“Beware the pine tree’s withered branch
Beware the awful avalanche!”
I shoveled but left a little on the walk after it started sleeting. The freezing rain is coming down now; hopefully it won’t be too hard to get it up tomorrow with the sun shining on it.
Snowing/sleeting here still in VA. THANKFULLY we still have power. Forecasts tell us to expect to keep seeing the white stuff coming down until tomorrow.
Excelsior!
wait, that’s the motto of NY state, not NC
Still snowing here, and forecast to continue snowing until tomorrow. We went out and shoveled the first 5 inches, because it’s easier to do a few light jobs than one giant one.
Very light snow. Very easy to shovel, except my fingers for cold. My gloves were all wearing out, and i bought new ones last year. I guess they aren’t very warm.
Wife has been out twice to sweep the porch and steps and to shovel a path to the driveway. Seven inches here so far.
We seen to be finished here. Even some blue sky to the west.
Final tally seems to be about 11 inches, which is pretty respectable for the area. And it will stick for a while, as it’ll be below freezing for the next week or so.
And I do have power. Memphis thankfully managed to be in the thin path between snow and ice. We did get 4 inches of snow yesterday and sleet on top of that all night so roads are a mess. The highs will be 20 today and tomorrow with lows in the single digits. No getting out of the house before the middle of the week. But power!
The photos coming out of Mississippi, however, are heartbreaking. Some areas got 2 inches of ice! Oxford is a disaster area. Middle Tennessee also got hit very hard. Nashville is a mess. There are more power outages in Tennessee than any other state. I don’t recall any posters from Mississippi but I know we have a few from middle Tennessee. @StGermain @Maus_Magill @Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor I hope you are ok.
Weather.gov says just under 9” in Central Park. Seems to be done now. Meh. Sure is pretty though.
We seem to have 7 inches. The plows are not plowing much. Cars are having a time.
Well, my area was predicted to get catastrophic amounts of freezing rain, some models said 0.50 to 0.75 inches, some models said more than 1.5 inches. That would have meant millions of power outages lasting a week or more. (They also said maybe 2-3 inches of sleet but I didn’t care about that.) The storm is pretty much over and we got maybe half an inch of sleet followed by 1/10 of an inch of freezing rain, probably less. It went from “storm of the century” to “I guess maybe in the top 10 ice events in the last 25 years”. In a couple of those events my power was out for a week or more, this time not even a flicker.
I think it is officially mostly a nothingburger here.
I went out and knocked the icy crust off the top of the snow and sleet. Hopefully what’s left won’t be too hard to deal with tomorrow.
Here in central Kentucky there were predictions up to a couple days before the storm hit that we’d get 15+ inches of snow. As it got closer the snow total was dialed down to 11+ inches, then 7+ inches with 0.1 to 0.2 inches of ice from freezing rain. Then the ice accumulation prediction was elevated to 0.3 to 0.5 inches, meaning likely wide-spread outages and major tree damage. Those were official (NWS) and semi-official (i.e. Weather Underground) predictions, not the hysteria broadcast on social media of amateur and semi-amateur doom shouters with access to climate models (“the EURO-Bizzaz-Ultra model is calling for the Storm of the Century! Flee for you lives!”).
We’re ending up with about 2 1/2 inches of snow with maybe as much as 0.2 inches of ice and no serious repercussions at this point.
No complaints about the outcome - and certainly there were others to our south that have fared considerably worse.
At least I’ve blocked a good proportion of the Twitter ninnies who were crying Armageddon.
First came the snow, then the ice on top, then the freezing rain. Here in Middle TN, we’ve had almost 2” of rain today, with the temps hovering above freezing. Now the temps are in the mid-20’s and not supposed to warm above freezing for a couple days. My sister in Nashville has a tree on her house. But my power’s on, my water is dripping, the horse has extra hay and the dogs are all relaxing on my bed.
StG
By around 5:15 EST here, about six inches of snow and still snowing; might not stop till tomorrow. At the same time 8 degrees F. Too cold for ice to be an issue.
Due to the snow/low temps/etc Chapel Hill Transit has shut down until further notice, including the disability EZRider program. Fortunately I have no doctor appointments scheduled for the next two weeks, by which time things may be back to what passes for normal here. I am expecting visits from home health services and physical therapy this week, but I wouldn’t be surprised if either of these get canceled.
I have a friend who has to be on the move all the time. I’ve never met anyone else so restless. Today she posted on Facebook asking if any restaurants were open. I was thinking that she couldn’t stay at home for even one day. But then she posted that she and her husband were staying at a rental house because it had a fireplace and they hadn’t brought much food with them. The roads are impassable, few if any restaurants open. Even Doordash isn’t operating. What was she thinking? It’s not like we didn’t have any warning that snow/ice was going to linger for days. SMH 
I am eternally surprised – and really shouldn’t be – by how many people pay absolutely zero attention to weather forecasts, and are completely unprepared for a turn in the weather.
(As someone who had, at one point, planned for a career in meteorology, and who is still an amateur meteorologist, I admittedly am pretty compulsive about knowing what’s in the forecast, especially if I’m traveling away from home.)
Wife measured seven inches in our yard this afternoon. Weather.gov says the towns to the north, northeast and east of us got 11, 11.5 and 12 inches, respectively.
The Weather Channel started naming winter storms a few years ago. They’re the only ones who officially use those names.
One other thing: If your power is out, due to Fern or any other reason, never assume that someone else called the utility company. After the 2020 derecho, nobody from 2 buildings in my apartment complex called, probably assuming that the rental office did (and they would have, for that building). One of the occupants was on home dialysis, so had the utility known, they would have prioritized us. Mine was out for 3 days, which didn’t really bother me all that much until I found out about this (and yes, I called ASAP).