So for the fellow NRV/Blueridge people we are preparing for our 2nd snow storm in the span of a week. Me being a giles countian we are expecting 4-8 inches. What I want from my fellow hokies over the next 18 hourish is y'alls snow predictions and what it actually turned out to be🤘🤘👊
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We're supposed to be at a Girl Scout cookie booth tomorrow so I sure hope we don't get much up in South Jersey. Just got back from selling ~120 or so at a booth tonight, which was real good. EDIT: just counted up our stock. Sold 133. Pretty sure that is the most we've ever gotten at one of our booths.
Say, there are a lot of people here who are current or ex-military. People buy/make donations that go to the troops. Have any of you actually gotten Girl Scout cookies delivered to you on active duty? Just hoping to hear that they actually do get through to people as intended.
Girl Scout cookies👀😋
Soldier's Angels send them by the case. But that's as part of their other care packages, so I doubt GSA is directly involved.
Actually, just asked my wife and she said what is supposed to happen. When people donate money for troop donation, we just give that money to the person who is the "cookie mom" for our troop who handles our cookie purchases. What happens after that was all a black box to me until a few minutes ago. Each troop's cookie mom collects it all and sends that into someone somewhere at GSA and they keep track of what all the different troops sold in donations. Then Girl Scouts then tell the baker how many it is and the baker is supposed to deliver them. Not sure if they go directly to the military or maybe they work with people like the group you mentioned with the care packages. That's the theory at least. Glad to hear that, one way or another, you were getting them.
Pretty sure they came in cases when I was deployed
My wife is Cookie Mom this year, my daughter has managed to sell 230ish boxes so far so we were out making deliveries so everyone had snow storm comfort food to keep them happy. One of my wife's coworkers bought 67 boxes but assured us they weren't all for her. Struggle city 😪 having to be the passthrough for all those cookies.
I have to say the same thing every year
Mine has had her best season ever. About 550 boxes sold. We have about 50 more and have 1 more booth next weekend. Hoping to get essentially all of them offloaded then. With a lot of the troops not doing booths this year, people are really going to town when they see us. Have had several say ours was the first they have seen.
Yeah no booths here, most of her troop didnt even try to sell. Think the whole troop of 10 girls sold like 480, my daughter and one other account for about 85% of that.
I know our squadron got a boatload of them every year, but I'm pretty sure it was direct from somebody at the squadron's daughter's troop. And then last year on deployment, we got pallets of them, but I don't know the logistics of who did what to make that happen.
For large donations, the people can either goto the the Veterans Administration, Red Cross, DAV or one of the other veterans groups. They can put you in touch with someone that specializes in this kind of thing to arrange transport.
Supposedly 4-8" just like last week. My guess 5. More than last week.
Well, I was REALLY wrong. We had about 2 inches at 8 am and it was down to an inch by 10 am.
They need to start having these storms in the middle of the week. I want to take off to Snowshoe and shred the gnar.
Mother nature be like I'LL SNOW WHENEVER I WANT TOO😂
Just remember if you french fry when you should pizza you're gonna have a bad time.
We're working on the chiller line on West Campus right now and wasn't able to do anything on it this past week...another snow drop wouldn't be ideal.
Do you know Wendell Sprouse?
Not that I'm aware of
Snagged a cool 18-19" here total last weekend and looking like it'll be another 6-9" tomorrow. I just hope this storm stays as snow and doesn't turn to ice to make everything heavier
Yep that's the worse
Also 6-9👀.... Nice😂
wound up getting about 5-6" of super light fluffy snow
not ready
edit: it got me out of work so hahahahaha bring it on
Recently moved from in town where you had to clear snow to out in the country on some land and having to not shovel jack crap makes it much easier to enjoy. Plus all the beer can just be buried in the snow outside so makes for a nice Sunday.
