Ice-pocalypse

[charby]

She identies as Southern, you cisnorthern snowlord!

Jiffy boxed cornbread and I don't care.

[Scout26]

Ice-pock-o-lips ain't supposed to hit here until Sunday Afternoon continuing into Monday.  The boys are out of school Monday and Tuesday.   

Joy.

[Perd Hapley]

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http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-winter-edition

Why, yes it is.

OK, how about this one?

[wmenorr67]

It's kind of funny to watch the TV weatherman back tracking on all the predictions.  They said the NWS posted a winter storm warning until 9:00PM tonight, then pulled it at something like 5:30PM.

Then they started the apoligetics about "Oh well, that's the difference between long term computer models and short term computer models"  and blah-blah-blah and a lot of foot-shuffling and hat-holding and silly grinning.

Epitomizes the remark about "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."

Reminds me of the legendary weather rock out by Grandpaw's back door.  "Rock wet, it's raining, rock dry, it's sunny, rock white, it's snowing, rock moving, it's windy, rock gone, tornado."

Terry, 230RN

Had to had a couple.

[230RN]

^
<Montgomery Burns voice>  "Ex-celllent."

[T.O.M.]

So, anyone to the west of me (Ohio) want to report in?  Or has the massive amount of ice accumulation knocked out power and internet service to all of you?

[Nick1911]

So far Kansas City is still dry.  Temp is about 27F.  Forecast has the storm delayed a bit, with things starting around 5-6pm.

Road crews have salted already.

[KD5NRH]

It's just not right that the first 3 miles of your commute should take longer than the whole rest of it.

I don't know; it seems perfectly logical for my 4.5 mile commute to work like that.

[charby]

We're getting warnings for Sunday through Monday now. Better check my condiment supply and do the grocery store run.

[makattak]

We're getting warnings for Sunday through Monday now. Better check my condiment supply and do the grocery store run.

They are warning of a cold front this weekend. High of 41 and a low of 35.

I probably need to build a fire.

[Perd Hapley]

It started raining in the mid-morning. The place where I work opens at 8am. We closed at 10. Which seems kinda lame. On the other hand, things were very slow, and were probably only going to get slower.

Right now, there's a little bit of ice on the road, but it doesn't seem all that bad, at least to me. 'Course, we've got two more days of this stuff in the forecast, so...

[wmenorr67]

Nothing here yet in the KC area.  Looks like they missed the time frame of it starting by about 8 hours or so.

Just saw that the playoff game between the Chiefs and Steelers was moved from noon to 7:20 pm to allow road crews more time to clear roads.  Worst of the storm is supposed to be over late morning/early afternoon.

[Jim147]

First round went 10 miles east of here just got some ice on the windows what hit the ground freeze dried.

Went and got 10 more gallons of gas and 5 more gallons of kerosene amd moved wood in the cabin. Should be able to stay warm for days if we get the heavy stuff they are calling for tomorrow.

[Nick1911]

Looks like this one is going to miss Kansas City.

[Hawkmoon]

It's kind of funny to watch the TV weatherman back tracking on all the predictions.  They said the NWS posted a winter storm warning until 9:00PM tonight, then pulled it at something like 5:30PM.

Then they started the apoligetics about "Oh well, that's the difference between long term computer models and short term computer models"  and blah-blah-blah and a lot of foot-shuffling and hat-holding and silly grinning.

What I find amusing is that, when I was a kid back in the 1950s, we were in range of the NBC network TV station out of New York City. Their 11:00 p.m. weatherman (they weren't called "meteorologists" back then) was a guy named Tex Antoine. His shtick was that, while he was talking about the weather, he was drawing a sketch on a large pad on an easel of his weather character, Uncle Weatherbee. Each day's sketch showed Uncle Weatherbee dressed in clothing appropriate for the next day's forecast. I'm pretty sure they didn't have computer modeling back then, but ole' Tex was generally a lot more accurate than all of today's computer-generated forecasts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Antoine

[charby]

Looks like this one is going to miss Kansas City.

Going north?

[T.O.M.]

They missed on this one.  Some rain. Temps in the 30s.  M minimal icing while camping in Southern Ohio.

[RoadKingLarry]

We got a nice picturesque glaze on everything here but nothing serious

crepe myrtle-007 by lmmiers, on Flickr

hot wire-016 by lmmiers, on Flickr

oak leaf-011 by lmmiers, on Flickr

[charby]

Went to the grocery store to get some veggies to poach the trout I caught through the ice yesterday.

Milk was wiped out, so was all the half and half. Shredded cheese only had a couple packs left. Everything else looked normally stocked.

[zxcvbob]

Went to the grocery store to get some veggies to poach the trout I caught through the ice yesterday.

Milk was wiped out, so was all the half and half. Shredded cheese only had a couple packs left. Everything else looked normally stocked.

Even the bread and toilet paper??     The shredded cheese actually makes sense.  (any excuse is a good excuse for for nachos)

[Perd Hapley]

We definitely had some ice around here, but it was definitely not the worst we've seen. The temperatures have been oscillating between just below, and just above freezing, so we never got more than a little glazing of ice. We took the dog out for a walk yesterday, and it just felt like a cold, sopping wet blanket wrapped around you.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Even the bread and toilet paper??     The shredded cheese actually makes sense.  (any excuse is a good excuse for for nachos)

You require an excuse?

[charby]

Even the bread and toilet paper??     The shredded cheese actually makes sense.  (any excuse is a good excuse for for nachos)

Bread was 50% normal for 5pm any evening. Didn't go down the paper aisle, but most people in iowa buy TP at big box stores.

[rcnixon]

My wife slipped on our ice-covered driveway yesterday and fractured her humerus at the top of the shoulder.  Fortunately, it is a non-displaced fracture, so 4 weeks of sling immobilization should be all that is needed.  I will have to rearrange my schedule so that I can drive her to work.

Mrs. Nixon did that November 5th. She also cracked the top of the radius. She has just this past week turned the corner on recovery. She was at the ortho on Friday and he gave her orders for physical therapy and orders for the trainers at our gym. The gym is affiliated with and on the grounds of the hospital where she was taken for emergency treatment.

Not on ice though. She stepped off an badly marked curb in a parking garage downtown.

[230RN]

4:10 AM 16 Jan17...Very light fall of powder onto 1/2"-1" of snow even on the paved areas.

Niiiiice pics, Larry!

I keep those 1-liter packs of powdered milk around, real easy to mix up, and with about 1/4 cup of evaporated milk/liter, is quite passable.  Right now I'm running low on coffee, but I have instant and No-Doze pills.