Alexander County is a beautiful place! I have family from there. If you know any Chapman's that's them. Little River.View attachment 145132Last good one for me.
Oh, and nice snow pic!
Alexander County is a beautiful place! I have family from there. If you know any Chapman's that's them. Little River.View attachment 145132Last good one for me.
1927 must have been a hell of a good storm as so many counties in NC and SC show that to be the biggest. Especially Central and Eastern parts.Very nice, thanks for the link ! Good 'ole 1927, 24" in Cumberland County (Fayetteville). My grandmother told stories of that one!
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My grandmother used to tell me we had snow so deep once she could not even walk outside. She was 5 years old in 1927, and I imagine at 24" she was right!Dear Lord 30-40" in Wilson? Can you imagine chaos that would cause today
I was only 5 years old at the time but I remember a little bit about it. I was living in Atlantic Downeast Carteret County. I remember staying the night with my Granny and waking up the next day and looking out of the window. Winter Wonderland!I’m curious how many posters on here got to experience the Christmas 1989 Coastal Blizzard. My father and his brother were building contractors and they were working on the Grand Strand that winter repairing damaged condos from Hurricane Hugo. One of the property management companies set it up where contractors and their employees could bring their families down to spend Christmas with them… obviously they weren’t wanting to have repairs get behind because of the holidays. My mom, grandmother, sister and I got down to North Myrtle on the evening of the 22nd and the light snow started around 9pm that evening. Local forecasters were calling for 3-5” which would have been big enough for the Grand Strand. Of course it wouldn’t stop snowing until midday on Christmas Eve and all day on the 23rd had blizzard conditions and near whiteout at times. Temperatures were only around 20 so there was actually ocean spray freezing on the beach and building up like you see on the Great Lakes or New England coast. Even though the sun came out on the afternoon of the 24th, the roads were all but deserted as of course there wasn’t a single snow plow in the city of North Myrtle Beach.
It felt like that one evaporated so quickly. I mean, we did end up with about 3" but it was gone before you knew it.January 21, 2022, our last appreciable snowstorm here. It wasn’t a lot of snow, around 2-2.5”, but it was a cold snow and so it punched above its weight a bit, so to speak. Maybe one day again I can experience something like this. Maybe.
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We got a solid 8 or so inches on my side of Pitt Co in that storm...I was 17 so we did a lot of dumb things with ski ropes and trucks.I’m curious how many posters on here got to experience the Christmas 1989 Coastal Blizzard.
I remember that February 1989 storm. It was the 2nd one in a week for CLT metro in a winter that had been very mild. This storm wasn’t expected to be a big deal in CLT the day before. Forecasts were for light snow with possibly around an inch of accumulation. Instead there was NW shift and it turned into 4-8”. This would be the last 1”+ snowfall at the airport until March 1993 stormWe got a solid 8 or so inches on my side of Pitt Co in that storm...I was 17 so we did a lot of dumb things with ski ropes and trucks.
Actually 1989 was a great calander year for snow IMBY there was also the late Feb 1989 hit that was probably the second heaviest snow I have ever seen here after Mar 1980...that storm slips under the radar but it was a monster for us.
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Yeah it was 80 degrees the day before the first wave hit...I remember that February 1989 storm. It was the 2nd one in a week for CLT metro in a winter that had been very mild. This storm wasn’t expected to be a big deal in CLT the day before. Forecasts were for light snow with possibly around an inch of accumulation. Instead there was NW shift and it turned into 4-8”. This would be the last 1”+ snowfall at the airport until March 1993 storm
I remember this one very well. Due to it providing a white Christmas and the brutal cold leading up to it, December 1989 will always stand out to me. It wasn't supposed to even happen in my area (just far enough inland) but it was so cold that EVERY flake stuck around. I remember the snow blowing down the street like dust, a fine powder. It was in the teens for highs leading up to this event....in December!I’m curious how many posters on here got to experience the Christmas 1989 Coastal Blizzard. My father and his brother were building contractors and they were working on the Grand Strand that winter repairing damaged condos from Hurricane Hugo. One of the property management companies set it up where contractors and their employees could bring their families down to spend Christmas with them… obviously they weren’t wanting to have repairs get behind because of the holidays. My mom, grandmother, sister and I got down to North Myrtle on the evening of the 22nd and the light snow started around 9pm that evening. Local forecasters were calling for 3-5” which would have been big enough for the Grand Strand. Of course it wouldn’t stop snowing until midday on Christmas Eve and all day on the 23rd had blizzard conditions and near whiteout at times. Temperatures were only around 20 so there was actually ocean spray freezing on the beach and building up like you see on the Great Lakes or New England coast. Even though the sun came out on the afternoon of the 24th, the roads were all but deserted as of course there wasn’t a single snow plow in the city of North Myrtle Beach.
Yeah it was 80 degrees the day before the first wave hit...
Rip Stuart but listen to what he says about temps
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