Surviving Winter Ice Stoms

[Rick]

I guess we dodged the bullet. A small coating of ice this morning but nothing to write home about. Pleasant temps too...31 F. There is a cold front moving in so we'll enjoy it as long as we can.

[hunter63]

We are under a Winter Ice Storm warning starting at 4:00 p.m. today and lasting until 7 a.m. tomorrow morning. The forecast is for a quarter of an inch of ice. I'm keeping my fingers crossed we don't have that much. In any case, I don't have any overhanging trees and we have milk, eggs and bread so we should be good to go.

Milk, eggs and bread?

Ah, yes, I can recall the days of stocking up on beer and smokes.....and maybe some chips and Slim Jims
Weather to curl up with a good book......or a good blonde........

[crashdive123]

Y'all stay safe.

Just got home before the thunderstorms arrive. Weather radio going nuts.

milk....check
bread....check
eggs....check

[Pennsylvania Mike]

Y'all stay safe.

Just got home before the thunderstorms arrive. Weather radio going nuts.

milk....check
bread....check
eggs....check

I just looked at the map for N FLA and it looks like you are getting a great big storm, stay safe.

[Adventure Wolf]

We are expecting some freezing rain on Wednesday. Tomorrow I will hopefully buy a few things at Kroger.

[Fort fireman]

They're calling for freezing rain here tonight . I'm at the station so it may be a long night and a longer ride home in the morning. The schools are on a 2 hour delay to so I need to get home quick so my wife can get to work on time. That's gonna be a trick.

[Pennsylvania Mike]

I'm in Virginia since yesterday visiting friends, last night the temperature was around the low 20s, it snowed them we got the freezing rain; about 5;2 am we lost power but my friend has an all house generator with a 300 gallon tank. The power just came a minute ago, had the radio on and there are a lot of school delays and cancelation. we all are straying put in the house, everything is ice outside, the satellite dish looked like an ice sculpture among other things. It is supposed to turn into rain a while later and the temperatures are supposed to get above freezing.

[hunter63]

PM, What are you using for internet?

[1stimestar]

Y'all stay safe!

[Pennsylvania Mike]

PM, What are you using for internet?

I'm using a Verizon MiFi wireless.

[Pennsylvania Mike]

Y'all stay safe!

Thanks 1 stimestar.

[hunter63]

I'm using a Verizon MiFi wireless.

So am I...........

[Pennsylvania Mike]

The MiFi was a Christmas present from my son several years ago including service (unlimited use), so I had access while camping in Virginia for the 7 months duration, then back home I use DSL. I have had very good luck using it anywhere I have gone camping or on vacation as long as there is a tower, I can use it on the Rivah while fishing and crabbing but it is not waterproof so I used to carry a case in case of precipitation. He also gave me an iPad which is what I take with me on the Ribah with a waterproof plastic pouch.

[Rick]

We use WIFI On The Go when we are mobile. We used it on our trip to Yellowstone and back. Worked great. Same principle.

[Adventure Wolf]

We had freezing rain in NC earlier today. The streets around Wake Forest and Raleigh are mostly clear. It's been aboving freezing for a few hours. Nothing serious. A two hour delay for schools and a few wrecks.

[Pennsylvania Mike]

Back down to 32 degrees here in on the fringe of Gloucester County, VA. The ice never melted, tomorrow supposed to get as high as 41 degrees, so have to wait until tomorrow for the ice to melt.

[kyratshooter]

So far this year I have had a little snow, and some severe cold, but not at the same time. That is a little unusual for this area and this time of year, but the weather systems have not converged into a snow/ice forming pattern so far.

Never fear, it is only mid-Jan and we still have time.

[MrFixIt]

Woke up this morning to a rare phenomenon in my area...freezing fog!

[Rick]

I've actually only run into that one time. Unfortunately, I happened to be on the road when I did. The blasted stuff froze to everything on the truck. Couldn't see because of the fog and couldn't see because it kept freezing on the windshield. Crazy.

[1stimestar]

On my time hop ap, 3 years ago today it was -46. Today it is 20 above, in January! We have broken the warm winter record. It's weird. Not complaining, but it is concerning since we just had our wettest summer on record. Hope this doesn't mean we are going to have rain all next summer again.