Big_T112
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posted December 27, 2010 08:03 PM
A treat for a South Alabama guy at Christmas
OK, I have never saw it snow on Christmas. It's not something we get down here very often and if it does snow it's mostly in late Feb. or early Mar. for some reason. Well Christmas day we got up and headed to the inlaws in Cumberland Gap TN. and then to Gatlinburg where they were having the biggest snow storm since 1992 they said. At the inlaws it was bad also, It was snowing harder than I had ever seen it. At one point it was dark, I was just trying to stay in the tracks of the cars that had gone in front of me. As I was following the tracks I noticed that our SUV was starting to spin more, I had it in 4-wheel drive and I was really having to gas it to keep going. Then I saw why. We had follwed the tracks of a two wheel drive ford pickup right off the road and in the median to where it was stuck. The two young boys thought we were his friends coming to pull him out. Of course I had to stop. We were in about 6" to 8" inches of snow and it was really coming down pretty bad and we were way down off of the road. They said that some friends were on there way with a 4-wheel drive pickup and they could get us back up to the road also. I told them that mine was a 4-wheel drive and if they were good and didn't need us I was going to get it back up to the road before the snow was too deep to do anything. So I backed up and gassed it up the median and back on the road. Man it was throwing some snow and mud in the air, I was having the time of my life and my wife and kids were liking it to. The Main highways were not to bad but it was the back roads to her Mom's that were bad and where we almost got stuck. For a long time the roads were completely covered with snow. I had so much fun in the snow I hated to come back home tonight. Snow sure is pretty but I don't see how yall take the cold.
  
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posted December 28, 2010 06:25 AM
When I was a kid growing up in Ohio, it seemed like I could withstand the bitter cold for hours on end........even hunting as a teenager, 25ft up in a treestand with an easy 10 degree windchill - I could tolerate it for 5 or 6 hours at a time........in my mid-teens, I went to Florida for a few years to stay with my father just south of Daytona ( Edgewater / New Smyrna area ) and it took me a while to adjust to the heat down there, but eventually it was tolerable fairly easily once again.........but, when i came back to Ohio it seemed like I had trouble adjusting to the cold every year -- and the older I got, the harder it was to cope.........I'm still at the point of taking a month or 2 before I can get acclimated with each winter / summer.........maybe it has something to do with age? Or possibly I'm just cold-blooded since I'd rather be sweating to death vs. freezing my ass off 
Winter time can be fun in the snow though with a 4x4!! I enjoy that much of it, but no more building snow forts and having hours of snowball fights with my buddies anymore.........if we do, it's usually 5 or 6 minutes of fun and then back inside for some hot coffee!!!!
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Big_T112
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posted December 28, 2010 06:38 AM
When it does snow down here it'a a really wet type of snow. Up there it was like powder. The snow covered mountains are very pretty to look at. Me and the Family walked around the streets of Gatlinburg in the snow. It was a treat for us. I could see where it would get old if you had to deal with it everyday.
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posted December 28, 2010 02:16 PM
 Edited By: Big_T112 on 28 Dec 2010 22:16
4-wheel drive pulled us through in the snow and mud. A pic of the SUV after the trip to the inlaws outside there house the next morning. It was fun but a little scary trying not to get stuck and stay in the road. It took me several dollars at the pressure washer to get it back clean today.
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