❄️ Forty-eight years ago, on Jan. 26, the Great Blizzard of 1978 devastated the city of Cleveland, covering the city in nearly 20 inches of snow with 80 mph winds. About 25,000 homes spent the weekend without power. The storm claimed 51 lives, and didn’t fully melt until March of ‘78. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” says Joe Tegreene who was the finance director at the time of the storm. The Great Blizzard of 1978 was the worst in Cleveland’s history. And some still remember it vividly