Remembering the 1993 Blizzard in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

[@jonathanlawson4667]

Me and my brother was outside throwing snowballs when it first started snowing that night and all of a sudden it lightened and thundered and we took off in the house scared because we had never seen that during a snow storm lol it was amazing we had almost 4 feet and I was 14 years old

[@Angela-zf8sn]

Thanks for sharing the history of this historic snow storm 😊👍

[@theweakestlink2278]

Will never forget it. We had around 16 inches in Birmingham. We usually only get 1-3 inches, if it snows at all, in Alabama.

[@raekay8460]

I was on Top O World. Good times, and good neighbors. They don't make neighbors like they used too

[@marcellamcduffie8218]

I remember when me and my family went up into the smokey mountains we had a blast of a time we spent the night up there it was awesome !!!!!!.thanks for sharing this upload what a memorable moment in time great memories.😘😊

[@radio1342]

I was a student at UT and classes were cancelled. We grabbed lunch trays from the cafeteria and tried to use them as sleds. I also remember thunder and lightning while it was snowing. Then we walked to The Strip and and walked around. Fun times.

[@ArsPraestigium]

My wife (who was, at the time, seven months pregnant) and I attended the annual "Winter Carnival of Magic" in Gatlinburg on the weekend when the snow began to fall. When we got to town late in the evening, the flurries were just beginning, and we thought nothing of it. I grew up in the Rocky Mountains, and she in West Virginia, so snow wasn't a big deal (we have, however, both lived in South Carolina for nearly 50 years now). The hotel, convention center, and most other businesses lost power on the afternoon of the second day, but most were able to function with backup generators. The food supply to restaurants, however, quickly became an issue. At one point, you could get pancakes, or eat nothing. Our planned two-day event ended up being five full days, and part of a sixth, as the highways were closed. The event was fun, in retrospect, but I wouldn't want to do it again. Local news was, at the time, reporting care packages being dropped to homeowners in the mountains by helicopter, and it had to be scary for many. We ended up having to go west to Chattanooga, before circling back south through Atlanta to get back to South Caroline, because all of the eastern highways were still closed. The title "Winter Carnival" had, up to that point, been something of a joke, as the Gatlinburg usually had temperatures in the 70s by March, but it lived up to the name this memorable year.

[@mariascheer1154]

I remember... I was there! Beautiful and yet extremely dangerous if you have never lived in the cold.

[@BadgerCheese94]

I grew up in Miami. First place I ever saw snow was beautiful old Gatlinburg, TN on January 2, 2010. I now live in Minnesota. Go figure! We hit 100 degrees today. Always enjoy when winter comes back lol.

[@chasityjordan6310]

I was only 2 years old and living nearby with my mom in a nearby town called Newport. Only like 30 minutes away. Mom told me about it

[@missmable6015]

I was in Tucson Az. In 85 degrees sunny weather. I missed the blizzard. Thank goodness.

[@rainwellwisher7075]

Storm of the Century

[@Utoober729]

Upstate NY we get wet snow all the time due to Lake Effect. My car was buried up to the roof. It took me 2 days to shovel out my car and the driveway.

[@lauracrane1465]

We had 21 inches and NO power in Chattanooga for 4 days. We had thunder snow the night that it hit.

[@stacyfowler3673]

I was there and stranded for a week

[@KaySkywalker]

Im originally from Windsor Ontario and we decided to go to Florida during that week. My dad made the decision to come home early. We.left Florida at 6 in the morning and drove until 11 at night. The next morning we left at 5 in the morning. I remember looking at the hotel pool and the heat coming off the pool came off in streams. When we got into Ohio the sky over Kentucky was starting to turn black. We barely made it through before the storm hit.

[@ILoveOldTWC]

Was there any lightning and thunder with the snow in Gatlinburg, like in Birmingham, Atlanta and Chattanooga?

[@lauracrane1465]

Yes,Chattanooga had what they called Thunder snow. It happened when the snow started coming down. We ended up with 21 inches in Chattanooga,Tennessee and no power for 4 days.

[@handsome-brute2666]

Yes!..Birmingham had a official 13 inches with ⛈ thundersnow ⚡🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨

[@robertaltum2884]

Snow drift up to four feet. Snow fall of around three feet. Was in it in 1993 I was caught in several white outs that year. A white out is one of the weirdest things that I have ever seen. Well I couldn’t even see my hand 1 inch in front of face. It was wild. Greatest snow I have ever been in. Isn’t Mother Nature awesome....