re: Major arctic outbreak with Deep South snowstorm potential (Jan 6th - Jan 14th)

nah - im about 1/4 mile from the old Hospital - the neighborhood I am in was the original money area of Bessemer - is where all the doctors lived. worst we see here is people running the stop sign at the 4 way stop.

Sounds like we could get 3-4 inches on top of the 10 we already have (and that shite isn't melting).

On the upside, paid a guy with a Bobcat to clear the driveway today. Dude did it for under $50 while the neighbor paid a landscaping group almost $300 to clear theirs. /winning

Abandoned ship!

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Side note: coldest I experienced with wind chill was -63.

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frick. That.

I hate the 100 degree heat summers but I wouldn’t want any part of that

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Side note: coldest I experienced with wind chill was -63. That was one of the few times I remember school getting canceled because of weather.

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-55 windchill for me

Went outside in Jeans to hop on a plane and was one of my biggest regrets of my life up to that point

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I'm trying to figure out if it was better to be in or out of the car and honestly I can't decide

Guess it depends on what was in the area the car was headed

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Unless there is a giant cliff I would stay my arse in the car as opposed to getting run over by the next out of control vehicle while you try to run/skate away from it on ice

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nah - im about 1/4 mile from the old Hospital - the neighborhood I am in was the original money area of Bessemer - is where all the doctors lived. worst we see here is people running the stop sign at the 4 way stop.

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I'm on the Helena end up on Shades Crest, but still technically Bessemer. 2 inches and we aren't going anywhere.

Although I'm hoping we get 2 or more, we haven't had a good event since we moved out here on 20 acres. Would be fun.

Where are you seeing that? Up here in TSUN territory we are supposed to get some inches

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2 inches of snow is not a lot to me - and my wife is from Colorado, so it is a laughable amount - but Bham, 2 inches of snow is system wide meltdown

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Especially when it falls onto untreated roads and interstates and temperatures in the low 20s.

The issue with Snowmageddon was that the forecast called for sleet, freezing rain, and a thin strip of snow to fall across far south Alabama and south Georgia while Birmingham and Atlanta were forecasted to stay very cold but dry. The same system gave Mobile, Daphne, Fairhope, and Spanish Fort a major ice storm and the precip was only supposed to fall as far north as Montgomery.

The precip spread much further north though and gave Bham and Atlanta a quick burst of 2 to 3 inches into temps near 20 degrees that caused the snow to flash freeze onto the road surface. Throw in the hilly interstates and overpasses around Bham and Atlanta and what were already impossible driving conditions with the surprise element of people getting caught off guard by the busted forecast and it was a recipe for distaster.