Snowing in The Blue Ridge Mountains for a White Christmas!

A great time to be in Appalachia. An old time White Christmas in the makein'. Snow started coming down this morning at around 9:00 o'clock. The ground is beginning to have a white blanket. What an event!

I really wish all of you a heart felt very Merry Christmas. I feel for the West Coasters! Just the soupy mud! We may not get out for awhile. My driveway is 500 feet long accompanied by a 17% slope. Ice will hide underneath the blanket of white.

What a great time for a SOC drive in the Blue Ridge. Any takers?

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to ALL!!

My Christmas Present Wish...

What year does the 904 replicate? Merry Christmas Aaron! It's a white one here too. Kids had fun this morning with gifts.

We're not too far from you in Asheville, Aaron. It's definitely beautiful but may mess up our plans to head home tomorrow. Being snowed in in Asheville isn't the end of the world though ;-) Sure wish I'd remembered to bring my camera.

Marty,
The 904 also known as the 904 GTS Porsche. They were made in 1964/1965 A little info at visit: http://www.sportscars.tv/Newfiles/904.html

Lane,
Don't be too anxious to go South tomorrow. Tonight's forecast"ain't ahgood'un! The major problem will be BLACK ICE! I just removed the snow on my drive, but with the snow almost sleet still coming down: i won't be able to get out! Use your head and don't try to travel! I have a new Fujifilm S1800...I'll try to make a snow video and post if possible.

The 904 may cause me to lose my cool and forget about a 911 Carrera CS Targa. Visit this link and literally cry: http://beck904.com/ I am in LOVE!

UPDATE: Pay attention Lane!
Snow began falling about 8 a.m. Saturday in the North Carolina mountains, where up to up to 5 inches of accumulation were expected. The Weather Service said mountain roads would be impassable for all but four-wheel drive vehicles.

We already have at least 6" here on the southern side of Asheville. I would be surprised if it's less than 10" before it's over. Yeah, I may be staying here another day.

Lane and All:

I'll not be goin' any were! Channel 13 weather just said that Asheville now has officially 10 inches on the ground. More to come

I was able to remove about 3 inch accumulation off my driveway by 4:00 o'clock this afternoon. This is a very wet snow and I was very wet after riding my small tractor with a snow blade up and down the 17 percent slope. Took at least 2 cups of coffee laced with Heather Creme which I think is better than Baileys because it is made with Highland malt!

The trees are very laden-down with the wet stuff. Here on the mountain slopes, the roots let go and trees come down. Of course, they never miss the electrical power lines! We are just waiting.

La' sho'nough beats the muddy soup out on the West Coast! 2 or maybe 3 dog night. Snow and Black Ice in the morn!

Kim and I are in WV with 6 inches on the ground and heading home to PA later today.....scheduled to deliver a load of cars in Philly and NJ tomorrow AM, with 12" predicted there along with possible blizzard conditions and 19" in the NY area....I see an extra day at home stay warm all. ~Alan

Two plus inches here.....If I heard correctly, this is the first Christmas day snow blanket since the late eighteen hundreds.....The dogs are busy plowing up the back yard with the blind dachshund following the pound hound....... Weather boys say it should be around for a few days....

Brrrrr..I'm getting cold just reading this thread...I just uncovered the boat to let it bask in the sun for a while....
looks like another boring day in So. Cal.

Uncover this ~

We stayed in Beaufort this Christmas in order to meet our daughter and her family at Disney World tomorrow. The Northeast Blizzard is predicting 16-18" at Providence, RI, (where they were flying out of) and Delta just cancelled her flight - Next one is in THREE WEEKS!!!!!

So we're sitting here with packed bags (we were driving down), three coolers of food, no place to go and no one to meet.

Sigh.......

Nuts.

gn

Hey, we live in the Sunny South...but I live on a mountain ridge! I'll post photos during and after the storm. Gotta figure out how to use the Fujifilm software.

Vince
thinkin' 'bout shannglin out and see ifun I can ketch me a bare to keep me warm!

Started snowing in the Hudson Valley around 2 p.m. today. We're scheduled to get a bunch. Snowblower is primed and ready, but I can't find my damn shovel! Snow doesn't bother me at all, I actually enjoy driving in it, as long as it has AWD and decent tires. About half the people who live around here actually know how to drive in it somewhat. I can't imagine living in the south where they never see it, panic and crash.

I went out shopping this afternoon and walked out of a store right behind a couple with two small boys (all dressed in Parkas - it's only been about 34F here today). Just as the littlest boy got outside he jumps up and down shouting:

"YAY!!

