TR + Video: North Carolina Snowpocalypse!!! equals a few turns... sorta - 2.13.2014

**TeleThor** · 02-14-2014, 11:17 AM

On Tuesday morning, while I was eating breakfast at Pinehurst Resort in Central/SE North Carolina during a work conference, I got the news of the impending doom that was to envelop the entire southeast U.S. People started freaking out about how in the world we would be able to drive back to Winston-Salem (1.5 hours away) in this crazy weather. Then it actually started snowing and within a couple hours winter was actually here. And it seemed legit.

Driving home ended up being just fine. The storm didn't hit our part of the state until Wednesday early in the afternoon. The forecast kept going back and forth from a few inches to 6-10 to 10-14. I was hoping for the latter. The snow came in around 1pm, so I jetted out of work at 2 or so, and despite the mediocre half cm of snow on the roads at that time, my 3 mile commute took 3 times as long. The citizens of NC are not exactly known for their prowess at driving in winter conditions.

In a short time we had a few inches and woke our 11 month old up so she could share in our joy.

It was solidly dumping all evening, so naturally I readied my gear (underused the last few years since we left SLC) for the morning. Some time during the night, we had some sleet, so we woke up to a beautiful, but crusted over scene outside the house. About 7 inches or so in total had fallen.

Our neighbors thought we were nuts skiing around the neighborhood at 8:30 in the morning, dragging our baby around in a sled (or laundry basket w/ dog leases, to be completely accurate).

While the laundry basket sled worked quite well, my wife decided that skis would be more appropriate and made the smart switch.

The main roads are just fine at this point, but it's a ghost town at work today. It's going to warm up over the next few days, so this winter will be short lived, but at least we were able to enjoy it for a little while. I look at it as preparation for our upcoming trip to go skiing in VT w/ family in a few weeks.

Video. It is probably the gnarliest video of 2014 so far.

I miss the mountains. Sigh.