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.
Either that, or people are believing the nonstop weather porn that has been flooding the airwaves the last couple of days.
LOL!
I lived in Richmond, VA, and, IIRC, we had a huge ice storm in 1948 or 49 (maybe ‘50 or ‘51 — I was just a kid!) —couple of inches!
We neighborhood kids had great fun for a couple of hours speeding down the pathways into the “Ravine,” as we called it. I think it is known as Battery Park now.
Going down was fun — getting back to the top was difficult — what with all the ice.
There was one of those concrete-channel creeks at the bottom of our hill. You had to be able to turn off before you went right down into the water. And if it was icy, there’s no way you could climb up the sides.
Good times :-)
I’m having two trees taken down (at the cost of 2000 dollars) tomorrow. One leans over my carport.
There’s another dangerous one, but it’s on my neighbors property, so I cannot touch that one, besides, it is so huge it would be 6000 or more to take down.
I have a small generator and plenty of gas for bare essential electrical.
I have a ton of nonperishable food. I have a bunch of bottle water and an outdoor fridge full of bottle drinks (Body Armor and the like).
I have a few LED flashlights and a crank radio.
Despite my best preparations, I am going to freakin’ die.
I’m constantly doomscrolling, convinced that it is the end of the world.
Laz brother hang in there. Just think what we are witnessing.
So am I. If we live through this, we should meet up.
Ouch! And I’ve got some limbs from a neighbor’s tree leaning towards my boathouse. Intend to trim before it leafs out, hope it holds up.
You’re not going to die, Laz.
There are still too many women in the world to be hit. They’d be bereft without your ministrations.
Stay warm and take care.
In my middle TN city they wiped out canned goods. Only thing left in the canned veggies aisle was a tomato/okra mix. And wax beans.
I watched the national NBC news tonight for the first time in a while. You would have thought that this was the end of the world as you know it. Empty store shelves was the craziest. Two of my kids flew out of DFW today just in the nick of time.
LOL. Like all fads, 5 years ago no one even knew what gluten was.
Remember the No Transfat craze?
Like eating meat
I lived in the DC Metro Area (MD) for most of my life.
On the eve of one Snowpocalypse or another I was in a Safeway store to grab a few totally unnecessary items.
Most people were getting the normal “white essentials,” but I saw one confused-looking woman wandering around with a potted plant.
I was working at a bank when I was 20 and a woman came in with a small tree under her overcoat.
Leaves were falling everywhere.
When people looked at her she screamed, DON’T EVEN ASK!
we didn’t.
Apparently, the Weather Channel is naming this monster Winter Storm FERN.
LOL.
That could have been me...
Well, Fern is a nice name. It comes from the Old English and began to be used as a female first name in the 1800s.
I prefer giving female names to storms. It seems to fit.
Fortunately, we had no major obstacles. Zip down the hill & across the bottom — struggle back up & do it again!
“how bad do people panic buy before a storm in texas?” pic.twitter.com/BHV0d45vYv— quinn 🖤 (@averagetexanman) January 24, 2026
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