Looking at the data chart confirmed my memory of the post-Christmas snowfall in 1969. I was ten years old. The area received 14 inches of snow between Christmas and New Years and then the temperatures warmed considerably. With the increased temperatures came rain--lots of rain. And we had the biggest flood on the Clinch that I could remember until April of 1977. The flood of '77 devastated communities along the Clinch, irreversibly changing the landscape to this day.
Vince Staten is the author of fifteen books, including "Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench," "Can You Trust a Tomato in January," "Ol' Diz: A Biography of Dizzy Dean," and the barbecue travel guide, "Real Barbecue." He has been a columnist for the New York Daily News, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Dayton Daily News and the Kingsport Times News.
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Looking at the data chart confirmed my memory of the post-Christmas snowfall in 1969. I was ten years old. The area received 14 inches of snow between Christmas and New Years and then the temperatures warmed considerably. With the increased temperatures came rain--lots of rain. And we had the biggest flood on the Clinch that I could remember until April of 1977. The flood of '77 devastated communities along the Clinch, irreversibly changing the landscape to this day.
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