Rare March Snow Storm Throws Us a Curve Ball

Here in the Louisville area, we've had the craziest winter. Besides more snow than what's typical, we've had tornadoes and thunderstorms... that's in Jan. and Feb!!!

Last week continued the odd winter with a 12" snow storm that pretty much shut everything down Friday and Saturday. The snow, the most ever for Louisville in any March, and terrible road conditions kept staff away (or had them leaving early) and had all our shippers running a day or so behind.

The issues with shippers concerned not only shipments being delivered on time, but also in getting expected inventory deliveries in... the latter of which put us behind on filling some orders even after most of the snow had melted away.

From an operational standpoint, the snowstorm couldn't have happened at a worse time of the year considering this is the start of our busy season. Although we typically ship out around 98% of the orders due to ship within 1 business day, we ran around 80-85% Friday, Monday and Tuesday at those standards.

We should be fully caught up today and oddly enough, the high today is expected to hit a rather pleasant 66 degrees!