Snow, and other news
Well, as y’all know, it snowed last night. Snowed pretty good at our little house – perhaps the biggest snow of the year, seein’ as how we’ve got a couple of inches of fluffy white snow in the yard. Snow on April 7. Cool.
All you WLOSers are probably gonna tell us that Mike “Cuevro” Cuevas and company called this, but we don’t think so. Missed again. Of course, it was also ironic that as we walked out to get our newspaper, the big headline was “Experts: WNC faces climate change risk.” Then the little headline: “Possible effects: Less snow?”
So snow will be a big WLOSer story on the Saturday night news. Let’s look at what was on last night:
Big egg hunt in Canton
Pinnacle Church, a new church in Canton, is trying to get its name out by hosting a huge egg hunt in the Pisgah High School football stadium. There’s going to be something like 2,000 plastic eggs for the kiddies, including one with a certificate for a free XBox 360. John “Punnyman” Le did the story and talked about “egg drop soup” and “walking on egg shells.” Whatever.
Wheelchair stolen, then found
Cherub Charu led off the news a story about a West Ashvegas woman with MS whose motorized wheelchair was stolen. But as they started the news, Diva Darcel said police just said they found who did it and arrested them – two juveniles.
The video was off on Charu’s story – the camera stayed on her reading from her notebook, instead of showing us some of the video. Then some of the quiet video ran.
Some died in a car wreck last month
Pat “Simple” Simon” told us that somebody died in a car wreck at the entrance to Broadpointe Industrial Park, which is a bad intersection on Hwy. 280. The news was that Simon got a Fletcher official to say the DOT needed to put a stoplight up at the intersection.
Mumpower buys a Panic ticket
WLOSers followed Ashvegas City Councilman Carl Mumpower over to the Civic Center, where they filmed him buying a ticket to next weekend’s Widespread Panic show. Mumpower said he’ll be watching the concert-goers and looking for any illicit drug use.
Mumpower made headlines a couple of weeks ago by calling out illegal drug use he saw at the Rat Dog concert. He said the Civic Center smelled like “an Amsterdam hash bar.” Friday, Mumpower said “Asheville’s not Amsterdam. It’s not OK to bring drugs in here.”
We’re starting to smell some T-shirt action here. Anybody got ideas? Something like: “Ashvegas: Amsterdam of the South.” Or maybe a shirt that lists the top 10 smells of Asheville. “Asheville: Smells like – 1.) Teen spirit 2.)Bohemian manfunk 3.)Patchouli rose 4.)….”
In other news…
People cleaned up litter downtown… It’s going to be cold Saturday and Sunday night… Friday was Good Friday and marked by people walking around carrying giant wooden crosses. There was also a bloody dummy nailed to a cross downtown that was making some people angry… A state lawmaker has introduced a bill in the Legislature to shield whitewater outfitters from lawsuits if somebody dies and they didn’t have anything to do with it… Short-timer Bob Caldwell went outside… And hatchery-supported trout fishing season starts Saturday.
Category: Asheville News
No snow prediction from Mike earlier in the week that I recall; he just said there would be record low temperatures for today and tomorrow.
I don’t even think Julie mentioned snow at all yesterday.
People smoke pot at rock concerts!!!??? Thank you Carl Mumpower. What’s your doctorate in? Bleeding Obviousness?
Next up, Mumpower enrolls at UNCA. Turns out college kids smoke pot too. whatever.
I think Mummy getting quite a taste for alt rock. First listening to Ratdog and now to Widespread. Has anyone asked him what he thinks about the music?
LOVE the T-shirt ideas!
You give them a hard time if the call for it and it doesn’t happen and then you give them a hard time when they don’t and it does. Ya know, local weather guessers are only as good as the National Weather Service and even up to 9pm or 10pm last night, the NWS site had snow Flurries and that was all. I think this snow was a suprise to all, but not really a bad suprise. Finally a real snowfall this year.
I still want to know *how* Mumpower knows what an Amsterdam hash bar smells like.
At least Crazy Carl is buying the ticket this time. I think the freebie they gave him for RatDog was a big mistake.
Wow Ash.. did you actually get close to criticizing your dear, old Citizen-Times on weather coverage? Almost, huh? But not quite.
Carl’s gettin’ to ‘em.
I overheard a guy talking about having his pipe confiscated before going into an Orange Peel show the other night. No further hassling, mind you, just confiscating the bowl and telling him to walk on.
Mike Actually nailed this one a day in advance. He called for accumulation in higher elevations. He was dead on.
The times actually blew it in comparison.