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Winter Storm: Southern Cities Prepare
Aired December 04, 2002 - 06:13 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Oh people in northern Georgia are running out to buy toilet paper and bread preparing for the big storm.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, and Sears catalogs in case you run out of toilet paper.
Anyway, actually, probably running out of generators in Charlotte about now. Any 24-hour Lowe's or Home Depot up there really just getting hammered. It is the -- literally, the power could be out in parts of Charlotte and also the Piedmont in North Carolina, all of the Piedmont and North Carolina for a week or more. That's how long it's going to take. They really need to start rolling power crews from Mississippi now to get them to North Carolina because that's how many power crews they're going to need to get all those lines back up. It's already starting in Nashville.
COSTELLO: Oh, you're kidding?
MYERS: Some folks already getting it.
And one of our affiliates here already setting some stuff up for us. The salt and the sand is getting rolled out in parts of Nashville.
We're going to go live this morning to Nashville and our reporter, Lilla Margza, from our affiliate WKRN from, what's that, the salt barn, Lilla? Good morning.
LILLA MARGZA, WKRN-TV REPORTER: We're at the -- we're at the salt barn this morning, Chad. I don't know what you predicted for us here in Tennessee, but our weatherman here was sure it was going to snow so I dressed for that. And I would have been better served bringing an umbrella along because all we've seen throughout the morning is just some rain.
But we are at the salt barn, like you said. I'm going to give you a look. If we did get snow, we would be prepared here in Nashville. This is one of three salt barns that the Metro Nashville Public Works Department has stocked and ready. In all we'd like to have 7,000 tons of salt ready to go. Nashville has a fleet of 24 trucks to spread all of this salt, but all the salt truck drivers...
MYERS: Lilla, 24 trucks?
MARGZA: I'm sorry?
MYERS: Twenty-four trucks for the entire city, that's it? MARGZA: Yes, you know we don't see much snow or wintry mix here in Nashville, but even just a little bit when we get it is enough to where people forget how to drive and they're slipping and sliding everywhere.
MYERS: Wow!
MARGZA: But I think that those salt truck drivers are all -- they've had a good night's sleep. They did not get called in because this is all that we have seen is this rain this morning. We are starting to get reports now that north of Nashville, up in the Clarksville area, that's right outside of Nashville,...
MYERS: Sure, right.
MARGZA: ... about 50 miles north, they are starting to see some snow and that is starting to stick, the precip that they have on the roadways there, so the Tennessee Department of Transportation, which salts the interstates, will no doubt be rolling, trying to clear those interstates this morning. But this may be the only white stuff we see here in Nashville today,...
MYERS: Well, I'm a...
MARGZA: ... so I'm going to toss it back. I could do a salt angel for you, but that's the best I can do this morning.
MYERS: Well, Lilla, I'm afraid that it's raining now but it's 31 degrees and that's never really a good thing. You mean the salt guys, the salt crews aren't even in their trucks yet?
MARGZA: It's very quiet out here. Now they may be getting woken up as we speak,...
MYERS: Yes.
MARGZA: ... getting ready to come in; but so far, no activity so we know the salt trucks aren't rolling because we'd see them.
MYERS: Wow! Well, I hope you have a good morning and stay safe because it's about to get a little icy there. Not expecting really a lot of snow in Nashville.
Thank you so much for your help today.
Not expecting a lot of snow in Nashville today. Really expecting the ice to be there as well because the rain is coming up into an area that is so cold, 31, you don't like rain in 31,...
COSTELLO: Yes.
MYERS: ... but it's warm enough up above, literally 1,000 feet above where she was standing it's 35 degrees. So it's raining through that 35 into this 31-degree air that's trapped at the surface and that's why it's freezing so.
COSTELLO: So Lilla's in for it no matter what she thinks?
MYERS: Well, I would say that the roads right now are in good shape, but the overpasses probably are not.
COSTELLO: Got you.
MYERS: You know that typical thing when you drive up, everything is good until you see that white little haze on the overpass and you know that's not a good thing.
COSTELLO: No, it's not.
MYERS: It's not a purple haze this morning, it's a white one, and if you see it, make sure you slow down.
COSTELLO: Stay away. Stay away.
