My best friend lives in Hot Springs, AR. Looks like they'll be right in the middle of it.

Could be.

...and those it will impact. Seems deserved to me. Their god appears to be pissed a bit.

I'm not a big fan of punishing an entire population because some of them are butt heads.

I'll admit I'm biased because there are people down there I care about who did not vote for Trump. But I hate to see this kind of thing happen to anyone who doesn't deserve it.

Very simple solution, no?

in case needed

They read it in the N.Y. TImes, so it must be true. They
Won’t want to make it worse.

definitely be some trouble ahead from what I've read and heard. My fiancee's brother and wife just moved to CO from North Phoenix in part because they feared that the area they live in could in for serious H2O problems not too far off and they didn't want to risk losing their equity. My brother-in-law-to-be is pretty connected, very bright, and has lived in the Valley most of his life (also a raging liberal ), so, if he's making a move like that based at least partly on that concern I have to think there's some areas where it may be wise to consider it at this point in terms of owning property.

He was specific though that it had to do a lot with what the source was in his neighborhood and it being more tenuous than some other parts of the valley, but offhand I don't recall where he said it was coming from. He lived just north of Lookout Mountain off of Greenway between the 17 and the 51.

But yeah, to think it's not safe to visit here for that reason would be silly at this point. But I was just being a smartass saying the kind of thing Trump would think, like "why not just leave" like everybody could do that lol.

Digging out from 9" over the weekend. It snowed for days, very lightly, but it added up.

Canned goods til March!

Not like the deep freeze a few years ago.

Some freezine temps at night, and a bit
of icy rain, then warmer on Monday.

That will be essential stuff since I can't/won't do the hard liquor..like the old cook who survived the Titanic. He survived the frigid Atlantic ocean because of the blood / alcohol levels. I think he was a survivor in the real life accident and Atlantic cruise-liner sinking.
Back 27 years ago we had a snow storm dump 10 inches; the electric was out for 4 days. I was stuck in my house with the sweet Great Danes (my kids) and we just cuddled to stay warm. This old house was like a cold refrigerator, maybe closer to a freezer.
I threw all my coats and blankets on me and the Danes..... it was really tough.
But I don't think that scenario will ever repeat again. The city and county have since obtained high power storm equipment with the intake of millions in tax revenue. 27 years brought on all the subdivisions (after massive deforestation and construction in my area). The new luxury housing and the rich folks brought in a cash cow for the city county treasury.
The city county government will not upset the high tax dollar homes. My little old 1945 house is just a speck around here, with 2 acres of original forest. An eye sore for some, but I benefit from the location. The city/county encroached into my once undesirable area and built million dollar homes in what was a low income county built with crude & sparse small cabins in the woods.

So if the lights go out it won't take long to return...I won't be shoveling ....My car will be buried. .I will just wait out the storm; wait for snow to melt; and call an uber if I have to go anywhere.

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They are going to run out and buy bread and milk, of course!

(I have already been in touch with the family and will be chatting with some friends that are there tomorrow. They all seem prepared for the weather change. Of course, if it does get to near 0 at my mother's house, there will be some records broken, the town will suffer damage because the services were never made to deal with that kind of cold, and the sound will probably be frozen over for the first time in over a hundred years.)

For 2-3 days. Even SOCAL. Literally from the Canadian border to the Gulf and every where E-W. This is very rare to have the entire country below freezing at the same time for multiple days. Very very rare indeed.

Be very careful with some of the crazy snow totals models are spitting out. Those of us that live in snowy areas know this. Its a good rule of thumb this far out to prepare for the worst but expect 50% less or so of what models and FB and utube talking heads will be yelling about. This storm has been showing up as early as 7 days ago. Models have had crazy totals in the SE from 3ft in N/S SC, to a foot in N FL. Don't buy into the snow hype but buy into the cold hype. The absolutely frigid below 0 temps possibly all the way down into KY, TN, TX, LA. MS have a higher probability of happening than crazy 2ft snow totals in places that usually never get snow. Social Media is already bonkers screaming an yelling about this and I'm telling you its too early to freak out.

Dont worry about the snow down south. Worry about being ready for frigid temps Mon and Tues with potential grid overloads and power outages and be smart. Listen to your local NWS, not somebody selling yardsticks as snow measuring devices.

Stay warm, it won't last forever down there. You'll be in sweatshirts by Thursday