I remember this snow storm. I lived in Gadsden, Al on top of Lookout Mountain where the snow came to just below my knees. I stayed up all night and watched the thunder and lighting. The snow drifts were up to my waist. We had no power for almost 2 weeks and no water for several days. We had to melt the snow and boil it to drink.
I wish I could rewind back to 93 and have a " do over" . Life once seemed full of opportunity to me then and now it seems more like a con artists trap to me. These remind me of my life then as a 10th grader. Thanks for sharing with us.
I will never forget this, I was 16 and snowed in with a friend, my parents were in Auburn at the basketball championship for Alexandria High, and we had no power for 5 days, a guy in a 4 wheel drive truck had to some get us and take us to my aunts in Weaver that was only about 10 mins away, it took us about 2 hours to get there.
Blue lightening! I was working my 1st night at Denny's with one other waitress and 1 cook ONLY. Our boss sent everyone home early as it was so slow on a Friday night and we had just completed our 3 day training when he left us to run the restaurant. At about 10:30 - 11:00 pm I noticed Snow out the window. By 11:30 to midnight, straggling teenager's and young adults southbound for Florida and Spring break started walking in! The driving was too hard to get through and the police were closing down I-65. We were at the 310 exit. Then dozens became stranded. We ended up with over 150 - 200 stranded motorist's, and families with no place to go! Thank God we were opened! No Red Cross, No Salvation Army, no emergency shelter. We had 5 to 6 foot drifts in the parking lot alone! 10 & 12 in the backyard's and other area's. We ran out of food! A man & his son quietly went back to the kitchen and began washing dishes. We had no one to do it!. People poured coffee while Diane and I tried to keep up with who ordered what! Basically, we were handing out plates to anyone! The cook kept telling mr as I began to cry, "Don't worry! It's a walk in the Park!!". Took me all night and the next day to figure out the meaning of that! Kids slept on the floor, did homework, and apparently had a few shots or two, because we found a couple whiskey bottles in a very DRY county! Some people got impatient, but by 3:00 am everybody began to quiet down as we watched the FEET of snow continue to rise hourly. My husband came at the 23 hour for me. He had to wait close to 50 minutes before I could leave. And I only agreed as did the other 2 of us because we were completely out of everything. The manager's and other workers couldn't make it in. They were all snowed in! The remarkable student's stranded had to push our Car out of the snow while my husband had waited because it became completely trapped in less than one hour! We got home, and the Restaurant was shut down for the remainder of the day after everyone got to an opened shelter. We 3 were ceremoniously given a day off for working by ourselves and for me, 23 hrs, and Diane 24. Ironically, a lady wrote the most stunningly beautiful letter to our store about her experience about 2 months later, proclaiming the perseverance, great spirits, and wonderful attitudes of the staff, (where WAS she when I was pulling my hair out and crying behind the coffee pot??) and how impressed she had been with the way we handled the entire event! Truly the most inspirational letter I've ever had written about something I had contributed to!! Nothing made me regret that day! Except perhaps the idiot manager who called a "Denny's" meeting with the entire Crew and read the letter aloud to everyone THANKING EVERYONE that was employed and giving credit to countless people who neither showed up or answered their phones for 2 days afterwards! But, like that Cook taught me then, and I've said it a Million times since, WE KNEW who sacrificed and worked hard and for a few hours saved a couple hundred people from being trapped or driving on another 30 miles to Decatur, or worse! And met some remarkable people from all over the US that night! I'll never forget those people who helped us out silently, and never complained. They were my inspiration that night and even now! And in all my trials when things get hard, I tell myself, "Don't Worry! It's just another walk in the Park!!". 😇😘
Suzi Bailey-Pethtal ~~~ Neat story, thank you for sharing. Wow, this really takes one back. I remember watching the news before going to work in the E.R.. There was a beautiful queen in Decatur Al, who was pinned in her car (Honda with a sun roof) a large tree fell on the car, crunching her inside. When I got to work about an hour later I got her ready for neuro surgery. Poor dear spent months in NICU, very long recovery. I think she was a senior in high school. Boy, I really hope the best for her. You and I clocked out and went home. She was caught in a time warp of the worst kind. Blessed to been there and done it.!!!
Thank you, Suzi and See Truth.. You both have great stories of that storm. I don't remember any of it but I hope I can be there in a time of need someday
Ok. For many folks up North, the amount of snow we received down here was nothing abnormal. Difference is, we are not equipped to deal with it structurally nor otherwise. Roads were closed for days and a few buildings collapsed in my area as a result of this storm. I was 15 when this happened so I loved every bit of it! Haha! I will soon be moving to Ohio so this type of event will be somewhat of the norm, but I will never forget experiencing the "Super Storm" of '93!
