5 inches on the ground and still snowing

RDUspotter said:
Do they even have deicing equipment? Or even a snowplow?
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I grew up in BTR and have flown out of / planned flights going out of BTR/MSY,LFT, and SHV. and the answer is not in a million years. LADOTD doesn’t even have plows or salt/ mag chloride to treat the roads.

When I was still at a regional, one time we had a plane sit overnight in SHV that picked up a nice layer of frost. SHV’s operational answer to this? Delay the flight until after sunrise so the sun can melt the ice. Keep in mind that SHV has a milder climate that more-so resembles DFW than it does MSY. So it’s not like they hadn’t had that issue before.

As for MSY? Idk maybe they could weld a plow onto an airboat and send it. Louisiana hasn’t seen frozen accumulation of that level since the 1890’s. I can confidently say that it appears that hell has indeed frozen over.
 
Bustedcropdusta said:
I grew up in BTR and have flown out of / planned flights going out of BTR/MSY,LFT, and SHV. and the answer is not in a million years. LADOTD doesn’t even have plows or salt/ mag chloride to treat the roads.

When I was still at a regional, one time we had a plane sit overnight in SHV that picked up a nice layer of frost. SHV’s operational answer to this? Delay the flight until after sunrise so the sun can melt the ice. Keep in mind that SHV has a milder climate that more-so resembles DFW than it does MSY. So it’s not like they hadn’t had that issue before.

As for MSY? Idk maybe they could weld a plow onto an airboat and send it. Louisiana hasn’t seen frozen accumulation of that level since the 1890’s. I can confidently say that it appears that hell has indeed frozen over.
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Could be worse. Back in my 135 days we had a plane overnight is SEA and there was so much freezing rain they could barely open the door in the morning. The FBO told us they don't have deice there because it happens so Infrequently that all of their fluid goes bad before they end up using it all. I clearly don't know enough about the weather there because I would have sworn that's a place that needs it often.
 
• Record snowfall: Snow is falling from southeast Texas through Louisiana and into parts of Mississippi and Alabama Tuesday, creating treacherous conditions. An area stretching from Houston into Alabama has recorded widespread snowfall of 3 to 6 inches, with at least one locale hitting the double-digit mark. Eight inches of snowfall was recorded at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Tuesday according to the National Weather Service in New Orleans; the previous modern record was 2.7 inches in 1963. Florida has likely broken its all-time statewide snow record, with at least 5.5 inches recorded in Molino – a record that has stood since 1954. Mobile, Alabama, has so far recorded more than five inches of snow, breaking a 143-year-old record for one-day snowfall. A record amount of snow is forecast for New Orleans and other cities along the Gulf Coast.
 
Words sometimes have more than 1 meaning. And I think you are thinking of treasonous.
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F9DXER said:
• Record snowfall: Snow is falling from southeast Texas through Louisiana and into parts of Mississippi and Alabama Tuesday, creating treacherous conditions. An area stretching from Houston into Alabama has recorded widespread snowfall of 3 to 6 inches, with at least one locale hitting the double-digit mark. Eight inches of snowfall was recorded at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Tuesday according to the National Weather Service in New Orleans; the previous modern record was 2.7 inches in 1963. Florida has likely broken its all-time statewide snow record, with at least 5.5 inches recorded in Molino – a record that has stood since 1954. Mobile, Alabama, has so far recorded more than five inches of snow, breaking a 143-year-old record for one-day snowfall. A record amount of snow is forecast for New Orleans and other cities along the Gulf Coast.
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This is my house. I’m about a 10 minute drive to the employee lot at MOB. These pictures were taken about 4 PM and it snowed for another hour. Initial forecast was for snow between noon and 2 PM, with accumulation of 1-3”. Ended up snowing from about 7:30 AM until just after 5 PM. Total accumulation was just shy of 7”.

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