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Feeling any aches and pains Gman? haha Not a lot of talk about the storm in this area, but don't over look it (especially if the heaviest band sets up right over us), could be another close call.

Saturday, 2 p.m. Region D finals are at Virginia High. Honaker-Lee girls play at about 6, boys Div. 1 championship is at 4, and the boys Div. 2 game is to be at about 8 or so.

Yeah, played very well. Shot about 60 percent, had their usual balanced scoring, rebounded well..just played a good game all around. Kelly beat them by a decent margin over the Christmas break, wasn't a good game for Lee, and probably came at a bad time. In the first game Lee had a good lead (probably 15 or so) late and Kelly came back on them and ended up winning on a last second shot. Figured this one would be more like that, but was pleasantly surprised, haha.

Lee High 59 J.J. Kelly 26 Honaker 70 Castlewood 51 Council 46 Rye Cove 39

Yes

Some others posted so far.... Twin Springs 69 J.I. Burton 62 Castlewood 56 Coeburn 46 Lebanon over Gate City (haven't seen a score posted yet) Powell Valley 84 Honaker 78 OT Virginia High 51 J.J. Kelly 38

Council 67 Thomas Walker 55

Lee High over John Battle, 67-50 J.I. Burton over Haysi, 56-39 Rye Cove over Ervinton, 59-44

Girls....

Here's the full schedule for the tourney: http://www.thecoalfieldprogress.com/news.php?viewStory=22095 TUESDAY, FEB. 24 Division 2 Girls Quarterfinals #8 Lebanon (7-16) at #1 Castlewood (17-7) 7 p.m. #5 Powell Valley (11-12) at #4 Honaker (19-6) 7 p.m. #7 John Battle (10-13) at #2 Lee (18-5) 7 p.m. #6 J.J. Kelly (18-7) at #3 Virginia High (16-7) 7 p.m. Division 1 Girls Quarterfinals #8 Haysi (12-11) at #1 J.I. Burton (20-3) 7 p.m. #5 Twin Springs (9-15) at #4 Twin Valley (16-8) 7 p.m. #7 Pound (13-12) at #2 Council (22-3) 7 p.m. #6 Ervinton (13-9) at #3 Rye Cove (14-11) 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 Division 2 Boys Quarterfinals #8 Coeburn (17-8) at #1 Castlewood (20-4) 7 p.m. #5 Powell Valley (14-10) at #4 Honaker (11-12) 7 p.m. #7 Lebanon (17-5) at #2 Gate City (17-7) 7 p.m. #6 J.J. Kelly (16-9) at #3 Virginia High (17-7) 7 p.m. Division 1 Boys Quarterfinals #8 St. Paul (9-14) at #1 Twin Valley (19-4) 7 p.m. #5 Thomas Walker (12-13) at #4 Council (12-11) 7 p.m. #7 Hurley (10-13) at #2 Appalachia (21-3) 7 p.m. #6 J.I. Burton (8-14) at #3 Twin Springs (15-10) 7 p.m. THURSDAY, FEB. 26 Division 2 Girls Semifinals (at Lebanon High School) Lee High/John Battle winner vs. Virginia High/J.J. Kelly winner 7 p.m. Castlewood/Lebanon winner vs. Honaker/Powell Valley winner 8:30 p.m. Division 1 Girls Semifinals (at Castlewood High School) Council/Pound winner vs. Rye Cove/Ervinton winner 7 p.m. J.I. Burton/Haysi winner vs. Twin Valley/Twin Springs winner 8:30 p.m. FRIDAY, FEB. 27 Division 2 Boys Semifinals (at Lebanon High School) Gate City/Lebanon winner vs. Virginia High/J.J. Kelly winner 7 p.m. Castlewood/Coeburn winner vs. Honaker/Powell Valley winner 8:30 p.m. Division 1 Boys Semifinals (at Castlewood High School) Appalachia/Hurley winner vs. Twin Springs/J.I. Burton winner 7 p.m. Twin Valley/St. Paul winner vs. Council/Thomas Walker winner 8:30 p.m. SATURDAY, FEB. 28 Championship Saturday (at Virginia High School, Bristol) Division 1 Girls Championship 2 p.m. Division 1 Boys Championship 4 p.m. Division 2 Girls Championship 6 p.m. Division 2 Boys Championship 8 p.m.

Region D brackets released.. http://www.tricities.com/tri/sports/high_school_prep/article/region_d_hoops_brackets_released/20740/

Clinch Mountain District Tournament Monday, Feb. 16, at Lebanon High School First Round Girls No. 5 Gate City (4-17) at No. 4 Lebanon (6-15), 6 p.m. Boys No. 4 Lee High (9-12) vs. No. 5 John Battle (2-20), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17 at Lee High School Girls Semifinals No. 3 John Battle (10-12) vs. No. 2 Virginia High (14-7), 6 p.m. Gate City-Lebanon winner vs. No. 1 Lee High (17-4), 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19 at Gate City High School Boys Semifinals No. 3 Lebanon (17-4) vs. No. 2 Virginia High (16-6), 6 p.m. Lee High-John Battle winner vs. No. 1 Gate City (15-7), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20 at Virginia High School Girls Consolation Semifinal losers, 4 p.m. Boys Consolation Semifinal losers, 5:30 p.m. Girls Championship Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. Boys Championship Semifinal winners, 8:30 p.m.

