For Christmas 2009, Omahans hunkered down in a sudden, enforced quarantine as a blizzard raged outside.
Families scrapped their holiday trips across town, church services were canceled, people holed up at Eppley Airfield rather than drive Omahaâs streets and some who did venture out abandoned their cars in snowdrifts.
Veronica Rosman remembers hiking across the street with the kids to visit her in-laws, then deciding to spend the night rather than return home.
âThe back door was covered in snow, and we couldnât get it open,â she said. âMy kids thought it was a blast.â
It was Omahaâs snowiest Christmas on record, with 5.8 inches falling on the holiday and 11.5 inches over the three-day storm â a far cry from this year, when Omahaâs white Christmas will be whatever is left on the ground after Wednesdayâs Arctic blast is through.
For Christmas 2009, Omahans hunkered down in a sudden, enforced quarantine as a blizzard raged outside.
Families scrapped their holiday trips across town, church services were canceled, people holed up at Eppley Airfield rather than drive Omahaâs streets and some who did venture out abandoned their cars in snowdrifts.
Veronica Rosman remembers hiking across the street with the kids to visit her in-laws, then deciding to spend the night rather than return home.
âThe back door was covered in snow, and we couldnât get it open,â she said. âMy kids thought it was a blast.â
It was Omahaâs snowiest Christmas on record, with 5.8 inches falling on the holiday and 11.5 inches over the three-day storm â a far cry from this year, when Omahaâs white Christmas will be whatever is left on the ground after Wednesdayâs Arctic blast is through.