So, it didn’t snow in Chattanooga this week. But rest assured there is still time for a whiteout. In fact, the city’s record snowfall – a whopping 18.5-inches in one day – occurred in mid-March in 1993.
Here’s a story we wrote last year commemorating 25 years since that show-stopping blizzard.
And now, three reasons why we love Tennessee today (other than the fact it is not currently buried under a foot and a half of snow, of course):
A beloved local icon, Sandy the Flower Man spent years spreading joy throughout Chattanooga, riding around town on his colorfully decorated bike and carrying flowers. Now many Chattanoogans are mourning his passing. Here’s what you need to know about his memorial this weekend.
M.L, King Boulevard was once known as Ninth Street, and it was a mecca for jazz music, inspiring greats such as Bessie Smith, Valaida Snow and Louis Armstrong. Now, the city of Chattanooga, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and WUTC-FM 88.1 are partnering to highlight its all-but-forgotten history through an original podcast series, “Stories from the Big 9.”