Thread:Karibou Sky/@comment-26390896-20151210181239/@comment-26390896-20151215145311

I was caught in the Storm of the Century  in 1993 when I was vatationing in Gatlinburg, TN in the Appalacian Mtns. It was March! Who would've thought a huge snowstorm would strike. I had to look up some info about this "storm" (it was actually a cyclone) because I had forgotten the stats. The storm dummped 30 inches of snow overnight in Gatlinburg. Everyone in the hotel woke up late because the power had gone out. We also woke up in the dark because the all of the hotel room doors and windows faced towards the large inner atrium. And the thick blanket of snow was covering the  glass cieling. Cars were buried and so we used the hotel's waste baskets to dig them out. We were ok. It was the vacationer's stuck at higher altittudes who were worse off. Food was plentiful because the restaurants had to quickly cook the food that was thawing in their freezers. This is an area that had about one snow plow per city. Even though we were near a ski hill. Go figure. The National Guard brought in more snow plows. According to Wikipedia, some snow drifts reached as high as 35 feet in some areas of the Appalacian mtns. Snowshoe, WV received 44 inches of snow. The drive home was slow with miles upon miles of semi trucks that had either jack-knifed or slid off the road sitting abandoned in the ditches along the highways.

Yup, just one snow here so far this season. There's even some green grass. It does seem wierd.