A “Rare” Winter Occurrence

The weather seems to have more and more “rare” occurrences now days. There’s worse hurricanes, droughts, temperatures, etc.  The whole country seems to be having extremes these past weeks. Well, we got to experience rare snow and record low temps in North Carolina this week. We got rain, about 3 inches of snow after that and our lowest temperature was last night at 9 degrees, with a high of 26 today. We’ve made record lows the last four nights. The average temperatures for here are the upper 40’s, low 50’s. So comes the fun of trying to keep everything warm and not freezing; and when it warms up, so there isn’t a lot of moisture from frost and thawing.

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A lot of the lake is frozen over, which is also rare.



The visitor center stayed open, some of the administrative staff live on site. But most schools and a lot of businesses in the surrounding areas were closed. There isn’t a lot of snow cleaning equipment around and people aren’t used to driving on icy roads.