tidbits, fragments, and ephemera 40: the bad weather edition

Originally published on level:deepsouth— for Generation X, tidbits, fragments, and ephemera is a sometimes substantial but not making any promises glimpse at information and news related to growing up Generation X in the Deep South.North Alabama Ice Storm, February 1985

This twenty-minute video, which contains slideshow of photos and a voiceover, shows Huntsville right after an ice storm. Though the northern portions of the state see more than the southern portions, Alabamians rarely see these kinds of conditions. (I’m sure all the schoolchildren were happy— no school!)

“‘The coldest day ever’ in South Carolina” on WMBF news

This local TV news story from 2020 about severe cold weather in late January 1985. It was so cold across the whole eastern half of the country that Presidents Reagan’s second inauguration had to be cancelled and rescheduled.

The Wrath of Hugo: South Carolina, September 21, 1989

This book, whose publication dates is listed within the same year as the events it documents, shows the devastation left after Hurricane Hugo. The hurricane made landfall in the middle of the night, near Charleston. Though not all of them were in South Carolina, the storm cause an estimated four-dozen deaths.

“Archival images from Georgia’s 1993 blizzard”

This thirty-second news clip offers a look back at one of the South’s heaviest snowfalls in modern memory. For a lot of GenXers in the South, this was the only time in their young lives that they got have an actual snowball fight!

The Tuscaloosa tornado outbreak, January 24, 1997

This National Weather Service webpage is more informational than anything else, but it gives a solid description of how tornados destroyed portions of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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