JoshWeather Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Question for you guys with more experience driving in this stuff. I would like to get home this morning. I have a 4x4 Ford Ranger. My front tires are brand new but my rear tires are a little older and are starting to wear the treads. I drive it in 4WD High. The bed is packed to the brim almost with snow/sleet. Is there anything else I can do to get more traction? Drive in 2nd gear? 1st gear? Take overdrive off? Anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WXinCanton Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 8:52 AM, JoshWeather said: Question for you guys with more experience driving in this stuff. I would like to get home this morning. I have a 4x4 Ford Ranger. My front tires are brand new but my rear tires are a little older and are starting to wear the treads. I drive it in 4WD High. The bed is packed to the brim almost with snow/sleet. Is there anything else I can do to get more traction? Drive in 2nd gear? 1st gear? Take overdrive off? Anything? youll be fine in 4wd. Let some air out of the tires, it will give you better contact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshWeather Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 8:57 AM, WXinCanton said: youll be fine in 4wd. Let some air out of the tires, it will give you better contact i'm just worried about the hills. Last night coming into work I was perfectly fine going straight or downhill. Going up hills was hit and miss though with me turning sideways twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busick Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On the west side of Fayetteville currently walked outside for 20 minutes and saw three transformers blow in the distance and heard numerous branches breaking currently at 0.4 ice. Still have power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshWeather Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 9:10 AM, Busick said: On the west side of Fayetteville currently walked outside for 20 minutes and saw three transformers blow in the distance and heard numerous branches breaking currently at 0.4 ice. Still have power i feel for you guys. Looks like you have a ton of precipitation still on the way as well. Good luck and stay safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallsLake Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On the Wake and Granville County line(North of Raleigh). Still getting freezing rain. Temp is at 30.6 degrees. Looking at radar more coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrips27 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Band of snowing moving in. Good moderate snow. Man if I can get this thing to pivot on me for an hour or so we'll have 3+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQPublic Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 30.0 per my closest station on Wunderground. In Western Cary, real close to Chatham Cty. Holy ice storm batman! Everything is glazed out here. It could be worse in Durham/CH. I'd say about 1/4" here. Getting dangerously close to some outages if any more falls! http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b621/fortysevenpercent/Nature%20Pics/Snowstorm2-12and2-13-14_zps05468f3b.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshWeather Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I know multiple people in Raleigh with power outages. lots of people near fayetville reporting walking outside and seeing/hearing transformers blowing. its getting bad in that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquawind Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Freezing rain and 30 F this morning in Mooresville. The NWS still has 3-5" accumulation for today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQPublic Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 10:12 AM, JoshWeather said: I know multiple people in Raleigh with power outages. lots of people near fayetville reporting walking outside and seeing/hearing transformers blowing. its getting bad in that area. Yeah, on WRAL Duke Power just said 17,000 w/o power in Wake County Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drnicholsst Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 New member here.. more of a lurker. Just figured I'd chime in with what is finally a moderate snowfall again in Shelby, NC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshWeather Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 My goodness WSOC is daft. Their "live reporter" just told everyone to go extremely slow on the roadways. You can't do that or else you're gonna get stuck. You have to build some kind of momentum or else you're gonna get halfway up hills and slide right back down. She also said she has seen "2 to 3" snow plows on the roads already. 2 to 3? how many, 2 or 3? Or are there half snow plows out there? She also talked about how hard the ice pack on top of the snow is and proceeded to push her foot right through it. Then she tried to show how slushy the actual road is by pushing her foot through the slush and it moved nowhere. Was the worst I have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentralNC Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 10:26 AM, drnicholsst said: New member here.. more of a lurker. Just figured I'd chime in with what is finally a moderate snowfall again in Shelby, NC Welcome and thanks for the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrips27 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 It's ripping. Stoked to see what this band gives me over the next half hour!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaculaWeather Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 10:57 AM, Weatherkid#27 said: It's ripping. Stoked to see what this band gives me over the next half hour!! Yea, waiting on that to get here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshWeather Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 10:41 AM, JoshWeather said: My goodness WSOC is daft. Their "live reporter" just told everyone to go extremely slow on the roadways. You can't do that or else you're gonna get stuck. You have to build some kind of momentum or else you're gonna get halfway up hills and slide right back down. She also said she has seen "2 to 3" snow plows on the roads already. 2 to 3? how many, 2 or 3? Or are there half snow plows out there? She also talked about how hard the ice pack on top of the snow is and proceeded to push her foot right through it. Then she tried to show how slushy the actual road is by pushing her foot through the slush and it moved nowhere. Was the worst I have ever seen. Holy hell. Another reporter just said, "As you can see the power lines have no real ice build up but that is because we've been having this fine mist instead of that hard sleet that would cause power issues." Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mello Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Good to wake up to some wrap around snowfall this morning to top the bit of snow received overnight. Nice frosting over the icy slop of yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherlover Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 WOW unreal rates in these bands coming out of SC I know because im sitting under one!!!! LEL IT SNOW!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amos83 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Just a reminder guys please put your location in your comments since the locations have been turned off in our profile info. Like others have said, we had some crazy sleet fall here in Concord overnight that switched over to a light freezing drizzle a few hours ago, the trees have a glaze on them but I haven't been out to measure. I'm guessing maybe a tenth. Everything is a solid brick of ice. Hopefully I can get a switch back over to snow this morning. NWS saying 2-4", local news saying 1-2". Temp is 31 but that might drop a degree or two as the upper lower swings through and we kick back over to snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshWeather Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 11:23 AM, Amos83 said: Just a reminder guys please put your location in your comments since the locations have been turned off in our profile info. Like others have said, we had some crazy sleet fall here in Concord overnight that switched over to a light freezing drizzle a few hours ago, the trees have a glaze on them but I haven't been out to measure. I'm guessing maybe a tenth. Everything is a solid brick of ice. Hopefully I can get a switch back over to snow this morning. NWS saying 2-4", local news saying 1-2". Temp is 31 but that might drop a degree or two as the upper lower swings through and we kick back over to snow. Where is this at? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherlover Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Im in Clev County SNOWING LIKE CRAZY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bert1 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 11:26 AM, weatherlover said: Im in Clev County SNOWING LIKE CRAZY I am in Spartanburg, SC and those rates you are experiencing are to my east. I had a band come through about an hour ago with good rates. I am hoping that area of snow leaving the Anderson, SC area will get me. I bet that area of snow is putting out big flakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrips27 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Huge flakes pouring down. This is close to the heaviest I've ever seen. Insanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxictwister00 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Here in NW Atlanta it's 29° with moderate snow/fog. The backend of this band looks the heaviest (30+dbz) showing up and there's another lighter band behind that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amos83 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 11:25 AM, JoshWeather said: Where is this at? lol Lol my infant kept me up all night so I'm running low on brain power. I fixed my post. I'm in concord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherlover Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Gaston County fixing to get pounded Somebodys going to pile the snow up quick out of that batch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JQPublic Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 11:33 AM, toxictwister00 said: Here in NW Atlanta it's 29° with moderate snow/fog. The backend of this band looks the heaviest (30+dbz) showing up and there's another lighter band behind that. I love how that emoticon is just like your avatar which is probably like your actual face right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalicwx366 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 On 2/13/2014 at 11:36 AM, JQPublic said: I love how that emoticon is just like your avatar which is probably like your actual face right now. :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Alchemist Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Light snow, large flake size @ 30.3 degrees. In Saluda NC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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