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7 minutes ago, Carvers Gap said:

I spoke with our catastrophic storm assessor (he was working my roof several years back)...he said he handled an EF-4 or 5 maybe in Indiana or Illinois years back.  He said softball sized hail had been driven through the side of cars and into the side of the engine block(dents were evidence).   State Farm covered 25-30K in damages for us (July 27, 2014) due to baseball and softball size hail.  It wasn't wind driven, but it knocked holes in my gutters and lawn furniture.  Hundreds of dents in our truck and van along w/ broken windows.  It sounded like bricks falling on the house.  Our chimney vent still have dents in them.  It was the worst sound I have ever heard.  You could hear the damage in the neighborhood as it fell.  My sister's house lost their vinyl siding(due to hail) in that storm or the one a few year prior.  

So, heart felt condolences to the folks in the are where the large hail hit.  

This could end up being another April 2011 as far as insurance claims go...so much hail damage then that I think insurance companies paid to re-roof most of their customers' homes in the Knoxville area. Plus straight-line winds. I had a tree fall through our roof in the front yard and a wooden privacy fence blown over in the back yard. A tree at the corner of the backyard (on my neighbor's property was uprooted and laid down on the ground -- the trunk was so wide on it that two people couldn't have touched hands around the trunk. Powerful storms.

What are the chances that the severe threat is over now that we've had this round of storms?

6 minutes ago, Stovepipe said:

That was a helluva frog strangler in Knox county.  Fortunately no hail here that round.

It missed us in Farragut, but it still looks ominous.

Should those of us in West Knox/Loudon Co. area be concerned about power outages with the possibility of the freezing rain later? Thankfully, it's something we've mostly avoided this week with the mega-snowfall. But freezing rain on power lines -- are we forecasted to get enough accretion to worry about losing power? Thanks for all of you who share your knowledge on a regular basis.

1 hour ago, Silas Lang said:

Euro took a step back towards snow. 

I hope it's a step that still keeps Knoxville in the game? It would be wonderful to have an accumulating snow here to make up a little for an abysmal winter.

3 hours ago, AMZ8990 said:

Roads are pretty bad in west Tn, especially the back roads.  My road is essentially a block of ice.  As my dad would say, “it’s slicker than owl crap out there”..  lol

My dad's favorite was "it's slicker than snot!" I guess we didn't have as many owls in WV where I grew up... 

Any chance we get another southeast jog that actually puts Knox County into the frozen action for Thursday/Friday?