re: I just called the University of Arkansas main athletics phone # to ask a random question..

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I've never been impressed with Fayetteville's preparation/reaction to winter weather. That ice storm that hit when I lived there shut down the entire city for like a week. You could have literally ice skated on the roads and I lived like two blocks from Dickson. I wish I still had the pictures.

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Lived here my whole life and also lived two blocks from Dickson when it happened. That said, that storm was crazy. There were high transmission lines down, 150-foot trees split in half and the city became an ice bowl. The level of organization was lacking though. I know for a fact that at least one other city in NWA had all employees out there who could be there(properly equipped, fed well, overtime, etc. - but they showed up and were cutting branches so that lines could be put up and have things running quicker). Fayetteville became the snow village from hell. Thank God we had friends with a condo in the Dickson and it was on the grid and we could shower and wash our clothes there.