Snow Friday in Boone

[APPRIDE]

April 3, 1987. We measured 47 inches of undrifted snow behind Gardner. All you could see were the tops of the cars parked in Stadium Lot.

This!

My last spring in Boone...lived off Winklers Creek, it snowed hugely 2-3 weekends in a row...I think April 3 was 1st of the weekends

[Neer86]

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gorgeous. Thank you.

[Neer86]

Gotta believe everyone that spent at least 4 years at APP should have at least one story like these. If they don’t I feel sorry for them for not getting the full experience.

Drove around with a cafeteria tray from Welborn in the trunk of my car for like a decade after I graduated.

pretty sure everyone who spent one year there can tell a snow story.

Sometimes in the misery of August down here at the beach, I'll search youtube for snow in Boone. Found this one of some students enjoying a good snow. You'll remember many of these scenes. Appstrong, it includes a quick scene of a cafeteria tray being pilfered.

[Lowcountry App]

Not specifically snow related but I remember in the mid 80s having a wind chill of -65. One of the few times classes were cancelled while I was there.

[Neer86]

Not specifically snow related but I remember in the mid 80s having a wind chill of -65. One of the few times classes were cancelled while I was there.

I was in Justice during that one. They were talking about not being outside too long because the fluid in your eyeballs might freeze. If you did go out to the Bavarian or to classes when they did start again, you did the aforementioned building hopping.

I remember stepping out one morning, dressed well, but when I inhaled I could feel the inside of my lungs for the first time. That's how cold the air was. It's not a good feeling.

I know people tend to exaggerate about old experiences, but here's some info from a weather site about that freeze. I remember the -60 wind chills. According to this article, Chicago saw a -77 wind chill as it's passed through towards us.

"One of the most intense arctic outbreaks of the 20th century occurred January 18-22, 1985. Extremely cold temperatures affected every state east of the Rockies with three new state record lows established: -34° at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, -19° at Caesar’s Head, South Carolina; and -30° at Mountain Lake, Virginia. According to newspaper reports at least 165 fatalities were attributed to the weather. The inauguration parade for President Reagan’s second term was canceled with wind chills in Washington DC colder than -10° F. Florida’s Secretary of Agriculture termed this the “freeze of the century” with the state’s citrus industry suffering $2.5 billion in losses.

All-time Station Low Temperature Records set on January 21, 1985
Grandfather Mountain, NC -32°
Boone, NC -24°
Charlotte, NC -5°
Asheville, NC -17°

http://www.markvoganweather.com/2015/12 ... uary-1985/

[Longrifle28]

I can remember some frigid, cold ass snow, wind and unbelievable wind chills. I remember trying to get back to school in 79 with about 20 inches of snow and having to turn around and go back to Rutherfordton. Took skiing for PE that winter and can remember skiing on ice at Appalachian with the temps around -13 and the wind blowing 45 mph. Froze the snot to my mustache. You could shake up a beer and the foam would freeze immediately when you opened it. My creaky bones do not miss that.

[WataugaMan]

I remember being at a bong fire on top of Tater Hill when it was 15 below zero. We had plenty of "anti-freeze" though.

[TurfMonkey]

Funny as it sounds, more often than not, it was too Cold to snow when I was there.

[APPRIDE]

I remember being at a bong fire on top of Tater Hill when it was 15 below zero. We had plenty of "anti-freeze" though.

chuckle

[TurfMonkey]

Not specifically snow related but I remember in the mid 80s having a wind chill of -65. One of the few times classes were cancelled while I was there.

I was in Justice during that one. They were talking about not being outside too long because the fluid in your eyeballs might freeze. If you did go out to the Bavarian or to classes when they did start again, you did the aforementioned building hopping.

I remember stepping out one morning, dressed well, but when I inhaled I could feel the inside of my lungs for the first time. That's how cold the air was. It's not a good feeling.

I know people tend to exaggerate about old experiences, but here's some info from a weather site about that freeze. I remember the -60 wind chills. According to this article, Chicago saw a -77 wind chill as it's passed through towards us.

"One of the most intense arctic outbreaks of the 20th century occurred January 18-22, 1985. Extremely cold temperatures affected every state east of the Rockies with three new state record lows established: -34° at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, -19° at Caesar’s Head, South Carolina; and -30° at Mountain Lake, Virginia. According to newspaper reports at least 165 fatalities were attributed to the weather. The inauguration parade for President Reagan’s second term was canceled with wind chills in Washington DC colder than -10° F. Florida’s Secretary of Agriculture termed this the “freeze of the century” with the state’s citrus industry suffering $2.5 billion in losses.

