Winter Storm

[32shooter]

Wife informed me last night that we could have a bit of a storm this weekend so I thought I better get a bit more firewood into the garage so I don't have to trudge through the snow right away. It looks like we might miss out on the ice, just get snow if we get anything. My furnace isn't working properly right now. Can use it if need be, but woodburner does a good job on heating the house. Sure hope the ice doesn't hit places like they are saying it might.

 

[bobski]

you need a conveyor belt my friend!

 

[bedfordboy]

Looks like you should be good for at least a couple days

 

[protoolman]

-37 wind-chill -12 actual this morning shoveling sidewalks at work. Glad I found my choppers with wool liners! Norther Minnesota is brutal this morning.

 

[peachhead]

I knew there was a reason I don't live up north.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Wife informed me last night that we could have a bit of a storm this weekend so I thought I better get a bit more firewood into the garage so I don't have to trudge through the snow right away. It looks like we might miss out on the ice, just get snow if we get anything. My furnace isn't working properly right now. Can use it if need be, but woodburner does a good job on heating the house. Sure hope the ice doesn't hit places like they are saying it might.
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VERY nice and efficient stove. Gotta love those thermal fans. You'll be warm no matter what.

 

[blume357]

Peachhead, well you are down in mid Georgia just above Macon and might be okay.... but it looks like those of us in the foothills might get a goodly bit of ice. I grew up just Northeast of you on the other side of the Savanah river on a farm and pretty much remember being out of power for a week at least once every winter.

 

[protoolman]

Dang! Just got home and the pickup says -22, it's getting colder . Forecast says it's going to be in the mid 20s below zero for a couple days. Wind chills almost to 60 below. My hydraulic power steering on the pickup was so thick it's harder to steer. Tires freeze a flat spot so they clunk when you start driving. They smooth out and get round after a few miles though. I see some of you guys down south might even get some freezing temps! Gotta go find my long handle underwear. Hope the pump and septic tank don't freeze. Should be ok as actual temp without wind-chill has been -40 here before.

 

[peachhead]

@blume357 yeah I think we are going to be fine, at least it ain't gonna be below zero!

 

[DGW1949]

I'm 15 minutes from the highest point of altitude in Mississippi, and 20 minutes from the Tennessee border. Last that I looked, we are supposed to get 26-28 continuous hours of snow beginning about 11-Am on Saturday and ending sometime Sunday. Temps are projected to get down between 9-17 Sunday and Monday....hardly what I'd call a "storm" but certainly enough to cause power outages....
My wife and I have been through this before. There was one winter while we were living in Texas that we went almost two weeks with no power. I personally didn't care because one of the the good things about it was that the power meter wasn't turning..LOL. That, and I knew that it would cut down on the snakes and mosquito's the following summer....Plus, she's from Chicago, so cold don't bother her none.
All in all, not the big deal the weather-dude wants me to think it is.

DGW

 

[bigbillyboy]

Calling for up to 14 inches of snow here in pa ........

 

[Jim Walsh]

The latest weather speculation…err, report…is saying 12 to 15 inches will be sitting in my driveway.

 

[s4s4u]

Y'all are lucky to get some snow with your cold. We're just getting the COLD

 

[WendyZXZ]

It is supposed to be in single digits and teens starting about Saturday here with Winter mix.

 

[GasGuzzler]

How much ICE do y'all get though. Snow isn't that bad. We're gonna get up to a half inch of ice.

 

[ProfessorWes]

I'm not sure what it's going to do for me. KY3 (Springfield) said 4"-8" for my area; National Weather Service is calling for 6"-12." Some maniac was claiming Springfield to Jefferson City was going to get 12"-18", which would pretty much guarantee I won't be going anywhere for a couple of days after it stops, even when I live just off US 54.

At least with the cold it should be a dry snow. From the sound of it, most of Arkansas, northern MS and Tennessee are going to be Icepocalypse.

After this round of frigidity, they're calling for a couple more rounds of Arctic blasts over the next couple of weeks so there won't be a lot of thawing.

 

[Fox Mike]

They are predicting 5-10" here in northeast Maryland and sub 0 wind chill. We have TP, a full freezer, full fuel tank, propane tanks, for the generator, topped off two days ago. We have nowhere to go and all weekend to get there. It's winter, it's Maryland. If you don't like the weather, stick around a little while, it will change.

 

[stonebuster]

The latest weather speculation…err, report…is saying 12 to 15 inches will be sitting in my driveway.

I live New Milford & saw the same report. We got @ 7" last week. I cleaned up around here getting more wood in the basement for the woodstove we heat with. Supposed to be close to zero Sat. AM. We've been lucky the last couple winters but this year, not so much.

