It is actually scary to see how grocery stores are cleaned out. Snow shovels sold out? Do you throw them away every year? WTH?? As if they won’t survive till Tuesday. Did the jabs or living through the lockdown damage their brains?
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Here in the woods in WV, this coming storm is actually a bit on the serious side for us.
We're expecting 5-7 inches of snow, and then 1/4" of ice, but an hour away has 7-10" of snow forecasted so we could get that. Even if we just get 6", it will take a week or more for the county to get to plowing our road, and we're not going to get above freezing for at least a week, which means it's not going to melt. We expect to not be able to get to a paved road for at least a few days and maybe a few weeks. Hopefully the power will stay on.
Now we do plan for this sort of thing, but as the military says, no plan survives contact.
Fortunately, I'm WFH and have Starlink, so as long as gas for the generator holds, we're mostly good. But it ain't going to be fun.
The ice is the worst thing. Sticks to everything and gets heavy. It can down entire trees and forget driving on it. But you may have firewood forever.
Ice world is beautiful. We had such a storm about 30 years ago. No electric for 2 weeks, which means no water. That storm took out every scrub pine in our forest. My kids thought it was great fun. Melting and straning water over a camp fire for flushing. Collecting water from the local fire department (only street with electric) for washing and drinking.
Kids loved the whole adventure, as did my husband who got to play with his chain saw every day. Me? I discovered you can, indeed, wash your hair and whole body with a couple of gallons of warm water and gained a whole new respect for my great grandmothers who lived like that every day of their lives.
A decade or two later. We lived without electric after a hurricane. Much worse because no way to preserve food and fetching water was a full time job.
Think of the people in the mts. Some with no roof at all. For them, this could be really rough.
I’m from up north where this just sounds like another normal week but we have plows and it will be clear in a day. Over a foot in one day is unusual but does happen some winters but it’s been maybe 2 years since that happened where I live.
The ice is no joke regardless of where you live. You can’t stop or steer much if it’s all covered in ice. Power lines can fall and power distribution can fail.
I pray that none of the ice happens and you just have a nice snow that melts in a few days. Stop the weather modification in Jesus’s name. Cause the machines to fail that would seek to cause this from planes or buildings. Calm the weather and make the terror of the storm be gone and not allowed to come forth.
There are instances where it’s understandable. But less than a foot of snow, maybe some ice??? (Which is the forecast here.)