I am terrified of this weekends snowstorm!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

If he can get out of your neighborhood, the highways might be fine by late morning/afternoon.

Maybe not depending on the temperatures and how much ice accumulates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

If he can get out of your neighborhood, the highways might be fine by late morning/afternoon.

Maybe not depending on the temperatures and how much ice accumulates.

He should not drive south, that's where the freezing rain and ice will be. It's going to be quite dangerous.

[Anonymous]

In case electricity goes -
- I have a gas stove and gas fireplace. I also have matchsticks.
- Food will not spoil because I can keep it outside in the patio in the snow.
- I have an unused bathroom in the basement. Any kind of storm in any season, I just fill the bathtub with water. I can always use that water to flush toilets and boil and drink if needed. With a snowstorm...you can always melt snow and drink.
- I always have a stocked pantry because I buy my shelf stable grains, flours, spices, lentils, tea, sugar, oil in large quantities. I also have a cold storage in the basement that has my onions and root veggies.
- All my prescriptions are filled and up to date.


If you are super nervous and want to prep at all -
- Get your prescriptions filled (or make sure you will not run out during the storm and digging out)
- Buy some drinking water. Fill a tub with water. Make sure you have food for a week.
- Fill gas in all your vehicles and snow blower.
- Charge all your devices and powerbanks. Charge your tire-inflator etc.
- Unplug appliances that you do not need in case of an electric surge etc. I always unplug the TV in my basement, games console, music system, electric piano, treadmill etc.
- Buy some candles, matchsticks and torch (with batteries).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In case electricity goes -
- I have a gas stove and gas fireplace. I also have matchsticks.
- Food will not spoil because I can keep it outside in the patio in the snow.
- I have an unused bathroom in the basement. Any kind of storm in any season, I just fill the bathtub with water. I can always use that water to flush toilets and boil and drink if needed. With a snowstorm...you can always melt snow and drink.
- I always have a stocked pantry because I buy my shelf stable grains, flours, spices, lentils, tea, sugar, oil in large quantities. I also have a cold storage in the basement that has my onions and root veggies.
- All my prescriptions are filled and up to date.


If you are super nervous and want to prep at all -
- Get your prescriptions filled (or make sure you will not run out during the storm and digging out)
- Buy some drinking water. Fill a tub with water. Make sure you have food for a week.
- Fill gas in all your vehicles and snow blower.
- Charge all your devices and power-banks. Charge your tire-inflator etc.
- Unplug appliances that you do not need in case of an electric surge etc. I always unplug the TV in my basement, games console, music system, electric piano, treadmill etc.
- Buy some candles, matchsticks and torch (with batteries).

Ugh...forgot to add -
- Buy ice-melting salt and shovels - if you don't have. Or have a plan to use kitty litter etc.
- Fill the bird-feeders with seeds and suet now, and refill again before the storm.
- Clean the heated birdbaths for the birds and fill with water. Do this now and refill before the storm.

[Anonymous]

If electricity and wifi goes...how will I survive without DCUM.

Shit...I need to make a run to the library!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

If he can get out of your neighborhood, the highways might be fine by late morning/afternoon.

Maybe not depending on the temperatures and how much ice accumulates.

He should not drive south, that's where the freezing rain and ice will be. It's going to be quite dangerous.

Honestly NC is crippled with even a dusting of snow. They just don’t have the equipment or resources to deal with it, and they’re road materials are not rated for very cold temperatures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

I bet this will be fine? The snow is supposed to end on Sunday, right? The highways should be no problem on Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

I bet this will be fine? The snow is supposed to end on Sunday, right? The highways should be no problem on Monday.

What? No way the highways are good by Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

Ask dh to check weather events in nc before starting.

A mere dusting of snow basically shuts down raleigh but the more important issue is twofold: black ice on the roads, and power outages caused by iced over tree limbs that then break off snd often fall on power lines.

Signed, a raleigh resident

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In case electricity goes -
- I have a gas stove and gas fireplace. I also have matchsticks.
- Food will not spoil because I can keep it outside in the patio in the snow.
- I have an unused bathroom in the basement. Any kind of storm in any season, I just fill the bathtub with water. I can always use that water to flush toilets and boil and drink if needed. With a snowstorm...you can always melt snow and drink.
- I always have a stocked pantry because I buy my shelf stable grains, flours, spices, lentils, tea, sugar, oil in large quantities. I also have a cold storage in the basement that has my onions and root veggies.
- All my prescriptions are filled and up to date.


If you are super nervous and want to prep at all -
- Get your prescriptions filled (or make sure you will not run out during the storm and digging out)
- Buy some drinking water. Fill a tub with water. Make sure you have food for a week.
- Fill gas in all your vehicles and snow blower.
- Charge all your devices and powerbanks. Charge your tire-inflator etc.
- Unplug appliances that you do not need in case of an electric surge etc. I always unplug the TV in my basement, games console, music system, electric piano, treadmill etc.
- Buy some candles, matchsticks and torch (with batteries).

Would not recommend putting food on porch. Temps do fluctuate with sunshine wind etc and safer to keep in fridge. Just don’t open the door.
Please don’t melt snow to consume. You could be ingesting urine, feces, chemicals, other bacteria.

[Anonymous]

We have food already and a generator, so no, not worried.

[Anonymous]

We are now scheduled for ice and snow as the storm pushes north. Pray it goes much farther north and misses us OR pray for sleet, not freezing rain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have food already and a generator, so no, not worried.

Husband rejected a generator because he can. Honestly, the older I get, the more I resent him

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

If he gan get to major road ok. We get stuck on our side street for days because they don't plow and it becomes ice ruts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband think he's driving to Raleigh on Monday with our teenager. So. Yeah. Right there with you.

Ask dh to check weather events in nc before starting.

A mere dusting of snow basically shuts down raleigh but the more important issue is twofold: black ice on the roads, and power outages caused by iced over tree limbs that then break off snd often fall on power lines.

Signed, a raleigh resident

Wasn’t the famous photo of the highway mess in little snow with the car on fire from Raleigh?