The Great Atlanta Thundersnow Squall of '09
Decatur Metro | March 1, 2009 | 12:36 pmUPDATE I: Thundersnow is all the rage on Twitter! Regator is even selling a t-shirt that reads “When it snows in Atlanta…it Thundersnows!”
The Atlanta snow squall of 2009 seems to have started a bit earlier than originally predicted.
Big, fat snow started dumping at about 11am this morning, putting local news stations on red alert, while Subaru owners quickly hit the roads without a destination in mind, hoping to finally justify their purchase of an AWD vehicle in a southern climate. Elsewhere sled-less children cut up cardboard boxes to slide down their driveways, while northern transplants immediately started bragging to anyone within earshot about their impressive snow driving skills . (All my stories involve the uncontrollable fish-tailing I used to do in my rear-wheel drive truck in high school)
Enjoy the snow everyone!
Wow…”thundersnow”…that’s different.
Ha! I was going to just curl up with a mug of something hot, but this makes me want to take our Subaru Outback out for spin.
haha, I thought I was crazy, I have never heard thunder along with snowfall. I think Mother nature is laughing at Atlanta yet again …
The kids and better half went out this afternoon in search of the best Decatur sledding hill. Anyone want to make suggestions? Unless you’re afraid of encroachment from the riff-raff!
Paula, so where’d you go?
Please say you went off-roading!
Winnona Mom, perhaps the city should close McDonough for sledders.
To everyone else….this thing is going to be a mess tomorrow morning when the temp dips to 24 degrees at 5am.
The couch and hot tea won. Maybe next big storm I’ll put the Outback through its paces.
Poor zombies….. they must be cold in those drafty crypts tonight. I know they hate to get their feet wet in the snow. I
I don’t think the snow penis on 2nd Avenue in Oakhurst shows good judgement on the part of the homeowner.
Those who were here in ’93 for the “The Storm of the Century” will remember thundersnow. That was a much more impressive version. I remember that first morning as it was dumping close to a foot on us, the sky was lit up nonstop with lightning and huge claps of thunder. It was my senior year of HS and we were out for a week.