redneckweather wrote:What a week of model watching. Y'all can have next week. I'm heading for the deep hill country Wednesday for 5 days. Man, this was nothing but a sick joke...or should I say slick joke. haha!!
The impacts we are experiencing right now are worse than if we had seen a couple of inches of snowperk wrote:redneckweather wrote:What a week of model watching. Y'all can have next week. I'm heading for the deep hill country Wednesday for 5 days. Man, this was nothing but a sick joke...or should I say slick joke. haha!!
With wrecks,power outages,road closing,school closings,and multiple injuries. This is far from a joke.
Here hereredneckweather wrote:That why I said SICK joke. We were joyous thinking we were goiong to get snow and then we get hit with ice which really sucks anyway you cut it. Pretty sick joke if you ask me. Are y'all with me here?
I could'nt have said it better myself.trlburns wrote:I think some people just need to stop posting for a little while. Some of the comments are just plain idiotic. Tell the families of the people that have died this morning that this was not a major event or that is was all a joke. The fact that we did not get snow means nothing to me. I am just extremely thankful that i get to spend an unexpected day home with my family and we are all safe. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has to be out there this morning.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>biggerbyte wrote:As I mentioned earlier. I thought it might happen. Our snowband is falling apart on its southern end. Don't expect anything here folks. We've had our event now, this go round. Just enough freezing rain to cause some problems. Mainly unexpecting drivers not driving carefully. This is NOT a major icing event. No down power lines or trees, and no people with no power. Closings of roadways are purely precautionary. Actually, getting anything at all over inland areas was a fluke after things began to fall apart. We did not need this unexpected inland freezing rain event.
Let's just take it for what it is and move on. We look to next week for the possibility of doing this all over again.
srainhoutx wrote:Good Morning. Well, we didn’t get snow, we got something worse. Ice. I spent the last half hour reading some of the over night posts and I know some are disappointed, but we have to remember there are no guarantees in weather. As David Paul said this morning, “Mother Nature is going do what Mother Nature wants to do”. As was pointed out by our Pros, that warm layer aloft around 5000 feet was our ‘issue’ regarding any snow chances. Now as far as this being a non event. I’ve lived here all my life, well over 50 years and I’ve seen an ice event or two. We live in a different day in a world that revolves around transportation. Has that been disrupted? I’d say so. Think of all those folks that were injured last evening and overnight and probably into the morning. Look at the economic impacts. How often do we see our airports shut down stranding folks all across the country? Now let’s look at the impacts of the main storm that brought all these shenanigans. Hundreds of thousands of folks all across the Country have no power, 20+ inch snow amounts with blowing and drifting from the Rockies to the East Coast. Record cold into AZ and in our area. This storm system brought the coldest temps we have seen since 89, I believe. Did anyone ‘hype’ this storm? I say no. In fact, I thought we as a community did a good job looking at the realities and went into great depth covering and explaining all the variables. Did our community benefit from our discussions? Yes, they did. What some folks seem to forget that there are far more folks that just view our postings, looking for accurate and reasonable discussions that offer factual information regarding what may or may not happen. Did we provide such information mixed in with our discussions and thoughts? We certainly did. Look at the amount of activity and those folks that chose to come out of ‘lurking mode” to sign up and ask questions and offer input. Many of these folks have been longtime members here in the past and had taken a ‘back seat’ approach during this past year of transition to our new home and all that came about this past year. As for those that are not so careful in choosing your words. I hope that much thought will be given in the future and words are chosen a bit more carefully. Most folks that are active here are not children. They are adults. We do have children viewing though. Many of our folks seem to forget that some of our teachers use our forum as a class room when instructing on science, the atmosphere and the environment we live in. Weather impacts people and their lives. Plain and simple. I suspect many lives have been impacted this past week in some form or fashion. Again, I want to thank our Pros that provide so much of their time and knowledge around this place to keep everyone informed and for offer sound advise and excellent forecasting skills and discussions. As I stated last night, you folks are “Rock Stars” to many of our folks and we appreciate you and the time you offer to our community. Folks, I know that this has been said many time overnight into the morning, but please stay safe and be careful out there. We want to see you back here posting and not injured.
VERY WELL SAID....I was a member years ago in the old forum....i mostly read and then i pass it on to all my family and their bosses as well!! I just don't think we're done yet. don't see aything significant happening, but it has not gone yetnuby3 wrote:my friend near mexia git 8 inches. there is one last hope approaching from the west. not moving very quickly, either. higher moisture near coast. FINGERS CROSSED
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