Snow and Ice in Clarksville, TN [Tennessee Ice/Snow Storm]

Clarksville Online ^ | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | Thea Agnew

[Star Traveler]

Snow and Ice in Clarksville, TN

By Thea Agnew | January 28, 2010 |

According to the weather channel we are in the “Winter’s Triple Threat”. Are you ready for this storm? As of 8:30 pm Thursday night, Nashville is supposed to get over a foot by the time it is all finished on Sunday! Clarksville is north of Nashville, so we are probably looking in the range of possibly 12-18 inches. Hopkinsville, KY which is only 20 minutes away from Exit 1 in Clarksville is said to have approximately 18 inches! (I cannot believe these numbers have been broadcast!)

Clarksville has been gearing up for this storm that is 1700 miles long since wednesday by putting down the salt or brine. The roads will be dangerous, so please stay off of them. There has even been concerns of power outages. As I was in Wal-Mart this afternoon, I ran into a lot of my friends who were getting ready for the storm that will keep us indoors. They even mentioned the fact that we might lose our electric. There is always a possibility. Those without a fireplace, do you know how you would stay warm if the electric is to go out?

Here are some ideas* to stay warm if you don’t have electric or a fireplace. First make sure that you have not blown a fuse and check your circuit breaker in your electrical home panel. If the power is out over a widespread area, it may take longer to restore power everywhere. Sometimes it can be out for days.

• Unless there is an emergency, do not call 9-1-1. That number should only be used if there is an emergency, or if someone is injured or in danger.
• If there are power lines down in your neighborhood, do call 9-1-1 and call your utility company. DO NOT GO NEAR DOWNED POWER LINES.
• Listen to a battery powered radio or TV at the top of the hour.
• Dress to stay warm. Wear layers, including a sweater, sweatshirt or even a jacket. You lose heat through your hands and the top of your head. Wear gloves and a knit hat, not just a baseball cap.
• Avoid opening your refrigerator and freezer as much as possible. Food inside should stay cold for hours if the door is left closed.
• If you’re cold, take a warm shower – to increase your body temperature. Your hot water tank, even if electric, will stay warm for a few hours.
• Unplug some of your major appliances. When the power comes back on, all those appliances can create a drain or power surge. This can harm sensitive equipment. Leave a light on so you’ll know when the power is back on.
• If you have a generator, do not connect it to your home’s power system unless it has been properly installed and disconnects you from the main power grid when its operating. If you do not disconnect from the power grid, you can be sending electricity back down the lines; not just to your home. That could be deadly for the power company workers.
• If you have a regular wood stove or fireplace, you can use it for heat. However DO NOT USE kerosene heaters, BBQs, or any outdoor type heater inside. Such devices create poisonous gases such as carbon monoxide.
• If you are in a neighborhood and know of someone that has a fireplace, call and see if you can come over there if the power goes out.
• Check on your elderly neighbors or those who may have medical conditions or use medical machinery that operates on electricity. Make sure they are dressed appropriately warm.
• If you have to go out, drive carefully. Remember that traffic signals may be out during a power outage.

As of 8:30 pm Oklahoma is without power for 63,000 residents and it could take up to 5 days to restore power! They have freezing rain and will have over 16 inches of snow after that.

Texas has wind damage reports at peak: 7,500 without power and road crews are on 24 hour mode. Floods here and more to come! Wind has been the biggest culprit.

Arkansas is stock piling poles 400 linemen are on standby to replace. That is a lot of poles!

This is coming our way! Over 21 million people will be impacted!

[meyer]

Here just on the north side of Chattanooga, we got around 5-6 inches of snow, but the frost line has moved north so it's more rain than snow now (and not falling steadily like it did this afternoon). Took this shot at around 5:15 PM, before it got dark. Had about 4 inches at the time and still falling...

[ReformedBeckite]

They do that here all the time in Tennessee, The problem here in Tennessee is that they don’t have very many snow removal trucks or salt trucks.

[airborne]

Prayers for all of our Freeper FRiends affected.

Once again it looks like a large winter storm will miss me here in Pennsylvania.

Thank the Lord!

[ReformedBeckite]

What made it bad today was it all come down at once, I think most the snow fell in one hour or two, was out in it at its peak, it was bad.

[Right Wing Assault]

My son grew up in Northern Ohio where we get buried a few times a winter and people are used to it, plus we’ve got the plows and salt trucks. He’s seen all kinds of snow and ice conditions.

Now he’s at school in Nashville and he said there were only a couple inches earlier but there were wrecks all over the place, so he drove back home to get his car off the road.

[WVNan]

It was nice to read down this thread and see all the people from TN and northern Ala. Makes me kinda homesick. I am a native Tennessean. We are not getting anything up here in my area of WV. Just cold as a freezer. I’m glad we didn’t get the ice. That is the worst thing to contend with. Prayers for all you down there in the white stuff. Stay warm.

[Kaslin]

I live in Clarksville and there was definitely no 12 to 18 inches of snow. At the most it was 4 inches. The last time I have seen snow here this high was in the winter of 1967-68. 1979 was supposedly that high to, but then we were in Germany. Also Clarksville is not north of Nashville, but north-west

[fieldmarshaldj]

We ultimately ended up with about 4 1/2 inches (at least in SE Nashville). Took about 6 days to melt it all. The last time, I believe, we got over 6” was in the ‘80s. The large snow you were talking about in ‘79 was the year before, IIRC, in early ‘78. I was about 4 years old, remember going out all bundled up to play in it. I obviously wasn’t around for the snow in the ‘60s, so can’t comment on that. ;-)

[Kaslin]

Yes you are correct about the snow in 78. We were stationed in Germany during that time and did came back May 31, 1979. I only heard about the snow being that high, and I remember in the winter of 79-80 and several years afterwards Wal-Mart having snow shovels out for peoples to buy and no snow