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candles and a cement block/brick to put them in to create heat

That's clever.

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Originally posted by mrvmax:

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
It’s 28° and dropping in central Texas. We’re ready with plastic to curtain off one room, candles and a cement block/brick to put them in to create heat., gtg food wise. Now we wait till the power goes out. Did laundry earlier.

We are at 44, it was close to 70 yesterday and I was at the range shooting. I’m glad I splurged a couple years ago to buy a whole house gen since I no longer worry about losing power. Hopefully there will not be a large power outage during this storm.

19 degrees outside of Ft Worth right now. Snow and ice covering the driveway and grass, on top of roofs, etc. Tomorrow forecast is in the teens, lows in the single digits. Sporadic power outages sprinkled around DFW.

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Originally posted by KSGM:

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candles and a cement block/brick to put them in to create heat

That's clever.

That is clever. I also recently saw the use of candles under and inverted crock pot insert being held up by two large soup cans. A cast iron stew pot would work similarly.

14° here in NOT sunny central Arkansas at 4PM. Thankfully we had no freezing rain, so, no local power outages.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:

I got two boxes of ammo and a piece of silver for a loaf and a jug.

I think will be cold enough outside for perishables if the need arises

As a northern raised fella, since 1995 I have went for a drive every time we have had a snow/ice event. It's very entertaining here near the ATL

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
As a northern raised fella, since 1995 I have went for a drive every time we have had a snow/ice event. It's very entertaining here near the ATL

Hell, it's entertaining/terrifying when the weather is normal.

I expect it will be a mess in the Charlotte area. There is no way we make it through this without power outages with stupid cold temperatures.

We are as set as we can be. Generator prepped and enough gas to get us through a few days. Unfortunately not a whole-house and no direct plug in or transfer switch. The last power outage here was probably 5 years ago. Will have to do some alterations to plug the gas heat in but supplies on hand ready to do that. Worst part will be no hot water.

Biggest concern is the hot water heater is in an external garage. I’ve got a thermometer out there to monitor it, but if we are down to the teens and it gets too cold in there I’ll have to figure it out. There’s no heat going into that garage although it shares a wall with the main house.

But the city will be a mess. Luckily I’m not on call so it will take quite the disaster to get pulled in. So we will see.

The low here was -25 degrees F last night. I have shown no restraint tossing more wood into the stove.

Looks like a complete non event in Charlotte. We got a few minutes of sleet and that's it.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
Looks like a complete non event in Charlotte. We got a few minutes of sleet and that's it.

So far here it’s a non event as well. They were 10 hours off on the estimate to start with.

Pretty good gig. Be wrong 90 percent of the time, still draw a check.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
Looks like a complete non event in Charlotte. We got a few minutes of sleet and that's it.

The fun is yet to begin:

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Tonight
Sleet, possibly mixed with freezing rain. The sleet could be heavy at times. Low around 22. Northeast wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of 0.1 to 0.2 of an inch possible. Total nighttime sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Sunday
Freezing rain and sleet, becoming all freezing rain after 1pm. Patchy fog after 9am. High near 30. North northeast wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of 0.2 to 0.4 of an inch possible. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Sunday Night
Rain or freezing rain before 1am, then a chance of rain between 1am and 4am. Patchy fog before 2am. Low around 29. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New ice accumulation of around a 0.1 of an inch possible.

I’ll be super happy if this turns into nonevent.
Farm and business, don’t need the mess.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
As a northern raised fella, since 1995 I have went for a drive every time we have had a snow/ice event. It's very entertaining here near the ATL

I just got back from a run to the local grocery store in DFW. I needed bananas only but checked so I could laugh, bread, milk, eggs, TP, Paper Towels. It looked like Covid-era in there. It was They had bananas though, and green ones at that so should last me the next week.

It has iced, but I was in a vehicle with SH-AWD and the Pirellis that are on it are snow/ice rated so doing the speed limit on the ice was a non-event. I put it in snow mode and had some super controllable oversteer around corners. It was fun. I saw a Camry do a U-turn and spin way out. Most likely not proper tires for conditions and no experience. Lots of H1B Visas here. Saw several full size trucks spinning as well from stop lights. Then the people who feel the need to run their hazards. Umm, yeah, everyone knows buddy. Outside of corners and longer braking markers, might as well been dry to me. So far nothing burger. Main pool pump is in freeze protect so it probably won’t turn off until next week, mid-week. I will watch the news at 9pm to see the bumper cars which happens every time we get these conditions. The overpasses, especially, are pure comedy.

I will take the AWD car out tomorrow with front and rear Torsens and 6MT, and find a parking lot to have some fun per usual. Just have to stay away from the sliders. If they don’t know how to drive in this, and don’t have a vehicle and tires capable, just stay home!

Still no snowfall here, just cold. There's snow and ice on the roads from the stuff that's been on the ground all month drifting, but that's nothing new. It got up to 9 around 11am and I took the dog for a 2 mile walk. By the time we went shooting around 4pm it was down to 6 or 7. That was kinda miserable.

I'm dumping wood in the stove as fast as I can, but it's still not keeping up. I had to turn the furnace on, it at least it's not doing all the work. Currently 60 in the house, and we're all in the living room around the fireplace.

No snow yet. They're saying we'll get some tonight. I'm not really worried about it...more annoyed that this has pretty much wasted my weekend off by making it too miserable cold to enjoy being outside.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
Looks like a complete non event in Charlotte. We got a few minutes of sleet and that's it.

The fun is yet to begin:

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Tonight
Sleet, possibly mixed with freezing rain. The sleet could be heavy at times. Low around 22. Northeast wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of 0.1 to 0.2 of an inch possible. Total nighttime sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Sunday
Freezing rain and sleet, becoming all freezing rain after 1pm. Patchy fog after 9am. High near 30. North northeast wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of 0.2 to 0.4 of an inch possible. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Sunday Night
Rain or freezing rain before 1am, then a chance of rain between 1am and 4am. Patchy fog before 2am. Low around 29. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New ice accumulation of around a 0.1 of an inch possible.

I’m a little NE of y’all and I’m thinking that tomorrow will be the brunt of the storm for us. If we can make it through the day tomorrow we’ll be OK.
Have a small generator with plenty of non ethanol gas and a couple of electric heaters that should keep the house warm enough if we don’t loose power for long. The rest of next week should be brutally cold so if we don’t have electricity then it will get interesting…