Anyone Remember The Blizzard Of 1993?
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY: I was forecasting a storm “of historic proportionâ€. The morning forecast I prepared on Friday, March 12, 1993 was for 8 inches of snow for Birmingham, something that was impossible to believe for most Alabamians with temperatures that week in the 70s. As it turned out, the forecast was not aggressive enough. The great “Blizzard of 93†dropped 13 inches at the Birmingham International Airport, where the records are kept, and almost two feet of snow across parts of southern Jefferson and northern Shelby counties. We measured a wind gust to hurricane force atop Red Mountain, where I was working at the time, and observed thunder and lightning while the heavy snow was falling. The heaviest snow across the Southeast U.S. was recorded was at Newfound Gap, where U.S. 441 crosses the Tennessee and North Carolina border, with five feet.
Do you have pictures of the big storm? Send them to us at pictures@abc3340.com We will post them tomorrow here on the blog.
Check out this home video from ABC 33/40 Skywatcher Mike Wilhelm:
March 11th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
We lived in Destin at the time and I have video of my daughters 1st birthday party and the snow. Wind chills were below zero at times. Her birthday is the 12th (tomorrow…Friday in 1993) and the storm hit on the 13th (Saturday). Her father worked for Gulf Power Company (part of the Southern Company) and had to work and missed her 1st birthday
….but he hasn’t missed one since 
March 11th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I have many memories of that blizzard. I remember the greenish yellow lightening and thunder that came. I also remember staying up all night cause we couldn’t sleep for all of the cracking trees that were coming down around our home. We measured 38″s at our location (non drift). We had drifts that came half way up our roof we later measured at 17 feet(now thats a snow drift anywhere you are)I did have a picture my neighbor took of my basketball qoal and all you can see of it is the top of the backboard just above the orange square. We were stranded for 10 days until the national guard came to clear the roads. No power for 19 days. No more blizzards please
March 11th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Ben…
Good to get your report. The NWS received some reports of 15-foot drifts in NE Alabama after the storm but I could never find out where. So you verified it. Do I understand that you are located on County Road 55 also known as Rabbittown Road? I bet when the clouds lifted, Dugger Mountain was a real sight!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Mike…. A big thanks for your video!
Beningrantley … lets have one more BIG snow!
March 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Hi Chuck…I have some more stuff I’m working on you’ll like. Do you have any photos or video from the big blizzard?
March 11th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I was in south fla when this happened.I missed it,but got to ride out Andrew.I was hoping to see a video of the green lightning I hear so much about.That was still a very interesting video,only wish it had some lightning.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
…..Could have been the most fabulous time of my life. I was prepared. We all had lots of cold weather gear. Propane stove with 10 full cylinders. Plenty of canned goods. Batteries. Nice warm covers. Gas logs. But, there were a few problems.
…..Cats, that were trying to hide in the sections of the house where temps would NOT remain above freezing, when the outside temp went down to single digits. A two-year old, who could NOT understand why light switches didn’t work, and why Barney wasn’t on the TV. And… my wife was nine months pregnant with our second child. I lived in fear, for about three days, that the baby was going to come while we were inaccessible by less than a helicopter, and we’d be doing it with knives, boiling water, and general stone-age techniques. Wow. Scary!
…..We were actually having a great time that Friday. “Spann sez 8 inches! Whooo, hoo! What an idiot! It never snows in Alabama, not like that. In March! Ha ha! Bust, bust, bust!” I had to work that night. I kept phoning in, once the white stuff started falling. “A few flakes. You’re shift is still on.” Then heavier. As dusk came on, our place on Shades Crest Road rapidly was covered. Amazing thumps and green light among the huge flakes were happening. I called work for the nth time that afternoon/evening, and told ‘em: “I can’t get off Shades Mountain.” No work! The whole weekend scheduled off. Couldn’t be beat, could it?
…..Snow fell, and fell, and fell. By ten PM, you could step outside, and you’d better have boots on, because it went up over your ankles. We were watching Spann on ch. 6, and…. zzt. zzzzzt. ZZZZZZZZT!!!!! BOOOM! (Whoooooo, went the wind, in the dark. No power.) Oh. Not good. I opened all cabinets, and started water dripping on every faucet. Dragged a queen-sized bed over near the gas logs, where it would stay for a week.
