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12-05-2007, 08:27 AM
Whats the largest snow you can remember in your own life time? And what KY town where you in?
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12-05-2007, 08:35 AM
Sometime during the 90's we had around a foot an a half of snow.
12-05-2007, 08:52 AM
Midee1 Wrote:Seems like I can vaguely recall a rather large snow back in the mid to late 70's in the Boyd Co area. Accumulation in the upper teens to lower 20 inches. But in my defense during the 70's I was from 1-11 years old so my memory wasn't much.
The 1978 Blizzard. It was the strongest system ever recorded over land in the United States. Winds were up to 100mph, snow was up to 4 feet in some areas and drifts were 10-12 feet tall.
I bet thats the storm your're talking about. Most of Ky got in on the action with 1-2 feet.
12-05-2007, 08:58 AM
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This may be the storm you're talking about, blackcat. We had about 26 inches where I lived.
This may be the storm you're talking about, blackcat. We had about 26 inches where I lived.
12-05-2007, 09:15 AM
I was young, early to mid-nineties when we got at least a foot and half of snow.
That was great.
That was great.
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12-05-2007, 09:23 AM
I remeber that one! ComfortEagle Wrote:I was young, early to mid-nineties when we got at least a foot and half of snow.
That was great.
12-05-2007, 09:41 AM
ComfortEagle Wrote:I was young, early to mid-nineties when we got at least a foot and half of snow.
That was great.
In March of 1993 we had what was called the "Superstorm".
It actually started in the gulf of Mexico as a low pressure system with no frontal activity. At one point, the storm was putting down precipitation (in whatever form) in both Canada and Central America. It was a freak storm, and that had 'tropical' behaviour, due to its
Gulf origin.
This year is on track for something of that nature. Not probable, but possible. The gulf remained largely undisturbed this summer because of lack of tropical activity, so the temp of the gulf is a degree or two higher this year than normal.
I've said it once, and I'll say it again... this is going to be a very interesting winter. A wet one indeed... will it be rain, or will it be snow? Guess we'll find it soon enough. :popcorn:
12-05-2007, 09:53 AM
Blizzard of '93
12-05-2007, 10:28 AM
GodisAshlandTomcat41 Wrote:Blizzard of '93
It was huge. I'll never forget it. My father had a heart attack a day after shoveling the snow in his driveway. The doctors think it had a lot to do with it... along with eating 600lbs of crisco a week.
12-05-2007, 10:45 AM
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This may be the storm you're talking about, blackcat. We had about 26 inches where I lived.
That must have been it, will never forget about how much fun that was.
12-05-2007, 11:09 AM
April 1987 and March 1993....
12-05-2007, 11:19 AM
Dream_Weaver Wrote:April 1987 and March 1993....
The april storm was great. Temps never got below 30-31 degrees the entire time. In pike county, we had about anywhere between 20-30 inches, depending on location and elevation. 5 feet fell in western North Carolina, @ Newfound Gap. Many people refer to this storm as the 'dogwood snowstorm' because they were in full bloom in many places.
It was a nice little snow. If I recall correctly, wasn't their some flooding due to the fast melting? (about 4-6 inches of water from the snow). Snow usually has a 10:1 ratio, but this snow was on a 5:1 at least. Very wet and sticky.. great snowman snow!
12-05-2007, 11:21 AM
Dream_Weaver Wrote:April 1987 and March 1993....I remember both very well. In the 1993 storm we had 4 foot drifts in our yard. I have pictures of it, one with me on my fourwheeler, you could not see the fourwheeler for the snow.
12-05-2007, 01:08 PM
The one in the early 90's... I lived in Prestonsburg. I remember it well because I had to cancel my birthday party lol
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12-05-2007, 09:06 PM
ronald_reagan Wrote:The april storm was great. Temps never got below 30-31 degrees the entire time. In pike county, we had about anywhere between 20-30 inches, depending on location and elevation. 5 feet fell in western North Carolina, @ Newfound Gap. Many people refer to this storm as the 'dogwood snowstorm' because they were in full bloom in many places.
It was a nice little snow. If I recall correctly, wasn't their some flooding due to the fast melting? (about 4-6 inches of water from the snow). Snow usually has a 10:1 ratio, but this snow was on a 5:1 at least. Very wet and sticky.. great snowman snow!
I remember that 2 days after this storm the temps. were in the 50's and we were out in the snow in shortsleeve shirts.
12-05-2007, 09:10 PM
Old School Wrote:I remember that 2 days after this storm the temps. were in the 50's and we were out in the snow in shortsleeve shirts.
Yeah, if I remember correctly we had some flooding because of the quick melt. Can anyone confirm that?
12-05-2007, 09:20 PM
ronald_reagan Wrote:Yeah, if I remember correctly we had some flooding because of the quick melt. Can anyone confirm that?
I believe we did have some flooding from this storm, but I think it was mostly along the rivers.
12-06-2007, 12:06 AM
I remember we had a big snowstorm back in February of 1998. I don't recall exactly how much fell, but it was enough to shut down classes at UK for the first time in 25 years or so! I had gone to an Aerosmith concert the night it started, and I ended up driving back to my place in steady snowfall.
