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Ah is this about the foot of snow that's supposed to happen this weekend?

Central Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, KS getting the snow this week.

my annual thread

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The system is moving out of the Pacific so there's no real accurate data just yet.

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While the current European model has us getting clobbered, the American model has the worst of it just to our east.

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That spread butt crack is gonna shit all over the Midwest

Thanks for doing this again, displaced.

I want a 12" snow for the Denver game. **** Bo Nix

A lack of accurate data isn't stopping the apple weather app from predicting 16-20" of snow on Sunday in KC lol

I'm guessing it just goes with the biggest outlier EURO model and yolos

We are getting a bunch of snow right now.

Looking forward to 2025 Snowpocalypse turning out to be a 1" dusting again this weekend.

Better go get bread, milk and eggs though.

While I make fun of people who lose their shit and spend 500 dollars at the store, even the Euro model has us getting hammered, we're gonna get significant snow.

Maybe. The storm hasn't even made landfall yet. We'll see.

There is some kind of Bermuda Triangle blind spot within the models when it comes to predicting snow for KC. My entire life the vast majority of these have turned out to be nothing. I'm not somebody who thinks all the meteorologists are always wrong or anything like that. It's just something weird with KC and snow.

So once again, I hope they're right. Would make for some fun atmosphere as I grab a bag of popcorn and watch the rest of the NFL play for the playoff lives.

If we get that storm you may not have power.

Squall in Iowa?

It's snow, right? Haven't typically lost power for snow storms in my area. But yeah I won't be praying for it or anything.

Yeah earlier today. It's just flurries now but we've probably gotten 3 inches so far.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The next major snowstorm will miss the Upper Midwest and hit areas from Northern MO/Kansas through the Ohio River Valley. <a href="https://t.co/bkY4RktGsd">pic.twitter.com/bkY4RktGsd</a></p>&mdash; Meteorologist John Zeigler (@JohnZeiglerWX) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnZeiglerWX/status/1874873922942042565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Not to mention...stock up on (toilet paper)

The Tongie Split.

It's not the snow we're concerned about. It's the ice that is being projected. Too much ice on the power lines, with snow on top of it...... yeah that'll go well.

Snowlachoust

My wife's about to get half of that if ya know what I'm saying.

Well this actually sounds pretty awful.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A Major Winter Storm is taking direct aim on Kansas City. This is a very rare winter storm and there will be major impacts. Freezing rain, which is liquid water that freezes on contact with surfaces below 32°, could accumulate up to 1/2&quot; in areas south of Kansas City before it… <a href="https://t.co/cHOwLbDqhR">pic.twitter.com/cHOwLbDqhR</a></p>&mdash; Gary Lezak (@glezak) <a href="https://twitter.com/glezak/status/1875178618621407249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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awww sleet sleet sleet sleet

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If that happens, you’re going to have widespread power outages. We got hit with one of those about 20 years ago and some were without power for 3+ weeks. I was in MO for Christmas when it hit and driving back down to it was astonishing. Just south of Ft. Smith on down, it looked like the Tunguska event.

:clap: POY so far!

January, 2001. We went 11 days w/o power. My father-in-law lived a block or so away and he never lost power. So we stayed with him in his "thermostat set to 90 ****ing degrees" duplex for the majority of the time.

And you liked it!

The heat is too damn high!

Yup.

I believe 12/7/05. On Thanksgiving I dropped the family off at KCI to go home to Germany for the holidays. Sweated my ass off with the luggage. The plan was I would join them ~12/15/05.

Sh*t got real 12/8. I live in the last house in KS at NE border north of Hiawatha. Anything happens, I lose power.

~1/2" of ice. That morning it sounded like WW3. "Bombs" going off as 12" tree limbs started raining down. As I was looking at my barn in the driveway, then moved forward 5 steps, I heard a loud "crack" and a "thud". I looked over my shoulder and saw a ~16" maple tree limb laying behind me, where I had just been standing.

My tree wind break had been culled. Thank goodness I had just bought a small 8N Ford tractor weeks before to move all the downed trees and limbs.

Days later, driving over downed power lines, going to Hiawatha, all the power poles looked like dominoes laid out.

Again, Providence, besides the 8N tractor, I had a compliance meeting the day before.
My generator died. I called the compliance woman, who was in Omaha, if she could pick up a generator for me as she came down to Hiawatha. There was none available in St Joe/KC/Topeka. She got the last one at HD. Additionally, Providence, her rental car was a SUV:)

I was without power for +3 weeks. Keep in mind, my water is from a well that runs on electricity.


Thank goodness the wife and kids were not home!

Edit: So today, I am going to finish hooking up my generator to my propane tank and make sure my tractor still runs....

We closed the heating vent in the room we were sleeping in AND cracked a window open and it was still too hot.

It was 2002. Let's hope that doesn't happen.

I wanted a lineman but not this kind

They’ve done serious forecast revisions here and I think I’m in the clear. I mean, there are at least 15 trees that could smash my house, but I don’t feel it’s likely this week.

The giant tree in my backyard broke down from all the ice.

Yeah it's sounding from Lezak like the ice stuff is going south of KC. Still gonna be a lot of snow though, but that's a world of difference.

Probably a lot of snow if things stay the way they are. We are supposed to get 2-3" and we are 3 hours north of the strongest bands that are supposed to go south of KC.

Yeah right now my house north of the river is in a band that says 5"-9". Would be pretty wild.

