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Death Storm, Jan 2026

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In the bullseye for a quarter to half inch of ice here in WNC. There will be a lot of power outages in the Carolinas. Very small possibility that the clean up post Helene might reduce some trees and branches falling on power lines.

Most people will hunker down hopefully. The biggest problem will be the inability of emergency vehicles getting to people in need.
 
Get the ice axes ready. If this does turn into an ice event, you will want to chop at the icicles, so that don't jack the roof off of your house.
 
JeannoCT said:
So, I survived for those of you who were worried. Lucked out in the first store. Also stocked up on snacks for the basketball games and football. Gassed up the cars, so I'm ready for the storm.
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Luckily I got my my big food shopping trip done the beginning of the week. Just did my little bit of grocery shopping, gassing up my car as well. Grocery stores on the verge of a storm are dangerous lol. Now you can relax while people freak out later on, I still gotta make a beer run a number 1 priority.
 
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The psychology of the storms is interesting…

My mom broke her leg over Christmas Eve and she wants to come home from her rehab center today even though I’m pleading her to stay until Tuesday.

Anyways, I just left ShopRite to pickup groceries and while the store was fine, but all the parking lot space parallel to the borders of the store were jam-packed…but two columns to the left of the store, only half full.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
The psychology of the storms is interesting…

My mom broke her leg over Christmas Eve and she wants to come home from her rehab center today even though I’m pleading her to stay until Tuesday.

Anyways, I just left ShopRite to pickup groceries and while the store was fine, but all the parking lot space parallel to the borders of the store were jam-packed…but two columns to the left of the store, only half full.
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Doesn’t sound too bad a few exits up the line, but here in Stamford I needed elbow and knee pads at Stop & Shop and Grade A today. People running stop signs and speeding way over the limit has become de rigueur in my neck of the woods in the last few years, so I can’t attribute today’s road observations to pre-storm craziness.
 
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Lafayette said:
I’m worried about my roof (deck) as a foot of wet snow makes me remember HCC roof collapse.

Gonna start a new musical: shoveler on the roof!
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Yeah, you don't want heavy moisture snow/ice on the roof. But geting up on the roof to shovel is a real hazard.

Take your garden hose and wash it off with water.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Yeah, you don't want heavy moisture snow/ice on the roof. But geting up on the roof to shovel is a real hazard.

Take your garden hose and wash it off with water.
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Can't as temps here won't be above freezing so spigot on the roof is not gonna be good.

Anyway I have a 4' wall around so no issue for me as my plan is alternating 3" shoveling with him, so even if we get a foot, that's 2x for each of us, then I will use the shovel in between to dump snow to the alley.
 
karstenkibbe said:
Doesn’t sound too bad a few exits up the line, but here in Stamford I needed elbow and knee pads at Stop & Shop and Grade A today. People running stop signs and speeding way over the limit has become de rigueur in my neck of the woods in the last few years, so I can’t attribute today’s road observations to pre-storm craziness.
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I was at the Stamford ShopRite off Exit 6, lol.

Good luck w that!
 
Any essential workers like me preparing to go in and sleep over at work Sunday night before the real meat of the storm hits? At least I’ll be in Cambridge and can maybe trudge over to a bar before packing it in for the night.
 
Rocktheworld said:
Any essential workers like me preparing to go in and sleep over at work Sunday night before the real meat of the storm hits? At least I’ll be in Cambridge and can maybe trudge over to a bar before packing it in for the night.
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My sis was an ER nurse. The cops would pick her up in their suv and drive her to work in a bad storm.
 
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Once in a while, I get offered a comp room at Mohegan Sun. Before Christmas, we signed up for a free room for Sunday and Monday. I'm thinking there are worse places to be in a blizzard. If you have a Momentum card, check it out. I bet you can get a freebie, too.
 
NJHusky said:
She said she wasn’t driving in a storm that bad. If the hospital wanted her there get her a ride. She only lived 7 miles from hospital
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granted, you’re not her and don’t have the full story. But that indicates

She said she wasn’t driving
Hospital called the police??
???
Your sister wound up with police limo driving??

I’m sorry but I’m not seeing how that happened lol but again you don’t have all the details, just a wild situation to me
 
I live close to Charlotte, we're going to get hammered. 1/2" to 3/4" of ice, definitely going to lose power if that plays out.
 
Rocktheworld said:
granted, you’re not her and don’t have the full story. But that indicates

She said she wasn’t driving
Hospital called the police??
???
Your sister wound up with police limo driving??

I’m sorry but I’m not seeing how that happened lol but again you don’t have all the details, just a wild situation to me
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I don’t know how the hospitals got it worked out Just that when weather was really bad and she couldn’t get tot the hospital as a courtesy she got a ride from the cops in a suv.
 
NJHusky said:
I don’t know how the hospitals got it worked out Just that when weather was really bad and she couldn’t get tot the hospital as a courtesy she got a ride from the cops in a suv.
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I have a family member who’s an ER attending and had the same setup. There are cops stationed in the ER, they tend to have a good relationship with the staff
 
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Rocktheworld said:
Any essential workers like me preparing to go in and sleep over at work Sunday night before the real meat of the storm hits? At least I’ll be in Cambridge and can maybe trudge over to a bar before packing it in for the night.
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Oh you meant Cambridge, MA not the U in England....not sure how this affects them.
 
Lafayette said:
I’m worried about my roof (deck) as a foot of wet snow makes me remember HCC roof collapse.

Gonna start a new musical: shoveler on the roof!
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If we get a snowstorm
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
All day long I'd be shoveling my roof
If we get a big snowstorm
I guess I'll have to work hard
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum
If we get biggy biggy snow
Idle-diddle-didle-didle storm
 
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