KTLO's first news director recalls white Christmas

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     With warmer temperatures and a chance for showers Christmas Eve and Christmas Day it is unlikely a white Christmas is in the forecast for the Twin Lakes Area. According to the National Weather Service in Little Rock, the area saw some snow flurries in 2009, but hasn’t seen a substantial amount of snow since three inches fell in 2002.     

     KTLO’s first news director, Ray McDaniel of Gainesville, called the newsroom recently to talk about the weather. He says on December 22nd of 1967 Mountain Home saw more of a white Christmas than he wanted.


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     McDaniel says one of the little girls he had to carry through the snow, at the time, was Mountain Home Junior High FACS Teacher Kathy Bishop. Approximately 18 inches of snow fell overnight. Baxter County had very little equipment to deal with such a large amount of snow and the area was at a standstill.


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     His wife, like many in the area, couldn’t get home.


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     McDaniels says the snow started to fall about 6:30 in the evening of the 22nd and stopped around 7:00 the next morning when he came to the KILO station to measure the amount and a white Christmas is possible after all.




   



     


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