East Tennessee Weather II

#703
#703
I want to wash my car. I was hoping the rain today would be sufficient to wash most of that salt and brine crap off the roads. It seems only enough fell to really rewet the roads and basically have the cars in front of you spray it all over your car.
 
#705
#705
bigdaddy said:
I hope you are correct. I remember we used to have three or four storms a winter. No we get one day of an inch or two. Sad
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Dad always said back when he was young, that he could remember it snowing in October/November and it would lay around/last until spring.
 
#707
#707
jhamilton1208 said:
Dad always said back when he was young, that he could remember it snowing in October/November and it would lay around/last until spring.
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My grandfather told me that the biggest snow he ever saw in Tennessee happened on April 10th. You ever know in Tennessee.
 
#709
#709
Coug said:
He also walked uphill both ways in the snow to get to school.
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Nope, not dad. Now my grandfather, however; thats about right. Except he ran. Barefoot in the snow. (True story - that's what he said, minus the uphill part.) Of course being the little smarta$$ that I was, I did ask him one day if it were uphill both ways, he said it felt that way, lol. My grandmother about died laughing so hard when I asked him. I sure do miss them.

Oh well, cool story bro. now moving on...
 
#710
#710
DancingOutlaw said:
Been almost 25 years since the great blizzard of ‘93. Now that was a snow.
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Biggest snow I've seen in the SE in my 49 years...by a lot. It's funny that what we think of as a worst ever storm is just a little aggravation in some places. Some of the passes in Yellowstone when we were there in Sept got close 20 inches over two-three days.
 
#711
#711
DancingOutlaw said:
Been almost 25 years since the great blizzard of ‘93. Now that was a snow.
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I remember we moved down from Cincinnati to Knoxville in the summer of 94. We sorta rolled our eyes when the local Knoxville folks were going on about the blizzard.
 
#712
#712
Nerd-Vol said:
I remember we moved down from Cincinnati to Knoxville in the summer of 94. We sorta rolled our eyes when the local Knoxville folks were going on about the blizzard.
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That storm wasn't a joke. The trees around the SE are not conditioned/thinned to two feet of heavy wet snow, plus the mountainous terrain with innumerable back roads going miles back into hollers. It took two weeks to get our power back on, and it took several crews over a week just to clear all the downed trees off the road going back into the valley we lived in. I know two people that died when a tree fell on their house, and they weren't the only ones.
 
#713
#713
Ulysees E. McGill said:
That storm wasn't a joke. The trees around the SE are not conditioned/thinned to two feet of heavy wet snow, plus the mountainous terrain with innumerable back roads going miles back into hollers. It took two weeks to get our power back on, and it took several crews over a week just to clear all the downed trees off the road going back into the valley we lived in. I know two people that died when a tree fell on their house, and they weren't the only ones.
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No doubts. Looking back at the coverage, it was really bad. It doesn’t take a whole lot to shut down the southeast.
 
#714
#714
Nerd-Vol said:
No doubts. Looking back at the coverage, it was really bad. It doesn’t take a whole lot to shut down the southeast.
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I was 11 and our neighborhood had buried utilities. Plus a gas fire if the power went out. We were up first thing in the morning, came in for lunch for maybe 20 minutes and then went back out until dark. We built forts all over the neighborhood. The road leading up to our house had a decent hill and if you hit the ice patches right you could easily go for a quarter mile on a runner sled. It was like a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon come to life.
 
#715
#715
DancingOutlaw said:
I was 11 and our neighborhood had buried utilities. Plus a gas fire if the power went out. We were up first thing in the morning, came in for lunch for maybe 20 minutes and then went back out until dark. We built forts all over the neighborhood. The road leading up to our house had a decent hill and if you hit the ice patches right you could easily go for a quarter mile on a runner sled. It was like a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon come to life.
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Flexible Flyer sled! Some of the best rides in my life were on one of those. Not a lot unlike a skeleton sled. Smooth ride though because you're up off the ground.
 
#718
#718
Coug said:
Flexible Flyer sled! Some of the best rides in my life were on one of those. Not a lot unlike a skeleton sled. Smooth ride though because you're up off the ground.
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We had a Yankee Clipper and another I can’t remember. We’d swipe a can of wd40 or silicone spray, no idea if it helped but we were convinced it did.
 
#719
#719
Orangedogsrule said:
So he lived way up north, eh?

I'm 67 and that's not happened in near Knoxville to my memory.
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Tri-cities. Gray specifically. That being said, I have a hard time believing it myself. I'm sure there were some "bad" winters compared to what we've had recently, but it takes some serious cold and/or snow events to keep the the snow around that long.
 
#722
#722
DancingOutlaw said:
We had a Yankee Clipper and another I can’t remember. We’d swipe a can of wd40 or silicone spray, no idea if it helped but we were convinced it did.
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I also had one of the metal discs, just like the one in Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, but I didn't use it as much.
 
#725
#725
Kinda crazy weather pattern where we may see some sort of precip every day from the 6th through the end of the run. It’s a setup that would have been favorable for us last month. There is a chance though. The 14th looks ROUGH us right now.
 
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