“Knoxville hit -24 in 1985. I was in charge of the fireplaces. That was no fun at all. The oil lines had frozen.”
In 92’ we had the ice storm in Nashville. I was living on a farm in White Bluff, Tn. I spent two weeks without electricity living with my dogs in front of the fireplace and cooking on a Coleman stove. I took my wife to Nashville to stay with a friend of hers. I had a ball.
Well that can be interpreted a number of ways. :^)
In ‘93 my Mother called me in Arizona and reported she had 2.5 feet of snow in Blount County and their power was out for two weeks. They were living off the grill and the fireplace. I was at a balmy 63 degrees.
The south has its times, off course you never know when. That’s what makes the difference. We are a northern family being from AK and all, but down here folks just don’t prepare as much. That’s a big key to the reaction.