**** my power is going to be out from Saturday to at least Tuesday isn't it. 15 degree highs with no heat is going to kick ass. Very glad evergy ignored my pleas to come trim branches hanging over power lines in my neighborhood

I'm worried about losing power and how long the streets will be bad my car doesn't run well in snow :(

Get a cheap propane heater that attaches to a portable tank like used on a gas grill.

Pipe and life saver.

I don't care if I freeze to death I just want to see the broncos **** up a gimme game and miss the playoffs

How’s the local KC news channels treating this? Round the Clock 24/7 coverage? Snowpocolypse 25!!

I will check at Target tonight but I kinda would like new carpet and the entire inside of my home painted.

I probably would have went with a color that doesn't make that graphic resemble a gigantic fleshy penis dragging across the central US.

all zone drawings look like a penis

They're treating this like you'd expect. They're all over the place.

Best I can tell, we're supposed to get some freezing rain and some snow.

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It's not going to get above freezing for a while after this storm, either.

Wonderful.

At least it is one the weekend, and the game is away

Damn, looks like a lot of you guys are going to get hammered. Seems like the really nasty shit has been staying south/west of me for the past couple of years. Not that I'm complaining....

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french toast for days ya heard

Making a 5 gallon pot of chili tomorrow. Snow me in for a week IDGAF

Oldie but s goodie

Feels like this has a chance to be a repeat of 2005 and 2007, only followed by snow and single digits for a week. Buckle up.

Thanks I drew them

Went and picked up a kerosene heater and 5 gallons of fuel just in case. History in my neighborhood (Waldo) has shown me that power outages are common and can be caused by issues blocks away.

PSA to all livestock owners ahead of the snow/ice storm and extreme cold coming in. If you lose any livestock due to the weather PLEASE take a date stamped picture (Snapchat has filters that can help with this) and notify your local FSA office of the loss.
The Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) provides benefits to producers who lose livestock above normal mortality to things such as extreme weather events.

Learn more about the program here: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/sites/defau...ock_3_2024.pdf

All y'all down there good luck and be safe. Bookmark the upcoming posts from you guys to go back to in December when they say 2025 is the warmest in record (globally).

Seeing they are putting that brine shit down. Have fun with that. Works well for snow and ice if it stays about freezing. Problem is, you won't. The snow and ice hits it and it helps melt it. Then, when it turns bitter cold to temperatures it doesn't work anymore, it turns to ice. Then snow piles on it. So you have a layer of ice with snow on it and the plows blow that shit everywhere. Busted the taillights out on my truck one time from the frozen snow and ice thrown on it.

Hopefully power will stay on for you. Good luck everyone.

NWS downgraded the ice in Joco to less than .10 inches which is good and that's for the whole county. I'm up near the Wyco Joco border so I'm hoping for no ice. Getting prepared to potentially lose power anyway.

My wife starts a new (night shift) job Monday night, hoping the roads (they're all big well traveled roads on snow routes) are better then but ti's going to be coooold.

My other worry is freezing pipes. Everything in my house except for the pipes to my shower and washing machine are pex, which does expand. I've never had an issue with freezing before even when it's gotten colder out and that was before replacement this year. Going to keep water dripping in the shower and a space heater by the connection in the washing machine (they opened the wall when they did my plumbing so I could do just that). It's just that if we lose power I have to go into my crawlspace to shut the water off to the house and I hate the crawl space because it looks like the basement in the house from the blair witch project.

Good luck everyone, hopefully this is the worst it gets this winter, we always get one **** ass shitstorm every january it seems.

Hopefully the cold af temps means the roads will freeze dry overnight after the storm has passed. Might take a couple of days, though.

All of the ice totals are going down unless you're further south like the Ozarks is looking at a full on ice storm. But less ice does mean more snow.

If I'm forced to have to deal with one over the other, give me more snow than ice.

yeah, Im up close to the actual city but I'll gladly trade a tenth of an inch of freezing rain for an inch of snow.

Good work. Those things are so simple it's almost impossible for it to malfunction.

Maybe grab a backup regulator when you are in the store next time.

The lowest they projecting here is 22 tonight, so I’m not too concerned. My favorite is Thursday with a low of 29 and a high of 30.

Are you referring to a space heater? I have one in the shop and and can’t get it to fire

EDIT: ALL THE FOLLOWING IS FOR NATURAL GAS AND PROPANE HEATERS NOT KEROSENE!!!!

Propane heater regulators can stop the flow of gas on the smaller emitters:

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On bigger units the pilot light heat probe (thermocoupler) can be a problem. Get a handheld blowtorch and heat it up 5-10 seconds before opening the gas valve and lighting the pilot light.

I keep an extra termocoupler around for our house natty gas floor heater and a regulator hose for the portable in case the shop one acts up when the electricity goes out.

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I appreciate the advice. It's been over 40 years since I've been around a kerosene heater. We used to have a couple when I was a teen back in the early to mid 80s.

Kerosene is different, I don't know a lot about them.

Hopefully I didn't lead you astray!

I'm an idiot, completely misread KCLee and RClarks posts. :facepalm:

I'll leave the info up in case a dumbass like me 20 years ago needs to learn about this stuff.

JFC.. Just went to the store.. My fault for going the day before a storm.. Madhouse out there..

If you are out and about, might be a good idea to slightly overinflate your car tires before the shit hits.

Stuff like this is why I have an air compressor.

Make sure you have a carbon monoxide detector

Already have one, but good advice.