re: Who here remembers the 1993 Storm of the Century?

My family lived in Hoover at the time. My pop said it was so cold that when he pissed the next morning, there was ice in the toilet!

I was living in Tampa at the time. Didn't seem so bad there. But shortly after I moved to GA, and all everyone talked about was the blizzard of 93.

Thought it was 1994. The locals in Memphis always talk about the blizzard they had back then.

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Thought it was 1994. The locals in Memphis always talk about the blizzard they had back then.

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94 was an ice storm in Memphis and N. MS The whole power grid was taken out by up to 6" of ice in places. There were some areas that didn't have power for a month. The metal TVA main grid power transmission lines wilted from the weight of the ice and the local power lines were wiped out by the weight of the ice or falling trees and limbs.

I remember winter of 1995, snow and ice in La, I was living in BR, but stuck in North La with my ex. I cannot remember the 1993 storm though.

Was there, shelved 3' snow drifts just north of B'ham. Was insane. Temp stayed below 15 degrees for three days for the high temp.

I remember it well. I was a junior in HS. We had easily a foot+ of snow in Atlanta, and with the wind we had drifts 3 feet tall. Luckily we knew it was coming and were all at the house.

I also remember Atlanta's infamous SnowJam '82. We had gone to my great aunt's funeral and the snow started falling right as it ended. By the time we got to the interstate to head home, they were starting to ice over and there were wrecks everywhere. We turn around and slowly work our way back to my grandmother's house. By the time it gets dark, most of my aunts/uncles/cousins end up there too. I think there were about 15-20 of us in a small, 2 bedroom, 1 bath house for the night.

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It was a total white out,

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Good times

We had over waist deep snow up in North Alabama that did not melt for almost a week. Power was out almost the whole time. If not for ones of these....



... we'd have been in trouble. We put up blankets to block off the living room where the heater was mounted and it stayed nice and warm in there. We stashed all our perishables in coolers that we buried in the snow just outside the back door. We made the best of it and actually weathered the storm pretty well.