Introduction
Today, as I begin to write at 4:17 PM, the sun is bright. The sky is a clear blue. Do folks in east Tennessee have enough milk and bread? I hope so!
The weather prognosticators were correct this time. The weather signs over the last few days have been indicating that at least rain was coming.
The rain started late last evening. I went to bed as a skeptic. The temperature was near 60°F. I woke up this morning as a believer. The falling temperature changed the rain to snow, real snow this time.
The Blizzard of March 12, 2022
A video says a thousand words. Just before Mrs. Appalachian Irishman recorded the video below, Molly, our ol' puppy, very bravely, explored the backyard. She made a lollipop design, going out, circling, and returning to her basement condominium the same way she'd started. Molly enjoyed her brief romp in the snow! I wish that I had my semi-intelligent phone handy to photograph or video Molly!
The original video below is a minute and 59 seconds long. I had to trim it for publishing. I hope that you enjoy it. I apologize for not having taken a shower yet! I hope that you can't smell me!
Seven and a half inches of snow! That's what this Appalachian Irishman calls a real snow!
This year, there were four dinky snows in January on the 3rd, 6th, 17th, and 29th. I wrote about the 1/17/2022 snow in my first article that day. My first article from 1/9/2022 was about the two snows in one week.
February recorded no snow here. On Saturday, 2/26/2022, however, my '06 Frontier and I hauled off trash as the rain and hail mixture was coming down. The hail changed to all rain later in the day.
Historical Blizzards
History.com (© 2022, A&E Television Networks, LLC. All Rights Reserved) has an article titled “The Biggest Snow Storms in US History - We trudge back in time to revisit some of the worst blizzards in U.S. History” by History.com Staff; updated 12/15/2020; original 3/14/2017.
I wasn't around yet for the blizzard of March 1888. Papaw Marion Ferrell (4/13/1880 - 11/21/1970) was a boy. His wife, Molly Gertrude Archer (11/30/1892 - 6/11/1971), wasn't born yet.
During the blizzard of January 1922, Granny Wood (Lula Frank Amos, 6/16/1901 - 8/12/1991) and Papaw Aby William Wood (9/4/1901 - 3/14/1983) were young adults.
I remember the blizzard of February 1978! The snow fell every Wednesday, as I recall. High school graduation had to be delayed until late June, as I remember.
During the blizzard of March 1993, Mrs. Appalachian Irishman and I lived in Dexter, Missouri. I was the associate minister at the church. We were well into our preparation to move to Moscow, Russia, on 10/1/1994. I shoveled mounds of snow! My 1984 Chevy Chevette hit ice and snow. We spun full circle, staying on the road, thankfully!
During the January 1996 blizzard in this once-great nation, we were still in our five-year mission work in Russia (to 9/30/1999). Blizzard? What blizzard? Snow covers the ground in the Moscow area from about November to April!
Well, the History.com article mentions two blizzards in 2010. You can read about those as you wish to do so.
The photograph below is from my January 10, 2010 article, “House Mountain Snow!“
Yes, I marketed my website on the snow on the rock. That rock is just east of the west bluff on House Mountain. That is my left shoe print.
Spring Forward
By the way, don't forget to “spring forward” before going to bed tonight. Government time (daylight savings time) starts at 2 AM! How does it save daylight? It will be darker longer in the mornings. It will be lighter longer in the evenings. It does not “save daylight.” It just moves it forward an hour! That's government time, lying to you!
Papaw Ferrell called it “guvrmint” time. I do also.
Conclusion
I'd better wind this down. I hear Mrs. Appalachian Irishman working on supper! Y'all enjoy this early spring snow on “spring forward” day. Meteorological spring started on March 1st.
Y'all keep turnin' right and goin' straight out there, ya hear?
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1 comment:
I need to add a point of humor. Why did TDOT (Tennessee Department of Transportation) salt all the roads (that Mrs. Appalachian Irishman and I were on at least) – in the early hours of 3/10/2022, Thursday? As we drove, separately, to our work locations that day, we were AMAZED, angered, and somewhat amused! The roads must have been salted in the early hours of that morning – possibly before daylight.
So, on Thursday and Friday, in mostly sunny weather, with temperatures in the 50's, folks drove on roads that were salted for snow. In time, the salted areas had little, if any salt, as folks drove on the roads. Wind from vehicles in motion shifted salt to the center line and edges of the roads. Of course, blowing salt collected on vehicles and in the noses of drivers. (That's not the best way to sniff salt up your nose, to clear congestion.)
The late evening rain, of Friday, 3/11/2022, which became snow, during the night of 3/12/2022, simply washed whatever salt that remained off the roads!
Come on, TDOT! Explain your TOTAL LACK OF COMPETENCE!
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