Our forecast for the last couple of days has offered rain, sleet, freezing rain, ice, freezing fog, and all sorts of cold, wet, non-fun mess. Yesterday we had about 1/10 to 1/4" of ice on the outdoor surfaces. Roads in my neighborhood weren't bad, but there was a pretty good threat of more overnight.

Sure enough, we got it. There's a solid layer on most things -- my street is still not terrible -- and a continued threat for more, particularly east of my little place out here in the sticks.

I met a friend for breakfast early this morning, and in the time I was out the [usually garaged] truck received a thin layer of ice. There were icicles hanging from the roof rails when I got back home. I was out for maybe an hour.

Back home in the toasty warm, I settled in for the weekly desk work and heard a long "crack" sound followed by a thump. Looking out the window I saw my neighbor's tree on the ground, beside his car. Sure enough, the tree hit the car on the way down and broke the rear window out.

Aside from needing some good cold weather for the purpose of killing off some bugs, I'm ready for Spring. Thirty-four days, man... 34 days.

Everybody okay out there?

Virginia Beach here, no ice and all rain. God Bless !!!

We’ve got freezing rain and sleet in Staunton, with reports of accidents due to icy road conditions. They’re telling everybody to stay off the roads all day today.

Beaverdam area, 5 inches of heavy wet snow yesterday and freezing rain right now.

Ice down here on the Dan...Current local outage map - we are still good to go, knock on wood.

Nothing here as of yet but they say it's still coming this afternoon and evening.

We had 4 inches of wet snow and now a glaze on top. Power is doing fine so far in Fluvanna County. Temp is slowly creeping up. My gauge says 31 deg.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Ice down here on the Dan...Current local outage map - we are still good to go, knock on wood.

which part of the Dan?


IIRC this is the weekend of the Crossing of the Dan ceremony (unless cancelled due to Cooties) in South Boston,


as a SAR member, I went one you and it was snowing like crazy,

good times it was,,, I'll see if I can find a pic

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Originally posted by lyman:
which part of the Dan?


IIRC this is the weekend of the Crossing of the Dan ceremony (unless cancelled due to Cooties) in South Boston,


as a SAR member, I went one you and it was snowing like crazy,

good times it was,,, I'll see if I can find a pic

Danville. Still new to the area, I have been to South Boston a couple of times, when we were looking at houses in the area and for work.

We've got a glaze of ice, but trees and limbs down all around town. Police have asked people not to go out because of all the trees and lines down on roads and power outages affecting a lot of traffic lights.

You can see the ice on the feeders and in the trees:

I guess MD doesn’t count? Lol. Sleeting right now, predicted to get worse.

Sorry, pedro, I didn't mean to slight Maryland.

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Originally posted by 95flhr:
Beaverdam area, 5 inches of heavy wet snow yesterday and freezing rain right now.

I’m about 10 minutes from you at Dike 3 and we had the same. Tried visiting my family in rappahannock today but the closer we got to Culpeper, the worse it got so we turned around and came home. Just got back and we heard a transformer blow down the road from us and now no power. Trees were down everywhere coming down Kentucky Springs Road and a truck was in the ditch. Definitely getting slicker by the minute

Well.

Two big pops here, followed by a short power drop. Time to go reset some clocks.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

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Originally posted by lyman:
which part of the Dan?


IIRC this is the weekend of the Crossing of the Dan ceremony (unless cancelled due to Cooties) in South Boston,


as a SAR member, I went one you and it was snowing like crazy,

good times it was,,, I'll see if I can find a pic

Danville. Still new to the area, I have been to South Boston a couple of times, when we were looking at houses in the area and for work.

We've got a glaze of ice, but trees and limbs down all around town. Police have asked people not to go out because of all the trees and lines down on roads and power outages affecting a lot of traffic lights.

You can see the ice on the feeders and in the trees:

I have kinfolk in Danville, South Boston and in between,


the Crossing of the Dan is a neat little piece of history in the area

https://www.halifaxcountyhisto...g/about-the-crossing


my Patriot Ancestor joined up with Greene before the crossing but did not make it that far due to illness (his 3rd enlistment)



meanwhile, my brother got called out to work in Dinwiddie and south Chesterfield (verizon) and said trees are popping like crazy,


we (central Chesterfield, south of PSP) had power, lost power, got it back, and lost it again,

neighbor put some pics on instagram of the trees down in her backyard,,


not sure how the drive home today will be, but will find out in an hour

Apparently MD doesn’t actually count. The sleet didn’t last long and now it’s just dry and cold.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Ice down here on the Dan...Current local outage map - we are still good to go, knock on wood.

I live east of Danville in the county. Our power went off 2 hours ago. We have a Generac generator,so we have power at least.

I've not driven anywhere, but have seen traffic on our road. Trees are covered in ice, temps hovering right at freezing.

One limb on a dogwood in my yard broken.

Ice storm warning issued for NoVa tonight. I'll be digging out another blanket and the long-handles just in case iced up limbs bring down the power lines.

Lucked out here. It was 35 degrees but only rain with just a little sleet mixed in. 25 miles up the road was a different story.

Layer of ice, then a couple inches of snow over top of it here in western WV. All the trees are encased in ice.
It’s been interesting. More on the way Sunday into Monday morning. Yeehaw.

North central WV right at the PA line. No ice as it's mostly been below freezing over the last two weeks (and next 10 days is predicted the same). So after a few inches of snow the sun may come out and melt the top one afternoon then a couple more days of light snow and repeat. Here in this image a week ago there was about 8" of crusty snow, now it's about 10"-12", and 6" more predicted Monday night.