3.1415926535"
Chesterfield and southern RVA/ Petersburg were downgraded to rain only now 😓 instead of 1-3"
But they've been wrong before🤷🏾♂️
😔
It just started snowing about 5 minutes ago
Update part 2: it is now 1530ish, and it's deliciously warm and sunny outside
The dog believes he can pee on the deck in the snow, instead of walking down to the grass.
It's been raining and lighting here since last night about 6. Some real house shaking storms.
Studley VA 2-3 and good snowman making snow.
☃️☃️☃️
Christiansburg: just shy of 4 inches.
Its melting fast. Roads are clear. Tonight refreeze will be hard.
Ooof😔
So lame, did not even stick this time in NOVA because it is not cold enough. Just a slushy mess to tease the kids (and big kids)...
It stuck until a little while ago here in Sterling, definitely no snowpocalypse. Ice will be the real issue tonight.
Ice storm this week?
Maybe, tons of uncertainty still. I dont like our odds its not shaping up to be your typical winter system and will be insanely warm. I think rain is more likely. Keep an eye on Sunday/early next week. Much more typical winter storm setup
For the Nrv area?
They were calling for about ten inches of snow here in Huntington on Wednesday and Thursday until yesterday. Now we're looking at about an inch of rain. Pretty annoyed.
This is a really difficult system to forecast. I mentioned before the freezing line, but you also have the variability of this being driven by a shortwave rather than your more typical pattern. Its suuuuper tricky
Furthermore a couple of degrees can literally be the difference between a foot of snow and an inch of rain. Winter storms are really friggin hard man. Keep an eye on Sunday and Tuesdays systems
Back up to six inches between Wednesday and Thursday with some ice mixed in there for good measure.
Just had snow #3. Only about 2 inches in South NJ though. Also fairly dry and light by our standards so was easy to shovel. Did the neighbor's walks on each side as work is slow right now and I was up anyway with not much to do. They closed school last night, which I thought was an over-reaction, but can understand they were just being cautious as some forecasts called for up to 5 inches and it would be falling right when kids were arriving. How's everyone else doing in their latest winter wonderland?
left the apartment this morning to find about 1-2" on my car. didn't really expect too much and not until after my morning drive, so i was all shocked pikachu when i opened the front door this morning
Hey folks, I am in Central PA and I'm scheduled to drive down to western South Carolina tomorrow, Sunday Feb 14. I'm planning on taking 81 from Pennsylvania all the way down past Blacksburg to 77, then cruising through NC past Charlotte.
Is anyone down in those areas? (Winchester, Harrisonburg, Roanoke, Blacksburg, Charlotte?) How are the ice/snow/rain conditions down there? It sounds pretty hazardous on the roads right now but I'm hoping that it won't be a hazardous drive by time I get down that way tomorrow afternoon. Any advice?
Thanks y'all!
Interstates are moving in my area (81/77) junction.
You can check 511 Virginia and should be able to see camera views of the interstates wherever you are going to be.
Absolute shit show earlier today, 81 mm 118-128. But you should be fine tomorrow. Safe travels.
Thanks. It'll take me about 4 hours to get to Harrisonburg and 5+ hours to get to Roanoke from here so I'm hoping by then everything is melted by then. I have a fine sheet of ice on the roads up here this morning so I'm going to hold off for a bit.
Yeah I think you should be fine by the time you get this far south.
We lost power (and heat) at around 3 pm yesterday and it still hasn't been restored. Icing was significant here on trees etc but most roads were fine by the afternoon.
Such a disaster. PA was icy but the highways were pretty clear. 81 was on until Winchester, then the span between 66 and 64 had multiple serious tractor trailer accidents. From 64 to 77 was pretty clear. 77 through NC was nothing but fog and rain, it was horrible. When I hit SC it cleared up, mostly. Trying to figure out when to come home, weather everywhere looks ok on Friday.
The valley area around Harrisonburg is expecting more snow/sleet/freezing rain after midnight Wednesday through Thursday. Friday is expected to be mid to upper 30's so I-81 should be better.
