I grew up in the Buffalo suburbs. The Blizzard of ‘77 is a prominent feature of my childhood.* As a robust 12 year-old, my parents wouldn’t let me out the door into the yard for 5 days!
Recently I read The Blizzard by Robert Bahr. It’s one of the few books you can find on Amazon about it.
This is the worst book I’ve ever completed. How would I describe it? How about as the novelization of a Weather Channel special?
* The vXwife and I decided that Roots would be a good thing to watch on family movie night (nights, as it happened). Watching it reminded us that it premiered and ran on consecutive nights when Buffalo was paralyzed by the Blizzard. Afterwards, she bought me some blizzard memorabilia, including this book and a video. Bless her heart for being thoughtful.
Sounds like Sebastien Junger's book, "The Perfect Storm." Page after page after page about fishing lines and hooks and knots, and almost nothing about the actual storm. Bored to tears at the halfway point, I kept going thinking it had to get better at some point. It never did.
Posted by: Kit Lloyd | April 02, 2012 at 10:23 AM