It's snowing in Hendersonville!!! (Black Mountain: home, school, bill)

[Father John]

Originally Posted by Crazy G

A major disaster is about to happen in Hendersonville!!!

Yes!!! We've had the 4-5" of snow, and NOW it's drizzling/lite rain...

The snow is sopping up the rain, and turning it into crusted slush!!!

The weather forecast is for the temps to drop into the teens...

""ALL"" that slush is going to turn to "ICE"....4-5" worth....

YOU WON'T BE DANCING FOR JOY, IF THAT HAPPENS...

Pay to the god's of your choice, that it warms up some

Come on - it will be 47 tomorrow and all that will be gone. Stay home tonight and make some s'mores.

[Crazy G]

Originally Posted by Father John

Come on - it will be 47 tomorrow and all that will be gone. Stay home tonight and make some s'mores.

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I'll pray to whatever god you do....for warmer weather

because right NOW it's just treacherous out there...

Trees and bushes are sagging badly here

All the trees are covered with ice....

A cross country skier just went by and fell on his butt....

[Flat2MT]

Originally Posted by Father John

Come on - it will be 47 tomorrow and all that will be gone. Stay home tonight and make some s'mores.

If it warms up tomorrow, all this mess will melt.
But what about today and tonight?

Ice accumulation is building up on the power lines and trees. Add wind and dropping temperatures and the next thing we'll hear is SNAP SNAP SNAP as the branches and whole trees topple onto the lines creating a domino effect. There goes our power for a couple of days. It will be much worse in the rural areas where I live.

[a2zmom]

My kids are LOVING it! We went outside earlier and built a snowman, had a snowball fight and went sledding down the hill...well, it wasn't so much sledding on a sled as it was on the top of laundry hamper...but it still worked and they had a ball! I got the standard, "Awwwww Moooooom!" when I told them it was time to go inside because we were all soaking wet!

[Crazy G]

And he """thinks"" 4-5" of snow/ice are going to melt in one day????

It, in fact may warm up tomorrow, and there may be melting everywhere, it's true...

""BUT"" then, [the current forecast] is for it to plunge into the teens.....

ALL THAT MELTING SNOW IS GOING TO FREEZE!!!!! [[[[ SOLID ]]]]]

I spent 40 years in Wisconsin!!!

I know what winter & snow is about.....but

WE ""RARELY"" HAD THIS KIND OF WEATHER UP THERE !!!!!

[Asheville Native]

This ISN'T Wisconsin, thank heavens.

[Father John]

CrazyG, I lived in Michigan 1957-1981 with the exception of 1974-77 in Maine. Prior to 1957, I was in Maine and Massachusetts. I know snow. I know ice, too. Postponed Easter one year because ice took down trees and power lines in Michigan.

Yes, 47 degrees will get rid of a lot of it. Maybe not all, but a lot.

Hunker down and enjoy it. Complaining about that over which you have no control will only create ulcers. S'mores are a lot more fun to create.

Light your fire.

[Crazy G]

Well, I'm down on one knee, praying to """Zeus""", my weather god, and he seams to be working for me....momentarily it's appears to be a warming trend...

"""But then too, this will pass"", as it is written

[the Parkies]

I moved three dulcimer students from today to tomorrow. I'm counting on that warming trend to get me tomorrow afternoon from Hendersonville to Black Mountain and back safely. This is one student's last chance for a lesson before she leaves on a motorhome trip. We have a four-wheel drive SUV (Honda Pilot). Only ice would stop us. I have no idea how much snow and ice Black Mountain has right now.... but I'm still LOVIN' this weather!!!

[a2zmom]

I agree Father John...Life's too short to sweat the small stuff...and it's ALL small stuff!