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I believe we checked in at right around 6 inches here in Albany, GA. My in-laws live in Lee County right next door and measured 8.5 inches at their house. I haven't seen snow like this since I was in college at UGA in 2009 in Athens and we got a stalled winter storm over the town and it dumped 9 inches in rapid succession. The biggest issue we are going to have is we won't get above freezing except for about 4-5 hours today and we have a foretasted low of 12 degrees tonight so anything that melts is going to absolutely freeze back. I'm more worried about the rapid drop in temps tonight than I was the storm that came through - and it looks like we won't have a night above freezing until Sunday. The arctic air that came in with this system is no joke and I'd like it to go home now.

Snow is really coming down here in Albany, GA and it's sticking to pretty much everything. Big fluffy snow.

As someone who lives in Albany it’s gonna be disastrous if we get 3 inches of snow. Place will probably be shut down for 3-4 days with the temps re-freezing every evening.

I’ve gotten about as prepared as I can because we’ve had a few nights but we have some exposed hose bibs and even though they’re well wrapped and I drip them (and any other exterior facing faucets and the uninsulated sink in my garage work room) I never sleep well when it gets below 30° because I feel the need to get up every few hours to check the drips to make sure we haven’t had a frozen pipe. Current forecast is basically 5 days of overnight below freezing temps in our corner of SW GA and I’m just trying to figure out how much sleep I’m gonna get over the next week.

Dumb question but with all this shifting should we expect the consistent overnight below freezing temps in SW GA that have been predicted? The weather predictions on the apps etc have been all over the place and I’m trying to figure out how much I need to protect against possible frozen pipes. Everything I’ve seen shows no snow and slightly warmer temps but not sure what to make of it.

That's about the best-case scenario isn't it for a direct population strike with a big chunk of Taylor being the Big Bend wildlife refuge, right?

Yeah we are supposed to be taking the kids to Disney. I'm not concerned about being there with any effects from storm bands at the hotel since Disney does a pretty good job in securing their facilities. I'm more concerned about getting there. I think the I-75 route is absolutely a no-go but right now I-95 seems doable if we leave early enough. I am glad we live in driving distance and don't have to fly though because a flight though that would be absolutely not fun.

We are going to have to stop booking trips to Orlando in September. This will be year 2 of 2 (we had Idalia last year that came through right before we were scheduled to leave. We were supposed to leave for Orlando on Friday but bumped it up to Thursday to avoid most of the storm but the current modeling may not make that very favorable. Plan was to go down I-95 instead of 75 based on the current track and cut into Orlando via I-4. Does this seem viable or do we need to just be prepared to scrap this trip all together? Thought was to leave home around 5AM and be in Orlando 12PM.

Almost 25% of the island appears to be without power. There's about 15K that live there and outages are already over 3200.

What is the anticipated landfall time at this point?

No, offense not taken - it's a trip for our 10th wedding anniversary and we are scheduled to stay at Sea Island so it's a pretty special trip for us that we've been planning for a year, so we're trying to figure out what to do, but are leaning towards cancelling. Unfortunately rescheduling this year isn't an option for us as my in-laws are the only ones that can watch our kids and this was the only time they could do so for an extended period so it's either wait and see or cancel. The resort has basically said they're planning on operating but I feel like that's a pretty optimistic outlook based on what Irma did to the island in 2017.

Long time reader, first time poster. How quickly do we think this storm will weaken once it makes landfall? My wife and I are scheduled to travel to the Georgia coast on Thursday but obviously don't want to do that if it looks like the storm will have done major damage to that area after it tracks through on Wednesday afternoon into the evening. Our hotel has told us we are welcome to wait and see or they will go ahead and cancel and refund us so we are not concerned about that. Having grown up on the Georgia coast and evacuated for some near misses, I certainly don't want to be heading down on Thursday into a disaster zone as a tourist, but I'm not sure if the wait and see approach is the best idea or if we should go ahead and cancel.