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Tennessee Snow: 11 Inches in Some Areas
Aired February 16, 2004 - 06:14 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A blanket of white is covering Music City this morning. But alas stunned people of Nashville, temperatures in the 40s today should melt it all away.
Holly Harris of CNN affiliate WSMV joins us live from Nashville.
And wow, looks like a lot of snow fell there.
HOLLY HARRIS, WSMV-TV REPORTER: I know, we thought we'd do this for dramatic effect. Carol, it's something you don't see very often in southern middle Tennessee. We were heading south on I-65 about 30 miles south of Nashville. You would have thought we were going north. The snow got worse and worse. The situation, again, very dramatic. A real distinct line, I should mention, too, because most of Metro Nashville doing just fine.
The real trouble though, can you hear that, it's crunchy, very dangerous on the roadways. In fact, still remnants of that as we drove overnight. We saw several cars on the side of the roadways. The on and off ramps still a lot of black ice being reported.
We'll go ahead and show you what that looks like this morning. The only good consolation, President's Day, kids are out of school, a lot of businesses will remain dark, but it was very treacherous on our way here. We had to drive a bit slow. Almost didn't make it in time. But again, fortunately we did.
Just important that people respect that, stay off the roads if they can. A good day to hibernate, maybe rent a movie, because we have not seen much like this in southern middle Tennessee in ages. They say about 7 inches fell here in Columbia, in Summertown nearby, 11 inches.
Also one more point, good news, only overnight some fender- benders. However, sadly, in Williamstown (ph) County, which again is south of Nashville, there was a fatal accident attributed to this weather yesterday.
Live in Columbia, Holly Harris.
Back to you -- Carol.
COSTELLO: So, Holly, tell us again how unusual this is.
HARRIS: It is very rare. And what's so odd about it is it was hit and miss. Several homes or several neighborhoods in Nashville in the metro area wondered what all the hubbub was about. And then if you travel south, boy, you can't miss it. So this is uncanny. This is something we don't see very often at all.
COSTELLO: And hopefully you won't see it any more after today.
HARRIS: That's right. That's right.
COSTELLO: Thank you very much.
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Aired February 16, 2004 - 06:14 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A blanket of white is covering Music City this morning. But alas stunned people of Nashville, temperatures in the 40s today should melt it all away.
Holly Harris of CNN affiliate WSMV joins us live from Nashville.
And wow, looks like a lot of snow fell there.
HOLLY HARRIS, WSMV-TV REPORTER: I know, we thought we'd do this for dramatic effect. Carol, it's something you don't see very often in southern middle Tennessee. We were heading south on I-65 about 30 miles south of Nashville. You would have thought we were going north. The snow got worse and worse. The situation, again, very dramatic. A real distinct line, I should mention, too, because most of Metro Nashville doing just fine.
The real trouble though, can you hear that, it's crunchy, very dangerous on the roadways. In fact, still remnants of that as we drove overnight. We saw several cars on the side of the roadways. The on and off ramps still a lot of black ice being reported.
We'll go ahead and show you what that looks like this morning. The only good consolation, President's Day, kids are out of school, a lot of businesses will remain dark, but it was very treacherous on our way here. We had to drive a bit slow. Almost didn't make it in time. But again, fortunately we did.
Just important that people respect that, stay off the roads if they can. A good day to hibernate, maybe rent a movie, because we have not seen much like this in southern middle Tennessee in ages. They say about 7 inches fell here in Columbia, in Summertown nearby, 11 inches.
Also one more point, good news, only overnight some fender- benders. However, sadly, in Williamstown (ph) County, which again is south of Nashville, there was a fatal accident attributed to this weather yesterday.
Live in Columbia, Holly Harris.
Back to you -- Carol.
COSTELLO: So, Holly, tell us again how unusual this is.
HARRIS: It is very rare. And what's so odd about it is it was hit and miss. Several homes or several neighborhoods in Nashville in the metro area wondered what all the hubbub was about. And then if you travel south, boy, you can't miss it. So this is uncanny. This is something we don't see very often at all.
COSTELLO: And hopefully you won't see it any more after today.
HARRIS: That's right. That's right.
COSTELLO: Thank you very much.
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