Who loses Snowmageddon 2026?

Who loses Snowmageddon 2026?

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No snow projected here in Minny but will be cold AF.....

Friday high: -10 windchills -45.... How many Captains will take the walk around that day....
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Saturday high: -3
 
ERfly said:
They're talking possibly up to a foot of snow in Memphis. I'm beyond thankful to be on the grounded fleet this weekend!

This might even take out the Altimas with 3 bald tires and a donut with no bumper and drive-out tags!
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Yea there's been a few times i've been ok with not having to fly.
 
This one has AA written all over it. DFW, DCA, CLT, PHL?. Only thing that could save them is potentially light travel days and advanced notice/cancellations.
 
killbilly said:
If history is any judge, the weather will find some unique way to screw us, and there will probably be some mysterious government action on top of that, and probably a meteor that decides to take out part of T5 at JFK, because this is the kind of luck we have.

There are days I feel legit bad for our CEO.

@ClearedForOption @jtrain609 @Soul Brotha'

I'm likely gonna commute on Friday since my normally-commutable Saturday will be anything but.
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“Can’t be in an IROP if you cancel your whole operation.”
-BlueJuice management team.

After Saturday night is when this will happen:
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Oh it'll definitely be us (AA). DFW, CLT, PHL etc etc. Need I say more? I get to start a 3 day out of PHL on Saturday ahead of it. Wonder where I'll get stranded?
 
WacoFan said:
Thought about you earlier. All I know about you is you're from SoCal and now in south Texas. Your competence in snow driving is useless here for the reason you guessed - your neighbors. Nobody down here understands the first thing about driving in this crap. South of the metroplex (where I am - about 100 miles southeast) it will be mostly ice and nobody can drive on that anyway. Other items to consider - homes down here aren't built or insulated for extended cold. Open your cabinet doors under sinks, drip faucets, and get faucet covers for outside faucets.

As for the grid - who knows. It's a crapshoot based on demand and how much of the state is really cold and who ERCOT decides to turn off. There was a lot of fanfare about "fixing the grid" after the last mass die-off but nobody really believes they did jack sh*t. Also, lots of crypto and datacenters have come online since then so grid demand is greater. The grid is a man made disaster if it happens but the natural disaster you can't really plan on is more likely - fallen trees from freezing rain falling on power lines. Make sure you have some charging bricks for your phones to charge if you lose power. If you're lucky you're on a grid circuit with a hospital or fire station nearby and ERCOT won't cut you off because they won't kill the power to those things. Plus it won't be as cold for as long as 2021 so I'm not really concerned.
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We prepped the outside faucets a couple of weeks ago and I'll crack them open on Friday evening. I've driven in plenty of snow but I don't recall ever driving in what the internet fearmongerers are predicting. They say everything from the middle of New Mexico to South Carolina is going to be covered in a sheet of ice an inch thick. It's not supposed to get above freezing Saturday and that's fine, I'm not a prepper but we have enough supplies to survive if we decide discretion is the better part of valor regarding driving or the power going out. In my area the majority of the utilities are underground and where there are poles there are no trees hanging over them. When we moved here last year we had pretty heavy thunderstorms and hail, that was just before the disaster up in Kerrville, and a neighbor said "Welcome to Texas!". If we have a harsh first winter as well I'll just chalk it up to learning all the seasons here. I'm not going to lose sleep but I will stay vigilant.
 
killbilly said:
If history is any judge, the weather will find some unique way to screw us, and there will probably be some mysterious government action on top of that, and probably a meteor that decides to take out part of T5 at JFK, because this is the kind of luck we have.

There are days I feel legit bad for our CEO.

@ClearedForOption @jtrain609 @Soul Brotha'

I'm likely gonna commute on Friday since my normally-commutable Saturday will be anything but.
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I’m kinda annoyed. I pre-scheduled the implosion for this week, not next. I’m off this week and back on a stretch of like 12 starting on Monday. So I’m (probably) going to be eating a very flavorful poop sandwich depending on what drops.

And… I’m not coming in early. I always commute IAW with the working agreement.

