Where were you 17 years ago today????

[joedog]

I was at work trying to clear 23 inches of snow.

Can you believe its been that long ago?

[Bob]

I was sitting by the only gas fireplace in the neighborhood.

[Police Moderator]

One of the few disasters I haven't had to work!

I was struggling to drive to the beer and cigarette store. It was an emergency, though.

For some reason the location where I lived at the time was close to a sub-station, phone junction box and cable box. I was without power for 30 minutes, phone for an hour and the cable never went out!

Beer, smokes, phone, cable and power all on line.

I considered it a miracle.

[joedog]

Mar 13, 2010 10:43:43 GMT -5 Police Moderator said:

One of the few disasters I haven't had to work!

I was struggling to drive to the beer and cigarette store. It was an emergency, though.

For some reason the location where I lived at the time was close to a sub-station, phone junction box and cable box. I was without power for 30 minutes, phone for an hour and the cable never went out!

Beer, smokes, phone, cable and power all on line.

I considered it a miracle.

One of the rare few

[Warkitty]

I was in M'boro. Can't seem to remember what I was doing, precisely....

[JC]

Was 10 at the time doing what 10 year olds do, I suppose :shrugs:

I do remember that no too long before the blizzard hit, Mom switched from electric heat to propane.
Not sure why she did that, but was damn glad she did!
Remember all my friends were cold and had to eat cereal the whole time, all the whilst I had regular food cooked on the little propane "fireplace".

[mikeydokey]

I didn't live here 17 years ago but we did have about 5 inches of snow the day before you had the blizzard here, I know because my in laws lived here at the time, so 17 years ago today I was probably drinking Crown Royal or Rum and smoking some bong hits and sleeping and watching Rush Limbaugh.

[Deleted]

Spouse (mine) and I were cozied up near a warm fireplace in complete comfort visiting friends - in Stone Mountain, GA.

Saw the storm coming. Headed out before it hit. Was very glad we did.

We were told the Red Bank house lost power and water. They were back on by the time we returned.

I had to call the boss to tell him I couldn't come in to work for a day or two because of bad travel conditions back to Chattanooga. He called me a fool for having left town. I thought, "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?"

[el Gusano]

We had a house full of people because we had a gas heater that didn't require electricity to run.

Ironically, we never lost power, cable, phone, or anything.

[BlackFox]

I was at my grandfathers house. All we had was wood heat, which was ok, but the curtains would move in that old house when the wind blew.

I remember late Friday night seeing pink lightning. It was actually thundersnowing.

The next morning an overhang collapsed on my brothers truck.

Had plenty of beer though, but that would have been the case whether it was going to snow or not.

[Justin Thyme]

I was testing out my Jeep in the snow with Tulsa, who was eight at the time, just in case we needed to go anywhere. Nico was only three so he was bundled up back in the house. Stychen had gone into a depression because we had no power and no heat. I couldn't get her to understand that she really needed to join us in the jeep with it's great working heater.

[Bob]

When they predicted the storm, Karen (single at the time) and two girlfriends thought it would be grand to be snowed in together.

They still don't speak.

[joedog]

Mar 13, 2010 14:08:35 GMT -5 Bob said:

When they predicted the storm, Karen (single at the time) and two girlfriends thought it would be grand to be snowed in together.

They still don't speak.

After that week, many are still doing that.

[HonorH957]

I was at home, enjoying the snow from the warmth of my home. Spouse (now ex) was enroute to Hawaii for Air National Guard duty and the kids had gone to their great-grandmother's earlier in the week in Murphy, NC and were still there when snow hit.

Only lost power for about 6 hours and that was during the night, so things were good.

[ohwell]

Everyone in my family was at my house watching movies on the VCR. We lost cable, but not power. We took turns cooking and played games. Had a wonderful time. That was a lot of fun.

[daworm]

I heated with wood at the time, with a couple of electric heaters as supplements, but it was late enough in the year that when I had ran out of wood, I didn't go cut any more. So on day two without power, I remember chopping up my coffee table, which wobbled anyway, and burning that. On the first day, I drove my Fiat Spider convertible from Falling Water to N. Chatt and back without problem, but on day two, after the melt and refreeze left the roads icy instead of snowy, I couldn't get out of the neighborhood because of hills in both directions. Later in the day, dabone's step dad came and picked us up at the end of the road. My boss at the time, bastard that he was, picked me up to go to work, as we had a deadline.

[ohwell]

I called my boss, he said, Forget It. I did. Wonderful time. Enjoyed the Western NY imitation snow. Do not miss the 159 inches of snow, the eight foot snow drifts, the Army tank stuck in the snow on Main Street. Don't miss people dieing in their homes. I do have to give thanks to the snowmobiles owners driving heart attack patiences to the hospitals.

[cadillacdude1975]

riding around town in a 1976 maverick, trunk loaded with a rick and a half of firewood that someone gave me. the real bitch about it was where i lived in dead bank, the driveway was 150 feet uphill. had to carry that fucking wood in 25 inches of snow uphill. beats freezing.

that and we were preparing to go to new jersey for the last court date in a child custody hearing. we followed that snow from chattanooga to toms river new jersey, then back through the pocono mountains of pennsylvania to northwest ohio to see my grand parents. i have never seen so much snow in all my life.

