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National Weather Service, Northern Indiana blizzard retrospective, 2026
The storm is fully documented; a Lakeville snowmobile part in it is not. The Great Blizzard of 26–27 January 1978 closed the region whole: the National Weather Service's northern Indiana retrospective records the winter of 1977–78 as the coldest and snowiest on record at South Bend, 136.3 inches of snow with 86.1 inches in January alone, and South Bend's all-time low pressure on 26 January. Eyewitness accounts in that retrospective put snowmobiles to work across the region — carrying groceries, checking on neighbours, running medicine — in Starke County and elsewhere. No account reached names Lakeville, Union Township, or a Lakeville rider or club in the blizzard work: the South Bend Tribune's January–February 1978 runs are the settler for any township-specific part, and they were not directly readable. The item therefore closes as a named gap at full regional size: the storm and the snowmobile's role in the region print complete; the township's own blizzard moment awaits the Tribune run.