FROZEN AND FROSTY
Along South Crest Road on Missionary Ridge, Matilda Joels, 5, and her sister Talia, 8, worked to build a family of snowmen in their front yard as the "Frozen" soundtrack played from their porch.
"What should we name the boy snowman?" Matilda asked her sister.
"Frosty!" Talia replied, as she worked to attach Frosty's head.
The family's German shepherd, Macie, played with a snowy ball alongside them, and barked after the girls when they left the front yard to go sled down the hill behind their house with their parents.
Across the valley stood a snowy Lookout Mountain, the top of which was veiled in a thin haze of fog.
MICHIGAN VERSUS TENNESSEE
Linda and Art Phemister live in St. Elmo and said they had been wanting to cross-country ski all winter.
They traveled to Michigan with their skis after Christmas, but were disappointed that they couldn't use them because of the lack of snow.
"Now we get to ski here at home," Art said, laughing. "We skied right out of our back door!"
The pair were en route to the local post office Thursday morning, and said they hadn't decided where they were going to ski next.
"These are great conditions," Linda said. "We definitely will keep skiing."
FROM SLIDE TO SLUSH
On Wednesday night, Pineville Road, near the foot of Signal Mountain, was a steep, icy, carnival slide for automobiles.
Some brave few four-wheel-drive vehicles drivers made it up the slick incline, but motorists in lesser cars were shunted to the side by the daunting climb.
But by Thursday afternoon, it was a grey river of slush.
For Regan Walker, the 8-inch snowfall didn't change her plans much. She lives in an apartment at the top of Pineville Road. But the winter weather was a great experience for Alexis, her 10-month-old daughter.
"This is her first snow, so we are just checking it out," Walker said with a bundled Alexis in her arms.
Walker and her husband recently moved from Michigan, so Wednesday's dusting wasn't exactly impressive.
"This is nothing... Coming here was funny, because everything just shuts down. I like it here, because it's pretty then everything melts. In Michigan, we would be scraping our cars for months," she said.
A HAPPY TUNE
Judy Gilreath, superintendent of Whitfield County Schools, showed a sense of humor about canceling school for the fourth consecutive day. In a recorded phone message, she sang to the tune of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" an announcement that school is canceled for Friday. She sang:
"There'll be no school tomorrow; snow's too deep.
All our students and teachers can stay in the bed and sleep.
I'll let you know soon as I can when we can have some school again. I hope it's Monday."
Compiled by staff writers Kate Belz, Kendi Anderson and Louie Brogdon.