Snow Apocalypse 2.0 updates

What’s it doing out there THF. I’m in Addison at the office just cold here so far

37 and slight rain in Parker County.

Trees icing up in Breckenridge.

Stay warm. Hope you guys do not lose power.

Rain and 30 degrees in Graham. Not freezing, yet.

Sleeting steady in Abilene. Gonna get western in a few hours.

Drizzle here but was in Waco and thought about stopping at HEB and getting some tortillas but the parking lot was packed. Went to my country Brookshires and got some ice and ice creme. We are ready.

New Braunfels it is drizzly and temp dropping
To around 57. Gave the guys tomorrow and Friday off though we will be on call.

My a/c is currently on...

Cloudy and 48 right here right now But It's 12 and Hazy in my home away from home Denver

Snow in Merkel.

According to the Weather Channel it's called "Winter Storm Landon"

45 here in GP.

Taos is getting dumped on. My skis are starting to quiver...

53° and drizzle in south Hays county. Got a replacement door hinge fabbed up for my wood stove. About as ready as I’m gonna be.

It was raining here in Bowie. Now everything iced up and we just started getting a sleet snow mix.

31 in Van Alstyne with steady rain, no ice yet

Steady rain here, Arlington.

39 and steady rain in Gatesville. Frozen stuff is still 70 - 80 miles to the west. We really, really need the rain and I'll even take whatever snow and ice that may be coming.

30 and sleet in San Angelo

15 and snow in Amarillo

Has not made it to Corpus yet.



Will look much different this time tomorrow.

I’ve been in Ohio, West Virginia, and PA all winter. It gets cold up here. Suck it up, ladies.

It's so rare here, just makes it fun to talk about and hear reports.

Raining and cold near the speedway

Of course. The title is a bit misleading, though. It’s not the end of the world.

44 in Groesbeck, and light rain. In the wee hours the rain will turn to snow or sleet.

Hey, if it makes anyone feel better, (it did for me,) people up here aren’t any better at driving in winter weather than we are. They like to give us hell for it, but I see them in the ditch just as often anytime the roads are slick.

Stay safe, and warm, up there.

I’m staying safe. The warm part is a challenge.

I drove from Allen back to Longview this morning. From the number of electric repair trucks I saw on I-20 headed west, they are expecting some really bad damage. I stopped counting after 150 trucks. There were bucket trucks, drill trucks, pole hauling trucks and several support trucks. Just about every truck stop had a bunch of them refueling, Buc-ees, had about 30 trucks.

With the expected ice, I'm happy they're coming!

Are you in a Rv, if I remember correctly?

Freezing rain coming down just north of Lake Ray Roberts - big drops too, freezing on contact. Trees already getting 'coated'.

It's only 30 degrees outside, but my heat-pump is already icing over pretty good;
- switching it over to propane-furnace only mode manually in a few, till precip stops.

NORML, I think he meant OUTSIDE the home

Not these days. They put me up in a hotel. I’m well kept. Even while working I spend most of my time in the shooting cab, which is comfortable, but I do have to venture outside from time to time. Let me tell you, negative temps go right through you.

Im down in between Tilden and Cotulla working. Its 53 degrees and dropping. Light sprinkles of rain. Should be a few miserable nights working. I dont like cold weather at all.

Happy for any rain in that area, it’s extremely dry.

Lots of rain here in the settlement.

Only problem with that is the mud down here was spawned from Satan himself. Driving up and down lease roads all night isnt fun when it gets muddy

What line of work are you in?

Our trees are already pretty heavy with Ice in frisco. I doubt this will be snowmageddon 2.0, but we'll have icy roads for 24-48 hours.

News reporters are almost salivating at the prospect of power outages!

I never remember shutting it down we do now. I guess the pansies have control.

"Control" being the key word! But I'm not telling you anything new.

I wonder how hard Governor Abbott is praying that we don’t have wide spread power outages. I would think wide spread outages would lead to his demise as governor.

Can't be any worse then that crap in Fannin county

just started freezing on the trees here in NW Frisco. Starting to get ugly

Yall up in Fannin Co. Stay safe !! Bohnam, Sherman...

