Question for Toadman.

In another post you said that the Ohio River Freeze-over was 1978-79. I am not disagreeing with you, but are you sure the Ohio River Freeze was the winter of '78-79? The reason I ask is that last week I was talking with a friend and asked him when the BIG FREEZE was and he said he was sure it was the winter of '77-78!! I remember it was in the late seventies but I am not sure of the actual years--I guess it doesn't really matter, just curious.

Now that the subject has come up about lake freeze-0vers, I wish I had logged when previous lake freeze-overs were. I know it has been a long time since the last one but I couldn't be sure when it was. I have trouble remembering when I went fishing the last time, let alone something that happened 10 or 15 years ago. :)

Grumpy

[QUOTE=Grumpy;286688]In another post you said that the Ohio River Freeze-over was 1978-79. I am not disagreeing with you, but are you sure the Ohio River Freeze was the winter of '78-79? The reason I ask is that last week I was talking with a friend and asked him when the BIG FREEZE was and he said he was sure it was the winter of '77-78!! I remember it was in the late seventies but I am not sure of the actual years--I guess it doesn't really matter, just curious.

Now that the subject has come up about lake freeze-0vers, I wish I had logged when previous lake freeze-overs were. I know it has been a long time since the last one but I couldn't be sure when it was. I have trouble remembering when I went fishing the last time, let alone something that happened 10 or 15 years ago. :)

Grumpy[/QUOTE]

Now that you mentioned it, the winter of 77-78 was the year that my dad got his procraft. I was in 7th grade so that would have been the year. From what I remember 78-79 was also cold and there was a freeze over but the ice was not as thick. I do remember that on the local news they showed people walking all over the ice in Louisville. It got to the point were people were being ticketed.

I also remember them doing a story on channel 11 about some people that made a tavern and was serving beers on the ice during a freeze in the 1800s they had some old pictures and it was quite interesting.

There was also some local scuba divers that made an ice dive when they had that freeze. I know 1 of them was a Louisville Police Officer.

It was 77-78. My brother was born in Louisville in Feb 78 and that was the year we were out of school for like a month.

Shawn

if i'am not mistaken their was a small aircraft that crashed into and thur the ice after hitting the power lines that crossed the ohio river around cox's park area, they never found the pilot and very little if any of the plane, figuring that the current carried him/plane down river.