…..The next day featured the most brilliant sun, blinding on the deep layer of snow. They talk about a foot, or maybe 13 inches. On top of Shades Crest Road, near I-65, it was at least 18 inches. Prior to the storm, I always griped about the interstate noise at that house. Not that day. It was silent. NO cars were out. Strange. Eerie. Close. Quiet. Muffled. And of course, wow! BITTER cold.
…..My wife couldn’t go out, of course. The snow on the front porch had iced over in the sun, and was extremely treacherous footing. “Take our daughter out to see it!” I did. She cringed from the blinding light. I set her in the snow in the driveway, and she sank up to her armpits. Cue the tears and screaming. Reluctantly, I took her back in, and went back outside to enjoy it myself. There was a problem, though. The stuff was THICK. I tried trash can lids. I tried cardboard. The snow was thick and mushy, and you’d just sink, when you tried to slide. Mmm.
…..I did (and do) have waterproof boots, so I hiked around the neighborhood. It took some effort, in 18 inches of snow. Absolutely beautiful. But, I don’t think it ever got anywhere NEAR freezing, that day. The wind was a bitter, sharp -edged knife. And that night, it went down to 8 degrees.
…..All we had were the gas logs, and T. C. & John Ed on the radio, as far as modern comforts. And frankly, I had to turn the radio off, because all of the tragedy was bringing us down. We played Candyland. We played go fish. We read. We did everything we could think of that didn’t require electricity… It was a long, cold weekend. Highlights were the hot chicken and dumplings, and canned spinach I served. I tried to grill steaks, but they were never going to get done on an open grill. Had to butter-fry them on the Coleman stove. Meh. I’m pretty danged Southern, and I have to have charcoal! Wasn’t satisfying! There were some thawing Klondikes we had to take out. Mmmmm.
…..We did have our good family moments in front of the fire. But trying to sleep two adult humans, a fidgety toddler, and three cats in one bed in front of gas logs… I don’t recommend it, if you need uninterrupted sleep. We persevered, of course. Toughed it out. Tried to look on the bright side. Nothing made us happier, though, than when the TV blared out at 3:00 AM, a week later!
…..I think the worst of the event was the worry over our toddler, and the unborn child, not to mention my precious wife. Had those concerns been less, I think we’d have done better. Now, I say, bring it ON! We’ll take it! I have even more batteries, a gas stove and hot water, two kerosine heaters, and two teenage survivors, who can now chop wood! And we have a real sled, winter-wear, and we’ll go nuts if it happens again, Alabama Power or not!
March 11th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
What a story, Acid Reign….Makes me feel like I was there with y’all. The situation was much different in Huntsville. I watched James Spann and our local guys up there on cable. I saw some thunder and lightning, but it was no big deal compared to what y’all dealt with. Thanks for telling your story!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Wow Mike!
Boy did that sure bring back some memories, and very vivid ones at that!! Will share my account later on as I am about to fight traffic to get to 280.
Acid Reign-
You have a blog? You are an awesome writer! Thanks for sharing your story!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:14 am
The worst part of that historic event was the two weeks without power here in Birmingport. Alabama Power got the message after that one, and they slayed the right of way foliage back 50 feet either side of the power lines that following summer. But…that was 15 years ago, and it’s all grown back. That was enough snow to last me a lifetime, and I hope nothing like that ever befalls the state again.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:44 am
I remember it very well! Acid – we’re practically neighbors (or were)! I live in Bluff Park and at that time was the single mom of two young teenage boys. When I got up that Friday morning before work and saw the radar and the setup on the news, I went “This is gonna happen and it’s gonna be big!” I was at the grocery store by 6:30 and when I got back, told my kids they could each invite a friend home from school to spend the night because we were going to be snowed in for sure.
They did, of course, and we had a blast! It was my first, and to date, only experience with “thunder snow.” How bizarre it was!
Once we lost power, we also hung blankets to keep the living room and kitchen warm by the gas log fire. The problem with it was that you could smell gas, so there was an obvious gas leak. We dragged mattresses into the living room and turned the fireplace off when we went to bed. All the refrigerator stuff went out on the back porch. We would go out to pull the milk out of of the snow for cereal. I can’t remember exactly how long the power was off, but at least several days; and on the second day, we also lost phone service. That was before I had a cell phone. Sounds like the dark ages now, doesn’t it?