As for the other stuff above, I’d point to the “wisdom” of Proverbs 1:31. Making a bed. Lying in it. One of these days I’ll dump ~15 years worth of observations on you at Dani’s or the Diner or something.
 
knot4u said:
We prepped the outside faucets a couple of weeks ago and I'll crack them open on Friday evening. I've driven in plenty of snow but I don't recall ever driving in what the internet fearmongerers are predicting. They say everything from the middle of New Mexico to South Carolina is going to be covered in a sheet of ice an inch thick. It's not supposed to get above freezing Saturday and that's fine, I'm not a prepper but we have enough supplies to survive if we decide discretion is the better part of valor regarding driving or the power going out. In my area the majority of the utilities are underground and where there are poles there are no trees hanging over them. When we moved here last year we had pretty heavy thunderstorms and hail, that was just before the disaster up in Kerrville, and a neighbor said "Welcome to Texas!". If we have a harsh first winter as well I'll just chalk it up to learning all the seasons here. I'm not going to lose sleep but I will stay vigilant.
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Snow is okay to drive on provided people know how. Texas driver's do not know how. They don't adjust following distance, adjust speed, or adequately understand bridges and overpasses. A few days prior to the big freeze/grid crash in 2021 there was a light mist/freezing fog on I-35w in Ft Worth. This created a lot of black ice on the roads but particularly overpasses. By 6:00am rush they were motoring along fat/dumb/happy as Texans will do and the result was a 133 car pile-up with 6 dead and many injured. It got limited attention after a day or so because of the freeze/grid collapse. I drove in winter weather 21 years and never crashed but can tell you - ain't nobody can drive on sheets of ice. Four wheel drive doesn't help on ice if it's hard and thick and your neighbors will kill you even if it's a reasonable snow to drive in.
 
WacoFan said:
Snow is okay to drive on provided people know how. Texas driver's do not know how. They don't adjust following distance, adjust speed, or adequately understand bridges and overpasses. A few days prior to the big freeze/grid crash in 2021 there was a light mist/freezing fog on I-35w in Ft Worth. This created a lot of black ice on the roads but particularly overpasses. By 6:00am rush they were motoring along fat/dumb/happy as Texans will do and the result was a 133 car pile-up with 6 dead and many injured. It got limited attention after a day or so because of the freeze/grid collapse. I drove in winter weather 21 years and never crashed but can tell you - ain't nobody can drive on sheets of ice. Four wheel drive doesn't help on ice if it's hard and thick and your neighbors will kill you even if it's a reasonable snow to drive in.
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I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I have a 4WD truck but if I look outside and the road is icy on Saturday I'll just stay home. I went and topped off my truck, this provides me with (in the event of a disaster) a warm place, 110v AC outlets so I can keep up my comms, and at idle 33 gallons used sparingly should last longer than the freeze forecast. I suspect it's probably much ado about nothing but I also have a big fireplace and some furniture I'm not fond of just in case. It's my first Texas winter, I need to know what catastrophes are possible, the more info I can gather the more prepared I can be. I was pondering tire chains earlier. Back in the olden times I had chains for all four wheels on my lifted Toyota on 33' tires and I was not afraid to drive into a blizzard. A mid '80s Toyota truck looked like a miniature monster truck on 33s. When I got my current truck a friend and I were sitting in his garage admiring my new vehicle and I suggested that the tires were the same size as my old Toyota, his old 7.3 F350 brodozer on 38s (an absolute great truck, well maintained and been put to purpose towing toyhaulers in and out of Glamis and Pismo) was sitting next to mine and he scoffed and wanted to make a wager. I said grab a tape measure. I was correct. The point is I gave those tire chains away when I sold the Toyota and now I want them back, I could be a hero but I'm not capable currently.
 
knot4u said:
I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I have a 4WD truck but if I look outside and the road is icy on Saturday I'll just stay home. I went and topped off my truck, this provides me with (in the event of a disaster) a warm place, 110v AC outlets so I can keep up my comms, and at idle 33 gallons used sparingly should last longer than the freeze forecast. I suspect it's probably much ado about nothing but I also have a big fireplace and some furniture I'm not fond of just in case. It's my first Texas winter, I need to know what catastrophes are possible, the more info I can gather the more prepared I can be. I was pondering tire chains earlier. Back in the olden times I had chains for all four wheels on my lifted Toyota on 33' tires and I was not afraid to drive into a blizzard. A mid '80s Toyota truck looked like a miniature monster truck on 33s. When I got my current truck a friend and I were sitting in his garage admiring my new vehicle and I suggested that the tires were the same size as my old Toyota, his old 7.3 F350 brodozer on 38s (an absolute great truck, well maintained and been put to purpose towing toyhaulers in and out of Glamis and Pismo) was sitting next to mine and he scoffed and wanted to make a wager. I said grab a tape measure. I was correct. The point is I gave those tire chains away when I sold the Toyota and now I want them back, I could be a hero but I'm not capable currently.
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Sounds good. I am the biggest ERCOT/Gridd skeptic in Texas but I really have a hunch it will be okay. If the freezing rain is heavy that is where the problems come in - particularly Austin and SA - because the trees never really lose their leaves and the utilities are not the best about trimming. I predict lots of power loss but it'll be snapped trees and not a grid issue. Act of God vs Act of corrupt legislature.
 
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