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Boo..back in the crapper again. Sorry.

Larry, try to find a dry ice supplier you can buy from just before the zr, if it comes. And the UK not the Canadian buries you, but which ever they give you snow, so all is well, lol.

Try Walmart. If the Canadian verifies you'll be buried in snow, and maybe it won't be as bad unless trees fall on lines, but the outages won't last as long. NC routinely sees a foot of snow, and I don't see the horror stories that I do with zr. Look on line and order online to pick up at the store. You get better deals that way as long as it's in stock. You don't want it shipped to the store. Home Depot too, Lowes, Tractor Supply maybe.

I asked an electrician friend and he thinks 300 might not be enough to turn on the fridge. Like a well pump it takes an initial surge to spin the thing up...figuratively. So think about at least a 500 for one, or better call the manufacturer and ask what watt you need for a fridge. Well, just just saw the peak 600 so maybe that will do it, but check with the maker before you buy, just in case.

That's why you want it just cold enough. It gets just cold enough every winter, but is it precipitating when it's just cold enough? That's the key. Just cold enough during the event then frost bite cold right after. Too cold before and it's dry. Get it just cold enough during, then super cold after so it sticks around. Cold air is molasses and we've got mtns to our north...now if they can just be manipulated to raise and lower as needed, lol.... we'd get more snow.

A 20,000 mah or higher battery pack for the phone. I've got 4 lifepo4 200 watt solar batteries that can run my computer and tv monitor, and peripheries for 3 days continuously. So used sparingly I can probably get nearly a week out of them, and strung together I believe they could run my fridge if I need them to. But at around 150 to 200 bucks a piece, you could get a Big lots generator for that. Only need to power the fridge on a few times a day. Get a water bladder, or fill the tub, and buy lots of gallons to drink. Problem with the tub, if you are all electric, the water might freeze with no heat and bust the tub. A camp stove to cook on with extra propane bottles. Good battery lamps and extra batteries. Best to get a usb charging lamp and extra battery packs. There again at least 20000mah. Or a couple of portable power stations are probably the same price. The more powerful the better. Walmart has power stations, and probably bat packs too. Dedicate one power station to the fridge and use the other for the phone, lamps, etc. There maybe usb ceramic heaters too. Should look into that. Walmart has 300 watt power stations for 160. Not sure that would do the fridge, as it has a surge to start. 500 is better, 750 might do all your needs but can't say for how long. And now you are in generator range. It's best to think of it as an adventure back in the way back machine to the days of yesteryear...as long as you don't have trees around that can make the house. If you have those, it's then like Damocles' sword, and terrifying.

Glad you have that going for you. It probably won't be so suppressed, or the temps so perfectly set for zr through out. As depicted that's a lot of zr, and it takes some pretty perfect confluences to pull that off start to finish. I've only seen two that were massive and zr the whole time. The rest went back and forth between p types. 73 and one here in the 80's. No power for 10 days both times, all the rest just out a few days, or less. So it's really hard to do it like the maps are showing. Temps are rarely that rock steady at the right places in the column for a whole storm.

Climo does not agree with that much zr there, does it? I surely hope not.

Man, put up with near a half inch of zr to get over two of sleet, and be really close to over 3....so very temping. I think I'd take that deal.

Well, at least it's back under an inch. Seems like zr is similar to earthquakes in that for every half inch the destruction is 4 to 6 fold.

Look up footage on Atl zr in 73. As depicted this would be close to that. No one wants that.

Surely with a look like this storm is showing I can do better than that, lol. I need two inches of sleet, under foot of snow, to make it memorable...and at least 20 below after to make it all into a Brick. Thanks for the heads up, though, lol.

wsw flow. One of the keys.

One of these days we'll get one of these. The more improbable the more possible. Maybe it's this storm, and it will be 40 below after

Why do these half county sized patches of heavier precip appear on these models? Is it just a black cat in the matrix, or is there some alogarithmic reason for them?

Why are the models so bad. One give me 8 inches and one gives me less than half an inch. How can I make reliable decisions about the weather 10 days from now when they give me such disparate information?? Why won't congress pay for super accurate space tech level winter weather predictions??? Oh, the humanity.

Will the Thames have ice fairs again?? Will we see Snow Leopards?? Ohhh...Yeti....I want to see a Yeti...and create ice crystals when I breathe. The moles are all giddy.

Still have a 20 percent shot at zr Sunday night. Any time I have moisture moving by underneath and cold air in place I figure I've got a shot at frozen, and Ptree City must agree. They are usually not as suppressed as modled when they start moving in.

This is Larry's storm.

Ptree City gives me a 20 percent chance of zr Sunday night. How do I get this to a ip/sn pattern down here, lol. Ended up with an inch of ip/sn but got some heavier rain moving in and I've been below freezing all day, so maybe I shrugged off the zr threat this afternoon too soon.

Yeah, I've been under very light misty drizzle for hours now, and 32. Just a bare skin on things I can touch. More in the trees, but the wind is gusting now, and no clickity clack up there. Big dry slot coming, so the rain on the other side would have to be heavy to cause problems.

Hope if got to you. Mine stopped a few hours ago. Stuck at half an inch I'd guess. Light rain now and 31. On to the 22nd for me. Unless the zr picks up, and I hope it won't.

I've seen everything but hail in the last 15 minutes, lol, but it's pretty good snow right now. Probably a half inch on the ground and half that's sleet.

LIght sleet as of 5am.