My youngest son and his friend walked the mile or so to the church where we had heard there was a shelter and called relatives to check on everyone, and let them know we were fine, just didn’t have a phone.
The gas log fireplace had one of those hooks for a cast iron pot (which I have) and I made stew and cooked all sorts of things over that fireplace. We played Monopoly and cards by candlelight and made many wonderful memories. I also do remember the tragedies that were occurring at the same time.
Some friends of mine made it to my house by about day two (may have been three) and we had a huge snowball fight.
Then it got old and we were ready to get back to normal. But it was so much fun and we still talk about it. Definitely a once-in-a-lifetime event this far South!
March 12th, 2008 at 7:54 am
GREAT STORY……………GAVE ME CHILLS!~ I was only 10 when it happened, and I don’t remember much, but man did that jog my memory!
March 12th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I lived in Vestavia Hills at the time and our house was against a ridge with a scenic overlook. We had a yardstick out front and measured 16 inches in our front yard. In the back where the snow blew in from the cliff, we had a measurement of 43 inches. Power was out for 17 days total. It got so cold that my dad almost threw our indoor ficus tree into the fireplace to keep warm.
I never want to see that much snow again, at least around these parts. The thundersnow and lighting was cool though.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:18 am
I lived on Red Mountain on Southside. My power was out for a week but my
neighbors’ wasn’t. I had cat troubles too. They were frightened and
wanted /out/.
And what about that weird thunder?! Did it have a name?
On the second day I hiked up to a cave on the mountain. It was so much
warmer in there than my house!
March 12th, 2008 at 8:32 am
I remember that storm. I was in the 4th grade and my father didn’t believe it was going to snow like they predicted. While we were saying our nightly prayers that night, he jokingly prayed for the Lord to send us a foot of snow…..the rest is history as we woke up with 12 inches in Clanton with drifts over 30 inches next to our house. Thankfully, we got our power back the next day, but my wife who lived much farther out in the country said it took them 2 weeks to get their power back.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I vividly remember Winter Storm 93—–My wife and I had been married only 1 month at the time and were living in a small apartment in Hoover, so we ended up going over to her parents house in Pelham. They had gas heat and a fireplace so we would not freeze. Snow started late in the afternoon and picked up steam very quickly and became a full blown blizzard. I remember my wife and her mother laughing at me talking about “Thundersnows” They said it did not thunder during a snowstorm….how quickly they drank the glass of “shut up” juice when they heard their first thunder sound during the snowstorm. The next day we all went outside and my “Adult” wife plopped down in the snow and made snow angels as well as a snowman. It was the most snow I had seen in the South, however we all had a great time and took a lot of photo’s
March 12th, 2008 at 10:55 am
well of course I went to Mentone—to see 5 or 6 inches of fun snow-got over 20 -the last two days I was stuck there it was 14 degrees –inside the house-the old cabin has 6 fireplaces,but,all the firewood had been used up alreadyI would start my vehicle every few hours and warm up/listen to WAAX radio-they had hundreds of calls for help-I listened to the announcer-one call was from a lady who had no power and had run out of firewood and was at home with two old dogs—that was my wife in Gadsden—at that point I knew I was either going to freeze to death in Mentone or be killed by her when I got back home–everything turned out alright !!!
March 12th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Mike Wilhelm Says: March 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm Hi Chuck…I have some more stuff I’m working on you’ll like. Do you have any photos or video from the big blizzard?
No, that was in the 35MM life, and I am sure I have the negatives, but I could never find them!
March 12th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I was living in Springville during the blizzard and worked in trussville Mcd’s the manager there was from alaska and he told everyone to write down the directions to their house and he would drive to pick everyone up his quote ” i am from alaska i know how to drive in it ” i told him he wasn’t going to not here as just a inch and roads close , about 10 am snow started coming down and i told my manager that i was leaving as i had a toddler at home and there was noway i was gonna get stranded without him , i got home and at the time only had a fireplace and electric heaters for heat power went out about midnight and my sorry husband let the fire go out and wouldn’t go out and get wood to restart it so i took my baby {he was 1 and 1/2 } to my mothers had to walk as driveway was to deep in snow
she had gas heat and gas stove , we would make tea and set it outside and put ice trays outside to make ice , we had to melt snow for water as the water froze my son was still on formula so we would melt snow to mix with his formula , outside was our freezer for all the food and drinks,we were snowed in for a week as i lived off the main road about a mile down a dirt driveway it took us a awhile to cut all the trees out of driveway to get out by the time i was able to go back to work a week later the first thing i asked my boss was i thought you were coming to get me so i could work he said ” i couldn’t get out of my driveway ,” HA HA HA i thought he was from ALASKA hahahaha
March 12th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I lived in Eldridge, AL at the time and worked in a children’s home there. We had about 30 kids and 10 staff that lived on the property. It was so amazing because on Mon and Tues, we were outside playing volleyball at night in T Shirts and shorts and to hear talk of this snow…well, some didn’t believe it and talked about the AL snow “hype”.
