CLEVELAND -- This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the great blizzard of 1978.

NewsChannel5's Leon Bibb took a look back at the storm and spoke to some people who will never forget what they were doing during that infamous storm.

The storm of storms, the blizzard of 1978, hit 30 years ago, Jan. 26, 1978.

The chill it sent up the spine of this part of the country still sends shudders. If you were old enough and were here, you remember.

Those who lived it tell its story. Certainly, one who spins such a saga is Kay Van Ho.

Thirty years ago, she had slowed down pretty well on blizzard day. She was pregnant, and her baby decided blizzard day was the time. So off to the hospital they darted.

"When I hit the first red light, I told my husband, 'Run it!' And then he knew I was serious," Van Ho said. "We ran the red light and we ran every red light except for one and there was a police sitting there."

Through the weather to a hospital they dashed -- babies don't care about blizzards.

Tara Lizabeth Van Ho was determined to be born. Baby Tara is now 30 years old, and her mother remembers outside the hospital, the world was shaking.

"My doctor came up later and said, 'I looked outside and decided maybe I'd better not leave.' It was a good thing. He was the only doctor there to deliver the babies that day," said Kay Van Ho.

This is the snow season in Cleveland, but this year's snow is nothing like that of Jan. 26, 1978.

That's the time two low-pressure systems converged, creating the Blizzard of '78.

The blizzard was a monster. It punched Ohio like a heavyweight boxer, not taking a breath between his shots.

Jeff Sprankle also felt the blizzard's heft. In 1978, he was a 9-year-old paperboy for the New Philadelphia Times.

He felt, blizzard or not, the newspaper ought to get to his customers' front doors.

"The snow was this high. I tried to get my bicycle out. I had to have been crazy. I don't know what I was thinking. I realized I couldn't use my bicycle," he said.

Still, 106 customers got their newspapers because Sprankle bundled up and trundled out into the blizzard.

"I looked like Ralphie's brother in 'A Christmas Story' with my hands out, but I delivered papers all day. It took me all day," Sprankle said.