# Winter Storm Izzy Survival Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784 "2022-01-14T15:44:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/1 "2022-01-14T15:44:39Z")
Here comes winter again. Last week we were out of power for four days here in Central Virginia. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pWa0dZMHYeE/hqdefault.jpg "It Is Happening Again") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWa0dZMHYeE) So it looks like a foot of snow, ice and wind. This time work is going to hole me up in a hotel so I can help staff the grocery store for 12 to 14 hours a day. Panic buying is already occurring and there are major product shortages. Oh, and then there is the large number of staff (and probably customers) with Omicron Covid. My wife is going to be stuck home with our dog and probably the neighbor’s dog as well. She is going to be getting all the snow off the deck as well as taking care of power outage and downed tree issues. This winter is awful. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/2 "2022-01-14T15:54:38Z")
Expecting 1-3 inches here in central KY. Note that storm names devised by TWC have no standing and are dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/3 "2022-01-14T16:00:18Z")
Yes the names are dumb but that is neither here nor there. The name I have for this storm is much worse than “Izzy.” I get to spend my 61th birthday Monday working a probable 14 hours, staying in a cheap hotel and worrying about my wife. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/4 "2022-01-14T16:01:16Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Note that storm names devised by TWC have no standing and are dumb. They’re good for ratings, so at least they work as designed and intended by making money off the misery of the masses ---
**Author:** ![SoToasty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sotoasty/32/2803_2.png) [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/5 "2022-01-14T17:32:40Z")
Mid NC here. Expecting 4-8 inches of snow. With some sleet and freezing rain thrown in. Wife works til 10:30 Saturday night, so right about when it is supposed to hit. She stocked our shelves with groceries on Tuesday. We know when a storm comes through, the shelves empty out early. But for us, it is pretty much normal grocery buying, just a day or so early. We are a bit worried about losing power. Hopefully, we will only get snow and keep our power. Good luck to those just a bit south of us. Could be a long week. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/6 "2022-01-15T21:22:14Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Note that storm names devised by TWC have no standing and are dumb. Indeed, they are. Anyway, I’ve read recently that the reason they keep ballsing up the forecasts during the pandemic is because they rely heavily on data from commercial flights, which are erratic lately. I don’t know if that’s true, but over the last 2 years I can’t think of many storm forecasts that haven’t been repeatedly revised, and often still wrong. I’d like to hope this one’s two-day-out forecast is correct because it’s been downgraded from 4-10" to 1-2" and I hate snow. The last “big” storm we had they predicted 1-4" then 6-8" and finally day-of 8-10". We got 2.5". ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/7 "2022-01-15T21:54:44Z")
This could explain why Harris Teeter was out of distilled water when I went shopping Thursday. Other than that I’m stocked up on food so as long as my power doesn’t go out I should be good. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/8 "2022-01-16T11:57:10Z")
My store looked like it had been looted last night. No produce. No milk. No meat. No bottled water. No paper towels or bath tissue. At least there was still beer. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/9 "2022-01-16T12:10:19Z")
South Carolina here, but very south, near the GA border. It’s rainy and windy, and right on the cusp of freeze/no freeze. I think we’ve escaped with just a minor nuisance factor, but Columbia and above is in for a rough, icy day I’m afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/10 "2022-01-16T12:49:35Z")
6-12 inches expected in Montreal on Monday. It will be a minor nuisance, but it’s unlikely that anything will close (some “snowflake” areas may decide to close schools). Road salt will have little effect if temperatures remain below -10 C (+14 F). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/11 "2022-01-16T14:58:34Z")
I think this is the most snow I’ve had in at least 10 years. Granted, it is maybe 3 inches, but it is a relative thing. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/12 "2022-01-16T15:44:48Z")
It’s not looking like a lot of snow in the DC area, but we may get some ice after the snow moves on. My wife and son had their original flight to LA cancelled, so they had to change it yesterday. They ended up flying out at 8 this morning, and are well on their way. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/13 "2022-01-16T22:42:15Z")
Over the last 2 weeks, I’ve gone to 3 different groceries and a CVS trying (and failing) to get distilled water. The 4th grocery store had just gotten a shipment in within the last few days and yes, I bought more than one. Well, normally I buy more than one, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/14 "2022-01-17T03:01:03Z")
My store has put me up in a hotel. Just me and two others were working tonight. Everyone else called out. Lots of people still coming in to shop though. They tell you to stay off the unsafe roads, but when you need chips and beer, what are people to do? No produce to speak of, meat department depleted. Eggs, milks, bread… you are kidding, right? Our product comes out of North Carolina, and it is even worse there than here so restocking will not happen until at least Tuesday. I do not understand the mentality of extra buying when supply is limited. If everyone got just what they needed until midweek, supplies would have stretched much farther. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/15 "2022-01-17T03:11:17Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I think this is the most snow I’ve had in at least 10 years. Granted, it is maybe 3 inches, but it is a relative thing Where do you live? In a decade or so my brother, sister-in-law, and I all aspire to live somewhere during the winter where 3 inches is “a lot” of snow for the area. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/16 "2022-01-17T03:21:49Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Where do you live? In a decade or so my brother, sister-in-law, and I all aspire to live somewhere during the winter where 3 inches is “a lot” of snow for the area. Northern South Carolina. I _think_ the last time we got this much (3, maybe 4 inches) was the winter of 2010/2011. Last winter we got maybe 1/100th of 1 inch. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/17 "2022-01-17T05:02:18Z")
Report from the Finger Lakes area of New York (no, it is not near The City): it’s snowing out there like it means it, for the first time in quite a while. I had done what was planned to be a once-in-three-weeks shopping just this past Tuesday. I didn’t do any more shopping. I did bring a lot of firewood into the house, and made sure all the battery things are charged (the desktop on which I usually read the Dope is not a battery thing; but my seed-order notes in progress are on an iPad.) I hope I can get dug out by Tuesday midday, I’ve got a car repair appointment then. Ain’t planning on going anywhere in the meantime. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/18 "2022-01-17T08:16:23Z")
We did some heavy-duty food shopping yesterday morning, and yes, they were out of several things. We have no place to be in the foreseeable future, so we’re staying home. Driveway is unshoveled, and we’re ok with that. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/19 "2022-01-17T15:00:49Z")
Updated report: Eight inches of snow on the ground this morning. It looks like it’s stopped, but the weather report says it’s supposed to start back up, and we may (or may not) get some sleet after all. There doesn’t seem to have been any sleet so far; power has stayed on, and even Frontier internet is working. The town snowplow has more or less been, at some point during the night; leaving a road I probably could get the 4WD Subaru down and back up if I had to, which right now I don’t. (I live on a dead-end road.) I expect they’ll come do a better job when they think it’s all over, which is what usually happens. I’d have to dig the car out first, though – the car itself is in a barn, but the area between the car and the plowed area, including the ridge left by the plow, needs to be shoveled. If I’m doing this, in my current condition it’s going to be a slow job with lots of rest intervals. It’s possible my neighbor will show up with one piece of equipment or another and take care of it for me. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784/20 "2022-01-17T21:06:44Z")
What’s annoying about the lack of distilled water last Thursday was that I had intended to buy some the week before and decided to put it off. If I had known there was a storm coming I wouldn’t have waited. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-storm-izzy-survival-thread/957784.md?page=2)