sparkync Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Good job!! Did the same thing @ work in the electronics shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a5ehren Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 This is a brutal situation in Atlanta...it's hard to describe just how bad this is...you just wouldn't think 2-3 inches would shut down a city like this. You'd think there were a major disaster that happened with people walking out of their cars and leaving them...People are desperate to find shelter...hotels are booked to the brim. https://www.facebook.com/groups/397839673695382/ this group alone on facebook tells the situation. It grew from 200 members to over 7000 today alone...Grim news. Yeah. Hate to be morbid, but I'm expecting stories in the morning of fatalities due to exposure. What a cluster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallsLake Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Got about 1.25 inches or so, snowing a good clip just not adding up very fast. 17.4Funny just stepped out and that's exactly what I got. Still coming down hard, but it those small flakes. There are some heaver returns showing up to the SW but it's real hard to judge where their going; they seem to develop, dissipate, and then redevelop somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherNC Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Very disapointed as I saw totals drop throughout the day. Snowing to my west, east and south none here in Florence proper just sleet. Join the crowd, although you will likely change over towards the tail end for a good 2, maybe 4" of dendrites. UL trough axis has broken containment over the Apps and I expect returns to increase along and east of a Danville to Greensboro to Columbia line over the next couple hours as the jets sharpen. This will help in filling in the back edge, and I do expect these returns to take on the more classic banding signature, as opposed to the constant influx the 95 corridor in SC and NC is seeing now, hit or miss type deal. valid 2215 est Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Stream Rider Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 This is a brutal situation in Atlanta...it's hard to describe just how bad this is...you just wouldn't think 2-3 inches would shut down a city like this. You'd think there were a major disaster that happened with people walking out of their cars and leaving them...People are desperate to find shelter...hotels are booked to the brim. https://www.facebook.com/groups/397839673695382/ this group alone on facebook tells the situation. It grew from 200 members to over 7000 today alone...Grim news. OMG. Blessings and Godspeed to all those stranded. Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovingGulfLows Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Yeah. Hate to be morbid, but I'm expecting stories in the morning of fatalities due to exposure. What a cluster. The ONLY reason this isn't national frontline news is because of the State of the Union address. Here's one quote that just breaks my heart... Have a family friend with a 9 month old baby that hasn't had food in 8 hrs off of old canton and Terrell mill...can someone please walk and give them food??? There are many homes nearby and they aren't moving really My dad is around Moores Hill...running out of gas and without food or water. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. The problem is also that Atlanta is a very hilly city due to being on the foothills/Piedmont of the Appalachian so the ice on the roads mean people can't get up hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxFreak11 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 What a horrible situation in Atlanta..It's crazy this can happen in this day and age.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 So in NC It appears most places are busting low? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I guess I live so far away that I don't understand. Do they get so many false alarms that the public doesn't prepare for events? Things like having no food sound like they had absolutely no knowledge of the event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packbacker Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 So in NC It appears most places are busting low? Yep, you shocked? Atleast in the triangle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 So in NC It appears most places are busting low? Yes. You remember. You haven't been gone that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Yes. You remember. You haven't been gone that long. LOL true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmichweather Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Yes. You remember. You haven't been gone that long. Still some back building going on with the back edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxKnurd Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I guess I live so far away that I don't understand. Do they get so many false alarms that the public doesn't prepare for events? Things like having no food sound like they had absolutely no knowledge of the event. I can't speak for ATL residents, but CLT has a majority who are jaded by busted forecasts and hardly take any weather warning seriously. I have literally heard audio of someone calling a news station complaining about them running coverage for severe weather during a regularly scheduled program. I really think this ATL coverage needs it's own thread as it's clogging up the other ones for the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjames1992 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 So in NC It appears most places are busting low? I'd say the western half of the state busted high for the most part while the eastern part busted low. Of course, it's not over yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WidreMann Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Funny just stepped out and that's exactly what I got. Still coming down hard, but it those small flakes. There are some heaver returns showing up to the SW but it's real hard to judge where their going; they seem to develop, dissipate, and then redevelop somewhere else.Same experience