25 years ago today

[Venturous Randy]

I had taken Friday off work and had taken my wife on Thursday down to Nashville to take her real estate exam Friday morning. As I waited for her to finish, I rode around listening to the radio about the snow storm that was coming. When it started snowing, the flakes were so big and wet that I swear you could hear them hit the ground. When she finished her exam, I had been there waiting and thirteen people had come out before her and all had not passed as they graded it on the spot. She also had not passed part of it and she was very disappointed. I asked her if she was hungry and she said no, so we hit I40 going east back to Johnson City, which is in the NE part of the state.

Even though it was snowing, it was still a little too warm and it was not laying yet. But as we climbed in elevation across the Clinch mountain range the fields were white and creeping onto the highway. One other thing I remember was traffic was flying. If you were not doing 80mph, traffic would be flying by. I remember thinking that after passing the mountain range, the snow on the edge of the road would go away, and it did. When we came into Knoxville, she wanted to eat so we went into a Chili's restaurant and it seemed to take forever. By the time we got back on the highway, there was at least four to six inches of snow on the road. By the time we finally got to Johnson City, it was worse. Instead of going home, we went to my parents because I knew he had a Warm Morning stove just for something like this.

By the next day we had over two feet of snow and before it was over with, it would kill 300 people up the Appalachians to New England. Mt Mitchell had 50 inches with snow drifts up to 14 feet. It is amazing that even though it was 25 years ago, I remember it so clearly. The blizzard of 93 was known as the "Storm of the Century".

I wonder how many here remember this.

Randy

[Yammer Dan]

I came home from the Old Prison in Moundsville WV that morning. Just starting to snow when I came out the Front gate. We had 23 inches on the ground when I got home 150 miles of FUN!!!!

[Flyinfool]

25 years ago today it was 23°F and sunny. Not to bad of weather.