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.
The local news was saying that store shelves here were starting to empty even early this afternoon.
Semper Paratus
That’s a really good list! Thanks!
Even though we have an automatic generator now, there could still be issues like gas for your car. And many others.
Which one’s the GFS?
Columbia SC will probably end up about the same.
10 to 16 for Philly and parts to the North and the West.
DC has not seen a deep snow for ten years or so
The global warming is on West...we are starving for snow.
every time we get one of these wild storms I think about the original gotta get the bread and milk guy.
but this tweet is pretty good. dont know the movie reference
https://x.com/CoachMasonHoops/status/2014515797331153367
My wife and I well recall the “storm of the century” in 1993. Some rather interesting expeiences that weekend!
I don’t recall how many years ago when we had that 20 inches in 24 hours here in central Kentucy, but it was pretty intense. We are well stocked with food and adult beverages...........as long as we don’t lose power we could hold out for weeks.
Fingers crossed.
Well, I’m glad for you. But I think I like 4 distinct seasons, even if we get snowed-in once in a great while...
IN Northern CT, they are predicting 12” Sun and 2” Monday starting around late afternoon Sunday.
I started watching Ryan Hall about a year ago when a particularly STRONG storm front moved through central tennessee spawning several tornadoes one of which touched down just a handful of miles SW of where I live (Summertown) and another hit my friend’s house NE of Columbia where he lives off Bear Creek (?) parkway/412 near I-65. Took out houses near him, all the trees in his house and only stripped siding off ONE side of the house. Whole family was inside. I couldn’t get anywhere near him to help for several days and by then I was on my way back to Maryland.
We lived in MD just 15.5 miles North of the Washington monument (street numbers were based decades ago on distances from that reference point) and I recall digging out of the storm of 1995 - close to 3 feet fell. Got trapped in our development that only had ONE entrance as a salt truck/plow slid on some ice and got wedged between trees/curb/cars and the county had to wait 3 days to get some equipment to haul it out. I walked two miles to Safeway for bread milk and toilet paper (stuff) uphill both ways in two+ feet of snow and was AMAZED at how empty the shelves were. Bought a Jeep the following week. POS, sold it six months later.
I recall the “Snowmageddon” of 2010, measured 23” on our driveway. There was another one in between, 2003?, neighbors helped dig out our drive but we couldn’t go anywhere until plows got to us 3 days later.
We had an ice storm hit us there in 1996, lost power for five days, burned every scrap piece of lumber, some old chairs and all our firewood and bought a FIREBOX shortly after that, ran 2 cords a year through it for the next 25 years or so until we sold this house this past June 2025.
Moved into our place here in central TN in May, I have an MEP -803A genset I’ll get wired in this coming year, several smaller gensets (MEP 802) and gas ones too, kerosene and propane heaters and a Morso 1123 firebox, going to finish cutting firewood (nice deadfall I cut up a while ago to season), we’re expecting ICE. Lots and lots of ICE.
Ryan Hall is the man. While those straight-line winds of 70+ mph were hitting last year I watched his youtube channel and that’s how I knew my friend’s house got hit by a tornado.
Gotta go Gotta get batteries charged, check on emergehcy suppplies, figure out how I’m going to wire the well pump if we lose power (don’t have the well solarized yet - that’s this year). Older neighbors I need to check on. Will probably take my HMMWV around to check but, don’t have chains for it or any of my vehicles so maybe I’ll be walking, who knows.
Praying this isn’t a repeat of the winter storm of ‘94. Old timers still talk about the TEN days they were without power. Didn’t bother the Amish none.
My husband was in Penn State when that one happened. He often talks about it - I think he has said it was almost 30 inches of snow there.
Sunny, 50’s in northern NV.
❄️😂👍. In this instance, I gotta say I’m against ice. 😁
I volunteer to help you guys shovel, but I live too far away.
i am looking around for the Vegan pics. you can see entire meat sections wiped out and there will still be vegan stuff that no one will touch. i remember those pics from Covid. It surely will hold true with this
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