We all (at that time) lived in a big old building – boys on one wing, girls on another, and little boys downstairs near the offices and huge dining room and kitchen which had gas and electric. The building was built early near the turn of the century, as in 1900′s, and we had a huge coal stove down in the basement to heat the entire place. We never lost power, we were able to cook, and we warm. We had snow, Life was good!!
When the storm came, it was amazing. Kind of reminded me of the Blizzard of 1967 when I was growing up in Washington, DC area. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, we only had about 4 inches. Yeah, we were ALL a bit disappointed but did we ever have fun! We had a blast riding 4 wheelers with whatever we could find to pull kids along with, and would make a sharp turn and they would sail out over the ballfield for a nice long ride. They’d line up and we would do that all day long and find other ways to have fun in the snow. Of course there were snow forts, snowmen, snowball fights, snowcream, and all the other things that we could do.
At night mainly, and sometimes during the day while waiting for our feet to thaw, after big ole pots of chili, stew, soup, and hot chocolate were consumed, we would play or continue our board games. We had a game of monopoly go on for 5 days! No one trusted the others so they hid their money and real estate cards until the game resumed. They kids really enjoyed having 4 days off from school (that is until they started making it up on Saturdays). We never lost power, thank the Lord. What a time we had.
That was a great time and a great memory was made. I still keep in touch with some of the kids from back then and they all have fond memories of that week and the blizzard of 93.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I remember this day well. March 12, 1993 was my son’s 1st birthday. I had the party all planned but had to postpone everything until the next weekend. We lost power for 5 days and 11 people and one dog were at my parent’s house trying to stay warm with only a fireplace.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I was in the 5th grade at the time. I turned 11 in October of that year. I could’ve sworn we got more than four inches here in Montgomery because the snow was deep in our yard. Plus, we had the four foot snow drifts in the backyard. My youngest brother was only a year old at the time, so he didn’t get to play in it much. The second youngest lost his shoe in the snow, and when he fell in, the snow was over his head. My brother Adam, who was 8 at the time, and I had a blast playing in the snow, but it was so wet and slushy that we kept having to go back in the house and change our clothes!
March 12th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I dont know the official total in Decatur at Pryor Field across the river but at my house, even on the northwest side of Decatur, had 10 inches. I vividly remember measuring that with my dad, grandma, my cousins, and a gaggle of my neighborhood friends. That was probably the most fun i’ve ever had in a snow here in Alabama. We were out in the middle of the night just enjoying the falling snow. My cousin and I made a snowman early and then came back in the morning to see that his eyes and hat had been covered by the rest of the snow that fell! I think the funniest thing that storm, and possibly the funniest thing i’ve ever encountered in person, is what happened when us guys went over to Mesa Verde on Trinity Mountain to sled…. 4 guys walking through the snow and we decided to take a direct route across the field, forgetting there were bushes in certain areas…. We came to a little rise in the snow and were laughing about it and then my neighbor’s 7 year old little brother DISAPPEARS! The snow had drifted somehow around these bushes and there was a small enough crevice that he fell into about waist deep! It was SO funny! Definately something I’ll never forget as long as I live
March 12th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Great stories….We only had about 4 inches in Jasper, so it was just perfect.
Now that I’ve been learning how to read the models and data…I’d really like to see some of that stuff from the Blizzard. Anyone know where I might find some old data? I think it would be really cool to look at & study.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I remember it well… My fiance – now my husband – was living with my family near Noccalula Falls. My best friend from college had stopped overnight as she was hauling a (blessedly empty) horse trailer south to Foley. The storm hit, the power went out. We fired up the fireplace and wood burning stove. The wood pile was about 200 yards behind the house, and my husband had to set up a rope to follow there and back because of the howling wind and blowing snow. The sliding glass door became the walk-in refrigerator. The next morning, my 5-year-old stepbrother was in the throes of ecstasy. Sledding, snowball fights, snow angels….until he came in to watch TV and met the harsh reality of life with no power. It was four days before my friend could dig her trailer and head on south.
