I hope Carl is ok!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_3
1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Iran_blizzard
"The Iran Blizzard of February 1972 was the deadliest blizzard in history.[1] A week-long period of low temperatures and severe winter storms, lasting February 3–9, 1972, resulted in the deaths of approximately 4,000 people.[2] Storms dumped more than 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow across rural areas in northwestern, central and southern Iran.[3]
Southern Iran received as much as 26 feet (7.9 m) of snow, burying at least 4,000 individuals. According to contemporary reports by the newspaper Ettela'at, the city of Ardakan and outlying villages were hardest hit, with no survivors in Kakkan or Kumar. In the northwest, near the border with Turkey, the village of Sheklab and its 100 inhabitants were buried."
This sounds almost like science fiction. Imagine if that happened today( extreme weather from climate change would have caused it of course)
The 1970's featured modest global cooling.
February 7, 2012
http://mentalfloss.com/article/29930/40-years-ago-iran-was-hit-deadliest-blizzard-history
The Blizzard of 1972, as this hellish storm has come to be known, wasn’t your run of the mill squall; it wiped entire villages—200 villages, to be exact—off the map.
And for our Arabic readers:
https://www.skyandweather.net/2014/02/1972Iransnowstorm.html