I know we've heard the name Hugo a few times with this one, but if the Euro is anywhere near correct, this would be far, far worse than Hugo for WNC with the flooding.
This may have Hugo-like qualities as it may be pushing well inland with a more westerly than northerly path. This isn't like your usual storm hitting NC from a recurve path which keeps effects close to the coast. But unlike Hugo, this will be slowing down and could turn this into more of a flooding issue rather than the wind.
I'm not sure where the issue is... you're all on ad-free layers when logged in and there's no evidence of code-tampering on our end like what happened at Christmas...
I would have agreed with your memory as we only got 4" of snow and sleet that evening but then hit the jackpot with the UL deformation band that sat on us all the following morning to pile on a very fast 8" of additional snow. Too bad once the UL pulled out it, the temps shot up and melted most of it away that day.
So far for January, 11 of 17 days have had sub-40 degree highs (five of those 30 or less). That's a first for my lifetime (yes, I was born after 1977!)