Winter of 1980?

[Bunty]

I thought that was the winter of 1977/78. I may be wrong.

I think you're right. I remember New Year's Eve 1977 snowed a lot and couldn't get out of my drive to get to a party. It didn't matter since hardly any one else did. And from then on a very dreary, cloudy and snowy winter set in. The sun seldom came out for a long while to warm things up. So the snow never got a chance to fully melt off until the next snow storm, which probably came nearly every week. Snow always covered most of the ground up to near a foot until mid March. Never saw a winter like that before.