The Blizzard of 93 it wasn't but a decent snow anyway....Reports are low of
4 inches near Zionville (6 Miles west of Boone NC) to 29 Inches on Mount
Mitchell. Average was 10-14 inches. I had 13 inches at my location 3593
feet....Just down the hill on the main road (Highway 194) there was less
than 10....We would have had more but temperature warmed yesterday afternoon
and snow changed a mix of rain, sleet and snow...Power was out from 7 am
until just about noon.....Glad the generator was working.....Still many
people are without power due to trees bringing down power lines....Many
accidents especially yesterday just after the snow started...many people
were caught at the stores when the snow started to come down hard and put
2-3 inches on the roads in a hurry...I have seen at least on building that
collapsed under the weight of the snow....A steel barn located just south of
West Jefferson on Highway 221.
Below is a press release from Blue Ridge Electric about power outages....
Snow Pictures are on my site at
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~jlparks/picturepage.htm
News Room
03/21/01 Storm Update
Blue Ridge Electric Restoring
Power Wednesday
(Noon Update)
For Immediate Release
Contact: Renee Whitener,
Director of Corporate Communications, Blue Ridge Electric
Membership Corporation, (828) 758-2383; E-mail: Renee
Whitener
Lenoir, North Carolina (March 21, 2001) – Linemen crews
from Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation are
currently
working to restore power to nearly 8,000 members in Ashe
and
Watauga counties who are without power today due to heavy
snow causing downed power lines.
The situation has worsened from early morning, when figures
were closer to 1,000 members without power. With snow
beginning to melt and fall off power lines, the lines are
“bouncing” up and hitting each other or knocking into
branches, which are causing additional outages.
Scattered throughout both counties, the outages total over
4,300 in Ashe County while Watauga County has a little more
than 3,500 members without power as of noon today.
Crews from neighboring cooperative Rutherford EMC and
additional contract crews are assisting in the effort to
restore
power as quickly as possible.
Blue Ridge Electric reminds the public to stay clear of
downed
power lines, which may still be energized and dangerous or
even deadly. Anyone who sees a downed power line should
immediately report it to the cooperative and try to keep
others
away from the downed line.
To report an outage or a downed line, members may call the
cooperative’s automated phone attendant called
“Power Line”, at 1-800-448-2383. Or, they may call their
local Blue Ridge Electric office in: Watauga County:
246-8894; Caldwell County: 754-9071; Ashe County:
246-7138; and Alleghany County: 372-4646, and in Wilkes:
838-4655.
Blue Ridge Electric serves over 63,000 members in northwest
North Carolina.
Jess L. Parks
148 Peters-Caldwell Lane
Todd, NC 28684
Ashe County
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