Guess we didn’t want the east coast to have ALL the fun!
Groundhog dude is NEVER leaving his hole here in Ohio on Wednesday!
Big weather event is predicted, depending where you are Wednesday-Friday this week.
My hope is that it totally is a miss - but that won’t happen!
Current calling for 12+ inches here in Northern Ohio. Did my food shopping this past weekend - shelves weren’t plentiful then, can’t imagine how they will be by tomorrow.
What is coming your way? Will you be hibernating? In addition to the snow it will start as rain, change to ice, then snow then WIND and heavy snow…I think we won’t emerge until Friday…
We postponed our snowmobiling trip this past weekend due to the storm. We’re supposed to go Friday and Saturday. But now we will have to keep an eye on the new storm! Argh. Frustrating when snow hampers a snow activity, ha.
And that Ohio storm is heading next to New England. We are supposed to get 5-8 inches Friday….but that is better than the ice and freezing rain they were originally predicting.
North Texas is predicted to have some ice or sleet Wednesday night and then stay well below freezing on Thursday. Everybody in town was filling their cars at Costco today, so if the power grid fails like last year year, at least we can back the car out of the garage and run the engine to charge phones and warm up temporarily.
Weird - Punxsutawney is rain on Wednesday and 3 inches of snow Thursday night/Friday morning. I would think northern OH storms would pass by here. Phil looks to be fine.
This takes me back to the Groundhog Day blizzard of 2011, when we still lived in Chicagoland. My husband had planned a trip back east to see his mother, so I planned myself a solo trip down to Sanibel, Florida. I left before the blizzard hit, and came back after the flights all got back on track. And our neighbor had cleared our driveway (he loved his snow blower). This was the storm where drivers had to abandon their cars on Lake Shore Drive.
In memory and commiseration, here’s our old driveway and back yard.
Sunday 19 inch snow drift behind garage, light, fluffy snow, and no outages in New Jersey. Hunker down, ya’ all, and hope for light snow, no outages, and make your Netflix and reading lists now
Forecasters are saying about 15" here in northeast Ohio. Bring it on. Though they often times err on the high side. Not sure there is anyone who sensationalizes weather more than NE Ohio. Winter and summer thunderstorms too. Its Jan/Feb. We get snowstorms. You don’t get north of 50" of snow a year without some snowstorms.
I also don’t get the panic buying at stores. How many people don’t have at least a couple days of food in the house they could eat if they were snowed in? And its typically not even a couple days. You may not be eating the exact meals you want but you will not go hungry.
And I totally get that places that are not used to seeing snow (like what happened in the south recently) creates huge issues. There isn’t in infrastructure in place to deal with it. But in places that get snow every year and have the capacity to address it, there really is nothing to get all up in arms about.
You probably also got the big snow a couple weeks ago - we dodged that one so I shouldn’t complain.
Yes, it is Ohio but really, the last couple of years we have had low snowfalls. I agree about the panic at the grocery store- major big box stores are saying even produce aisles are empty - the fruit and vegetables that people don’t normally eat!
Biggest hope is for power to stay on. That’s where ice becomes a worry…
We have had about 2’ of snow this year. Some of it has melted at this point though.
I had all of our windows open for about 30 minutes yesterday afternoon. Was cold but sun coming in the windows felt good. Also like to get fresh air into the house whenever chance arises.
Ice is definitely a problem. More so than snow in terms of power lines and trees. Knock on wood, we have good luck where we are with power. 2003 was our last outage that lasted longer than a minute or two. Hope I didn’t jinx myself. LOL
We did get that snow. Originally it was supposed to pass south to the west of us and then north to the east of us. But we got caught on the western edge as it passed up north. I prefer winters with more snow. But it often doesn’t stay around long. Ground has been snow covered for a couple weeks now and looks like there won’t be much chance for much meltoff for another couple weeks.
We are expecting a snow/ice event here in North Texas as Dragonmom mentioned. We just purchased a house that is currently vacant. Should we drip the faucets/open cabinet doors tonight, or would it be more prudent to turn off the water to the house and bleed out any water present in the pipes?
The freezing temps are only expected to hang around for a couple of days, not 10 days like last February.
@Nrdsb4 depends. I’ve only dripped faucets in the north during a cold spell and it’s been fine. But I’ve heard that Texas runs water piping through the attic where there is little insulation.
But to turn off the water and to empty the pipes requires an air compressor and someone with knowledge to do so. We have our lawn irrigation winterized every year. I know some of my snowbird neighbors have the entire house shut down.
It’s up to you. But an empty house, turn up the heat and drip the faucets at the very least. Good luck
Thanks. I didn’t know about the need for an air compressor!
Will open up cabinet doors, turn up heat, and drip the faucets. As long as we don’t lose electricity, we should be okay. With an ice storm, the possibility rises that we lose power. And, this is Texas. I’ll say no more.
