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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.

35° in N Houston, slowly dropping. As long as we don't lose power, should be ok. Not projected sub-freezing until 2am.

I’m about an hour north of Atl.
So far it’s starting to look like we might get a little lucky and get much less than predicted a day or so ago.
Should have a good idea in the morning.

Montana here, sitting at 10F, high of 24F today..wishing for 20ft of snow so we don't have a fire season. Ice fishing for some kokanee, recipe to follow

For ya non brown fat layered southern folks, don't die, I still want to get invited to a cookout.

Pretty much bypassed us here in NW Atlanta. (Kennesaw, Woodstock, Holly Springs,Canton)

We have some ice, but the roads are good here. The winds are heavy enough to shake it out of the trees and off the power lines. I do have some coating the steps and where the precipitation was blown onto the cars under the carport.

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For ya non brown fat layered southern folks, don't die, I still want to get invited to a cookout.

One of the good things about South Texas - no extreme cold weather and no snow to speak of. We can handle hurricanes just fine. We can also handle 100 plus degrees and a drought. Cold weather we do not do so well at since we usually do not get it here.

This year has been particularly dry so I am grateful for the 1” of rain I have gotten since yesterday. We are currently at 34 and will get below freezing tonight. With all the rain we have had there may be some road issues later tonight.

Good morning. Sending my best to everyone, especially those in the South. Up here the snow started about 0700 (EST) and we are supposed to get up to 24" (all snow and no ice). I've got a nice fire going, coffee brewed and nowhere to go today. Truck is gassed up. I have several elderly neighbors, a couple of friends and in-laws in their 90's that I'll be checking on and assisting as needed but we've got this. We have a pretty good network in place.

Dispatches from Atlanta (thread from 1/10/25)

"Snowmageddon" is turning out to be a bust, barely even a dusting. Might get some more today, but is more likely to be rain, or a mix.

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I’m about an hour north of Atl.
So far it’s starting to look like we might get a little lucky and get much less than predicted a day or so ago.
Should have a good idea in the morning.

I'm near Amicalola Falls, we have maybe 1/4 ice on everything here.
Just enough to be annoying so far.

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We have about 8” thus far and it’s supposed to stop around 3pm today.

We’re all snuggled up and ready to enjoy a lazy day. Hope the same for all of you!

gray crack of dawn and 19 degrees here in 75570.
Traffic is still moving on I-30...Sparse and slow, but moving.
"Stuff" was falling off and on all night. I ventured out for a bit yesterday and made a drag through town. Lots of businesses closed, but several open as well.

I haven't lost power yet. But the generator is gassed and ready, as are the vehicles.
Got some out of power friends coming over later for hot showers and maybe a meal.
Cows have extra hay and cubes. I will check ponds for ice after full daylight.

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Originally posted by h2oys:
We have about 8” thus far and it’s supposed to stop around 3pm today.

We’re all snuggled up and ready to enjoy a lazy day. Hope the same for all of you!

Same here. I thought it was a foot, but I didn't measure. It's pretty much snow.
Enjoy!
PS> My 4Runner is ready to go... if need be but I'll be making a fire and watching football. I don't think I have to go anywhere.

We're sitting at 31°
Light precip overnight, bit of ice on the cars & the valleys of the roof. Water on the sidewalk & driveway, still liquid.
So far, this is far preferable to the 2021 freeze and the snow of January '25

A balmy 22 here in the hills. Some ice and sleet everywhere but no, nothing near the 21 storm. Supposed to get to 35 today, and the sun is coming out.

Best wishes to all those affected. It's 73 and overcast in SWFL currently. I talked to my son and he's expecting a couple more feet of snow back home. I almost feel guilty for moving but I'll get over it.

The storm of the century has dropped a little over 3 inches of snow and sleet here.

So for, I got lucky in my little microclimate between two rivers. Thunderstorms were rocking and rolling at 2:30 and 4:30 AM but the temperature was between 33 and 34 degrees. We've had 4.5" of rain in the last 36 hours so a couple degrees colder and it could've been ugly.

This morning it dipped below freezing at about 8:15 AM, but the rain had been stopped for 2 hours at that point. Should get above freezing at 11 AM and stay there past sunset. Hopefully with high winds and no more rain we dry out before it hits 23 over night.

Church got cancelled this morning. We've got about 5" of snow and still falling. I'll probably head out and plow the driveway in a bit if I can get the garden tractor to start (it hates the cold). My buddy who's working today told me some drunk Amish kid took out a power pole and knocked out power to most of the NW corner of the county this morning...good thing most of them don't use electricity up that way anyway. There's no widespread outages so I'm sure the power company got on it pretty quick....miserable day to be doing that kind of work, though.

It's warmed up to 8 degrees outside. Still plenty of wood on the pile, and it's warm and toasty by the fire.

Still have a few more hours of snow left here, but looks like we're going to end up with a total of about 12 inches of snow with one or two tenths of an inch of ice.

No power outages here, and the main roads are treacherous but passable if necessary.

Road conditions will likely end up a bit worse tomorrow, as the temp dips below zero overnight. Won't be above freezing until Tuesday afternoon, so will likely see some road impacts through Wednesday.

Schools are already canceling for tomorrow, and I suspect they'll be closed Tuesday too.

Thankfully it will be cleared up before my next patrol shift.

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We have about 8” thus far and it’s supposed to stop around 3pm today.

We’re all snuggled up and ready to enjoy a lazy day. Hope the same for all of you!

Same here. I thought it was a foot, but I didn't measure. It's pretty much snow.
Enjoy!
PS> My 4Runner is ready to go... if need be but I'll be making a fire and watching football. I don't think I have to go anywhere.

You’re probably right about the foot of snow. I did a super quick shoveling of our patio to make a path for the dogs at 6:30am. I did not measure then but will after it stops and I get the snow blower fired up.

Enjoy your fire!