Much of the U.S. was even colder than Antarctica on Monday. With temperatures at two of its three stations between 30°F and 36°F, places like Nashville, Murfreesboro and Clarksville were way colder, temperatures were 13°F, 14°F, and 9°F, respectively.
When you factor in the wind chill, parts of Tennessee saw “feel-like” temperatures that were as low as -6°F in some areas Tuesday morning.
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It was -5 degrees when I checked the temps at weather.com a few minutes ago with about 8 inches of snow on the ground, and the road in front of my house is pretty much frozen with packed snow. We haven't seen hardly any wind, though.
I did make it into town yesterday to pick up Lisa's desperately needed meds, but it was at a top speed of 20 mph in my 2wd truck, slipping and sliding the whole way there and back. The saving grace was all the snow we got was powder which is a lot easier to drive in than that wet sloppy shit that turns into ice as soon as it hits the ground.
Town roads were actually worse with all the slush from traffic causing patches of ice at damned near every intersection, and I saw a couple of spinouts right there on Hwy 52, the main road through town.
As long as I was in town, I stopped off at Walmart to pick up a few things, but I parked way the fuck away from the store because they never salted or plowed the parking lot and it was like an adult versions of bumper cars there.
Once I got into the store, there were no carts because they were all outside with their wheels frozen. Not that big of a deal for me because I could easily carry everything, but I saw more than a couple families that were loaded down, kids included, with groceries in their arms.
Given the fact that trucks aren't able to deliver, the store wasn't as empty as I thought it would be. The main thing they were short on was dairy items.
And we're expecting more snow tomorrow evening.....