We were without power for 8 days, and had some crazy stretegies for survival. We used a football air pump to aerate the water in our 50-gallon aquarium. We smoked almost all the meat in our freezer and fed ourselves, the grandparents, and most of our neighbors. (We still joke that we gained weight because of the blizzard!) We abandoned the cold waterbeds for camp-style living near the fireplace. For the most part, it was an adventure…except… the most frightening moment during that week was when my father went out to cut a pine tree off the still-dead power line across our dirt road so he could go back to work at Goodyear. He told us all to stay inside because the line was under enormous tension and would probably flip when he cut it. Stepmom didn’t follow the instructions and got antsy. She walked down the hill towards him just as he finished the cut. You could hear the deep “twang” of the wire and the 6-foot section of tree went flipping in the air like a toothpick. It pinned my stepmother to the ground as it landed – fortunately the snow was so deep that she was completely unharmed.
Now my husband and I joke that the last winter we spent in Gadsden was 1993. And we moved back to Glencoe in August – so that might explain the snow accumulation this year! {{grin}}
March 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I was 17 years old at the time and was living in Buhl, Al. I have never saw snow fall like that before. The thunder and lighting, well the best way I can describe it was it looked like the Aurora Borealis, when the sky lit up green. Our power went out, but since my father was working for Alabama Power at the time all I had to do was call him and he fixed the problem. We had 13 inches of the white stuff and 6 foot snowdrifts. Also I remember watching TV the day before the storm hit and EMA came up on the TV. I was scared to death! I looked at my sister and asked her are we going to war?! But of course it was about the storm coming. We still laugh about that today. The storm of ’93 ruined me, I always expect to get that much snow…can’t a girl dream?
March 12th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I was 10 at the time. I remember walking around the neighborhood with my mom, dad, and and then 6 year old brother that Friday night. I couldn’t believe how big the snowflakes were (as big as a ten year old’s hand). It was so pretty. That night we just knew the power was going to go out, so we turned my parents queen size bed sideways against the wall, got every blanket in the house and me, my brother, mom, dad, and peek-a-poo slept horizontally in the bed. We were right the power went out that night, and I was so mad for the next two or three days because we couldn’t go outside until the power came back on. Mom said we had no way of getting a warm bath or warm at all for that matter. By Monday morning we were all getting cabin fever, so my mom bundled us up to walk up the road to a friends house who had a gas stove and heat. We got there and as soon as we got settled it the power came on. I was so happy, because we could FINALLY go play in it. I don’t think we went back to school until Thursday or Friday. It was the most snow I have ever seen, and now I wouldn’t mind another blizzard, just maybe only 6 inches and not 15.
March 12th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I was about to be 6 and we lived on Rocky Ridge Road about a football field away from the Shopping Center on Lorna Road. I dont remember much but i do remember not having power for a couple of days and walking out the back door and being BURIED in the snow. Then me and my dad walked to the grocery store…the worst walk ive ever doen and ive walked a lot!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Well I was 23 at the time the storm hit I worked at Westernsupermarket at that time. I went in at 8:30 that Friday and did not leave untill 10:30 that night. The boss took me home about as far as he could walked the rest of the way home talk about cold the snow was not that much when I got home. Well the storm hit and the snow was hard the lights blinked off and on all night when daylight came the snow was deep! Well our lights went out about midday but only stayed out for an hour and came back on talk about luck well it was Tuesday before we could get out.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I was a student at the University of Alabama at the time, and the blizzard of ’93 was a storm that proved to be symbolic in more ways than one. This storm united students from all races and nationalities on the Quad for a common cause…a snowball fight. For about six hours, hundreds of students gathered on the Quad and completely forgot about the political divides that plagued the campus at the time. After the snowball fight was over, I remember it being the talk of the campus and how it reminded everyone that we are indeed one people. I will never forget this storm…
March 12th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Marquez….I know exactly what you mean. Just two tears earlier when I was at UA we had a big snow there and something similar happened. Great comment!
