Posted on 01/22/2026 5:14:26 PM PST by Jamestown1630
Nobody seems to have begun a thread for the snowstorm that is forecast for this weekend, so I thought I would.
Where I live (DC Metro area) a big snowstorm is relatively rare. We're the ones who don't really know how to drive in it because we don't get a lot of practice; and we also crowd the grocery store and wipe out the shelves - often for stuff we don't really need, and for a forecast that doesn't amount to much but flurries.
But once in a while, we really get whacked; and I think this may be one of those times. (My husband grew up in the wilds of Pennsylvania, and laughs at what we consider 'getting whacked' down here.)
I'm hoping we get lots of snow, and little or no ice; and hope everyone will be safe.
Let us know what you are doing to prepare, if you live where it might hit.
I do the same. And a big chunk of Texas is expecting snow and/or ice this weekend, including Houston.
I grocery shopped on Tuesday knowing it was going to get crazy.
I got a picture of a grocery store in northwest Houston this evening - there was a line just to get in to the store. It looks worse than before a hurricane.
I was stuck behind a convoy of those tractors during that DC snowstorm, and very glad I was!
Thank you, and same to you. Hope they don’t an inch of ice down South.
Yeesh. We are back “down” to 11” of snow coming, but with lots of sleet, now... Thankfully, any freezing rain still looks minimal, and on top of snow/sleet, not under it.
Temps get too cold for salt to do much...
Blech, that's the worst. Heavy snow covered in ice clinging to power lines and trees. Hope you have a generator. Luckily we're just getting a foot and a half to two feet of powder.
Here is northern CT chemtrails are very obvious—and very rare—only see them a few times a year.
Yesterday we had some—and it is easy to spot because there some normal contrails as well and there was a nice breeze and a bright blue sky as background where there were no chemtrails.
The contrails dissipated quickly (a minute or two) while the chemtrails stuck around for hours and covered a significant portion of the sky.
Here in SE VA (Norfolk) I say the roads are full of dehydrated idiots. Just add water. And the degree of their idiocy is inversely proportional to the degree of the water.
Most everything I need is in my hurricane kit. Just going to do the weekly commissary run.
I was in Baltimore/DC area a lot in 2000 and 2001 and I remember that any precipitation (rain) at all slowed traffic to a crawl as if they were driving on ice. Fortunately, I got to miss out on any big snow events the entire time I was in the northeast.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” - Dr. David Viner, University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit 2020.
We are half tempted to escape N Texas for San Antonio, except for one thing.
I35.
What kinda mess will I 35 be on Friday night, especially if the storm tracks just a little south?
And I will be back on Monday for work, unless we all die.
Looks like freezing temps may be fairly south in the state.
Do you know what happened to Viner after he spewed out his lies and propaganda?
He got rewarded:
If you reward con artists you just get more of them.
I just saw an update this morning that says my area, Miami County, could get 5-8 inches of snow now, with higher levels just to my south in Howard County. So it appears that this system is going more northward than they first anticipated. I’ll find out more in a bit later but yeah, the weathermen and women are very hyped about this one.
Good thing I’m stocked up. As long as we don’t lose power, I’m good.
LOL!
I hope you can get out yourself and brave the lines - my effort to have some things delivered yesterday failed completely; hoping they’ll still come today.
Whenever something like this is hyped in the news, my husband goes around humming ‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It’.
3 degrees right now here in S.E. Mich. even tho it’s sunny
I know it’s beautiful, but I would feel very isolated in Hawaii...
My heating bill jumped a hundred dollars this last month. I have a feeling the system isn’t working right; and they’re calling for very low temps here for the next week. (Not like yours of course, but very cold for here.)
And I 35 is a mess on a good day. Of course, you can always get on that toll road, Highway 130 at Georgetown and take that to San Antonio, but it’s a little pricey. I do like the 85 mph speed limit on most of it, though.
I’m hearing the grocery stores in San Antonio are wiped out, so the must also be expecting precipitation other than rain.
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