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I remember that one well.
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Jan 19, 2025, 9:47 AM
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I lived in the TN Valley where the temps were so low for so long the water froze between the meter and the houses and the ice was thick enough to strand any vehicle without tracks or chains on all four wheels.
Guys with welders and generators mounted on trucks made a small fortune thawing out those pipes and guys with 4 wheel drive vehicles and chains were drafted to serve as transportation for EMTs and Cops.
It shut Knoxville down and put a lock on every door.
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Yeah not happening.
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Jan 19, 2025, 9:50 AM
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There was a chance. Will be a similar streak of higher snow but I doubt anyone sees over 8 inches and the heavy streak will be basically between 95 and the coast. And that should be less than 6 inches most places.
This cold air mass is just too strong. It's rare we will see anything when it gets this cold. Not many places in SC see snow falling at 20 degrees or colder. That's rare. Because to get that cold takes dry arctic air.
Any snow from this, especially. Inland, will be the dry fluffy type that doesn't make good snowmen or snowballs.
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Looks like its hard
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Jan 19, 2025, 2:02 PM
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to build a snowman like that
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Around home in the lowcountry got nearly two FEET. I was stranded at home,
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Jan 19, 2025, 11:18 AM
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and could not convince my snooty Clemson professors that I actually could not get back to campus until that Thursday. I was telling the truth, I actually drove one of my dad's big farm tractors out to 301, because I had heard they were snowplowing it. I had the idea of towing my car that far, and then going on to Clemson. I was quickly informed by the Highway Patrol that they were only allowing emergency vehicles on the road, and I would be turned around if I tried it.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [105019]
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Clemson doesn't shut down for snow.
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Jan 19, 2025, 11:23 AM
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Has to be 6 or more inches on the road first. Drove a 1994 CamaroZ28 to class with 5 inches of snow on the road. That was fun.
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Re: SC SnowStorm 1973
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Jan 19, 2025, 11:26 AM
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17"-18" in Flo Town, then turned cold. I95 was blocked for days. Missed 4 days of HS with that one followed by 5 days missed, I believe when this was later followed by a huge ice storm. The guv forgave a number of those days.
Win-win!
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The Ice Storm was much worse than the snowstorm. The weight of the ice KEPT
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Jan 19, 2025, 11:45 AM
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breaking down power lines and trees. Three days after the fact, I was standing in my parents yard near Santee, and hearing limbs popping in the woods like gunshots.
The power lines were so weighted down by the ice, if they didn't just pop, they sagged all the way to the ground from the weight. It were a huge mess.
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Re: SC SnowStorm 1973
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Jan 19, 2025, 11:28 AM
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I was at Beech Mtn. learning to ski on ice. Nary a flake!
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First time I ever went snow skiing while I was at Clemson, all Sugar Mountain
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Jan 19, 2025, 11:49 AM
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mostly had was ice. Trying to learn on that was a losing preposition. I came home with a rectangular blue and black bruise on my right buttocks, from falling on my wallet so many times.
I fared better than my cousin, who was also my roommate at the time, though. He wiped out a girl about halfway down the hill who had stopped to adjust her bindings. He kept trying to apologize, but she just kept telling him "Just get the H.ell AWAY from me!"
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Re: First time I ever went snow skiing while I was at Clemson, all Sugar Mountain
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Jan 19, 2025, 11:59 AM
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After thinking about it ...it was Sugar we were at. Remember being sore from neck muscles all the way to feet. Young and dumb. When I finally got on real snow it was so much easier. My last class before graduating Clemson was Alpine Skiing up at some slope near Boone. Hard to beat a well rounded education!
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