The Big One is Coming!

A Huge Blizzard is headed my way. The weather guys are saying we'll get a foot or more of snow. It'll start tomorrow afternoon with rain. The rain will turn to freezing rain in the evening and then to snow following that. The last time it was like this was almost 5 years ago.

There was so much ice that the power lines fell from the weight of it. I was without power for 6 days and my house dropped to 32 degrees. My hot water is heater is gas powered so I would crank up the shower and make it nice and steamy so I could change into my work clothes. My wife took my kids up north to my in-laws so they wouldn't have to deal with the cold.

My goldfish I had is still alive and survived that week of hell. I would fill one liter bottles with hot water and put the full bottles in the fish tank to act as heaters for her. I would even plug in a fish tank heater into an extension cord and ran the cable outside to my car where I had it plugged into an inverter.

This time I may opt for a hotel stay. I'll at least have my laptop to keep me entertained which I can charge in my car too with or without the internet.

yea it's hitting us here on wednesday, they're saying 15-20" in my area. that will be on top of the 40"+ already on the ground :facepalm:

What states do you guys live in. I'm in far south PA, on the border. I haven't heard anything of this storm.

I've heard up to 24 inches in my area, so we've stocked up on supplies and made sure the cast iron stove lit. That stove is a great thing to have, we turn it on and close that room off. Then once that room is REALLY hot we turn on the blower for the furnace and it spreads the heat to the rest of the house. Or we just hang out in the living room which is right off the room with the stove.

i live in arkansas, it was 70 yesterday :whistler:

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Originally Posted by farlo

i live in arkansas, it was 70 yesterday :whistler:

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You sir, are a lucky man.

nah, unusually warm the last few days, usually in the 30s, but snow is fairly rare around here.

I live in Arkansas as well, it was ~65 here yesterday.

but.....they are saying 1 to 2 inches of sleet and ice with 4-8 of snow on top of that. That is what really sucks around here. I can deal with the snow its the stupid ice.

Of course, that was this afternoon and I'm sure it will change between now and tomorrow night when it is supposed to hit.

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Originally Posted by farlo

nah, unusually warm the last few days, usually in the 30s, but snow is fairly rare around here.

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Ya I vacationed there in the summer one year, and I remember just stepping out side and it was like I turned into the human torch.

Damn, more snow?? :( I find it's a lot less fun now that I have to clear my driveway. :P

Have some cheese to go with the whine. I've seen snow every month of the year, and I love the stuff!

Yeah it was 70 in Oklahoma on Saturday, 40 on Sunday, and 30 right now. Storm is supposed to blow through tonight into tomorrow.

I'm just out side of STL

We got a foot of snow this past weekend.. good times. Today, -40'C this morning with the wind.. -31 without it.

Pretty brutally cold.

This storm blew through my area saturday night and yesterday morning. We got a bit of rain and high winds.

Good luck with that white powdery stuff...

I bow to Luke. That's freakin cold indeed. Incidentally, that's also where Fahrenheit and Celsius agree on the temp (-40)

We're gonna get pwned here in Ohio too. I'm so looking forward to Spring!

The weatherman here is crying wolf again. Every week they say we're going to get 6" and after 2 months we have about an inch. It's unusual to not have snow and ice here but every storm so far has missed us completely...so I expect to wake up tomorrow to more bare grass and concrete.:mad:

Latest radar shows the worst of this going south of us by a bit. Now they're say 3-6" total.

Well, looks like I worried for nothing. The worst we're getting is some light sleet tonight, then on Wednesday it's supposed to be up in the lower 40's and raining. :D

They're saying 12-20 inches tomorrow here in Tulsa. I am not sure about the snow, but the ice they are predicting to go with it has me a little concerned.

Oh well guess we are going to have to wait and see. I got my generator ready, but really all that means was I moved it from the back of the garage to the door. :)

OvRiDe - The ice is what always sucks around here. U guys normally get whatever before it hits here.

