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Gettin' ugly here. Power is down, got 1 tree down across my drive way now. Medium size pine, so chain saw time (again) later today. Local storm tracking on wtva - https://www.wtva.com/

Been raining like you know what here all morning, I do believe the worst has just past us though.
The yard looks like a small river, stay safe down there Gene.

RP

Batten down the hatches there Gene. Hope it passes thru and you can take care of things.

Hang in there. We have an arctic deep freeze coming tonight.

the storm roared though where we are parked in our camper north of Houston, on Lake Conroe around midnight .... the biggest blessing is it moved on quickly .... we understand that north of us its dropping some ice / snow .... be safe

Got a light dusting (less than 1/2) here in Dallas today. I'm sure the city will be paralyzed and folks hunkered down due to such 'severe weather.'
LOL.

Hang in there Gene hope you are able to come through it without damage

Minus 30 overnight here. Had a foot of snow three days ago. Dangerous cold weather here expected for the next 10 days. Could get close to -40 over night.

On the upside, I leave for my cruise through the Panama Canal in less than a month!!

BigAl52 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:18 pm

Hang in there Gene hope you are able to come through it without damage

The worst of it is past now. No damage. Power is back on. Should stop raining around 1430, and I can get out and remove that pine tree from my driveway. Wife wanted me to do it 3 or 4 hours ago, but there was no way I was going out among all those trees with the wind blowing like it was.

6MT wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:27 pm

Minus 30 overnight here. Had a foot of snow three days ago. Dangerous cold weather here expected for the next 10 days. Could get close to -40 over night.

On the upside, I leave for my cruise through the Panama Canal in less than a month!!

Have a friend that lives close to St. Paul, his son lives in Bimidji MN and texted his dad around 8:30 this morning and said actual temp was -31°.

Glad I'm down here in TN dealing with the wind and rain, and ah ur 60° temps.

RP

Vaquero wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:47 pm

6MT wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:27 pm

Minus 30 overnight here. Had a foot of snow three days ago. Dangerous cold weather here expected for the next 10 days. Could get close to -40 over night.

On the upside, I leave for my cruise through the Panama Canal in less than a month!!

Have a friend that lives close to St. Paul, his son lives in Bimidji MN and texted his dad around 8:30 this morning and said actual temp was -31°.

Glad I'm down here in TN dealing with the wind and rain, and ah ur 60° temps.

RP

You think the whiskey consumption goes up at -31

Stay safe. Mild winter weather in the Seattle area.

6MT wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:27 pm

Minus 30 overnight here. Had a foot of snow three days ago. Dangerous cold weather here expected for the next 10 days. Could get close to -40 over night. . .

-40. That is ugly. I think that I dealt with -20 a time or two. As I get older though, I am looking to move to a warmer spot. I did like the southern part of Texas. But, we may end up some place with trees and mountains that is not too cool. Anyway, stay warm!

We had a storm move through overnight. Nice and sunny right now. There was a tornado warning issued last night for about 45 minutes but luckily nothing but a few downed twigs as evidence this morning.
Jake

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You think the whiskey consumption goes up at -31
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I would think so.

RP

Lost power early this AM for about 4 hrs. Don't know why. No weather to speak of. No coverage on the local news.

Strange winter this year. Had snow for Halloween and 52 degrees Friday. Rained hard enough for some flooding Friday night and snowed a bit Saturday. Today about 36 so snow melted, last year at this time it was -26 degrees for 3 days. I am ready for a Michigan winter. Got the tractor and 2 back up snowblowers.

We wanted to go into the city today for our littlest grandsons birthday. His sixth. We have gale force winds right now with six inches of new powder snow. I suggested it was not a great idea today, but the DW is pretty stubborn and if I didn't go would just get into her VW and go alone, so we started out. We live in the woods so she had no idea.

The highway is a county one and was scrapped down to ice. No salt or sand. As soon as we left the shelter of trees the wind hit us. At one point it almost blew me sideways in our Explorer. Then we got up behind a semi going about twenty miles an hour. We watched apprehensively when the wind blew the trailer sideways. The driver got it straightened out. Going by the airport we got into a white out.

We had gone about seven miles when we got to the Interstate and it was running pretty well with salt and sand trucks out. By then though she had had enough and suggested we go back home. GOOD IDEA! Going back in the dark in a white out is not my idea of smart traveling.

GFK wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 1:09 pm

-40. That is ugly. I think that I dealt with -20 a time or two.

I felt -10 one time here about 25 years ago.

It was un-believable for me. What an ordeal we had.

I can't even imagine -20, never mind -40.

Keep warm and safe out there y'all.

once again the weather in my wife's hometown of Estelline, SD where we spend our summers is really something .... -6 with a windchill of -31 as this is being typed .... per the Weather channel, "WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST SUNDAY..Very cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 35 below zero" .... NW 23 mph .... major stretches of I-90 & I-29 are closed .... we've been getting reports all day from friends and relatives who say its simply brutal