Here in coastal southern North Carolina it’s cloudy and warm I came home from the gym and noticed it was colder in the house than outside. 71 degrees F on the outside, still 64 degrees F inside. I had to open a bunch of windows to let the heat in.
I’m about 20 miles south of Lake Erie in Ohio. It was 40 and raining for about 8 hours yesterday, then it got colder and turned to snow around 11 PM. It’s been snowing lightly since then, I woke up to only a couple inches.
It’s piling up pretty good now, with a layer of ice underneath. So far we’ve been spared any outages. All the schools in the area were closed for today (good call - it would not have been safe driving to or from school) and businesses closed, or are closing early.
This is the kind of thing that is very hard to keep up with, regarding plowing. They couldn’t salt yesterday at all with the rain, and the constant snow all day just makes it impossible to keep the roads clear.
So far it seems like everyone’s in agreement that the worst is yet to come, just stay home. Grocery stores and gas stations were a wreck Tuesday.
No power outages in the area as of yet. Although Cleveland had outages the other day, unrelated to the storm.
I’m in East Central Indiana. It’s been snowing pretty much continuously since about 7:00 last night. Not hard, but steady. We’ve probably gotten about 5 inches now, just based on looking at how high the snow is piled on my back deck. It’s supposed to continue until about 8:00 tonight, then begin to taper off.
So far we haven’t lost power, and Indiana in general seems to have relatively few power outages. Pretty much all the schools are closed through Friday. The university I work at closed the physical campus for today. All classes are virtual, and I’m working from home. Supposedly we will resume normal campus activities tomorrow, but we’ll see if they change that later in the day. They’re doing a pretty good job keeping up with plowing. A snowplow has come down my street at least twice, and we live on a very small, out of the way street. If they’ve gotten around to us, then the bigger streets have been taken care of.
As much as I hate Abbott’s rotten guts, these outages are not related to the power grid. They’re just normal stuff like when an icy branch falls on power lines and stuff like that.
There are still about 9K households without power, but they’re scattered all over the city. No giant areas of outage.
Trash pickup happened, and mail delivery, and amazon delivery. One of my cats keeps going out and coming in, mad as hell. She can’t believe this is happening to her. Cats are inherently narcissistic, aren’t they?
In all fairness, I get it too. BUT he promised! I’d call him a weasel but ferrets are cute.
Yeah, we just need to give him a hard time on general principles!
Here’s a live cam in Fostoria, Ohio, about 34 miles south of Toledo:
I love watching the live web cams around the world and around the USA on YouTube!
Holy crap! The sun just came out here! It’s going to clear up and be really cold tonight-- in the low 20s. But I don’t think we’re in for any more precipitation.
It’s looking like we may be out of the woods. There could be a bit more ice later tonight but the main of it looks like it will stay west of us. Still around 133,000 people without power, though, including several of my friends. The wind has picked up so some ice is falling off the trees. It sounds like squirrels skittering on the roof. I was on the porch earlier and saw huge branches high up in two trees break off and then take down all the branches below them. It’s been quite a day.
It’s so beautiful but so dangerous.
WL Indiana, over a foot of snow in the last 42 hours. Classes canceled in the local schools, including Purdue, on Wed, Thu, Fri.
Our friendly neighbor has some sort of small enclosed farm vehicle with a plow, and plowed out my driveway while wifey shoveled the front steps (I was in webex and zoom meetings all day).
It’s the most snow I’ve seen since Christmastime 2008 in Seattle.
Roads in Arkansas are extremely dangerous. Highway Dept will try to clear major routes Friday morning.
I had a important doctor’s appointment. Xrays, ultrasound scheduled Friday at 2. I’ll probably have to reschedule it. I’m not driving 35 miles through this stuff.
Update from Entergy, Thursday evening.
In Central Texas. There’s definitely ice on the less traveled roads, but nothing like we had a year ago.
The only strange thing that happened is that a cat that does not belong to us wanted to be let into the house last night when things started going downhill. She’s a gray tabby Manx. We’re calling her Not Ours for now.
We had one of those, we called her Freeloader for the rest of her life.
Good on you for letting her in, sometimes critters know when to find a sucker…err kind person to help them when things are going to shit. Poor thing doesn’t even have a tail to wrap around herself if she had to sleep outside in the cold.
Very cold in south Arkansas. The frozen stuff is allover the rural roads and my deck. I caught the kids skating in their boots out there. I told the Moms and stopped worrying.
I couldn’t stop them.
The pets don’t wanna go out but I forced the issue, made several mandates and got it done.
Our power hasn’t flickered but once for about an hour.
All in all, we’re good.
In the northeast we are supposed to get ice too. I woke up to 55 degree temperatures. Its supposed to drop to 31 after noon and still be raining. The drive home might be fun.
I’m in northern Illinois outside Chicago. Just when I think I can no longer deal with winter, I hear about ice storms and realize that although it sucks here, it’s far better than ice storms.
So far we appear to have dodged a bullet in central Kentucky, in spite of dire warnings of doom yesterday from the Governor’s office and forecasts of up to an inch of ice by an oft-quoted TV weather forecaster whose name is hopefully mud by now. Rain became freezing rain here about 5 p.m. Thursday, hours later than expected and while heavy at times initially, began slackening during the night. We are now having light snow atop an ice coating which I estimate at around 0.2 inch, enough to bring down scattered small tree limbs.
I’m keeping everything including the chain saw charged up just in case.
This makes four ice storms since we moved back to Kentucky (there were three in a 10-day period last February). I’m sure we would have had a major outage by now if not for having acquired a generator.
We had one for 16 years called “Orphan”, as in the ‘orphan’ kitten that came to our door in the Boston storm that we are going to take to the shelter any day now.
Hmmm. The cat who when arriving on a cold night two years ago got called Who Are You? is currently curled up comfortably on the other side of the room.
I suspect from your “for now” that you, and very likely the cat, anticipate a similar outcome.
– we’ve got a good bit of snow, and some is still coming, but there was very little ice. I think my road is currently impassible, but I wasn’t intending to go anywhere. (The main roads may be open, I don’t know; the road I live on has three houses on it, and is understandably generally one of the last to be cleared during major storms.)
I wouldn’t be so sure you can’t get one.
We’re not laughing NOW, are we?