Fannin County mud is terrible.


I noticed on jeopardy last night that half our schools in our 3 county area and a bunch more in OK schools were either closed completely or “distant learning” Thursday and Friday. Before we even knew or not of any actual weather was coming. I think Covid has made it too easy to close schools. If the kids gotta stay home for “remote learning” parents gotta stay home too.

I’m really not surprised.

Will do buzz you stay safe too. BTW Sherman is in Grayson county. don’t call me a bully

Trees are getting coated with ice here in Lamar County. Just heard first VFD get toned for power line down a few minutes ago. I’m a volunteer myself so just waiting for stuff to hit the fan sometime tonight. My truck is getting coated with ice. Put the side by side with cab and heat in the garage (it fits unlike the truck). I’m 1\2 mile from our Sta. 2 so making a response at 20 MPH to the station isn’t an issue. Wind is blowing pretty good and rain is quite heavy at times.
Have generator ready to run a few heaters and the coffee maker! Y’all stay safe out there.

This is shertown.

About what my yard looks like minus the furniture. It is sleeting hard though here.

South of San Antonio, it’s windy and raining. School already cancelled and not even suppose to freeze till tomorrow afternoon…

Need to bring them pillows in they are going to get weathered.

It’s getting rough already up here, limbs are starting to come down and it’s raining pretty hard so I think we’re about to get hammered. You can see the areas getting bad already on the Texas Power map.

https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas

Ours went out for a spell but came back on in Grayson county. Sure it’ll do it again.

God bless those linemen crews.

Still right at 32 here this morning. Everything is wet.

Far N Dallas at t 6:10 this am still sleeting. Where is my Dayum 1-3" of snow that is suppose to be on top of the sleet/ice

It would be a heck of a lot easier walking the mutt this am with snow on top this crap vs just ice

Sleet covered by snow here. It's 20 degrees. Wind 15-30.

Rained hard here for hours yesterday....really needed it.

31 degrees at 5:30am this morning and that was the high. We are headed south from here.

Just transitioned to sleet.

Little bit of mix here in Bexar County. Looong explanations on the local news about how a branch gets ice on it, touches a power line, and blows a transformer. It's like being back in Kindergarten. Local government update on TV at 11a.m. I'm sure Nelson Wolfe will drag his dried up old bones on stage, put his cowboy bandana around his neck, and impart pearls of wisdom to the whole community that we should all be thankful for.

A little icy in Fate. Sleeting now. Just went out to get newspaper and feed the birds.

Snowing hard now in big flakes

No snow here so far, but the ground is mostly covered with frozen sleet. The good news is that it froze before it coated the tree limbs. It’s still sleeting (frozen) and will continue to about 3 pm. Maybe a bunch of limbs won’t drop on the power lines this time. Temp is 27 right now and dropping, so there shouldn’t be any ice accumulation on the trees.

Before the rain became sleet, I was expecting about .30” of rain. We actually got 3 inches last night.

Wife is mad that blackbirds are shoving ‘her’ birds out of the feeders. Shooting them doesn’t keep the rest away.

They have to eat also.

Just Beautiful!

JMHO- wouldn't give ten cents for 10 feet of it
I'd be happy if the snow and ice would stay 3 or 4 hours north forever,
or at least until they bury me

it's all white in the settlement now. Big snow falling.

Only about half an inch of sleet in Dallas. Delkus said there would be 1-3 inches of snow, but that doesn't seem likely.

Snowing heavy here right now:

At 7:29 am I looked out front and low and behold the wife parked under the Live Oak tree thats branches were sagging from the ice accumulation. No clue why she parks under it for all the stuff that constantly falls or drops out of there especially the bird crap. Decided to move it before a limb remodels it. The drivers door facing the north was sealed shut with the ice so my fat butt had go in the passenger side and crawl over.




At 8:08 Luke and I heading out for our morning walk, did a short .96 mile.

27 on the back porch with nothing coming down at the moment. Maybe an inch of frozen sleet covering everything. FarmLogs said we got 1.3 inches of moisture. I'm thankful to awaken to the pool pump still working!
They say tomorrow morning will be the biggest test for the power grid cording to usage.

