FlashFreeze

10° now, Yesterdays high was 16° low was 6° Ground still snow covered, about 1.5” first time we’ve had snow cover for a week in November since I moved here in 07

15° got another light dusting, temperature has dropped 5° since 11:00,

flurry’s started 30 minutes ago, followed by a heavy burst of graupel and snow, road covered, 32°

30° and black ice, roads have not been treated yet, had flurries pass-through, slight dusting

36° and light snow, still 2.75” of cement like snow left after last nights rain

32° and sleet

32° light snow has started

32° and light snow, 8.5” of snow, sleet and freezing rain

Freezing rain switching over to snow, 30°

24° snow mixing with sleet, wind increasing from NE, 6.5” OTG so far

snow started @5:30, 21° with moderate snow now, 0.5” so far

36° and flurries

getting ready to head back north knowing that whenever I’m able to get back here my place will be uninhabitable or perhaps gone, this whole place will look totally different, I really feel for the people who have no place to go, it’s ominous knowing that there’s just about guaranteed devastation three days away, it’s surreal, today is an absolutely beautiful day

I came to Murrells Inlet SC 3 years ago and there’s been a tropical system every year, Matthew ended up being a cat 1 when it went south of us instead of hitting Myrtle Beach as a 3, there was more than just a little damage, if this place is hit by a 3 or 4 the devastation will be immense, I am less than half a mile from the ocean, at my lofty elevation of 21’ the storm surge could be an issue assuming there’s anything left to be an issue with after 125 mph+ winds, if it hit Long Island and went up the Ct River valley as a cat 3 like in 1938 the damage would be phenomenal, as the saying goes, watch what you ask for, you might get it, at Home Depot there’s a line of trucks loaded with plywood, generators and gas cans, batteries and bottled water are going fast