Edit: seeing some forecasts for 6-8 inches for Thursday now. This forecast is interesting to say the least.
https://www.facebook.com/WxRisk/posts/3739546986092532
Here is another good forecaster in the valley/central VA area
https://www.facebook.com/NoApologyVaMeteorology/
Yeah I'm looking at what is happening later this week and it looks like there is precipitation everywhere along the trip on Thursday but Friday looks clear. It'll take me at least 6 hours to hit Harrisonburg after I leave which will hopefully put me there Friday afternoon after everything is cleared up and it has a chance to get up near the Friday high of 39.
Caroline county, I am one of they said 30 of a out 3000 homes in my neighborhood with power. I'll take it. There are damn trees just everywhere. I couldn't even get out earlier.
40k out in Chesterfield, got the fireplace going, hoping to see power back on soon, been out since 130pm, and it's now 1030pm
After 2 very long days, power is back on.
We lost power for most of saturday, it came back at 6 so I cooked dinner and as I sat down to eat it went out for a few more hours before coming back and staying back on around 9. Everyone around me still doesnt have power due to their houses being fed by overhead lines that have trees all over them. This was a very nasty ice storm indeed.
Had no power all day today in montpelier but it's back for now it's been on again off again all evening. Everytime I think it's safe to put a movie on it drops out. Trees are down everywhere and so are the power lines. Going to be alot of people without power even onto tomorrow evening as messy as the trees are I had a friend who was sawing trees for the county have one fall on him while he was sawing another tree, luckily he's all good it seems but it's no joke out there.
member when the sun would shine and the weather wasn't doing an impersonation of the movie Groundhog
Day
Beard members
At least bunch of y'all are getting the white stuff. Here in northeastern NC, the real feel has been hovering around 34 degrees and it's been raining for something like 6 days, and supposed to keep raining through at least friday.
We had 60 trees on lines in our neighborhood and still only were out of power about 12 hours. I have never seen a power company so efficient and so communicative with their customers. This is REC not Dominion.
REC dont mess around compared to dominion their bubble is smaller so more efficient to me after being a dominion customer for so long.
REC is awesome! Been a customer for 7 years - this time we were without power for 45 hours, but they were still better than Dominion. Thankfully we have a whole house generator!
More ice Thursday! Not going to have to prune any trees this year.
FTFY
I'm going to pick up a generator today and a new chain for the chainsaw so this next storm doesnt ruin things that much.
Yay, more rain here in Hampton Roads. On the plus side, my dining room/indoor pool combination is filling up nicely.
sigh
This storm has been a weird one so far to me. Currently in MS working on restoration. Figuring we will head to LA tomorrow. It is so different seeing how states are built for certain conditions. We've been attempting to supply small heaters to folks as we restore power. Homes are built for winds here, not cold as expected and leave a tough situation for residents. At least out of state folks have the right equipment and slowly but surely should get it back on.
WTF is this shit?
https://vt.edu/status?fbclid=IwAR3H9knAVGegsECCOgEWSnL2dws7kLMFcA-4Vaave...
VA TECH CANCELLED CLASSES DUE TO WEATHER
Like how? I didn't even know that was possible.And to top it off, they announced it a day before. Not having to wake your ass up and seeing if they cancelled (they never did. best you could hope for was a professor personally cancelling a class)? Those kids don't realize how lucky they are. This is uncharted territory. Drillfield frozen over, gotta have class. Snow up past your knees, gotta have class. Now they are cancelling before the storm even arrives? VT is getting soft.
Calm down😂
There aren't many in person classes anyways so it's not really a big to do to cancel the few classes that are going on.
1. Should I come to ashburn today
2. Should I cross the mountain from Shenandoah Valley to do it
3. Repeat 1 & 2 for Friday
Any live reports as of 6 or 7 am 2/18?
