Staff photo by John Rawlston/Chattanooga Times Free Press
Joy McKee rides a snowboard down Forest Avenue on Monday morning.Two grown men zoom by on a kayak tied to the back of a four-wheeler, screaming like giddy schoolboys.
Their wives and children pass them in a station wagon, laughing, waiting for them to plow into a 6-inch-high pile of snow.
“Woohoo!” one of the men yells as the kayak slides across patches of ice. “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Let’s git’r done.”
It’s Monday, and these men could be working. They’ll admit that. Two of them are attorneys with local law firms and another is a financial analyst.
But the snow is so thick and their kids want to sled. So Chris Rowe, 41; Maury Nicely, 39; and Tim Mickel, 40, are out sliding on white streets in the Riverview neighborhood, dodging the few cars that have braved the roads.