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ST. LOUIS - If you lived in St. Louis in 1982, just hearing the date Jan. 30 can still send shivers up your spine: the day of the St. Louis blizzard!

Let's go to the video vault for a look back 39 years ago, when the area was paralyzed under more than a foot of snow.

Thirty-nine years ago, our city woke up to one of the worst snowstorms in its history. Dubbed The Great Blizzard of 1982, it shut down everything. Four thousand drivers were stranded on roadways.

Former KSDK anchor Jennifer Blome was working as a weather presenter that weekend.

"Nobody saw this coming,” said Jennifer, who worked Saturday night, Jan. 29. “After the 10 o'clock news, I went home. I woke up on Sunday morning and there was 13 inches of snow. My Honda Civic was buried. I burst into tears, I packed a backpack, and started walking to work from Clayton."

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