It's SNOWING!!

It's a WHITE CHRISTMAS AFTER ALL!!!!!!"




Sure made my day!

Happy Snowfall, everyone! We're camped out by the gas logs with the two Jacks!!

Made it home with no problems at all. Surface streets in Ashevlille were pretty bad, but I-26 was completely plowed/sanded/salted, and we had no problems other than normal holiday traffic. Oddly, we started in snow showers just north of Columbia, SC, which got quite heavy when we got to the Charleston area, and then they quit suddenly. Temps just above freezing from Columbia south kept the roads clear. We will probably have some icing overnight, though.

Hey Al....I don't think you're making that run through NJ on Monday. At around 10:30, my driveway was under almost a foot and a half already!

Ground is bare here and with what's falling on the coast, I may wait till Wednesday to head out to Philly and NJ

Yep! Dodged a big bullet here....no snow! But still have 40-50 mph wind gusts at 20 degrees. Cccccold! The trash can lids are in the next county by now.

~WB

Aaron I live over in Cedar Mountain (google it) about 40 miles west of you. We have about 8 in of snow on the ground, but roads are ok.

I am starting my Cab build with SAS and should have my car in the next 4 months.

With Scott Teele just over the hill, we should get together for some outings.

BTW my son got married in Lake Lure 2 years ago.

Clint

Well, Lets give the West Coasters a treat...Snow at night and the next morning at Linne `Ardan.

Clint, The areas near Tennessee always gets a mess of snow. Most know that my drive is 500 feet long and 17% slope. It had at least 6 inches with ice underneath. Black Ice yesterday. Come see me!

Yepper, that's a Jack barrel over my well head. It occasionally lets a fumes into the water. Prefer a single malt. Speyside or Islay!

I though one more photo would just about be right! Damned, believe that that's cold enough for a wee dram of Arran! You all join me:

Here's to us, and those like us. and there's damned few, the rest are deid!

Aaron, y'all up Northers taint got all the cold weather. Us'n Crackers down here get some too!

Ice in Fort Lauderdale? What happened? Did someone spill their umbrella drink on your windshield?

Damned... There goes the price of strawberries and citrus fruit forever! Hey, let's not forget mixed drinks...but one doesn't mix highland single malt! Sorry!

The stuff is still waiting on the ground for more to join up. No global warming here...the Perception Management people are wrong!!!

Ya'll flat-lander furineers got nary fur-lined unmentionables? Be glad to post some trapdoor longjohnnies. Maybe a jar of anti-freeze would help yuness sta'rum. Know yo ain,t got nary wood cut!

Don't know 'bout spilt drinks Lane, but we have a fine crop of frozen iguanas to BBQ, better than stew'd possum! 'fraid coconuts roasting on an open fire taint the same as chestnuts. And all you Yankees better stock up on strawberrys and orange juice cause like gas, they's ago'n up in prices.

Nolan,
Went you visit usun highlanders, I'll put on the do' fer ye. Roos possum,with sweet tater casarool, cathead biscuits with coon-drippin; gravey! Yah-hooo! Damned...hungrin' all ready!

I reckon I should brung some gator tail stew, land crab patties and some Orange blossom honey,that is if'n you bake up a batch of corn bread.

Aaron - those pictures of your snow-covered house look like Christmas post cards. Thanks for sharing.

Yesir, I'll back up the cornpone! Moleasses might be a little better and lasts longer as sweeten than honey. Try'em in youren coffe in the morn.Dona I need to send ya som by U,S. Mule?

Thanks, Felix:
That's first light in the morning and very few flakes were falling. Linda and I usually take a long ride as the roads clear, but not this time. Too much black ice. Our driveway turns into an excellent ski jump. It was covered with 6+inches of snow and ice underneath.

Snow...what an event!

I took this photo after the snow storm when I caught a local trying to to bathe! Sho'enough ain't Vince! Lane?????

Hey, I'm not that crazy...right now, me and the misses are on the 31st floor of the Rio in Vegas sucking down an Oban....
I'll taks some pic's....

Please wear more than the guy in Aaron's picture, ok?

No Aaron, that's not me. That guy has too much hair.

Hey all us East Coasters need to send sand to the West Coast, they need more sandbags!

I thought it was Lane just practicing for the Lake Lure Polar Plunge here tomorrow! We have a bunch of these crazies that do such!

Nolan, ain't got much sand up here! We'd have to send limestone rock and red clay!

Well those left coasters need something to put in their sandbags. Maybe some molds and straw to make adobe bricks too.