 

[WAYNO]

Funny, this weather stuff.
I'm kindve thinking we won't get a winter up in the Pacific Northwest.
But We were scheduled to fly to Florida tomorrow. For health reasons I cannot go. My boy was cancelling all the flight connections for me and Southwest told us to hold off, as the flight will likely be cancelled because of the storm and that would save us a cancellation fee.

 

[ProfessorWes]

My phone went off with a weather alert promptly at 3:00 AM.

National Weather Service is now forecasting eight to thirteen inches for my area. Swell. With highs in the teens and lows in the single digits. Minus two for Sunday night.

It was 70 degrees for Christmas; I just knew we were going to pay for it somewhere down the road real soon now. And as seems to happen every other year, we'll probably get the bulk of our winter precipitation in one or two great big python lumps this time around.

 

[tazbigdog]

I live New Milford & saw the same report. We got @ 7" last week. I cleaned up around here getting more wood in the basement for the woodstove we heat with. Supposed to be close to zero Sat. AM. We've been lucky the last couple winters but this year, not so much.View attachment 93412View attachment 93410

I remember being in Virginia Shenandoah mountains in the late 80’s and early 90’s, when the USFS cord wood permit was $5/cord for dead and down. Your wood pile looked like mine, and I had 10 cords, cut, stacked and seasoned for those winters. We also had a woodstove in the basement that heated the entire house. Ah… those were the days!

Calling for 9-24 inches here, so we’ll see!

 

[Mobuck]

Looks like a lot of effort expended to have a neat looking woodpile.
Too bad someone doesn't live closer to me since I have (by conservative estimate) 500 cords of dead seasoned ash wood on the stump following the ash borer infestation.

 

[GasGuzzler]

No answers? 1/2" of ice is worse than a foot of snow.

 

[blume357]

I do need to do some prepping for the next day or so... supposed to hit here Saturday night... I usually just poo poo these folks saying the weather is going to be real bad... but the last time they said that and I figured no big deal... well let's just say our contractor is trying to get out next week to start work on putting the master bedroom of our house back together.... we will not have re-cooped from 'Hell'ene (that's the new name I'm going to use for that hurricane ) until probably at leas the end of this year. Wife needs me to take her to the Walgreens and healthy supplement store today and that will I'm sure be an adventure. While she's at the supper duper every kind of vitamin and supplement you can imagine store I think I will go next door to the grocery store and buy some milk and bread just for the hell of it. the do sell some mean mustard that is made in Asheville... Lusty Monk.

 

[stonebuster]

Looks like a lot of effort expended to have a neat looking woodpile.
Too bad someone doesn't live closer to me since I have (by conservative estimate) 500 cords of dead seasoned ash wood on the stump following the ash borer infestation.

The Ash borers have killed most of the Ash trees here too. I burn a lot of Ash. But red oak, maple, black locust too. Our town which has the largest land mass of any in Ct. stockpiles all the trees that come down in storms and allows residents to cut off the pile. I cut & split by hand before I load it and take it home. Neatness just because I try to stack it so it gets air & doesn't rot. I save $500+/month off my electric bill by burning wood. That stove has saved me $100,000+ over 30+yrs. Houses in my neighborhood were built when electric was cheap & many have pellet stoves now to keep the bills lower. Neighbor next door got an electric bill of $1000/month his 1st winter and that was 15yrs ago. Ours was $180 last month for a unusually cold December.

 

[Lt Choate]

The OP's stack of wood reminds me of that episode of Andy Griffith where Gomer felt indebted to him for "saving his life" and kept doing all of these things and being a general nuisance. Andy came home one day and Gomer had cut and stacked a massive amount of wood. Andy said, "There's enough there for seven winters...."

 

[s4s4u]

How much ICE do y'all get though. Snow isn't that bad. We're gonna get up to a half inch of ice.

The streets in town were slick as snot yesterday AM. Kinda caught me by surprised when I turned onto main street, my front and rear bumpers wanted to swap ends. It did not look as greasy as it was. A little snow on top and...

 

[pyth0n]

 

[dstegjas]

Things won’t start here in central Ohio until mid day Saturday with a couple of inches. Sunday they are saying between 10 to 13 inches of snow. Followed by several days of single digit temperatures. We are both retired and won’t have any need to go out on the roads. So I’ll enjoy the day by plowing driveways in the neighborhood and coming home and sitting by the fire. I’ve always said that if it’s going to be cold, I want snow. It looks like someone was listening to me.

 

[kentucky yeti]

No answers? 1/2" of ice is worse than a foot of snow.

Depends on if it is 1/2" of sleet (slick driving) or 1/2" of freezing rain (may bring down some limbs, some power lines). Our last biggie was 2: of freezing rain. Hundreds of poles snapped, no power for 32 days, thousand of trees completely destroyed.