[joedog]

Mar 13, 2010 20:51:29 GMT -5 cadillacdude1975 said:

i have never seen so much snow in all my life.

And I never want to see it again.

[ScarlettP]

I was the only memeber of my family with working lights and water. So what did I do? I dropped my 2 year old off with my Mom in Harrison - where we had to WALK in and she had no lights. Then hubby and I drove to Atlanta in a Blizzard for a Costume trade show. When we got off the elevator wearing "Buyer" tags, two sales people fell on their knees doing the "We are not worthy!" routine. To funny.

[Felix]

The morning dawned (sans sun) and found me walking one block to the brow of Lookout Mountain, thinking to look out over the valley. Snow fell so fast all I could see was solid white. Turned back to walk the block back to our house. Found that the snow was deeper than five minutes before, the wind was now in my face and that was one long block. Back in the house, the power went out before I got my boots off. Fortunately, forty minutes later, power returned.

I am in awe of tsavo walking so far in the teeth of the storm. Lucky he is, to have made it. I learned then what a blizzard is like, and have avoided further exposure.

[LimitedRecourse]

Our power was out only for a few hours (amazingly). I walked about 3 miles into work, as I was the closest management staff---helped cook lunch and dinner for everyone stuck there.
I don't remember any serious illnesses afterward....

[Tookie]

I was living on one of the highest hills in North Chattanooga. I laughed when I heard the storm was predicted. I think it was 70 the day before. I was snowed in without power for 5 days. Four wheel drives couldn't make it to my house. A friend told me if I would walk part way down my hill where the four wheels could get, he would come pick me up. I wouldn't leave my cats though. Kept thinking every day the power would come back on.

[gridbug]

I lived across the street from the back entrance of Camp Jordan. We geared up to trek across the white expanse of the park to stock up with beer and cigarettes. It wasn't a bad walk to the convenient store but it was WINDY. We would watch the birds struggling to fly. When they gave up and tried to land they would tumble several feet across the snow. I'll never forget just how annoyed they looked when they could stand and shake off the snow.

Back home with plenty beer the power finally went out. I broke out the camping gear and we set up "camp" in the bedroom to save heat. The power was out almost long enough to cook a steak on a Sterno stove. So we had a fine weekend with no lack of power or beer

I didn't even miss a day of work. My trusty Escort Wagon did just fine on the icy roads Monday. But then considering the logging roads I would take that Escort on (more than a few times I'd go on past where Jeeps turned back) the roads looked good enough to me.

[justme]

I was home, polishing my boots, getting ready for drill the next day. I woke up the next morning without any power and didn't have any for about 4 days. A tree had fallen right on top of a main power line.

I had a natural gas heater that was the size of an older large wood stove. I took a shower that morning before the water turned cold in the tank. I kept a pot of soup and a pot of water on the stove.

I was warm and ate fine, but very bored before everything cleared. My daughter was only 19 months old and didn't care for snow up to her armpits. That meant not much playing in the snow for me.

A funny - I didn't have a manual can opener (not sure why, but I darn sure got one quickly after that). I had to open cans of stuff by pounding a a knife with a hammer.

[snarkalicious]

Stuck at work at Erlanger-sleeping for 4 hours at a time on any available surface and then returning to work, no food anywhere. They were just admitting patients to beds where ever they were available-I worked on a neuro floor and had cardiac and OB/gyn pts mixed in with our usual patient census. It's a miracle I didn't kill anyone

[Dallas]

I was in Indiana. We had just as much snow as ya'll did down here, but up there we're used to the power going (happens all the dang time, everything from trees collapsing from the weight of snow/freezing rain to hungry squirrels and please don't ask about that).

The only thing that sucked about it for us, was when it took until late May to melt off...then we had flooding to deal with.

Yeah, blizzards suck man!

[staffsgtsbunny]

I can't believe it has been that long, but I guess it has.....

I was fighting with my now ex-husband over my mom's dog for the heat. We had a pot-pourrie pot for heat and we were making hot tea by the glass with that.

I love snow, but I have to admit - that was the most miserable I had been in a long time.

[erinslion]

Heh... Playing in a bar in downtown Louisville. I'll admit, it was a tad more snow and ice than we were used to, but we also had a pretty good infrastructure in place to handle it. Honestly felt bad for you kids though...

[Babs]

I heard the thunder snow early that morning. My ex husband was a dr at an er and had to go in about 7 for a 12 hr shift. That day and the next and the next. Power was off for about 5 days. I stayed in front of the fireplace with the dogs. and listened to talk radio for the first time on a battery operated radio. Have listened to it ever since. I list that blizzard as one of the 10 worst things that I have ever experienced. Right behind divorce, death of animals. etc. I wted 90 lbs and was so cold. All the food spoiled. I , too. remember the birds fighting the wind and getting blown back into the house. They were all ok, though. We were staying in sep. bedrooms, but had to sleep inthe bed when it got down to 40 in the house. We stayed at a hotel a half mile away the next night. I had no food and no power and no car for days. My best friend had no power for a week! Also had to walk 6 miles to school the next day.