President's Day Storm, 1979-02-18 - 1979-02-19

File — Box: 139, Disc: 45

Identifier: WMAR-MISC-139-045

Staff Only

Shot List

1. Cars on highway in snowfall 0:10 2. Apartment fire 1:21 3. Cars on highway in snowfall 2:11 4. Kids in room 2:50 5. Pushing out stuck car 3:30 6. Doing taxes for poor residents 4:03 7. City streets in melting snow 4:30 8. Nighttime car crash 5:03 9. Firefighters 6:06 10. Holliday Inn with frostbitten patients 6:35 11. Doing taxes for poor residents 8:38 12. Channel 2 Promo 10:01 13. Church protest 10:22 14. Interview with unknown woman on foreign policy 12:04 15. School used for social services 13:06 16. Case workers abandon clients seeking emergency housing 14:29 17. Interview about sports arbitration 15:27 18. City still active during snowstorm 16:31 19. City traffic in snow 18:31 20. Emergency dispatches 19:19 21. Frozen pier in Ocean City 20:24 22. Frozen airport 22:01 23. Shoveling snow streets 22:43 24. Frozen pier in Ocean City 23:27 25. Provident Hospital 24:29 26. Street plowing 24:59 27. Closed stores 25:26 28. Plowing equipment and workers 26:00 29. Stores 27:18 30. Spring Grove Hospital Center 27:48 31. Destroyed pharmacies 29:41 32. Bus drivers operating in snow 32:09 33. Taking off work 32:49 34. Transporting freeze victims to hospital 33:38 35. Citizen activity 36:39

Dates

1979-02-18 - 1979-02-19

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