r/Appalachia • u/Maxcactus • 1d ago
Appalachian states bracing for their biggest snow storm in years
https://archive.ph/2025.01.08-140432/https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/08/winter-storm-central-southern-eastern-states-forecast/20
u/Designer_Barnacle_33 1d ago
It’s amazing how such a big deal is made of such small amounts of snow these days. Even the last storm was on tv constantly like it was the end of the world……..I remember, back in my day……..
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u/revnobody 1d ago
I find it interesting as well. Everyone I know is like, “Can you believe how much snow we got?” To me it just seems like the normal amount of snowfall we received EVERY YEAR when I was a child.
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u/Designer_Barnacle_33 1d ago
The other day, schools got canceled here because there was a chance of snow……it was a pretty sunny day. I understand that farther up the mountain, it can get tricky pretty fast, especially for a bus, but it’s like everyone is just looking for a reason to shut everything down and freak out.
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u/Away-Ad-8053 19h ago
Yeah but when you were a child you could fall and hit your butt and you would just laugh now that you're an adult you could fall and hit your butt and break a hip! I remember sliding down the road on a 1963 Ford comet hood and my dad yelling at me I better not rip my pants or get them dirty, yesterday I fed the cat a can of white albacore because I didn't want to go out to my car and get the cat food I forgot.
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u/ImpossibleCoyote937 19h ago
Predictions can mean nothing... In my life, I've shoveled tons of "Partly cloudy" in SWVA. lol. Back in my day, that is..
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u/SchizoidRainbow mothman 1d ago
"Biggest snowstorm in years"
That's a low flex considering how we haven't had any real snow in years.
I live in the NC Piedmont now. It has been over 1200 days since the last significant accumulated snowfall in this area.
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u/Bombadildeau 1d ago
If it's even a fraction as bad as '93, I'll eat both my and your hat.
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u/NormalRingmaster 16h ago
And if I recall correctly, that one came totally out of the blue. I think they had just been calling for flurries and all of a sudden: WHOOSH—cars buried, roads closed, all us kids making terribly unsafe snow tunnels in the yard. School was closed for like two straight weeks!!
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u/Bombadildeau 15h ago
We didn't have power for two weeks, and there was a 20 foot snow drift on the side of the house.
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u/Thoth-long-bill 1d ago
Just took me 40 mins at 2 mph to do a curvy hilly 4 miles with no pavement visible. Came home 15 miles out of my way to avoid getting stuck.
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u/gehanna1 7h ago
What a weird take. Snowstorm? Sure. Biggest or scariest in years? No way.
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u/Maxcactus 7h ago
Appalachia is a very big region. Weather across it will have many distinct pockets. Some good other bad. If the power is off in your neighborhood, it is at the end of a steep road with 6 inches of unplowed snow it will be the worst.
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u/gehanna1 6h ago
I'm just saying there have been much bigger storms in the past than this, and much bigger storms predicted. Just an odd take to call this the biggest in years.
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u/Tiny-Metal3467 1d ago
4-8 inches here…believe it ehen i see it. It did snow 12 inches 12-24-2010 at my house though…
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u/Away-Ad-8053 19h ago
Jackson County Kentucky We got a good 4 in. And right now at 1:05 a.m. it's 18°. I forgot my 5 gallon bottle of water in the van and it was froze solid after 72 hours!
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u/Designer_Barnacle_33 1d ago
It’s amazing how such a big deal is made of such small amounts of snow these days. Even the last storm was on tv constantly like it was the end of the world……..I remember, back in my day……..
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u/AppState1981 1d ago
Checks weather site for the area "snowfall up to 2 inches"