here, though it's actually coming down at a good clip now. It looks like fog out there, but the flakes remain small. I think we have over an inch now, depending on which part of the apartment complex you happen to be standing in. My part, naturally, has the lower totals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherNC Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 LOL true. Still snowing at RWI, some things never change, still IP in PGV, probably another 2-3 hours worth, close to 1" accum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 The ONLY reason this isn't national frontline news is because of the State of the Union address. Here's one quote that just breaks my heart... The problem is also that Atlanta is a very hilly city due to being on the foothills/Piedmont of the Appalachian so the ice on the roads mean people can't get up hills. This is really disheartening. I hope people help out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueheels2 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I must say I have lived in Raleigh for 8 years and I am the most disappointed in this storm as I have ever been. I'm a man but I want to cry. SOmebody stole my lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disc Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Atleast 2" out there. Could be more from that last band. Definitely overperformed today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Stream Rider Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Join the crowd, although you will likely change over towards the tail end for a good 2, maybe 4" of dendrites. UL trough axis has broken containment over the Apps and I expect returns to increase along and east of a Danville to Greensboro to Columbia line over the next couple hours as the jets sharpen. This will help in filling in the back edge, and I do expect these returns to take on the more classic banding signature, as opposed to the constant influx the 95 corridor in SC and NC is seeing now, hit or miss type deal. wv4.JPG valid 2215 est Interesting! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DopplerWx Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 really starting to ice here now, cars and elevated surfaces all covered and the roads are starting to ice over now. freezing rain still coming down hard...power has been flickering over the past hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poimen Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 1.5 here and still snowing at a pretty good clip.Picked up .5 in the last hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franklin NCwx Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Snow had died down to flurries around six thought it was over. Just let the cat in and its snowing lightly picked up almost another 1/2". Gets me to 3.5 for the event. Thats a big win since I figured I would be left out being too far west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Stream Rider Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 11pm report Chapel Hill; Snow light to moderate. Fine flakes and ice slivers. 1.5 inch accumulation. 19.7 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormsfury Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Be careful! This is still another example that really bad ice storms can occur right at 32! yeah. it's been right around 31-32 here and have about .2" ice accretion, then add about .2" of sleet in that very heavy burst earlier. right now, light ZR, heavier rates changes it to sleet Sleet and ZR right now, snowing just up the road about 3 miles from here in Lincolnville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaur Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I guess I live so far away that I don't understand. Do they get so many false alarms that the public doesn't prepare for events? Things like having no food sound like they had absolutely no knowledge of the event. It just doesn't happen often enough, People forget, forecasts aren't always accurate. New administrations run things. No one want to spend the millions to pretreat roads when there may be nothing to happen. In Atlanta if folks would just take charge of their own well being, and stay home from work if it's threatening, or tell the boss I'm leaving when it's time. But of course no one does, because it probably won't snow. It rarely does, and usually at night. It's the daytime that gets folks, because like lemmings they rush off to work, or expect it to all be on the southside, and whammo. Atlanta gets new people all the time. People that come from snowy areas with no hills. They think they can drive in it. They can't. And it happens every time a storm hits in the daytime. And will keep on happening. It's human nature. When it happens again in 20 years there will be a new batch of lemmings to suffer all over again. Atlanta is a city of hllls. It ought to be written on billboards as you come in to town. That, and we don't pretreat all our hilly roads before storms. That says it all. T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMA1973 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 11:14 RDU report. Fine snow. 1/2 inch. Awesome forecasting to all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwagner88 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 ^ pretreatment isn't the answer for something like this. Brine simply doesn't work when the temp drops below 25. It's fine for the typical marginal events we normally have in this part of the country, but for really cold weather other chemicals need to be added (usually beet juice or calcium chloride). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lookout Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Yep, you shocked? Atleast in the triangle. I am. I thought the radar looked good over there. I was jealous when I saw it but if it's those same tiny fairy dust flakes, i can see why. hell I've been sitting here jealous of the heavy returns over central ga and sc. (where it is snow). It almost made it back here but got one county away and turned around. I figured some places were getting as much snow in one hour as I did in 8 or 9 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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