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Danny, Henry and the Blizzard of '77

Nick Gerard

Nick Gerard

With the 30th anniversary of the Big One coming up this month, I thought you homeboys o' mine might enjoy hearing an aircheck of Dan Neaverth and Henry Brach on the air on the Saturday morning of the storm. You'll recall that Danny really rose to the occasion, and this aircheck demonstrates that.

In a rare moment of lucidity, I rolled tape on KB while stranded in the Hotel Lafayette. (Actually, we were lucky - the WWOL management had gotten us hotel rooms for the night!). 30 years later, the cassette was still in my shoebox archive.

Listen at http://users.adelphia.net/~nickseneca

(BTW, I'm not a web designer - this is just a one-page site so people can hear the aircheck.)

It's a 22 MB file and runs 23 mins. Have fun!

Nick Seneca
 
Nick Gerard said:
With the 30th anniversary of the Big One coming up this month, I thought you homeboys o' mine might enjoy hearing an aircheck of Dan Neaverth and Henry Brach on the air on the Saturday morning of the storm. You'll recall that Danny really rose to the occasion, and this aircheck demonstrates that.
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I'd forgotten this was one of those round-number anniversaries...I was attending UB at the time, living in the dorms. The kids there from NYC were aghast at the severity of the storm -- very few had ever seen anything anywhere close to the Blizzard of '77.

The most amazing time was on the Friday morning, between roughly 11 AM and 1230 PM, as the storm was advancing from west to east; people would call up the radio stations (I think I had WBEN on at time) and report that "The blizzard had reached Erie...Fredonia...Angola...Hamburg..." and finally, the city.

As the lights are switched off in studios around the region due to syndication / automation, hopefully there will be someone left on the air to provide live, local coverage of once-in-a-decade storms of the ilk of the blizzard.

Richard in Allentown, PA (formerly of East Aurora)
 
Nick,

Thanks for the great post, thanks for digging up the aircheck, and thanks for hosting it on your website. I assume that this is the one and only Nick Seneca who graced the studios of WSCB at Buffalo State, and the WWOL of David R. Snow, Al Wallack, et al.

I assume that you showed those LA drivers how to handle your recent snowfall. I'm sure that brought back memories of the Scajaquada Expressway...
 
SirRoxalot said:
Nick, Thanks for the great post, thanks for digging up the aircheck, and thanks for hosting it on your website. I assume that this is the one and only Nick Seneca who graced the studios of WSCB at Buffalo State, and the WWOL of David R. Snow, Al Wallack, et al. I assume that you showed those LA drivers how to handle your recent snowfall. I'm sure that brought back memories of the Scajaquada Expressway.1
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1Please try not to drive on the median.
 
Nick Gerard said:
With the 30th anniversary of the Big One coming up this month, I thought you homeboys o' mine might enjoy hearing an aircheck of Dan Neaverth and Henry Brach on the air on the Saturday morning of the storm. You'll recall that Danny really rose to the occasion, and this aircheck demonstrates that.
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I got a shiver listening to some of the reports...and it's been years since I've heard of such businesses as Ulbrich's. Hearing of those stranded at work reminded me of my father's situation -- he spent the night at his office and headed home with others in a caravan around Saturday noontime.

Hearing the WNY vowels ("ahhht of taaahn") brought me back home, too.

Many thanks for digging this up and hosting the audio. I remember making a cassette diary during the blizzard (and the week-long aftermath) about weather conditions, observations, etc., but I have no clue where it's stashed.

Richard in Allentown, PA
 
[As the lights are switched off in studios around the region due to syndication / automation, hopefully there will be someone left on the air to provide live, local coverage of once-in-a-decade storms of the ilk of the blizzard.

Richard in Allentown, PA (formerly of East Aurora)
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No need to worry, Richard. It was certainly a different kind of storm than the Blizzard, but its impact was just a great, perhaps more so because of the long-term damage to our trees. But last Fall's radio coverage of the October Suprise snowstorm was superb. WBEN provided 24-hour-a-day coverage for more than a week. WNED-AM and WBFO also did some nice coverage of the storm and its aftermath.
 
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