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Quite the flizzard here in Hopkinsville, Kentucky (western part of the state).

Awesome, thanks. It's such a pretty stretch of road; I'd hate to bypass it.

Yeah, but may be worth it to avoid that stretch. Hoping by Sunday it'll be plowed and warmer temperatures will have made it better. It'll probably be fine.

Driving back to NC from western KY on Sunday. Was already going to take the southern route (I-40) to avoid WV mountains but there seems to be a lot to fall in the Pisgah Gap. Worth going through Chattanooga and into Georgia and then I-85 to avoid or should Sunday be OK?

Man that January 2016 blizzard messed me up. We didn't get anything in NC but I was working in Pune, India and was supposed to fly back through Abu Dhabi to JFK to RDU. JFK closed and Abu Dhabi was getting filled up with stranded passengers so unless you had a visa for UAE they wouldn't let passengers fly into their if they couldn't then fly on to JFK. Ended up frantically going through Mumbai to Heathrow to RDU over a three day period. I remember flying over the east coast from Heathrow to RDU and just marveling at the sea of white, which of course stopped pretty much at the VA/NC line lol. Here's the screenshot I grabbed of NOAA's forecast for NYC during that period -- and I think it overperformed this forecast!

Holy crap, two Town of Cary plows just cleared my minor neighborhood street.

Very light snow in south Cary.

How much accrual did Raleigh get with that 2002 ice storm? I don't want a repeat of that, thank you very much.

I'd much, much, muuuuuch rather have a cold rain at 33F to any significant amount of freezing rain. December 2002 (I think it was, the last significant ice in the Triangle) was a nightmare. I was sawing and carrying tree limbs for many a weekend thereafter and it took over a decade for nearly all the widowmakers to finally come down.

Is it bad I wish the Pack had played Carolina today because I was already depressed due to the snow? Better that than ruining tomorrow. =/

I'll definitely try and post more. During the storm this was actually my favorite thread, loved the more conversational / casual aspect of it. My brother in GSO got about 10" or so. Who were the biggest winners? Did Norfolk / Richmond cash in?

Regarding the time, yeah, that's the worst part of it. The older I get the more time seems valuable and I wasted many hours (including when I shouldn't have, distracting myself from other things) on this. The funny thing is even if we had jackpot'd I'd regret the time. Though I'm mostly a lurker, however, I do lurk for almost every storm and love keeping up with people like CR, Brick, PB, etc. I just need to get better about just lurking once a day, or a couple of times a day, and not the constant F5-fest I did this past week. As for comparing this loss to the Pack's FB loss to Clemson -- not sure that tracks. I understand it in terms of pain, but we weren't really supposed to ever be in it. This storm, however, seemed perfect -- and still managed to dud. The Clemson loss was like a low tracking off the coast and unexpectedly bombs, the training bands and freezing line setting up N-S bisecting Chatham county. As it winds up and draws cold air down the line advances east past Jordan Lake and gets to about the Chatham / Wake boundary. Just then the low moves past us in latitude and we end up with a dud. Never expected to be in it going in, had this huge OMG OMG OMG moment, but in the end it was same ol' same ol'. It's a testament to the mediocrity of Pack basketball that I can't really think of an equivalent to this storm (really great chance of winning and total failure). Maybe 1989 ACC Tournament 1 seed against 8 seed Maryland loss? As a high school senior heading to State that fall I should've taken it as a premonition. =)

Funny the Pack being brought up as I was just thinking about chasing models is kind of like getting hyped for the Pack. Don't get me wrong, I bleed Red -- Pack '94! -- but years of... well, what we had... beat me down. I don't get hyped for the games like I did when I was younger. I'd anticipate games for weeks, follow injuries, match ups, if anyone had coughed or ate a bad breakfast. But most of the time I ended up pissed off and/or disappointed come game day. In the decades since I've mellowed. I watch the games if I can, but I don't hype them. In fact, I had forgotten today was the trip to the Dumb Dome. There was a brief flicker of hope just after the Julius Hodge days (honestly probably my favorite player in the history of NCSU basketball -- dude could've left early but stayed four years and got it done, but that's another topic) and we had C.J. Leslie and were ranked #6 (SIX!) in the nation. Uh, yeah... So back to being beat down. Chasing the models is the same way. Years of disappointment after that glorious foot snowfall in GSO (where I went to highschool) in 1987. Eventually got numb to it. And, really, in those days chasing models was pretty hard. Settled down in RDU after school and Jan 2000 -- 20". I didn't follow that storm at all beforehand. Total surprise (well, to be fair, for EVERYONE!) and it was really cool. 2002 -- 16" or so. So I got excited all over again chasing models (easy now, all consuming if you let it!). Disappointment after disappointment. So while I enjoy watching the snow, of course, chasing models is like getting hyped for a great Pack season -- it has a high chance of causing pain. Sorry for the rant, or the perspective, or whatever -- but this is the Sanitarium!

Honestly at this point I don't really want any winter precip, a 33F rain would be fine with me. With the temps coming in on the backside I'll be stranded here until Tuesday and will miss getting to eat dinner with a friend visiting the area on Monday that I haven't seen in three years. 12"+, that's worth being shut-in for, much less than that, especially this glop... eh, pass.

Cary near WakeMed hospital here, rain rain rain.