I "summered" in the Kanawha Valley, and spent most childhood Christmases there, too. As a child, I knew it was stinky, but I have fond memories of that stench - hard to believe, I know!
We came into the valley via US 60 E and no matter the time of day or weather you knew when you reached Belle because the smell was so strong and unique. When I attended a seminar for advanced students interested in science and engineering, the employees of the Tech Center on the other side of the river at South Charleston gave us a football they made nearly every day in the lab to play with on their lunch break. Later they were sold worldwide as Nerf balls.
The real snow isn't supposed to start until Friday morning and last through Sunday, just a few possible flurries today.
We'll just have to wait and see which one is the closer to being correct. In the meantime, anyone want to place some bets on which one is correct?
I got a stupid ?. How do folks handle it when it snows all the time? How you come in without making a mess? I've always lived in Johnston county. We either got wet socks, whipped a little bit, or was told to go out and play some more.
Good quality clothing to keep dry and warm. Snowmobiles, quads/razors, sledding, and plowing. And fires.
Going to Tahoe from Placerville on the California side one day about 25 years ago now, I was asking one of the locals about that while climbing into the Sierras. He pointed out a few of the houses and indicated that they were using the winter entrances. I asked how that was different from the summer entrance, to which he replied that the summer entrance was on the ground floor under the snow. I was seeing the second story of the house with an entrance out onto the snow pack, which looked to me like a regular little cabin. It was already warm enough to see a woman in a bikini getting her picture taken at an overlook with a huge snow pack all around. The vertical climb there was so great that that overlook was about 1000 feet straight above the road below which also passed the overlook. Not the Rocky Mountains, but they make these old mountains in the east look like hills.
Multi-layer clothing was a must. The old "bread bag over socks under boots" kept the feet dry. As kids, we would enter the farmhouse through the basement access door, down to where the coal furnace was located (yes, I grew up in a farmhouse heated with coal). We would hang our wet/snowy clothes on hooks near the furnace, and they would dry out from the indirect heat. As I got older, snowmobile suits were a "quantum leap", but the simple fact was that people adjusted to their winter environment. I clearly remember being a young kid and seeing bits of grass finally poking through the melting snow after weeks of nothing but barren white landscape, and simply thinking "Oh yeah...THAT'S what grass looks like. I almost forgot". It sounds quaint and rustic now, but it was Hell getting ready for school, including the 1/2 mile walk to the bus stop in the pitch dark with the below-zero winds howling. Couldn't do it now. I've become a 'cold weather wimp'.
I would typically wear several layers, under armor as the base typically, with the outer most layer being my snowboard pants (more than waterproof and breathable) and my multi-layer Columbia jacket. For boots I typically wore my waterproof 8-10" high boots (like military boots), and my Burton gloves. When I came inside, I would just brush off my boots outside first. Nothing else was usually wet as it was all waterproof.
Though I started this post I am really not looking forward to snow/ice. I work weekends up in Raleigh and all I have is the most basic insurance on my vehicle and can not afford to replace it. But also can not afford not to work either
My flight into Fayetteville tomorrow has already been canceled! Looks like the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland on Saturday and Wright Patt Air-force Museum in Dayton Monday when I was scheduled to head back to Ohio! Everyone Please Stay Safe!
Thank you. I was just wondering do snow people have a tile room or something. Every time you come in, you got snow on your shoes, pants, coat, and hat. I'm just asking.
