[Rhodes22-list] The weather.

[Wally Buck]

In addition to most Southerners lack of experience in driving under snow or 
ice conditions we have numerous long steep hills. We are at the foothills of 
the Smokey's and even with experience the roads are tough to drive on. 
Primary roads are marginally cleared, secondary roads almost never. They 
also let trees hang over many rural roads. Even if they don't bust a limb 
they shade the road so much the sun doesn't get a chance to do much good. 
They warm up a little in the day then freeze up at night. You can skate on 
some of the roads. Add our famous East TN fog to the mix and it really is 
dicey. Luckily we don't get much of this, if I want snow I can drive 30 
minutes and play in the mountains. This storm  just missed us.

Someone mentioned the blizzard of 93, we got 30 inches in 48 hours here in 
Knoxville. We had rural areas without power for weeks. We only lost cable 
and that was for a couple of hours. Even in my CJ with 4 X 4 and chains it 
was tough to get out of my sub division. The snow was so deep in the unpaved 
roads it would lift the jeep up taking weight off the wheels. It was a lot 
of fun though; I had the top down and the doors off.

southern homeboy ;)

>From: Rik Sandberg <sanderico@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] The weather.
>Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:31:57 -0600
>
>Hang in there Rummy,
>
>I don't envy you guys down there a bit when you do finally get a winter 
>storm. First of all, they're damned near always ice storms. These can 
>sometimes be terribly destructive. Second, none of those homeboys down 
>there have a clue what to do when there's a snow flake in the air, let 
>alone a road covered by a sheet of ice. Third, the highway departments 
>there not only don't know what to do with it, they have NO equipment to do 
>it with. Simply put Rummy, YOUR SCREWED, until God takes the stuff away.  
>:-) :-) Hope you bought bread and milk.
>
>I feel better now, we only got an inch of snow last night.
>Rik
>
>
>At 08:19 PM 12/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>In case anybody cares, the weather in SC is miserable tonight and expected 
>>to
>>get only worse. We have about 7500 homes without power already and about a
>>quarter of an inch of ice on everything. It's supposed to get colder and
>>continue to rain with snow and ice accumulating up towards two inches
>>tonight. So, if you don't hear from me for a couple of days.....don't 
>>worry,
>>we just are trying to keep the fires lit. Thank goodness for laptops with
>>battery's. I'd go nuts without my Internet.
>>So far we've been lucky. The lights flickered twice today, but managed to
>>stay on.
>>
>>Rummy
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