Isopycnic Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBlade Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Memories... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalba Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I was 9 at that time, glad i wasn't older to see the model crazyness and the storm missing me to the east Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strongwxnc Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 No doubt. However, I was 21 and it sucked.... Congrats folks down east.. How killer it must have been!! I was 9 at that time, glad i wasn't older to see the model crazyness and the storm missing me to the east Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapelhillwx Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I was almost 6. Wow, that was an amazing storm. Then we had some ice to lock it in and it got cold and stayed cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCSNOW Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Been in a 17 inch thundersnow here in FEb 2004, Superstorm 93 in Cullowhee, and mega icestorm Dec 2002. But I heard and saw those coming to different degrees, this one came out of nowhere. Imagine you woke up and saw 15 inches in the morning. Thats what made this so speacil IMO. With this weather board and internet I will never get suprised like that again. Of course the down side was I spent 6 1/2 days without power. The mail didnt run for 2 days out here where I live. Dot plows (what few they had) where tearing up and roads stayed covered for a week. The first night after it was close to zero outside. I also remember looking out toward town and in the pitch black dark how the moon beaming off the snow was the only light. It became a chore w/o power having to pack the freezer food with snow outside in coolers to keep frozen. I'll never forget it though had a 4 year old girl and wife was expecting in April. No power, pregnant wife for 6 1/2 days along with the ultimate snowhound suprise of all time, needless to say this event will never get erased from my memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packbacker Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Good memories, once in a 100 year storm, central NC won't experience something like this again in our lifetimes. Raleigh has only had 4 storms in 120 years over 11". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCSNOW Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I was almost 6. Wow, that was an amazing storm. Then we had some ice to lock it in and it got cold and stayed cold. Yea we had a minor ice/mix event a couple days before. In fact I still had some glaze on trees when this event got underway that Monday night, which owed to the fact the branches caught every wind driven flake that went by. Also I beleive we had another couple inches winter weather latter on that week (Thursday?). It was a fascinating week in weather to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rduwx Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 My personal favorite snowstorm happened 11 years ago today! I was also in the '93 storm in Marietta, Ga., which was also a great storm, but it would have to rank 2nd behind 1/25/2000. My rank: 1) 1/2000 2) 3/1993 3) 1/1988 4) 1/2002 5) 3/1980 - was only 11 during this storm but remember how much fun we had during it. I posted this earlier in the banter thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Just a refresher on one of the best two week periods in NC winter history... In addition, here's a link to a case study of the CAROLINA CRUSHER: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/20000125/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQPublic Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Those were the days. I was 17. Amazing storm. I wish I had a nice camera that day. I don't think we took any pics. eeediot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullCityWx Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Happy Anniversary....my ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rduwx Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Happy Anniversary....my ass. ...I feel the same way about Feb '04. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marion_NC_WX Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Happy Anniversary....my ass. lol... Geez...I still remember watching Al Conklin that morning freaking out when the radar returns that were going west to east began to do a complete 180 just east of Charlotte... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullCityWx Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 ...I feel the same way about Feb '04. I got missed by the deform axis in that event too...only 8" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rduwx Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I got missed by the deform axis in that event too...only 8" That sucks, I thought you got over a foot w/ that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullCityWx Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 That sucks, I thought you got over a foot w/ that one. yeah, crazy thing about that storm was I got almost all my snow that morning with the overrunning portion of the event. I'll never forget Steve Crump from WBTV doing his segment while standing on Independence Boulevard in Charlotte(they had to shut it down, 3rd busiest road in Charlotte) that night. it was an incredible run for here though...09/10-10/11 doesnt win in a comparison between that and 02/03-03/04. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilotwx Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Well............. Got zip here also Happy Anniversary....my ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Amazing gradient in Upstate SC from the Carolina Crusher. Areas in Laurens County got around a foot, while one county to the northwest, Greenville County got around 1/4". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2320659&id=11832585&l=af54881ad3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wow Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Absolute fail for me. Didn't see a flake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxKnurd Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Absolute fail for me. Didn't see a flake. Same here, I hated that storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Rain Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I had just started my job in Raleigh at the end of 1999. I remember sitting at work looking at the forecast that morning and expecting only a dusting to an inch or maybe two. Wasn't going to be much of anything. I remember looking at the radar throughout the day and hearing reports of Charlotte and SC getting lots of snow. I remember thinking that no way with that radar presentation that a Winter Weather Advisory was going to be adequate for this event. As the day went along and Winter Storm Warnings were finally issued, I was looking at the radar and thinking no way we were only going to get 4 inches with all of that. I got off work around 5 or so and it had started raining. I knew it wouldn't be long before it changed to sleet and/or freezing rain because the air was so dry. It didn't take long till sleet pellets started hitting my windshield on the way home. When I got home, it was sleeting pretty good (lived in Cary at the time) and eventually a few snowflakes mixed in, but it remained mostly sleet. I guess it was on toward midnight that I heard the pelting stop. Everything got quiet. I looked out the window and it was snowing heavily. A few minutes later, I heard the loud pings of sleet. Then it was quiet again. That happened about 3 times and then it was all snow. Heavy snow. We got about a half inch of sleet or so before it transitioned to all snow. I remember watching Greg Fishel talking about 6 inches earlier that evening, and I told my roommates there was no way we were only going to get six inches. It was going to be a lot more than that. Through the night, I woke up a lot, as I always do when it's snowing or supposed to snow. I heard pinging against the window and worried that it was sleeting, but each time I looked out, it was all snow...wind-driven snow, pelting the window. When morning came, I went to the window and looked out, expecting to see no snow falling, or at the very least, light snow. But it was still coming down hard. Mike Maze was on in the morning talking about 15 inches and it was still snowing. The snow finally tapered off about 1:30 that afternoon. It was the most amazing storm I've ever seen. I don't know if I'll ever see another one like that or not, but one thing is certain: I'll never forget that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKY_WX Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 boo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyefan1 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Definitely in my top 10 weather experiences I was under bed rest during my pregnancy (cervical cancer and placenta previa) and not allowed to get up longer than it took to take a shower. Watched the news/Today show during the morning while watching it drizzle off and on, then looked out the window around lunch time to see the snow flakes flying I watched it snow all afternoon and night, giggling each time I seen a flash of lightning while waiting on the thunder to rumble. My Daughter kind of freaked out the first time it happened as she had never seen anything like that...she was only 10. I never lost power but there were several times it flickered during the night. I couldn't play in it, so my daughter and hubby filled the house with buckets of snow for the best indoor snowball fight there ever was My house was trashed, but it was awesome...especially since I didn't have to clean it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griteater Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 yeah, crazy thing about that storm was I got almost all my snow that morning with the overrunning portion of the event. I'll never forget Steve Crump from WBTV doing his segment while standing on Independence Boulevard in Charlotte(they had to shut it down, 3rd busiest road in Charlotte) that night. it was an incredible run for here though...09/10-10/11 doesnt win in a comparison between that and 02/03-03/04. Hardest I've ever seen it snow was toward the end of the overrunning portion of the Feb 2004 storm - it was in the late morning timeframe. It seems like everytime I go skiing at Snowshoe a big storm hits NC. Drove back at the tail end of the 2000 storm. I remember there was hardly any snow in Winston, but I had a foot in my driveway in High Point / Jamestown, where I was living at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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