February 1-5, 2011 Arctic Blast/Winter Storm Discussion

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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.
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perk 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.
The impacts we are experiencing right now are worse than if we had seen a couple of inches of snow

Ice is bad news. If this doesn't qualify as an "event", I don't know what is.
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Mr.T, starting to get a couple flakes/sleet pelletes here. Also, radar is "moistening" back up. Anyyyy amount of precipitation we get wil only make conditions worse.
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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.
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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?
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redneckweather 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?
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My husband turned around and came home. He saw 3 wrecks on 249 between Louetta and Willowbrook and decided not to keep pushing his luck. Smart man!
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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.
I could'nt have said it better myself.
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Woke up to no snow here in Texas City, High five to the groundhog! C'mon spring! I'm glad it was a bust! ;)
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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.
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BB - I do agree with about two of your sentences, but IMO this IS a major ice event. Drawing a centerline through downtown N to S along 45, the entire western side of that line is completely covered in ice. Every freeway in Houston has at least one section of all lanes closed in both directions and BW 8 west side is completely shut down from Fort-Bend CO toll road all the way to HW 45. Even many side roads in western areas not elevated are closed with ice. There were about 10k people without power earlier and I would expect as the ice continues to sit and weigh down the weaker lines, we will see power continue to decline in some areas.

So I'm sorry BB, I usually agree with most of your posts and enjoy your common reasoning - but I respectfully have to disagree with most of this one.

And I'd like to tell anyone reading this trying to decide to venture out - Unless you're Emergency personnel, NO ONE SHOULD BE ON THE ROADS - why even try to risk it? Stay home and drink hot chocolate or coffee.
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it's not a "sick joke", It's weather in Texas...unpredictable. Each life lost is tragic, but imaging what it might be if school busses were running. I have to go to work this morning and so did my husband. It wasn't what I planned, but I can't be all angry at others for MotherNature' unwillingness to share her secrets. if this does happen next week, most of us will be here. Every stay safe and warm.
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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 offering 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 times overnight into the morning, but please stay safe and be careful out there. We want to see you back here posting and not injured.
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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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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.
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Is that SNOW moving into S/SE'n Houston? Is it making it to the ground? Any reports?
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Jeff, I know you have more obs than you can handle, but it looks like a general 1/8 to 1/4 ice event up here in NW Harris County. Pines are sagging, but the surface roads are slowly drying.
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nuby3 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
I just don't think we're done yet. don't see aything significant happening, but it has not gone yet
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maybe i could see ONE snow shower.
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A tip of the hat to you as well Srain. You, the mets and other moderators have had your hands full. Thanks for your hard work.
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Woke up to between 1/8" and 1/4" glaze of ice all over everything outside. The sidewalks and street are a little slippery, but not coated. However, my car is frozen shut, so it's a good thing I don't have anywhere to go!
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