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12-06-2007, 01:14 AM
Feb 1998 Pleasureville Ky Henry County 42 inches and the night before the weather man said we would get a dusting. We had the highest snowfall in the state. Couldn't get out of town for like 3-4 days. It was pretty but boy did it cause a lot of problems.
12-06-2007, 02:29 AM
Blizzard of '93. It hit on a friday night. I now that cause I had just got my liscense 2 days before and my cousin had come to stay all night with me and he and I were going to go cruising. We got home when it just had started snowing at about 11:00 we stayed up until 4 in the morning and there was still none on the ground. My mom woke us up at 10 am and opened the curtain and there was like 30 inches on the ground. 30 inches of snow in 6 hours thats a Monster storm. That isnt the biggest Ive ever seen though. I was in Buffalo NY in december 2001 when 7 FEET fell on the ground! That was INSANE!!!! Thats when I decided it would be best to get back to KY as soon as possible. LOL!!!!
12-06-2007, 02:44 AM
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I also remember a storm in 1994 that was pretty bad. We got close to 2 feet in that one and Pikeville called off school for a WEEK. Pikeville wouldnt call off school if the end of time was coming. LOL!!! The temperatures were pretty bad too. I believe with the windchill it got down to like 20 below one night. My Dad went to work that night in the mines and came back home because all the equipment was froze up. He was the boss and he just told everyone to go home. I also remember a near 2 footer in 1996. I worked at the Riverfill 10 in Pikeville. That storm hit on a saturday and there was like 10 people that came to the movies that whole day. We watched movies, played cards, eat 10 pounds of popcorn and did donuts in the parking lot. That was to this day the most fun I ever had at work.
12-06-2007, 02:48 AM
HAIL PIKEVILLE! Wrote:I also remember a storm in 1994 that was pretty bad. We got close to 2 feet in that one and Pikeville called off school for a WEEK. Pikeville wouldnt call off school if the end of time was coming. LOL!!! The temperatures were pretty bad too. I believe with the windchill it got down to like 20 below one night. My Dad went to work that night in the mines and came back home because all the equipment was froze up. He was the boss and he just told everyone to go home. I also remember a near 2 footer in 1996. I worked at the Riverfill 10 in Pikeville. That storm hit on a saturday and there was like 10 people that came to the movies that whole day. We watched movies, played cards, eat 10 pounds of popcorn and did donuts in the parking lot. That was to this day the most fun I ever had at work.
County schools in pike missed 3 1/2 weeks...
12-06-2007, 02:51 AM
HAIL PIKEVILLE! Wrote:I also remember a storm in 1994 that was pretty bad. We got close to 2 feet in that one and Pikeville called off school for a WEEK. Pikeville wouldnt call off school if the end of time was coming. LOL!!! The temperatures were pretty bad too. I believe with the windchill it got down to like 20 below one night. My Dad went to work that night in the mines and came back home because all the equipment was froze up. He was the boss and he just told everyone to go home. I also remember a near 2 footer in 1996. I worked at the Riverfill 10 in Pikeville. That storm hit on a saturday and there was like 10 people that came to the movies that whole day. We watched movies, played cards, eat 10 pounds of popcorn and did donuts in the parking lot. That was to this day the most fun I ever had at work.
The 1996 one was early on in January wasn't it? I had went to a UK game that night, and on the way home the next day, cops stopped us on the Mountain parkway and made us turn around. So we stayed at THE hotel in the huge town of Stanton for 2 nights, while the parkway was closed.
12-06-2007, 08:14 AM
I remember some big ones, and they didn't call school off then either. I went to school at the old Shelbiana Grade School and it was on a hill. It would be so slick that the buses couldn't get up there so they would let the children off at the bottom of the hill and we would have to walk. It was a long walk and I would be froze to death by the time I got there. I remember hearing the buses coming because they would put chains on the tires. Things are sure different now.
12-06-2007, 11:30 AM
April 1987 and March 1993
12-06-2007, 11:38 AM
The one in 96 I remember well. I lived in Georgetown. We got 25 inches of snow, and set the record for most snowfall in a 24 hour period. The meteorologists started out saying this storm was going to be a dusting at most. Then when it started snowing, the more snow we got, the more they raised their totals. I kid you not, they went from a dusting, to 1-3 inches, to 2-4 inches, 4-8 inches, 8-12 inches, then just raised it to 15+ inches because they really had no idea how much it was going to snow. Defninitely a memorable time.
12-13-2007, 12:07 PM
ronald_reagan Wrote:The 1996 one was early on in January wasn't it? I had went to a UK game that night, and on the way home the next day, cops stopped us on the Mountain parkway and made us turn around. So we stayed at THE hotel in the huge town of Stanton for 2 nights, while the parkway was closed.Yes it was and a guy came to the theatre and offered us tickets to that UK game. A freind of mine had a 4x4 Dodge and we were going to try to go but then we found out the roads were closed. Probably a good thing we just listened to it on the radio that day.
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