-AccuWeather app shows sleet, snow, ice, off and on through the day and night
-iOS weather app just has snowflakes
Roads north and west of richmond so far are decent but the ice really just started anything frozen will be slickernshit. We havent seen a single snowflake here nothing but ice thus far so its a wet mess.
I didn't even mention getting BACK after it's been sub freezing all day. Might turn into a hotel stay (on my employer) if I convince myself to go.
I've made the trip all season without incident but never with so much ice in the forecast. And Texas.
my drive ways is icy as can be (in ashburn) and its still raining ice.
Cars are actually going slow on ashburn village blvd, which is probably only the 2nd or 3rd time in the 16 years I've lived here.
Yeah I'm glad I left two days available to check the weather before returning to PA from SC. Looks like it is going to be hazardous today so I'm traveling the 20-77-81-70-76-99 route tomorrow.
Oh good, more rain. Because there hasn't been enough of that already
Rain rain go away😔
Rain would be preferred at the moment!
and NE North Carolina
5+ inches here in central NJ so far this morning and its only 10:30. All snow so far.
Guessing I'm no more than 25-50 miles south of you in the NJ-side Philly suburbs. Think we have a little less than 5 inches now. Started out as mostly sleet but turned over to snow. Has stopped now, so think it won't be too bad to dig out.
"It won't be too bad" = famous last words.
Yep about 30 miles i think. Im in East Windsor. Think you were in Marlton area? Hope u madeout OK. We had 8 inches of heavy wet all snow here today. No sleet or ice so far but might get it from the overnight second wave.
Wife was living close to there when we met. Close to the I295/Route 1 exit. Was not bad here. Maybe about 3 inches snow with icy rain mixed in. Shoveling was fairly quick. Icy rain today so probably really slick, but have not ventured out yet to know. School was remote yesterday and today, so glad for that. Stay safe and warm.
So I finally got power back to my house yesterday (I live in Dallas) after being out pretty much all day Monday and Tuesday and most of Wednesday morning. I left all the faucets dripping and went to stay with a friend who had power, periodically coming back to make sure the faucets were still dripping.
Now it appears a pipe has burst somewhere under my house with water pooling at the outside low point of the house. (shut off the water supply to the house as well as shut off the water heater gas and water lines).
I have yet to get a plumber on the line. Looks like I will living off cases of water from Sams Club for the next several days.
Sorry bud. I am guessing Texas residents are going to be buying up all the portable generators...
Man I just need to find a plumber to come look at the water issue. First one I got an appointment for March 16th, and the second one I got for March 1st. I did one through the Home Adviser app and they said they booked an appointment for this Sunday but I would be shocked if someone shows up, its probably just an automated appointment thing. My guess is everyone doing what I did and booked multiple appointments so hopefully I get someone sooner.
Texas is an absolute shit show right now. They just had to be on their own power grid, because Texas. It has now come to light that ERCOT recommended several of the power plants that went down be winterized a few years ago, recommended and not mandated so of course they did not do that. I am guessing I will be without water for at least a couple weeks, plumbers should be making their way to Texas if they want to make some money, like the roofing guys do anytime there is a hail storm somewhere.
unfortunately, I had read about the power plant thing.
According to a times article on Texas.
More than 800 public water systems serving 162 of the state's 254 counties had been disrupted as of Thursday, affecting 13.1 million people, according to a spokeswoman for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
So even if your pipe was fixed, you might not have water...
Update:
Looking like the issue is one of the hot water lines, and that is where the pressure issue was. I turned the water back on to the house after switching off all the lines to and from the hot water heater and I have crazy good pressure. Still cut it back off afterwards just in case, but at least can cut it on to fill the toilets and take a quick cold shower until I can get someone to come check the whole system to make sure there is not a leak I am missing somewhere.
It is definitely a shit show hear but for the most part I am pretty lucky compared to some people. With a one story house on pier and beam construction all my plumbing is under the house, so the damage is limited. I have some friends that had pipes burst in the ceiling.
Glad to hear you at least have functional cold water again.