My most memorable Christmas Eve into Christmas Day storm was in 1978. I was living in Little Falls then. Forecast was for something like 3-5 inches of snow changing to rain. Went to Christmas Eve mass at 8 PM it just started snowing. Came out to about an inch on the car. We went to a friends house, when we left around midnight there had to be close to a foot on the ground. Streets weren’t plowed so we ended up abandoning the car on Main St. and walking to my house. It snowed hard all night and the next morning there was 18 inches on the ground. As we drove around in my brother’s Oldsmobile station wagon trying to get to someone’s house he slid around a corner and tapped a telephone pole. He let out a few expletives and right then there was a flash of lightning and a rumble of thunder. That storm had everything!
I was living in Brewerton for that storm. I remember getting about a foot of snow. My brother, the same one as mentioned above, was up from Little Falls with his family for Christmas. While we were at my sister’s house Christmas afternoon reports started coming in of extremely heavy snow falling in the Mohawk Valley. My sister in law called their neighbor back home and she confirmed that they had feet of snow. The Thruway was closed down so they made the decision to stay up here that night. When they got home the next day they found over 3 feet of snow. That was the most memorable aspect of that storm.