If you live in or around Memphis. Get ready for ice.
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White Death coming to DFW tonight
Gonna stay here a few days. Need to stock up on milk, bread, and generators.
Gonna stay here a few days. Need to stock up on milk, bread, and generators.
The bad ice storm in the south, specifically Columbus, MS was 96. January I believe. 93 was the 7-8 inches of snow.
February 94 was across the Delta into Memphis. Worst areas were around Cleveland to Clarksdale. We did have power for a couple of weeks. Grandmothers house in clarksdale didn't have power for over a month.
'94... We still have trees on our property with..
Stubbed limbs that I can identify as damage from that storm. It's also what taught me that being without electricity for 2 weeks is bearable, however being without water for 4 days is impossible.
Stubbed limbs that I can identify as damage from that storm. It's also what taught me that being without electricity for 2 weeks is bearable, however being without water for 4 days is impossible.
I remember it well. We didn't have power for two weeks. I had a friend who lived in some apartments in Southaven - the only place around that had power. A bunch of us crashed at his apartment over that timeframe. It was awful.
We still lived out on the farm and didn't have power but my uncles street in Hernando never lost it. I swear it was the only street in the area with power and to this day we have no idea how. We lived on a dead end road at the foot of the bluff. It took us 4 hours to get from the house to the highway which was only about a mile and a half. Had to chainsaw and pull trees out of the way to get there.
I remember the t-shirts " I survived the ice storm of '94"
I was 14 and had a four-wheeler. We had a lot of fun on the ice and out of school for two weeks and no power for two weeks. It would be terrible as an adult now though.
I was 14 and had a four-wheeler. We had a lot of fun on the ice and out of school for two weeks and no power for two weeks. It would be terrible as an adult now though.
Other than taking cold showers, we didn't suffer too bad. Power was out for a couple of days. Luckily one of the big wigs at Northcentral lived close to my parents. Their road was one of the first to get power back.
At the time I still had my CJ7. Had a lot of fun playing in it.
At the time I still had my CJ7. Had a lot of fun playing in it.
For you old farts (like myself)...we had a bad ice storm right after Christmas break '86 or '87. I drove up in a Sunbird without heat (heater core) and had to manually scrape my windshield from just south of Louisville to Starkville (had to use my cassette tape cases). My car was incased in ice for several days. I believe Tupelo received about 10-11" of snow during this storm.
I was living in NE Arkansas and had a roommate from same area (different town). We left Saturday heading back to Starkville because we ready had significant snow and ice on the ground and was expected to get more.
I had and 85 toyota 4x4. Top speed was around 45 mph. So about senatobia we thought it would be a good idea to get beer. Being a sophomore in college usually results in stupid choices. So we stuffed a case of corona in the 4" of snow in the pickup bed. (Sliding glass made for easy access.
Somewhere down 55 we met stopped traffic as far as we could see. Beer logic says to lock into 4L an hit the median. This is where we traveled for the next 2-3 miles past all the stopped traffic. At the end if the traffic line was a semi pulling piggyback that couldn't make it up a hill. They already had a wrecker there but not hooked up yet. This held up about an hours worth of traffic. From here to Winona we had 55S to ourselves. Twice we stopped in the middle of the highway to take a leak. Once we hit 82 it was predominately ice. 82 was still two lane then as well. It took us 8 1/2 in what usually was a three hour drive.
Once we got to Starkville we got more beer and hit the hills behind Evans hall on cafeteria trays.
I'm in DFW right now with a flight out 'tonight or tomorrow morning' per my boss. I don't see that ending well.
I drove from NC to Oxford during the '96 storm. Stopped at Furman to stay with a friend overnight, woke up to 6" of sheer ice. My normal 7 hour drive from there took like 13. I did a 360 on black ice on 85 in downtown Atlanta. At one point I tried to get out of my Bronco to help push another car, and slipped and busted my *** trying to walk. I made it over that big bridge on lake Logan Martin? The one between Atlanta and Birmingham (haven't driven this route in a decade) right before they closed the bridge. Finally made it to Oxford, and we didn't have class for a week I think. Just got wicked wasted and slipped and fell 1,000 times that week.
I've never understood
how people can willingly live in parts of the country where ice can happen outside. Ya'll have fun with having to bring your plants inside and all.
/obligatory payback for the Hurricane region comments made a few months ago.
how people can willingly live in parts of the country where ice can happen outside. Ya'll have fun with having to bring your plants inside and all.
/obligatory payback for the Hurricane region comments made a few months ago.
Ice Storm 94 was a week long party for my group. I had electricity in my little area. We walked to the liquor store, to bars, and unfortunately to the tattoo parlor. But we have a favorable memory of it because our boss was stranded with us and paid for EVERYTHING.
Vicksburg was hammered in that storm. We lived on a long, straight, and steep street. This meant as kids we damn near killed ourselves on it.
My grandad had some old plastic 50 gallon drums. We cut a hole in the side of one. We dragged it to the top of the street. One of us would climb inside. The other guys would push it down the hill (had our baseball cleats on for traction). At the last second the guys pushing would then spin it.
So you would be flying down the street corkscrewing like crazy by time you reached the bottom. The road turned to gravel and that would slow you down until you went into the woods/trees.
I still don't know why our parents didn't stop this. At least we weren't knee boarding behind a four wheeler on Washington Street like some kids I knew.
Did the same w/ trays in January of 82. Bunch of football players brought an old naughehyde couch there too and were sliding down hill on it. There was a guy named Ben something that lived in Suttle (I did too) and he flew down that hill, across the sidewalk that was there then, across the street and slammed into a rear car bumper parked in front of Suttle and ended up under the car. Ambulance came, scared the shart out all of us until ambulance left and then everybody went right back to doing it again. We also went down to the big flat parking lot that was behind Butler dorm and the old laundry. My roomie had a Toyota 4wd and we tied a rope on the hitch and onto a piece of plywood and pulled people around on the plywood in return for beer. That was awesome until you hit one of the concrete wheel stops in the front of the parking places. We had another ice storm in Jan or Feb of '85, no power for a week in the old Canterbury Apts. There was thick ice formed on the inside of our windows INSIDE the apartments it got so cold and we just had beer sitting around the apt it got so cold and that kept it cold enough to drink. That year we slid down the hill from whatever street that is that runs in front of BSU and BQuick down to Canterbury, you could haul a$$ on it. Great memories, the kind that keeps you going back to MSU for years after you graduate!
Greenville was hit hard as well....I lost a good friend in a freak accident.....hit by a falling limb in the backyard of home....
I'm planning to do the 1/2. Everyone I've talked to seems to think it will go, though I don't think anyone knows for sure.
The only concern I have is wind speed.
Ice may not be as thick but the wind is supposed to blow 15-20 with gusts to 30. That could make it just as bad.
Ice may not be as thick but the wind is supposed to blow 15-20 with gusts to 30. That could make it just as bad.
I seem to recall the Sugar Bowl was played in about 4 inches of snow one time, I think NYD 1963 or 64 (actually, I seem to remember it being late December 63, but hasn't the Sugar always been on NYD?). Meridian had 15 inches then, which was 3 times the old record for a single storm.
I guess snow is not as bad as an ice storm, but it can be in some places where it's so rare as to be on the roads until it melts. The Snow Bowl is a good example of that.
I guess snow is not as bad as an ice storm, but it can be in some places where it's so rare as to be on the roads until it melts. The Snow Bowl is a good example of that.
Looks like it might stay mostly north and west of Memphis. I know they've been predicting rain here for about the last 24 hours, and we're just now beginning to get a light shower.