We at least have a gas fireplace. I stocked up on the essentials today (read smokes and liquor(and a little food)) They have already cancelled classes at the UofA tomorrow which I have never seen them do the day before. Just the mention of ice/snow gets everyone in a frenzy. Don't even think about going to wally world. I can't stand being couped up for long so the 4wd always comes in handy.

Just read the weather channel and it said snow drifts of up to 2 feet.

Well get ready.. we got lots of sleet .. the size of rocksalt.. 20 minutes later it was all white.. then we got some snow for a little while, but its turned back into sleet. :(

They canceled school around here hours before any snowflakes had fallen.

Well here, it's a horrible 39c+ almost every day and it's not going to stop due to a cyclone about to hit Queensland (you know, the place where there has been heavy flooding)

Well, lots of sleet/freezing rain. Can't even open the truck doors without the fear of breaking the handle.

Roads aren't too bad here in well traveled areas but it is supposed to get alot worse. Ice is supposed to stop about 9am and then 9" of snow on top.:banana:

ya know it could always be worse.. u could live up with me here in canada....

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Originally Posted by LiTHiUM0XiD3

ya know it could always be worse.. u could live up with me here in canada....

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...and me. Colder here in the west today.. -41'C atm.. ALTHOUGH... supposedly going to be +6'C tomorrow.. sure. We'll see.

Good luck to all who are bracing for the storm. Stock up on supplies! The SNOWPOCALYPSE IS UPON YOU!

Well about 6 1/4" in the yard now. Measured about 7" on pavement so about 3/4 or so of ice. YAY!

sleet covering the parking lot and streets around my work here in fort smith arkansas, was snowing decently when i went outside on lunchbreak. driving home is going to suck.

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Originally Posted by Luke122

The SNOWPOCALYPSE IS UPON YOU!

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I can't believe you actually typed those letters in that order.

Wow.

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Originally Posted by blueonblack

I can't believe you actually typed those letters in that order.

Wow.

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uh... not sure what I missed there..

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uh... not sure what I missed there..

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It was a thing here last year...got a few feet of snow and the entire east coast decided it was the end of the world. :P News reporters kept inventing names like 'Snowpocalypse' or 'Snowmageddon', etc, etc.

Snowmageddon is lame.

Damn.. so much for my awesome (patent pending) buzz word.

roads were a sheet of ice all the way home, abs is a nice thing though.

Yeah, it was just the use of the word that got me. It's a personal aggravation of mine, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

It's mandated for us to have chains atm here. or snow/all weather tires. The cops can actually give you a ticket.

A good time to be in the tire business!

I've heard that some places (such as Toledo, Ohio) have declared a state of emergency and people who are not emergency personnel can be arrested for being out on the roads.:? That's just asinine.
We only got about 14" here but it's drifted up to 5-6' in places. I've been watching every single car get stuck in the 2-3' drift in front of the freeway entrance ramp outside my living-room window...it's great fun watching the snow come over the hood of the cars until they slow to a stop...and the look on the drivers' face always says 'oh man, how did I get stuck?' Even some 4x4s without enough ground clearance are falling victim.
It wasn't that bad of a storm here though. It was just super windy and blowing around a lot.

How much snow did everyone else get? It must have dumped hard somewhere...

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Originally Posted by PartyLikeARockstar

It's mandated for us to have chains atm here. or snow/all weather tires. The cops can actually give you a ticket.

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Dowaaaahhh? That just a Baltimore city thing? Sounds like some tire sales company owner has a friend on the city council. :rolleyes:

So it's here. Last night it took me an hour and a half to get 23 miles to home. My subdivision has a steep incline of about 30 yards to get onto the main road. I couldn't do it the first 4 times or so, so I got my shovel out and starting clearing a path. The main problem was the huge heap of snow at the bottom of the hill from where the plow went by. After about a half hour of shoveling and laying down kitty litter I got up the hill!

This morning I tried going to work and my car got stuck at the end of my driveway. For the first time, I had to phone work and call off.