Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire This Unusual Winter Storm Will Bring BIG TIME Ice, Snow, and Hurricane Force Wind Gusts…

We got blasted in the Des Moines metro. The folks east of us are about to get blasted as well. Chitcago is getting it today.

kwg

ya this crap is changing my plans. i'm at camp in SC PA and was looking forward to celebrating MLK day in the least diverse place i know. probably pack up tomorrow and ride it out at home. got beer and a woodstove there too so i'm not too bummed.

supposedly 2" here tomorrow night - south of here may get 4-6.

Not much really

The weather people say we will get between 1 and 12 inches. My wife is hoping for 12 but I already told her that there is nothing 12 inches and white

Gotta go to the store and stock up on bread and milk. 😁

Has the weather channel given the storm a name yet?

Interesting.

Relative in NC says they've named the storm "Izzy?"

we don't do that out here..................it's just..............................................winter.

We got some snow up here but idk how much, it went by at 30mph. My plow guy left a little pile off the driveway just to show he had been there. Only the second time this winter he has been out so I don't blame him. We maybe got 4-5".

Got the studded tires on the trusty old f-150 and 500 lbs of sand bags stacked over the rear axel.

Let it happen.

Kids are hoping for snow but it’s looking like a good bit of ice for us between Charlotte and Greensboro. It’s been a long time since we had a bad ice storm and I’m hoping this one isn’t it. 20mph winds and up to 0.5” of ice is a $hitty recipe.

I drove 13 miles home last night with my 2 wheel drive Cheby. I have some fresh cut logs and a couple of sand bags in the back. I imagine there was 5 or 6 inches on the ground when I went home at 5:15. The worst part was on the freeway and the Interstate. Use your head and take you time is the key to success. Well, 500 lbs of sand bags helps too.

kwg

Is it freezing rain or just sleet? We had 2 inches of ice pellets last year, no big deal, but freezing rain sucks.

If worst comes to worst, I'll have to haul my wife to work tomorrow. I've already decided I won't be on the interstate.

I'm about 35 miles south of Charlotte. We have heard everything. They won't know what we will get until it gets here. The GFS model shows us getting 6" plus. European model shows it spitting. Radio says maybe 1/4" to 1/2" ice north of us. Will drink coffee in the morning and see what reality is.

Mix of both. Start out as snow and transition to sleet or freezing rain. The latter you can’t do a damn thing with and add in wind and it will be a big old bag of suck. Generator started and have a a spare gas can at the ready. Only a half gallon of milk so I’m not sure we’ll manage.

I bought a tall pair of these to go on the back of my F-150. They're made in Finland. People in Northern Europe use them on AWD SUVs and put them on all four wheels. They have 190 studs per tire.

They work pretty good on a 2WD pickup, also,...good on both snow and ice.

What are you saying.
We are diverse. We have blondes, lots of shades of brown, redheads...
my hair is blackish, with about 2% white. 180 degrees of skin color
around here. 98% white.


Rumor has it the government wants to build some housing projects
here and bring some Philly spice out to...enhance or community.
We used to have some groups that would have stopped that. They
still exist, not sure if they have the backbone they used to.

As to the subject at hand, we are about 4 miles east of I-99.
They claim that puts us in an area to get a mix. That will make things
a bunch worse.

Yawn.... . OH, and BTW, make sure them EEEEEEEEEElectric cars have a full charge so when they get stuck for 24 hours on some freeway backup they'll have enough juice for maybe 10-12 hours...

P.T. Barnum was right...

Hope it doesn’t get like it did last year.

No storm is official until Frankie reports it. All others are fake!