Its not being "negitive". Its called being able to take off the colored glasses and seeing things from unbiased stand point and not being a homer every single day. Its called truly wanting to see the area improve instead of falling behind like it has in recent years and get back to what it used to be and the attitudes of those days.

....to severe storm potential. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html

Article in Lebanon's paper says Region D's will be like last year. Top 4 seeds host, semis would be at Castlewood and Lebanon, and the finals at Virginia High.

From the Kingsport-Times... "The VHSL Division Playoff Study Group appears to have backed away from a proposal to divide Virginia’s schools into five classifications. In a meeting in Charlottesville last Friday, the committee voted 12-0 to recommend suspending further consideration of the most recent five- and six-division proposals. While an assortment of concerns were cited, the deal-breaker seems to be recognition that, according to a VHSL press release, “it will be important not to reduce the number of state-level football and basketball games since these are crucial for sustaining the operations and programs of the league.” "

No anti-global warming arguments or any that bash Gore over it should ever start off like this. No matter how bad Gore is, this isn't any better. Its too easily countered. They can even use these to support their extreme weather pattern portion. Don't make it easier for them. By the way, he must not be in Florida either, haha...record lows being set down there.

Most of this was from the clipper system. The lake enhanced snows and the upslope just started this morning. The lakes haven't really gotten much involved with this, the upslope hasn't been much yet for some either, and as a result some of the snows haven't been as good today. Amounts did vary, as they said it would, that's just the nature of it. But all in all a decent one, at least from a northwest flow event that is. The snowfall rates in some of the bands were impressive though. Conditions were pretty bad at times. It certainly wasn't what could have been, but nonetheless, not a bad little shot from this type of system.

Still coming down here. Roads are in very bad shape. A good number of wrecks reported, traffic backed up a good distance in some places. VDOT having trouble getting through to clear roads because of the number of vehicles that have wrecked and blocking the roads.

J.I. Burton has only won 3 games. George Mason 5. Lebanon girls have only won 3 games this season and none in the district. Chesterfield Community doesn't have a girls basketball team.

Its the warning issued by the NWS that they have up on there. The lake enhanced snows will kick up especially later tonight. These are driven by the daytime heating. We are under a heavy snow squall now. Roads turned completely white in about 2-3 minutes..very heavy snow, white out conditions.

There's a little disturbance diving down into the area and beginning to interact with the mountains. Believe things are really supposed to pick up tonight after the front kicks through and northwest winds pick up. Some of the heavier showers/bands you get under can put down some pretty heavy bursts quickly. (3 inches in 2 hours from one in Indianapolis this morning). Snow ratios should be high due to the cold temps and they're indicating there's a lot of lift with this and some instability over the region.

Winter storm watches up for Lee, Wise, Scott, Washington, and Russell Counties from Tuesday afternoon through late Wed. night. http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=VAZ008&warncounty=VAC191&firewxzone=VAZ600&local_place1=Abingdon+VA&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch Winter storm warnings up, including Tazewell, Smyth, and Mercer counties from Tuesday afternoon until Thursday morning. http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=VAZ007&warncounty=VAC185&firewxzone=VAZ007&local_place1=North+Tazewell+VA&product1=Winter+Storm+Warning Charleston NWS ahead of everyone else as usual I see ;)

Back edge of the snow is moving through Lee County now, we have around an inch here. Depending on how much is left tomorrow, we'll probably add to the totals as a couple of little disturbances (and any upslope snow) may drop down Tuesday and Wednesday and give the area some accumulating snows. Still could end up with a decent snowfall event after all for some. The low is moving well off to the east. That threat for the major snowstorm lasted about one day, the rest was just watching to see if the models would go back to it, and they didn't. Again, maybe it'll still surprise us, or maybe still wishful thinking, haha ;) Amazing how consistent they were and then the shift so far east. I hope they look into it, I'd like to see what happened (the accuweather guy's claim may have been bogus, but then again?).

Some of the models can be seen here... http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/ Usually I just view the medium..the "850mb temp, MSLP, 6hr Pcpn" is the most commonly view and easier to see for most. (The 0c line is typically the rain/snow indicator, its more complicated than that, but that's an easier way to look at it). You can see the newest under the 00 UTC runs. Anyway, and remember this is just the most recent runs..may change again with the next ones, some of the latest are beginning to bring the front dropping down from Canada in slower. This would help get this developing and give us a batter shot a seeing this storm. Would like to see the area across Miss. to hold and the front allow it move up into the area, then hopefully things begin to wrap up along the VA/NC coast. The NGM model is the slowest with the front now and actually is now back to bringing the storm up along the Appalachians again. This puts us back in the snowstorm..but it might be just a bit too close for comfort (rain/mix threat). Should be interesting to see if the following runs continue this trend, if they do, then its back to being a likely storm threat.