Ah, Stapp Drive. My family, too, lived off Oakwood at the time; but I spent the night with a friend from elementary school out in New Market during this.
I was five when this happened. I remember going outside to play in it in my grandparent's front yard. I had really bad asthma at the time and I ended up getting bronchitis. It put me in the hospital for about a week or so because it nearly killed me.
I'd love to experience such an anomaly...not the destruction, but just the wonder of it all...absolutely fascinating. I'll never forget this storm, and all I received was Lake Effect snow, which was in itself an anomaly being that I was in central IL and we had lake effect all the there from the strong NE winds on the back side from Lake MI.
@cmperrigo Well, it happens about once every 10 or 20 years there. Needless to say, an area that sees a foot of snow eight times a year is going to be better prepared for it. Your area no doubt has many plows and salt trucks and people have snow chains and snow tires. Nobody in AL is going to have that. An why would they devote substantial resources to something that happens once every 10 or 20 years? It is more economical to suffer the occasional shutdown for a few days.
i was 3 when this happened so i dont remember it it but i wish i did tho. every time theres a chance of snow now my dad freaks out and starts to stock up on stuff just in case
Anytime you have thunder and lightning preceeding/during a snowstorm means a clash of air masses with a VERY large temperature difference between them. It's a warning of an EXTREMELY severe storm.
too cool,i was 12 years old happy as i could be ,NO SCHOOL, thanks for video
The one I'll never forget. Was heading south for spreak break and got stranded in Tennessee outside of Knoxville for two days.
I remember this snow storm. I lived in Gadsden, Al on top of Lookout Mountain where the snow came to just below my knees. I stayed up all night and watched the thunder and lighting. The snow drifts were up to my waist. We had no power for almost 2 weeks and no water for several days. We had to melt the snow and boil it to drink.
I wish I could rewind back to 93 and have a " do over" . Life once seemed full of opportunity to me then and now it seems more like a con artists trap to me. These remind me of my life then as a 10th grader. Thanks for sharing with us.
I will never forget this, I was 16 and snowed in with a friend, my parents were in Auburn at the basketball championship for Alexandria High, and we had no power for 5 days, a guy in a 4 wheel drive truck had to some get us and take us to my aunts in Weaver that was only about 10 mins away, it took us about 2 hours to get there.
Thanks for the memories, I remember this well!
I was 7 when this happened and lived in TN about 35 miles north of Huntsville. These were magical times
What a time! Thanks for sharing. I was and I am still in B'ham!
That blizzard was rare in so many ways. Thubdersnow is rare anywhere.
I was 3 years old when this happened. I don't remember it much. I vaguely remember playing in the snow a bit. It was cold, but enjoyable.
Blue lightening! I was working my 1st night at Denny's with one other waitress and 1 cook ONLY. Our boss sent everyone home early as it was so slow on a Friday night and we had just completed our 3 day training when he left us to run the restaurant. At about 10:30 - 11:00 pm I noticed Snow out the window. By 11:30 to midnight, straggling teenager's and young adults southbound for Florida and Spring break started walking in! The driving was too hard to get through and the police were closing down I-65. We were at the 310 exit. Then dozens became stranded. We ended up with over 150 - 200 stranded motorist's, and families with no place to go! Thank God we were opened! No Red Cross, No Salvation Army, no emergency shelter. We had 5 to 6 foot drifts in the parking lot alone! 10 & 12 in the backyard's and other area's. We ran out of food! A man & his son quietly went back to the kitchen and began washing dishes. We had no one to do it!. People poured coffee while Diane and I tried to keep up with who ordered what! Basically, we were handing out plates to anyone! The cook kept telling mr as I began to cry, "Don't worry! It's a walk in the Park!!". Took me all night and the next day to figure out the meaning of that! Kids slept on the floor, did homework, and apparently had a few shots or two, because we found a couple whiskey bottles in a very DRY county! Some people got impatient, but by 3:00 am everybody began to quiet down as we watched the FEET of snow continue to rise hourly. My husband came at the 23 hour for me. He had to wait close to 50 minutes before I could leave. And I only agreed as did the other 2 of us because we were completely out of everything. The manager's and other workers couldn't make it in. They were all snowed in! The remarkable student's stranded had to push our Car out of the snow while my husband had waited because it became completely trapped in less than one hour! We got home, and the Restaurant was shut down for the remainder of the day after everyone got to an opened shelter. We 3 were ceremoniously given a day off for working by ourselves and for me, 23 hrs, and Diane 24.
