын

Great stories. Winters can be tough in the midwest.

It was frozen here in East Liverpool Ohio at that time. I was 16 and only watched in fear as my friends and others walked across the river . A lot of ppl walked to Babbs Island. It's not far from the shore.

Leon Jones and Ron Glass (Harris from Barney Miller) could be brothers.....

I was a baby when all this took place but I remember my parents telling me about it when I was older

You could drive across it

my family has a secret or my grandmother dose one of my family members drove over the frozen river with a volts wagon beetle i wonder who did it?

@brothersamuelrogers8138

Жыл бұрын

My dad told me when he was a kid he and his family went down to the river (they lived in Middletown) and he remembers seeing someone drive a beetle on the river

wow

What happened to "Global Warming"???

@dannymccune1888

4 жыл бұрын

clarkewi - Well, that was 40+ years ago. It hasn't frozen since.

@davidsobotka6183

3 жыл бұрын

Yall do know rivers aint supposed to freeze

@davidsobotka6183

3 жыл бұрын

It takes weeks and weeks of negative tempatures to freeze moving water

@MarvinMonroe

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidsobotka6183 rivers aint supposed to freeze? That makes zero sense . Why aren't they? And who said so? There are many rivers that are frozen for over half the year

@davidsobotka6183

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarvinMonroe you know how cold it has to be to freeze flowing water. Educate yourself before you troll bro. The Ohio river froze one time during 1977 and it was partially froze and it was negative 20 degrees for 4 weeks straight. Flowing water=friction I'm not going to explain science and physics to you. That's your dumbass fault for not paying attention in school