Thundersnow

[Just-Legal]

Can I have some of your snow please Sarah?

 

[Guest]

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[SeaCat]

Dealt with Thumdersnow a time or two. It's a neat experience if you aren't on high ground.

Dealt with a Pogonip. (Freezing Fog.) That was no fun.

What is truly amazing is being in a whiteout on a boat. I was in one where we couldn't see either the stern or the bow. (110 foot boat.) We were in high winds and high waves and couldn't see a damned thing while pulling up the nets. It was more than a little exciting.

Growing up in New England another thing we dealt with was sleet. Sleet is a fun yet nasty situation. It's freezing rain and can coat everything with a nice coat of ice. We responded to a house fire in the middle of a sleet storm. If you want excitement ride on a Fire Engine as it slip slides down the road. The pucker factor was a bit high that night.

Cat

 

[amicus]

13 minutes ago

AMARILLO, Texas - A blinding snowstorm blew across the Plains on Saturday, causing at least two deaths and dozens of injuries in numerous multi-car pileups and forcing authorities to close portions of several major highways.

One person died in a chain-reaction pileup involving more than 50 vehicles, including several tractor-trailer rigs, on Interstate 40, police said. Authorities said it would take a few days to determine exactly how many were involved.

Eighteen people were taken to hospitals, two with life-threatening injuries, Sgt. Michael Poston said.

"There were cars crashing while they (firefighters) were there," Fire Department Capt. Bob Johnson told the Amarillo Globe-News for its Sunday editions. "They could hear them (the crashes), but they couldn't see them."

Many in the pileup were holiday travelers, including families with small children not dressed for the weather, Sgt. Shawn McLeland said. Other drivers spotted them and opened Christmas presents to provide warmer clothing for the children.

The tangle of twisted cars and trucks shut down the interstate for most of the day. Authorities believe the pileup was caused by blowing snow and the resulting zero visibility.

In northeast Kansas, at least one person was killed in a 30-car pileup on Interstate 70, prompting authorities to close a 40-mile stretch of the highway. The pileup occurred about 30 miles west of Topeka.

The fierce snowstorm caused another wreck involving 20 to 40 vehicles, including three tractor-trailer rigs, on Interstate 29 in St. Joseph in western Missouri. Police closed about 100 miles of I-29 to the Iowa state line.

The Plains storm also blew heavy snow across Oklahoma and parts of Nebraska and Iowa, a region still recovering from a severe ice storm early last week that knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.

"We may see some whiteouts in the open areas," said Craig Cogil, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Des Moines, Iowa. Parts of the state could get between 6 and 10 inches of snow by Sunday morning.

Strong winds could make traveling hazardous all weekend, Cogil said.

Wind was blowing at sustained speeds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 45 mph in Oklahoma, where U.S. 412 near Mooreland in western Oklahoma was closed after up to 20 cars slid off the road or crashed, authorities said.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said a six-car collision on U.S. 64 in the state's northwest corner involved an ambulance that was carrying victims from another accident. Low visibility forced the closure of some highways.

"It's really been very, very busy," Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. Chris West said. "We've had so many crashes today."

Farther west, Colorado roads remained icy in spots following a storm Friday. Eastbound I-70 was closed about 20 miles east of Denver for more than two hours after a wreck in which five people, including an 8-year-old girl, were injured.

In Arkansas, high winds and scattered storms knocked out power to about 6,000 customers, Entergy Arkansas officials said.

The storm also impacted flights at airports in the Midwest, as the busy pre-Christmas weekend travel was getting underway. The delays rippled across the country, affecting flights in the New York region.

In Chicago, flights in and out of O'Hare International Airport were delayed an average of one hour, and about 170 flights were canceled, airport spokesman Gregg Cunningham said.

Flights departing from Newark Liberty International Airport for O'Hare were delayed about three hours.

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Lottsa nasty weather out there...

take care...

Ami

 

[Boxlicker101]

I was raised in Wisconsin, but I have lived in California for almost 48 years. I really, really really don't miss the winters back there, although I actually used to have some fun as a kid.

 

[The_Fool]

Isn't that bizarre?

Are you guys hunkering down and safe?

Actually ended up getting out and going over to younger sons to work on his house. It was a stupid plan, but we did it anyway. No problems getting around in four-wheel-drive other than the other drivers that didn't have it. Mustangs don't go so good in 12 inches of snow with a nice ice base.

 

[Guest]

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[rgraham666]

Have a great day, sweetie.

It's pouring rain here at the moment.

 

[Boxlicker101]

They've reopened I-70 west of us. We do have to make 90 miles today to the grandparent's house but at least we're headed east. Hopefully there won't be much ice and snow.

We don't have 4-wheel-drive but both of us have excellent snow driving skills.

Thank you everyone, for your caring concerns. I think the violence of this storm took most everyone by surprise.

Have a safe and pleasant trip, going over the river anf through the woods to Grandfather's house.

 

[Weird Harold]

Have a safe and pleasant trip, going over the river anf through the woods to Grandfather's house.

Don't know much about Kansas, do ya? Kansas doesn't have any "woods" to go through and I'm pretty sure that if you go over a river, you're not in Kansas anymore.

 

[amicus]

Not to be a harbinger of bad tidings, but weather moves from west to east from the Pacific Coast across the mountains and the midsection of the country and then to the east coast.

The storm that brought all the fury in the past few days was here in Oregon about three days before it arrived there.

Now, once again we are under a series of less intense weather patterns that have brought some wind and very heavy rain continuously for the past two days and the forecast indicates it will continue, unabated until after the first of the year.

Which means y'all in the midwest have a ton of snow poised to assault you for the next week or so. Get all prepared as best you can.

Good luck...

Amicus...

 

[WRJames]

My wife and I had a thundersnow experience back in the Seventies, when we were liiving in Wellesley. We were out cross country skiing in the middle of a snow storm, up on top of a hill, when all of a sudden it began to thunder. I never knew my wife could move that fast -- she looked like Jean Claude Killy in that James Bond movie getting down off of that hill.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Don't know much about Kansas, do ya? Kansas doesn't have any "woods" to go through and I'm pretty sure that if you go over a river, you're not in Kansas anymore.

I klnow Kansas is not noted for wooded areas, but there are some substantial rivers. The Arkansas, The Smoky Hill, The Republican, The Kansas, and others. I also realize the Mighty Mo just touches the northeast corner of the state.