Ironically, a lady wrote the most stunningly beautiful letter to our store about her experience about 2 months later, proclaiming the perseverance, great spirits, and wonderful attitudes of the staff, (where WAS she when I was pulling my hair out and crying behind the coffee pot??) and how impressed she had been with the way we handled the entire event!
Truly the most inspirational letter I've ever had written about something I had contributed to!! Nothing made me regret that day! Except perhaps the idiot manager who called a "Denny's" meeting with the entire Crew and read the letter aloud to everyone THANKING EVERYONE that was employed and giving credit to countless people who neither showed up or answered their phones for 2 days afterwards!
But, like that Cook taught me then, and I've said it a Million times since, WE KNEW who sacrificed and worked hard and for a few hours saved a couple hundred people from being trapped or driving on another 30 miles to Decatur, or worse! And met some remarkable people from all over the US that night! I'll never forget those people who helped us out silently, and never complained. They were my inspiration that night and even now! And in all my trials when things get hard, I tell myself, "Don't Worry! It's just another walk in the Park!!". 😇😘
Suzi Bailey-Pethtal ~~~ Neat story, thank you for sharing. Wow, this really takes one back. I remember watching the news before going to work in the E.R.. There was a beautiful queen in Decatur Al, who was pinned in her car (Honda with a sun roof) a large tree fell on the car, crunching her inside. When I got to work about an hour later I got her ready for neuro surgery. Poor dear spent months in NICU, very long recovery. I think she was a senior in high school. Boy, I really hope the best for her. You and I clocked out and went home. She was caught in a time warp of the worst kind.
Blessed to been there and done it.!!!
Thank you, Suzi and See Truth.. You both have great stories of that storm. I don't remember any of it but I hope I can be there in a time of need someday
Ok. For many folks up North, the amount of snow we received down here was nothing abnormal. Difference is, we are not equipped to deal with it structurally nor otherwise. Roads were closed for days and a few buildings collapsed in my area as a result of this storm. I was 15 when this happened so I loved every bit of it! Haha!
I will soon be moving to Ohio so this type of event will be somewhat of the norm, but I will never forget experiencing the "Super Storm" of '93!
This must be the birth of bread and milk.
I was 12 and lived off of Pulaski Pike back then, we had a blast
Ah, Stapp Drive. My family, too, lived off Oakwood at the time; but I spent the night with a friend from elementary school out in New Market during this.
I was five when this happened. I remember going outside to play in it in my grandparent's front yard. I had really bad asthma at the time and I ended up getting bronchitis. It put me in the hospital for about a week or so because it nearly killed me.
I lived in florence at the time, it was up past my knees (which was about a foot 1/2)
I have never seen so much snow here in bama since.
Miss you man!
Wow I was like 1 year and 9 months.
in Morgan county which is 50-60 miles north of Birmingham 30 miles south of Huntsville we got 10 inches with drifts a couple of feet
In Dekalb county on Lookout Mtn. we got 20", with wind gusts of 65 mph.
I'd love to experience such an anomaly...not the destruction, but just the wonder of it all...absolutely fascinating. I'll never forget this storm, and all I received was Lake Effect snow, which was in itself an anomaly being that I was in central IL and we had lake effect all the there from the strong NE winds on the back side from Lake MI.
@cmperrigo Well, it happens about once every 10 or 20 years there. Needless to say, an area that sees a foot of snow eight times a year is going to be better prepared for it. Your area no doubt has many plows and salt trucks and people have snow chains and snow tires. Nobody in AL is going to have that. An why would they devote substantial resources to something that happens once every 10 or 20 years? It is more economical to suffer the occasional shutdown for a few days.
I was there and out driving in it the next day
I was 20 years old
i was 3 when this happened so i dont remember it it but i wish i did tho. every time theres a chance of snow now my dad freaks out and starts to stock up on stuff just in case
Anytime you have thunder and lightning preceeding/during a snowstorm means a clash of air masses with a VERY large temperature difference between them.
It's a warning of an EXTREMELY severe storm.
wish it would happen again
How did you ever survive??? A foot!!! That only happens like 8 times a year here.
When this happend I was 2
i wasnt even born , not till 2008 anyways
What hood is that
I’m thinking that was a once in a lifetime event- it WAS NOT fun nor was it pretty