March 12th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I was in school that day and saw the snow falling before anybody else . . . I pointed it out, and everybody got excited, and the teacher said, “Calm down . . . they’re saying it’s not gonna’ stick because the ground’s too warm!”
LOL!
March 13th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
My family was living in Gadsden at the time, but I was in Mobile attending South Alabama. My girlfriend and I had finished dinner and cards at a friends house near Satsuma. By the time I dropped her off at the dorms on campus, it was really coming down.
Being young and foolish (but also having a few years experience driving in snow in the NW), I drove back up Hwy 43 towards Creola and Mt. Vernon. No one was out. As the accumulation neared 2 inches, I was having fun driving through intersections, yanking the parking brake, and doing 360′s and donuts in the middle of intersections. Every once and awhile, as I searched for new “play areas”, I saw others doing the same thing. Only most of them were in rear wheel drive vehicles and really couldn’t control it!
As an older (and hopefully wiser) man, I would frown on doing that now. But at 19, it was a blast!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Does anyone have photos of what was happening on I-65 on these dates? I would love to see some.
My girlfriend & I were 18 and returning home to Michigan after a week in Florida for spring break. The morning we left there were snowflakes in Panama City Beach.
Snow driving and icy roads, even blizzards, were no big deal for us being from up north. We were north bound on I-65 and just north of Montgomery when 2 lanes became 1. Without proper snow-removal equipment, we started to see fewer & fewer cars in the southbound lanes until there were none. Eventually state troopers came from north to south to inform everyone that the highway had been shut down.
The highway turned into a type of “campground” if you will….people getting out of their cars, meeting others to talk about the situation & offer food.
We had to keep the car off or run out of gas & heat. Luckily we had a CB and came to trust a semi-truck driver near us who offered his warm cab & some oranges. His name was “Cow-Poke” as that is what he had done before getting into trucking. He told us he dad a daughter about our age. We took turns sleeping in the little bed and listening to the radio. Remember, this was before cell phones & our parents were expecting us the next day. We spent the whole night out on that road. I’ll never forget – it was mile marker 191. Now that I’m a mother, I understand my own mom’s confusion when I told her we had spent the night in a strange mans cab in the middle of a highway. The next day, we realized sitting in the middle of a closed I-65- for who knows how long- was not an option. We turned around onto the southbound lanes (like many others started doing) and headed back for Montgomery.
There were no hotel rooms available in the area and so we stayed the day at the 76 Auto/Truck Plaza @ exit 168. We sat at a booth, ate food, talked to travellers, and called our parents (from the phones at the booth). Both of our dad’s were very concerned and I know my parents doubted me a little. I think they thought I was trying to milk the vacation!
Finally the next day we decided to head west to Miss. and then north for home. Lots of snow there also, and I remember noticing that we were one of only a few cars on either side of the highway.
I carry the images of I-65 and that experience with me. For some reason, I have no personal photos of it. Many times over the years I have thought of Cow-Poke and who he really was and where he is now. It is a story and experience that’s once in a lifetime and will be told to my kids & grandkids in the years to come.
January 6th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Midnight downtown Mobile -Dauphine ST from Lawerence-Beinville Square was ‘shut’
down. Bar patrons ‘poured out into street. Snowball fights alway up/down.
March 12th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Boy do I remember that time very well! One of the busiest days at work and my Dad was having open-heart surgery at Montclair Hospital (in Bham) on top of that hill! I got off work early and headed to the hospital where my whole family was. We watched the warnings all afternoon, not believing it would happen until the snow started falling. Obviously I hadn’t been to the store since I worked and my Dad was in the hospital. When we got the word that Dad was out of surgery and doing ok, we all started making plans to get off that hill without killing ourselves. lol All my family was from out of town except my husband and me. Luckily my husband’s work car had all wheel drive so he made me drive it and I followed him. My Mom and Aunt stayed at a local hotel so they could be close to the hospital (we live in Gardendale).
To make a long story short we made it home safely and lost power at about 10:30. Went riding with a cousin in his 4 wheel drive jeep watching the nuts trying to drive in that mess. lol First time I had ever seen green lightening! It was insane. We have a fireplace so we slept, cooked and made coffee on it and hung blankets over the doorway to keep warm. Had a blast with our neighbors and basically tried to survive until we got power back I think on Monday. I have many pictures that I will dig out and send to James later.
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:42 am
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