Snow just started here in Arlington

Sledders are starting to show up at centennial park in downtown Midland. I’ve seen some epic wipeouts.

Neighbor pulling his little girl up and down the street, before that he had his two young boys on with their cowboy hats that was a cool site.

Nice and frozen here in Addison at the office, it finally just switched from Sleet to Snow about 5 minutes ago here.

Anyone out on the roads? Hoping to make it to the lease this afternoon and curious how bad they actually are around Fort Worth and southwest

I got a buddy out now checking, says it feels like more ice than snow

Says about 35 mph and your fine but I hear they got more snow around Bowie, maybe we can go a little faster once we get there

We have a 60 miles drive if we head out...

Cool chairs but I dont think I could get out of one

28° and raining here. Got some oak tree branches drooping to the ground.

41 here, supposed to be 26 tonight. Gonna run to HEB and get stuff for a big pot of chicken & dumplings.

Tempted to go hammer some trout tonight and tomorrow, if they don't shut my honey holes down again.

I left downtown Midland yesterday at about 1:00, and headed south right away. I always wondered what that building with all of windows broken out was.

We finally got some pretty good snow about an hour ago it appears to be coming to an end now. The mutt was having fun in it.

Ours is a 150 mile drive. 121 to 820 to 377. I’ve been out over here and it’s not bad at 35 mph. Wondering what we get into as we go west/southwest

Its covered over here, but people are moving. I think the snow helped more than it hurt.

Check the TXDot cameras. I bet 377 is bad outside of Benbrook.

I've already eaten half my food. Not sure I'm gonna make it.

We decided to cancel riding lessons today here at New Hope.

out the back door this morning -



this was ice off one of the tanks at the farm last year on 2/19/21

Keep up the good work sir!

Comanche

Started snowing again here.

It was the “northwest union life insurance” building. It’s been scheduled to be demolished a dozen times. The city doesn’t want to cut the check. Apparently it was really well built and full of asbestos. Mesa Petroleum was in there for many years, or so I’m told.

I’m working today

The roads are getting real slick. Way different than 0600 this am

I thought the same thing...went out for lunch and the roads in Richardson were worse at lunch than they were at 7am.

Be careful out there fellas.

Early this morning in NW Gillespie County. 23° for a low this morning and that will be our high today. Low in the morning is supposed to be 14°

all is calm in the Ghettos of Frisco

21 degrees here and wind still blowing hard. Got about 3" of the white stuff.

Got the pipes wrapped, fresh hay for the animals and heat lamps, turned the sprinklers off and drained, moved potted plants indoors. About to fire up the pit and grill some steaks. Whisky and fireplace for now.

got a few little snow flurries a couple of minutes ago... sleeting now.

All roads in the Abilene area are at an almost standstill. Including counties of Taylor, Nolan, Jones, and Callahan. Sweetwater is snow blocke to the east, west north and south. I20 at a stand till as is highway 70.

18 here and still snowing a little. It has been snowing on and off since the sun came up this morning. It's pretty deep in some places. Lot's of limbs down also, several big cedars are split down the middle.

We’re having a great time.

Stupid school is closed tomorrow.

The great snow-apocalypse at my place. LOL

We are going to have to dig out!

I35 in Eddy is closed. 18 wheeler jackknifed. Should be open soon. 2 trucks off the road by me.

I had a flat in the ice last night. Luckily I was close to a Racetrack. Just left my truck there and called a buddy for a ride home.

Hopefully sun comes out this afternoon.

Hope your truck is intact when you get back to it. These days...

Luke and I did our morning walk leaving around 8:30. For 2.1 miles we had the world pretty much to our selves.



I bet there will be some incredible pictures of the sun glistening off the ice in the trees & bush's

Made it through the mess on roads yesterday to the lease. A normal trip takes 2:15-2:30 door to door, we were 5:30 for our trip yesterday. Beautiful day today though…bring on the piggies!

Looks like I will firing up the chain saw when it dries out. I am right on the edge of the bullseye for ice. We never got snow just ice and then sleet.

Looks like your pool survived.