MYERS: Exactly.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Chad.
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Aired December 4, 2002 - 06:13 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Oh people in northern Georgia are running out to buy toilet paper and bread preparing for the big storm.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, and Sears catalogs in case you run out of toilet paper.
Anyway, actually, probably running out of generators in Charlotte about now. Any 24-hour Lowe's or Home Depot up there really just getting hammered. It is the -- literally, the power could be out in parts of Charlotte and also the Piedmont in North Carolina, all of the Piedmont and North Carolina for a week or more. That's how long it's going to take. They really need to start rolling power crews from Mississippi now to get them to North Carolina because that's how many power crews they're going to need to get all those lines back up. It's already starting in Nashville.
COSTELLO: Oh, you're kidding?
MYERS: Some folks already getting it.
And one of our affiliates here already setting some stuff up for us. The salt and the sand is getting rolled out in parts of Nashville.
We're going to go live this morning to Nashville and our reporter, Lilla Margza, from our affiliate WKRN from, what's that, the salt barn, Lilla? Good morning.
LILLA MARGZA, WKRN-TV REPORTER: We're at the -- we're at the salt barn this morning, Chad. I don't know what you predicted for us here in Tennessee, but our weatherman here was sure it was going to snow so I dressed for that. And I would have been better served bringing an umbrella along because all we've seen throughout the morning is just some rain.
But we are at the salt barn, like you said. I'm going to give you a look. If we did get snow, we would be prepared here in Nashville. This is one of three salt barns that the Metro Nashville Public Works Department has stocked and ready. In all we'd like to have 7,000 tons of salt ready to go. Nashville has a fleet of 24 trucks to spread all of this salt, but all the salt truck drivers...
MYERS: Lilla, 24 trucks?
MARGZA: I'm sorry?
MYERS: Twenty-four trucks for the entire city, that's it? MARGZA: Yes, you know we don't see much snow or wintry mix here in Nashville, but even just a little bit when we get it is enough to where people forget how to drive and they're slipping and sliding everywhere.
MYERS: Wow!
MARGZA: But I think that those salt truck drivers are all -- they've had a good night's sleep. They did not get called in because this is all that we have seen is this rain this morning. We are starting to get reports now that north of Nashville, up in the Clarksville area, that's right outside of Nashville,...
MYERS: Sure, right.
MARGZA: ... about 50 miles north, they are starting to see some snow and that is starting to stick, the precip that they have on the roadways there, so the Tennessee Department of Transportation, which salts the interstates, will no doubt be rolling, trying to clear those interstates this morning. But this may be the only white stuff we see here in Nashville today,...
MYERS: Well, I'm a...
MARGZA: ... so I'm going to toss it back. I could do a salt angel for you, but that's the best I can do this morning.
MYERS: Well, Lilla, I'm afraid that it's raining now but it's 31 degrees and that's never really a good thing. You mean the salt guys, the salt crews aren't even in their trucks yet?
MARGZA: It's very quiet out here. Now they may be getting woken up as we speak,...
MYERS: Yes.
MARGZA: ... getting ready to come in; but so far, no activity so we know the salt trucks aren't rolling because we'd see them.
MYERS: Wow! Well, I hope you have a good morning and stay safe because it's about to get a little icy there. Not expecting really a lot of snow in Nashville.
Thank you so much for your help today.
Not expecting a lot of snow in Nashville today. Really expecting the ice to be there as well because the rain is coming up into an area that is so cold, 31, you don't like rain in 31,...
COSTELLO: Yes.
MYERS: ... but it's warm enough up above, literally 1,000 feet above where she was standing it's 35 degrees. So it's raining through that 35 into this 31-degree air that's trapped at the surface and that's why it's freezing so.
COSTELLO: So Lilla's in for it no matter what she thinks?
MYERS: Well, I would say that the roads right now are in good shape, but the overpasses probably are not.
COSTELLO: Got you.
MYERS: You know that typical thing when you drive up, everything is good until you see that white little haze on the overpass and you know that's not a good thing.
COSTELLO: No, it's not.
MYERS: It's not a purple haze this morning, it's a white one, and if you see it, make sure you slow down.
COSTELLO: Stay away. Stay away.
MYERS: Exactly.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Chad.
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