Stupid Weather!

[alotofyarn]

This is the second year that we've traveled during Mardi Gras to visit my grandma and family in North Carolina. Last year we had to move our flights to later in the day because of ice. I'm on hold with the airline now to see if I can change our flights again due to ice. This is ridiculous. I'm done traveling this time of year! What has the weather ruined for you?

[JDAZ11]

Life in general! I hate winter.
Right now apparently our landlord is sending "management" around to confirm that all thermostats are stuck on 68 for the week. I don't know if they can lock it, but I seriously hope not. Our bedroom is like 110 if the thermostat is set at 68. PLUS, no one has been in since my watch was stolen, and I don't want them in here. And they didn't give us 24hrs notice, AGAIN - which pisses me off. I blame winter.


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[WolfpackWife]

[MENTION=4205]alotofyarn[/MENTION] Yeah, I'd sit tight if I were you. The weather is looking pretty bleak for NC/VA. Not sure where you are in NC, but central NC is looking to get hit hard too!! https://www.facebook.com/WxRisk

Right now VA is projected to get 14" of snow. The university is notoriously slow at releasing weather related alerts and I'm anxiously awaiting their decision.

The wrench is that we have a speaker visiting from MI who arrived last night with her husband and son. They extended their visit to four days to visit the area. We only needed her tomorrow, so she's already here. If she hadn't decided to make it a vacation, we could have told her to stay put. Now, there's an entire day planned tomorrow, food ordered, seminar advertised and the university may close. I feel bad but she's the one who decided to make a trip out of it! I'm sure she's pretty unimpressed with our measly possible 14" being from MI but...the entire city will come to a grinding halt if there's a quarter inch...

It's kind of a huge mess. Lots of people for her to meet with...things planned...no idea what to plan for because we may have a delay, we may be closed.

[alotofyarn]

@alotofyarn Yeah, I'd sit tight if I were you. The weather is looking pretty bleak for NC/VA. Not sure where you are in NC, but central NC is looking to get hit hard too!! https://www.facebook.com/WxRisk

Right now VA is projected to get 14" of snow. The university is notoriously slow at releasing weather related alerts and I'm anxiously awaiting their decision.

The wrench is that we have a speaker visiting from MI who arrived last night with her husband and son. They extended their visit to four days to visit the area. We only needed her tomorrow, so she's already here. If she hadn't decided to make it a vacation, we could have told her to stay put. Now, there's an entire day planned tomorrow, food ordered, seminar advertised and the university may close. I feel bad but she's the one who decided to make a trip out of it! I'm sure she's pretty unimpressed with our measly possible 14" being from MI but...the entire city will come to a grinding halt if there's a quarter inch...

It's kind of a huge mess. Lots of people for her to meet with...things planned...no idea what to plan for because we may have a delay, we may be closed.

I'm in Granville County, northeast of Durham. I'm flying out of RDU. Mostly I need to get home for a presentation by Friday.

[WolfpackWife]

[MENTION=4205]alotofyarn[/MENTION] Ah! Well at least it's not a county airport - RDU mostly has their shit together. Check out that FB page for actually accurate weather for the southeast. It can be cumbersome to sort through his long explanations, but there's stuff in there about NC as well. He is BY FAR the most accurate weather reporting I"ve ever seen. Extremely reliable.

[alotofyarn]

@alotofyarn Ah! Well at least it's not a county airport - RDU mostly has their shit together. Check out that FB page for actually accurate weather for the southeast. It can be cumbersome to sort through his long explanations, but there's stuff in there about NC as well. He is BY FAR the most accurate weather reporting I"ve ever seen. Extremely reliable.

The hard part is actually getting to the airport, unfortunately. I had an 11:20 flight out, and it takes about 45 minutes for us to get there, so we'd have to leave around 9am probably. I ended up getting it changed to a Wednesday flight out at 2:45. Not ideal, but the roads should be thawed by then.

[WolfpackWife]

LOL I was just coming here to say that - RDU has their shit together, but everyone on the Durham Co. roads, I-85/I-40, etc. won't. It will get messy, fast. Exhibit A: Snowpocolypse 2014:

[JDAZ11]

Yikes! Maybe worth thinking about an airport hotel?


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[diggitydot]

JFC. Is that a vehicle on fire?

[WolfpackWife]

Oh yes, I actually had two friends stuck on that road that day. And to be clear, that's not even *THAT* steep an incline. That picture briefly went viral because it's just so insane. Also, the snow that day I think totaled less than 3". People had tons of fun with Photoshop:

[diggitydot]

Hahahaaahaha! OMG, that is hilarious.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

^I remember that day. It was bananas. All these people who didn't know how to drive in snow panicked and abandoned their cars, etc. I grew up in MD, it's not THAT snowy but people here in NC like to pretend 2-4 inches is literally life ending.

RDU will be fine by Weds. That's my home airport, it'll be fine.

[diggitydot]

I've seen 1" of snow shut down PDX and Seattle. East side of the same states? NFW.

[poky]

I've seen 1" of snow shut down PDX and Seattle. East side of the same states? NFW.

Don't be hatin' on Seattle and Portland for that. I know you know this, but:

- The snow west of the cascades is usually very heavy and wet and turns everything icy REALLY easily, because it's usually just barely cold enough to snow instead of rain, when it does snow.
- It's very hilly, and there are tons of evergreen trees that shade the roads even in winter - see above about icy; the sun doesn't get a chance to melt things.
- Because it happens infrequently, there's no infrastructure to deal with it, because why spend money maintaining a lot of plows that might get used once or maybe twice a year? There's also the reluctance to use salt. It's way way easier to just shut things down for a couple days a year rather than spend a LOT of resources trying to maintain normalcy for those few days.

The east side of the state gets much more snow every winter, so is more prepared to deal with it, and the snow they get is generally colder, lighter, and drier, too (easier to deal with).

[diggitydot]

Oh, absolutely we're way more used to the snow on the east side. It's frequently just as wet as on the west side, though. Depends where on the east side.