Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog

For eight straight days, Sevier County students have not had school because of an unusually snowy winter here in the Smoky Mountains and a planned 4 day weekend for President's Day.  Although all of the roads in the valley areas of our Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and Sevierville communities are clear, the mountaintop areas are anything but clear.  School buses filled with children would of course not be safe on snow covered mountain roads and for this reason, school has been cancelled since Wednesday of last week.  School administrators have announced that school WILL be in session on Thursday but will be opening two hours late.  That is, however, the same plan that was in place for today until around 6:30 AM this morning when the announcement was made that school would in fact again be cancelled. It has gotten so bad that even many of our school students, to say nothing of their parents, are begging for school to be back in session.  Parents are particularly...

For eight straight days, Sevier County students have not had school because of an unusually snowy winter here in the Smoky Mountains and a planned 4 day weekend for President's Day.  Although all of the roads in the valley areas of our Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and Sevierville communities are clear, the mountaintop areas are anything but clear.  School buses filled with children would of course not be safe on snow covered mountain roads and for this reason, school has been cancelled since Wednesday of last week.  School administrators have announced that school WILL be in session on Thursday but will be opening two hours late.  That is, however, the same plan that was in place for today until around 6:30 AM this morning when the announcement was made that school would in fact again be cancelled. It has gotten so bad that even many of our school students, to say nothing of their parents, are begging for school to be back in session.  Parents are particular...

Last Saturday around 2pm I left from our home in Sevierville headed to Nashville for a flight that would leave very early Sunday morning.  My trip lasted 4 days and while I was gone my truck stayed in the hotel's open air parking lot.  When I returned Wednesday evening my large styrofoam cup still had the ice cubes that I put in the cup on Saturday intact.  That's how cold it has been in Tennessee for the past several days.  Fortunately, temperatures are finally warming up and we were above freezing yesterday here in Gatlinburg for the first time in several days.  Don't think that I've ever seen this sort of cold in our normally mild East Tennessee climate.  In fact, we nearly set a record for the most consecutive days where the temperature failed to climb above the freezing mark.  With some snow remaining in the shady spots on back roads, school began 1 hour late today and will only return to a normal schedule tomorrow.  Most of the tim...

Last Saturday around 2pm I left from our home in Sevierville headed to Nashville for a flight that would leave very early Sunday morning.  My trip lasted 4 days and while I was gone my truck stayed in the hotel's open air parking lot.  When I returned Wednesday evening my large styrofoam cup still had the ice cubes that I put in the cup on Saturday intact.  That's how cold it has been in Tennessee for the past several days.  Fortunately, temperatures are finally warming up and we were above freezing yesterday here in Gatlinburg for the first time in several days.  Don't think that I've ever seen this sort of cold in our normally mild East Tennessee climate.  In fact, we nearly set a record for the most consecutive days where the temperature failed to climb above the freezing mark.  With some snow remaining in the shady spots on back roads, school began 1 hour late today and will only return to a normal schedule tomorrow.  Most of the tim...