COLD AND SNOW....AND FEMA

 

11/19/24 dawn burst of color, from the end of Staymon

I simply wanted to begin with FEMA...please read the prior posts about my visit and the process.  We've had at least a couple of FEMA inspectors out to see the slump and impending travel disruption above the double hairpin curves.  A fair number of residents/lot owners have already been to see them (again, read posts...EZ-peasy to get to them and talk).  The more of us living above the curve go see FEMA, the better.

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Looks like we're in line for our first snow of the season.  Already a WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY is posted for Haywood County for elevations above 3500'.  The call in general is for 2-4" of snow from the last half of Thursday through Saturday morning, but I am not seeing that, not here for ACA this far from the TN border.  

I do see 0.5"-1.0" of snow for the upper half of ACA (above the blue roof house across from Dawen Circle), and much lighter below that, all by Friday morning.  I simply don't see the higher amounts this far from the TN border.  This is a NW flow event, and we rarely get multiple inches of snow unless the flow is perfectly aligned along I-40 from the NW.

It will be quite cold.  It will be very windy.  Power outages are quite likely given the strong wind fields moving in, knocking down weakened trees.  I just don't see the water content needed for multiple inches here in ACA, that's all.

Early tomorrow morning, Thursday, if I see some significant changes, I'll post them before heading down the mountain at 7:30am.

Bob