3PM UPDATE: I just got in from errands (and forgot to get the very thing I went out for!), and Apple Creek Road is in good shape, save for a few slippery spots...especially slick is below the mirror curve where the vacant cabin is. It was 31 at the entrance in dappled sun, and 20 at my house in the shade. Yet another chance for light snow comes late Saturday afternoon, but I'll put up a more complete post Saturday morning. bc
Just got off the phone with Al Rose who negotiated AC Road from the top down at 7am, heading to Asheville. He got home at 4p yesterday and noted if the road had been salted up high, he could barely tell. Slick and icy this morning down close to the blue roof house, and patcy from there on down. He came down in 4WD, and on Mauney Cove went to AWD and still slid a couple of times. 74 and main routes clear and salt trucks out.
I'm 17 right now, and the high is not expected to go up but a few degrees. I got around 1" more last night, but only the TN border is still getting snow. If you must travel, use extreme caution.
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Bob
Spoke on the phone with our salter...he laid down salt around 530a, and it does take a few hours to really get going. He said he'll make a drive-through later today when he gets back from Burnsville, to see how the road is. Working against us is the cold...approaching 10a and the temperature continues to fall, as I'm now at 14 degrees. bob
ReplyDeletefrom the blue roof:
ReplyDeletei drove down in my frontwheel drive freestyle at 0830 and it was slow, but not too bad. mauney cove was a bit slick down to the farm, but nothing unmanageable.
-frank