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Clarksville is the home of Austin Peay State University famous (?) for Olympian Wilma Rudolph. It is about an hour north of Nashville, right on the border with Kentucky. I lived there for two years while stationed at Fort Campbell, which is technically in Kentucky because that's where the front gate is, but most of the post is in Tennessee.

A few weeks back, we were talking about the tornado that ripped through there in 1999, when I lived there.

Last night I got out my old photo album and found the photos I was looking for (these are pictures of pictures--and gloss pictures at that--so not the greatest quality.

This is the UMC church after the tornado and after a light snow. When it snowed, I remember the southerners referring to the "Yankee White Stuff" that was falling. It didn't snow often, but a couple of times each winter I was there.

I also said I had before and after photos of this church, but I had forgotten how I took those photos. The reason I had the first one was I thought I had a cool reflection to capture. The second, I went back to capture the damage. They aren't perfect before and afters (ah, the days of shooting film and wondering what you actually captured...), but you can see the arches above the church windows, and in the second, the peaked roof is completely torn off.


I liked living in Clarksville, and I was dabbling in photograpy at the time. I've always loved bridges, so I took a lot of pictures of the old train bridge over the Cumberland river:

Heh: “northern states”

It’s funny to me that when I think of “northern” southern states like TN I picture it snowing all the time.

And in fact, considering that it snowed there several times a year when you were there I think  right.

It almost used to never snow here in SE Texas, but we’ve had 3-4 snow events over the last 25 years that makes it less unusual.

SW TN has the same exact weather as Dallas if that helps frame the climate for you.  

We did a lot of work at Fort Cambell back in the day.

Clarksville was also a stop for us when we used to drive to Illinois and back. 

They have a Hampton and a Texas Roadhouse.

It’s funny to me that when I think of “northern” southern states like TN I picture it snowing all the time.

And in fact, considering that it snowed there several times a year when you were there I think  right.

It almost used to never snow here in SE Texas, but we’ve had 3-4 snow events over the last 25 years that makes it less unusual.

growing up in tuscaloosa in 80s/90s i remember having a good snow every couple years. (good snow being a few inches that stay for more than 1 afternoon). 1993 in particular was great, about 12" of snow for a full week. i was about 10 yo and we lived on a big hill with a cushy patch of kudzu at the bottom that made 'sledding' down it amazingly fun (on whatever pans and lids we could find cause we didn't have proper sleds for things like that). 

in the 25-ish years since i graduated hs, we've had maybe 2. maybe my childhood decades were the anomalies, but i don't think so. the weather patterns have definitely changed here. my daughter, which is graduating hs this year ( too soon), only had 1 decent snow that lasted a couple days. and she was 2yo at time. my boys have only ever gotten a decent afternoon snow before it's done next morning. 

feel like every kid should get at least 1 good snow to enjoy while a kid. 

feels strange that se texas has had the opposite change. 

I've had my share of "good" snows.

I've snow skied in Austin Texas in a parking lot being pulled by a pickup truck.