well, with several inches of snow on grandfather mountain it doesn't surprise me. your from texas so I doubt you have ever been there, but imagine a rally hill climb up a steep and curvy road with deadly drop offs and that is the road up grandfather mountain. not to mention its snowing, and that the temp right now is in the 20s with winch chill in the teens and single digits. Its a windy place up there. Not unusual for wind gusts over 80mph and some over 100mph. I have been up there in the middle of the summer when it was in the 80's when I leave, and it would be in the 50's on the top of the mountain with steady winds you had to lean into.