You know all that stuff that was supposed to happen.... (Page 1/2)
williegoat JAN 23, 11:53 AM
....when hell freezes over?

The TV weather girl just said there is a chance of snow in the Phoenix area in the next few days. I have been here over 50 years and I have seen snow in the valley maybe three or four times times.

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Monkeyman JAN 23, 07:59 PM
I live in the lowlands of NC. Two years ago, we had a 24" snowfall. Last time that happened around here was in the '90s (well before I moved down here). Things happen.
maryjane JAN 23, 08:25 PM

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Originally posted by Monkeyman:

I live in the lowlands of NC. Two years ago, we had a 24" snowfall. Last time that happened around here was in the '90s (well before I moved down here). Things happen.




I was stationed at MCAS Cherry Pt N.C. in the early 70s. Snow was not unusual.
Stationed just East of Memphis at NAS Millington Tenn 2 different times '69 and again 72-'73. Snow was not unusual.
Saw it snow in southern Australia in August too.
No, .........it did not snow in GTMO Cuba the 2 yrs I was there nor in Vietnam.
I don't remember it snowing while I was in Pcola, but it got cold enough one day to freeze the radiator of my car while it sat on the pier.

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cliffw JAN 23, 11:21 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:
You know all that stuff that was supposed to happen ....when hell freezes over?



Actually I don't.
williegoat JAN 24, 01:28 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

I don't remember it snowing while I was in Pcola, but it got cold enough one day to freeze the radiator of my car while it sat on the pier.


I actually did see snow there around 1960, just a few flakes that melted as soon as they landed.
MidEngineManiac JAN 24, 01:38 AM
Wimp.
cvxjet JAN 24, 11:54 AM

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Originally posted by maryjane:
Stationed just East of Memphis at NAS Millington Tenn 2 different times '69 and again 72-'73. Snow was not unusual.




I went to my A school in Millington back in 1979....2 weeks of mellow nice weather ("They say it's humid back here...seems really nice") And then it snowed....ONE TIME....11"...and that snow stayed on the ground for TWO months! Marching to the mess in the morning, the PO would be calling out "Left....right....left!" but we (In unison) would be leftrightleft...We did not quite RUN down the road- but it was close.

After two months of that, it started to rain....Everything flooded.....drove to Memphis...only things above water between Millington and Memphis was the road and the tops of trees.

After two months of that it warmed up and started T-storming.....and then everyone sat around the TV- not watching the shows, but just reading the ticker along the bottom for when to be ready to die from a Tornado....

It was kind of cool seeing fireflies though.....
maryjane JAN 24, 07:46 PM

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Originally posted by cvxjet:


I went to my A school in Millington back in 1979....2 weeks of mellow nice weather ("They say it's humid back here...seems really nice") And then it snowed....ONE TIME....11"...and that snow stayed on the ground for TWO months! Marching to the mess in the morning, the PO would be calling out "Left....right....left!" but we (In unison) would be leftrightleft...We did not quite RUN down the road- but it was close.

After two months of that, it started to rain....Everything flooded.....drove to Memphis...only things above water between Millington and Memphis was the road and the tops of trees.

After two months of that it warmed up and started T-storming.....and then everyone sat around the TV- not watching the shows, but just reading the ticker along the bottom for when to be ready to die from a Tornado....

It was kind of cool seeing fireflies though.....



You were going to A school about the same time I was leaving my last ship DD964 for the last time.
I don't remember it flooding any while I was in Millington, but do remember the frequent T-Storms and associated warnings. I remember that smelly Humco rendering plant going into Memphis along the Wolf River too. You wanted your windows up when you drove by it. Much of Memphis downtown was strictly off limits to ALL military when I was there and Beale St was definitely not the tourist attraction it is now.
A black USN associate of mine often talked me into going into a late night/after hours BYOB beer joint place right out side Millington (on 51 going North) that was called The Bucket of Blood. It was aptly named but I never saw another white person in there.
I probably wouldn't reognize the town or the base now, and I'm sure the old Dolphin lounge on Navy Rd I used to work at as a bouncer is long gone. The only place to eat latwe at night in Millington was the Anchor Inn intersection Navy rd and 51 or Delmonicos, which was inside a big night club on Navy Rd. There was a topless strip joint in the same building.
A lifetime ago.
sourmash JAN 24, 08:00 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

I probably wouldn't reognize the town or the base now, and I'm sure the old Dolphin lounge on Navy Rd I used to work at as a bouncer is long gone.



Oh, yeah! I used to see that place. It was closed then but they opened it back up as a straight club.

maryjane JAN 24, 10:02 PM
Last time I was there, (about 1986) there was a dry cleaners where the bar used to be. It was never really much of a military hangout, the sailors mostly went on into Memphis or stayed on base and drank at one of the clubs. All those Millington bars pretty much dried up when the base mostly closed in one of the pentagon's BRACs. Naval air training moved down to Meridian Miss and Pcola Fla.

Got pretty boisterous in Bill's Dolphin Club on Fri/Sat nights as all the local rednecks came in from the backwoods and hills around Millington. The drunk women gave me way more trouble than the men ever did tho. That's the same bar where one night, a local policeman came in and asked who owned the 61 vette outside and I told him I did.
He had driven past and saw a woman (an ex gf of mine) down by the right rear and trying to cut a brake line.
She tried to cause a big scene and when she slamed her purse down hard on the cop's hood he just said "That's IT, you're going to jail no matter if he presses charges or not". She was one of those redneck girls and was jealous as hades.
And off she went handcuffed in the back seat. I couldn't afford to get mixed up with it much as I was supposed to have command approval to work off base in a part time civilian job and had neglected to do so yet and, my future ex-wife was inside on our 2nd date, and I had a friend of mine make dang sure she stayed inside on the dance floor and out of the fracas outside.

That future ex gf lived at home out in the sticks, and I had a 12 ga pump I had bought off another serviceman and I kept it in the base armory, but I took it out to her father's place one Sunday afternoon just to try it out. I didn't want to take it back to the armory because it was a pita checking it in and out. We broke up not long after that and I decided it prudent not to bother trying to go retrieve the shotgun.