Appears to be a pretty steady mix of sleet and freezing rain. If that persists as our primary precip type then I'm concerned for power outages, too. I'll be stepping out in just a bit to see what kind of ice accumulation we have so far.
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Power out at my house in Brandon, but thank the good Lord my Generic Generator came on. Battery was low so I had to jump it off from my truck.
Started snowing here around 7:00, had 2-3", and by 9:00 had turned mostly to rain. May or may not be freezing rain - hard to tell. Don't think there's any sleet mixed in. Temp has gone up almost 2 degrees since 7 p.m. This is the first real winter weather for us since the whole thing started, other than a little freezing rain on Monday that melted fairly quickly, and snow all day long on Tuesday without much accumulation.
Looks like it's about over. Probably have around 0.3" of ice. Can hear limbs snapping in the woods and our lights have been flickering.
Had 6" in Madison (AL) but just 10-12 miles to the east in downtown Huntsville virtually nothing. Roads are in pretty good shape this morning and continue to improve.
Lost power. Lots of Starkville and surrounding areas sharing the same fate. Trying to melt the ice off my windshield to go try and find some breakfast and see how roads are.
It's a balmy 34 here in North Covington Co. Ice is gone until any leftover water freezes tonight I guess.
Some of the scenes in and around Starkville.
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Thanks for posting. Reminds me when I lived near Clemson. This was a daily sight every Feb and March. I remember Ft. Bragg in April 84. Ice storms for 2 weeks, temps near zero and we were having BN Artep. Platoon in the defense really sucked. Literally froze my ass off. At least we weren't getting shot at.
Goodness, that's terrible looking. I'm glad we just got snow last night and not freezing rain and sleet.
I just got back from going downtown Huntsville, about 12 miles to the east. At my house, we had plenty of snow. About halfway to town (just past the Space & Rocket Center, if you've been here) the snow went to virtually nothing over maybe a half mile distance.
The good news is all the roads I was on had been plowed and treated - the cities of Madison and Huntsville, and the state did a great job of clearing things.
The wife used to freeze me out every winter with her fan going until I download the Ambio app. Fan ambiance, thunderstorm, bubbling brook, etc. I highly recommend it if you need "white noise" to sleep.
We have a clock that has several different sounds like that, but I'm not crazy about it. We also have a Snooz white noise machine in the master bedroom. I really like it, and I generally wake up when it turns off at 6:30 in the mornings. So I'm addicted to it. The only thing I don't like about it is that it loses it's wifi connection occasionally, but that's solved unplugging it, then plugging it back in.
One last image from this past winter storm. The sun glistening on the ice in the trees this morning. Hopefully, by this afternoon it's all melted.
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If you get out and about later this afternoon any road updates from the Starkville area(or from anyone in the GTR area) would be greatly appreciated.
I'm an appraiser and gotta get over that way soon. Residential areas. Rural areas etc.
Our mailman has not ran all week. Ha. What happened to their slogan...rain, snow or ??? Lol