![]() ![]() He threw it up on his Facebook page with the caption "IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE WEATHER MAN HIMSELF!" He gave the expected high and low temperatures for the day and did a little commentary about the importance of driving safe and stocking up on groceries. "This is your weatherman here speakin'," he said, obviously not real sure about what he was doing, "live from Barrenshee Creek Road." Just as kind of a joke/public service announcement he went out in the cold, held his phone at arm's length, and recorded a 39-second video reminding people to be careful. Mikey saw car after car slide off the frozen one-lane road. "You want you a cold beer? Yeah? Then run over across the street and get one of theirs 'cause I ain't got none." He recalls the time Mikey accidentally set his parents' carport on fire. ![]() If I was goin' out I'd call his mom and dad and tell em to put him up just like you would a dog. ![]() "He was meaner than a snake and fatter that a turkey. "I've known him since he was like this right here," he says, and he holds his hand out like he's petting an invisible puppy. Kokimo is an older guy and he's known Mikey as long as anybody. 380 in his lap when he jokingly tells Mikey, "You know, I wanna shoot you when you call me that." It's just a nonsense nickname that a lady named Missouri gave to him because she couldn't understand anything he said. Any friend of Mikey's is a friend of his. "A hillbilly don't go without a gun," is what his neighbor Dave says, one hand on the knob and the other on a pistol. I just don't know if I could fit in right in the city."īut don't be shocked when you knock and whoever opens the door has a gun in their hand. "I've got my family all around me and that's what I like," he says with a nasal, honky-tonk twang. All of his grandparents are on Barrenshee Creek, too, and so are a good chunk of his other relatives. He lives with his parents, Mike and Misty, and always has. It's an "alternative school", whatever that means. He had to do a stint at Northpoint Academy in Pikeville. He liked that part of it, the social part, but other than that school really wasn't his thing. He went to Phelps High School in Pike County. Whayya into, son?"Īnd Mikey, not meaning to be deep, will answer in a pretty deep way. And he'll probably be slashing his finger through the air in such a way that, from a distance, it will seem like he's pointing at a bee.Īnd they'll go, "Ahhh nothin'. And he'll probably be shifting his weight from one foot to the other, side to side and back and forth. He probably has his jeans stuffed down in his boots. Or maybe it's the ushanka, one of those Russian-looking caps with the wool earflaps. He might have on a frayed camo cowboy hat. He's been doing it every day now for the better part of a year, so it's no big thing for the residents of Barrenshee Creek Road in Freeburn to see Mikey Mounts up on the hillside, dented microphone in hand, screaming at an iPhone ten yards away. IS HERE TO METEOROLOGIST FOR YOU THANKS FOR STOPPING BYE HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GOOD ONE LOVE YALL GOD BLESS PEACE OUT!! ![]()
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