re: Tejas Snow/Ice Storm: 2022 Edition (Wednesday Night and Thursday expected timing)

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It was a 3-4 hour commute from Los Colinas to Uptown if that gives you an idea

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I was working in Las Colinas at the time. I remember my team decided to head home early that afternoon due to the storm. Some of my team members lived in Uptown and it took them 3 hours to get home. I was living a mile down the road and got home in 5 minutes. Took a nice long nap and when I woke up freaked out for a minute because I was just planning to rest for a few minutes. Turns out my team members living in Uptown had only made it about halfway home. Chilled the rest of the afternoon while waiting for them to get home.

Duke - hope you feel better. I too am battling Omni at the moment but symptoms are pretty manageable at the moment.

As long as this doesn't turn into last year - which it doesn't sound like will be the case. I was one of the unfortunate ones without power for nearly 4 days. Pretty miserable time with two toddlers.

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This is my second winter living in Dallas. What happened in 2013?

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2013 is another one hard to forget I had moved to las colinas the October prior. I remember being at the grocery store that friday night and kept asking myself "why the frick are there so many people here". Needless to say I didn't have enough groceries. Ended up going out one day to freebirds since they were the only place i could find open.

I expect Longview to be very borderline on significant icing. I am leaning towards only light icing there Thursday starting around 6am Thursday. Light icing still means travel is to be avoided but power concerns are not likely. Further west towards Tyler icing will be much worse. This could all change if the freeze line progress faster.

Looks like I'm about to be double boned. Sleet/Ice in DAL and thunderstorms in MSY on Thursday night. With no Cat III approach they may have cancellations/delays.

Well I already did my prep. Just hope I dont lose power. That would really fricking suck

12z HRRR didn't quite make it out to see the Eastern reaches, but you can see what is coming. Soundings show warm air aloft with lots of moisture.

i got a weeks worth of canned food and bottled water and a full propane tank

im not messing around this year

Yeah, when you see sub-freezing surface temps, 2-3" of rain to the Southeast where temps are warmer, and no snow accumulations near the freezing line, you may have a problem.

Gonna be a bunch of cold rain for me, and I don't particularly care for it. Not that I'd rather have the frozen stuff, though. I'd rather none of it or at least not as much of it.

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God help that one area if they get 2 inches of freeing rain accumulated. Power lines will be down everywhere.

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This thing looks like more of a shitshow every time it gets updated. Little Rock and Memphis are going to get wrecked by this. I-40 will be a 120 mile traffic jam between them.

Soooo I’m set to fly to Louisville tomorrow morning. Supposed to be doing distillery tours and shite. Staying til Sunday. How fricked am I?