Yep, it is actually snowing here! They are concerned about ice later today. BRrrrrr...
X.
Snow in Charlotte!
by Xandria 16 Replies latest jw friends
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Smyler
I remember a few years ago when we were driving to Florida...from Nova Scotia, 3 and a half days! We stopped for a day with some of my parents friends in Fuquay-Varina (few-kway va-ree-na) a little south of Raleigh, and we were like the only car without ice on it. I remember the cars were totally covered in ice, and some on the antennas on the cars were like 1-2 inches in diameter with ice!
smyler
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CyrusThePersian
Hi!
I'm not too far away from you, I'm in Tennessee. It's wet and rainy here, but the temperature is almost 60 degrees F.
The Lawd does work in mysterious ways!
CyrusThePersian
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Undecided
Snow in Eden also.
Ken P.
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Yerusalyim
I want snow, I'm less than 150 miles south of you..I WANT SNOW!
Edited to add:
Just took my son to Youth Group...Freezing Rain and Sleet in Columbia SC..>WOOOHOOOO!
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Xandria
What is so funny is that they were supposed to do the Panther Send off today down town... LOL!
They had to cancel and as I write this the Church cancellations have stopped. We are now expecting ice... the last time we had Ice we lost power for 5 days! Froze our (_)_) off !!!!!!
X.
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Been there
Five to Six inches of snow in Northern Kentucky
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Special K
Hi Xandria..
I didn't hear about North Carolina having snow..
But, my husband, tells me there was a big fire down there at a "comfort Inn" or something like that..
and that is on the news here in Nova Scotia.
So, did you hear about that fire this weekend.
Weather in NOva Scotia to be (with wind chill factor).... -31 farenheit tomorrown morning. BRRR!!!
sincerely
Special K
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asleif_dufansdottir
My parents said they had enough ice in KS to keep them from going to church (they can watch their church on tv, so that's what they did).
We're supposed to frost down here tonight!! Dang, it's supposed to be warm down here! I think we jinxed it when we moved in!!
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Xandria
Yes, I heard about the fire in S. Carolina it killed 6 people some who were children and babies. They are still investigating. It is sad to hear, especially when sprinklers would have helped so much.
Posted on Mon, Jan. 26, 2004 People jump from windows to flee South Carolina motel fire; toddler among six dead
JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated PressGREENVILLE, S.C. - A fire filled a five-story motel with thick, disorienting smoke early Sunday, killing six people and forcing other panicked guests to jump out of windows or climb down bed sheets to safety, authorities said.
Two people killed by the blaze were from North Carolina, authorities said late Sunday.
At least a dozen people were injured, including five in critical condition at a burn unit in Augusta, Ga. A spokeswoman for the center said a sixth person was to be flown there when weather conditions cleared.
Guests and authorities said smoke filled the motel quickly, sending guests in their pajamas into a chaotic scramble for the exits and a cold rain outside.
"I opened the door and all we saw was smoke," said Donessa Wilson, who said she and her boyfriend were awakened on the fourth floor by a fire alarm and then heard a woman running down the hall screaming.
The smoke was so thick that one guest jumped from a third-floor window onto a solid canopy when the stairwell was just a few steps away, Greenville County Coroner Parks Evans said. Blood could be seen on the outside walls of the motel near a broken window.
The Comfort Inn had standpipes and wall-mounted hoses in the hallways and stairwells, but none had been activated and no fire extinguishers were used before emergency crews arrived, said Wade Hampton Fire Chief Gary Downey. He said the approximately 20-year-old building passed its last inspection less than a year ago, and was not required to have sprinklers.
"If there had been sprinkler systems in the hallways, probably the fatalities and injuries would not have been near what they were," Downey said.
The blaze began about 4 a.m. on the third floor of the hotel, which had 46 registered guests. The cause was under investigation.
All the bodies were found on the third floor. Those of Jaden Damarion Cromer, 15 months, and his mother, Melba Lashawn Canty, 21, of Taylors, were found in the hallway, as were Allison Lorraine Barfield, 19, of North Augusta, and Jessica Lane Hamby, 19, of Conover, N.C. The bodies of Matthew Greene, 26, of Greenwood, and Donna Lea Swaim, 36, of Conover, N.C., were found in separate rooms, Evans said.
The smoke overcame the victims so quickly that at least two of them appeared to have fallen as they were walking or running down the hall, some of them disoriented and moving toward where the fire was most intense, Evans said.
Those injured suffered from smoke inhalation, burns and cuts received trying to get out the windows, Downey said.
Wilson said she called the front desk and was told to escape down the front stairwell.
"We couldn't see. There were people falling all over each other. We just kept going until we saw some light," she said.
Greenville County Sheriff's Sgt. Shea Smith said deputies arrived before firefighters and ran into the building to evacuate people, but they couldn't get past the second floor because of the smoke.
"The people that came out of their rooms, they didn't have much of a chance," Downey said. "They get the smoke filled in there, and they panic, and panic takes over for them."
Downey said some people on upper floors lowered themselves to the ground using bed sheets and others jumped from the windows.
Terry Letterman of Spruce Pine, N.C., climbed down from the third floor using a rope made of knotted sheets.
"I wasn't scared," he said. "I didn't have time to be scared."
"There was fire right outside the window, coming up the wall," Taran Hurley, who was staying on the fourth floor, told WYFF-TV. "Everybody had wet towels, and we just kind of ran for it down the stairs. We all fell, we tumbled over each other, but we got out that way."
All the victims appeared to have been sleeping when the fire started, Evans said.
Greenville, the home of Bob Jones University, is about 105 miles northwest of Columbia. A Democratic presidential candidate debate is scheduled in the city this week
As you recall I stated many were staying in due to cold weather.. some did not. Brrr..
Fans Give Panthers Super Send-off To Super Bowl
POSTED: 11:22 p.m. EST January 25, 2004
Charlotte -- Hundreds of fans stood in freezing rain Sunday afternoon along Tryon Street in uptown Charlotte to wish the Carolina Panthers well in the Super Bowl.
People cheered and waved at charter buses carrying the players to Charlotte Douglas Airport for the flight to Houston.
A Panthers flag flew from a Charlotte fire truck.
The Panthers will play in their first Super Bowl on Sunday, February 2nd.
Two men in the crowd admitted they were fans of the New England Patriots, the Panthers' opponents in the Super Bowl--but the men were not wearing any Patriots emblems