All-time Station Low Temperature Records set on January 21, 1985
Grandfather Mountain, NC -32°
Boone, NC -24°
Charlotte, NC -5°
Asheville, NC -17°

http://www.markvoganweather.com/2015/12 ... uary-1985/

Thanks for giving confirmation to one of my greatest "Y'all don't know cold" Stories.
Monday morning, 7:30am. Walking from apt just behind home plate of the old baseball field
near Hardees. Destination Walker for 8am Finance class. Eyelids froze shut. Ducked into Varsity
Gym Bathroom to thaw. 4 people showed up for class. Somebody knocked on door to say classes
were canceled about 8:20. Prof said let's stay. I asked him to reward us with at least one
question from the Final Exam for the effort. He agreed, I passed, and Graduated that summer.

[WataugaMan]

I remember being at a bong fire on top of Tater Hill when it was 15 below zero. We had plenty of "anti-freeze" though.

chuckle

I know, LOL

[HighPointApp]

I was a freshman during the Storm of the Century. Fortunately, we were on spring break.

Same here. What dorm did you live in?

[Cro-Magnon App]

Remember walking to class in January of’77 down Hwy 221, spitting tobacco and watching it bounce off the sidewalk. -19

[AppinVA]

I was a freshman during the Storm of the Century. Fortunately, we were on spring break.

Same here. What dorm did you live in?

Frank.

[1ASU78]

Thanksgiving Storm of 1974: Over 40 inches standing snow, over 6 ft in drifts. This was the first time App was closed for weather. I was one of a handful who made it back. Thankfully they let me back in to my room at Justice.

I was thinking 76. I was on the way back, was in Winston Salem and fortunately listening to the radio rather than my 8track and DeepPurple or some Jimmy. They announced ASU was closed I turned around went back to Alamance County. Parents were like what are you doing here?

Could be the same snow year. But it snowed every week like every Wednesday for a month and then some. Maybe January? Anyway snow was pushed up into piles and was black along the streets from a little melting then freezing. Some of the piles were still there in April/May. Melted but still there

[fjblair]

Not specifically snow related but I remember in the mid 80s having a wind chill of -65. One of the few times classes were cancelled while I was there.

I was in Justice during that one. They were talking about not being outside too long because the fluid in your eyeballs might freeze. If you did go out to the Bavarian or to classes when they did start again, you did the aforementioned building hopping.

I remember stepping out one morning, dressed well, but when I inhaled I could feel the inside of my lungs for the first time. That's how cold the air was. It's not a good feeling.

I know people tend to exaggerate about old experiences, but here's some info from a weather site about that freeze. I remember the -60 wind chills. According to this article, Chicago saw a -77 wind chill as it's passed through towards us.

"One of the most intense arctic outbreaks of the 20th century occurred January 18-22, 1985. Extremely cold temperatures affected every state east of the Rockies with three new state record lows established: -34° at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, -19° at Caesar’s Head, South Carolina; and -30° at Mountain Lake, Virginia. According to newspaper reports at least 165 fatalities were attributed to the weather. The inauguration parade for President Reagan’s second term was canceled with wind chills in Washington DC colder than -10° F. Florida’s Secretary of Agriculture termed this the “freeze of the century” with the state’s citrus industry suffering $2.5 billion in losses.

All-time Station Low Temperature Records set on January 21, 1985
Grandfather Mountain, NC -32°
Boone, NC -24°
Charlotte, NC -5°
Asheville, NC -17°

http://www.markvoganweather.com/2015/12 ... uary-1985/

Thanks for posting that info. For some strange reason I can't drum up any memories from that event. I was living on Brown's Chapel Road at the time.

[HighPointApp]

I was a freshman during the Storm of the Century. Fortunately, we were on spring break.

Same here. What dorm did you live in?

Frank.

Coltrane

[WataugaMan]

We (family) used to live at the top of Queen Street, heading west out of town. The road was barely wide enough for two cars to get by. After the town plowed the street over and over after a few blizzards, the snow was pushed on the sides of the road ten foot high. It was a snow tunnel from one end of the road to the other, eerie.

Also, there were times when the whole back of the house was snowed under. You could open the back door and there was nothing but complete white (wet packed snow, thus it didn't pour into the house). Did my share of shoveling needless to say.

[AppinVA]

I was a freshman during the Storm of the Century. Fortunately, we were on spring break.

Same here. What dorm did you live in?

Frank.

Coltrane

You had a great view of that mountain of ice and asphalt on Duck Pond Field.

[asu1978]

In that blizzard of jan.77 I lived on Orchard St.behind the old Daniel Boone hotel.I came down Grand Blvd. toward King st.A snow drift 7 Ft. high went across.I couldn't stop and I smashed through it,went across King St. & landed in the parking lot across the way.Thank the good Lord nobody was driving past.Just another dent in my "70 Torino GT.