Weather Permitting: Remembering the snowy Christmas of 1989
Snowhounds in the Cape Fear region look out on today’s wet, gloomy start to the Christmas week and sigh, “Imagine … if it only had been cold enough for snow.”Folks who lived in the region, especially south and east of Fayetteville, don’t have to imagine. They lived through what became known as the Carolina Christmas Crusher, a two-day pre-holiday blizzard that dumped up to 20 inches of snow and ice with 60 mph wind gusts.Fayetteville got off reasonably lucky with […]
