Blacksburg Coach Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 12 hours ago, BooneWX said: It's a monopoly on public infrastructure. They control waterways, politicians and make money hand over first. There is nothing safer than an investment in utilities and their dividends.Power companies often charge too much because most customers have little to no choice in who provides their electricity, giving these companies monopoly power with limited competition. Rates continue to rise faster than wages, even though service reliability and customer support do not always improve at the same rate. At the same time, power companies frequently report strong profits and high executive pay. The lack of transparency in how rates are set ? If you were on the up and up you wouldn't need to hide charges like a credit card company. Not a knock on you, I have several friends who are linemen and I appreciate them, these companies are a business and legally their CEOs are required to make these companies as profitable as they can and profitability always trumps affordability for families. Sorry guys, I know this is a storm thread. I'll make this my last post on the issue. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StantonParkHoya Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 So NAM with .18 ZR, HRR with .6 and RAP with .2 for RDU?. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGardiner87 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 High res models continue to bump up moisture throughout the upstate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neatlburbwthrguy Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Northeast of Atlanta looks to get it bad with freezing rain. .5-.75 holy cow ice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow haven Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 23 minutes ago, Brick Tamland said: RAP zr map. But it doesn't have precip here in Wake until 8 hours from now and there is report of sleet in Cary now. Sleeting in rockingham too, south below Cary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Penland Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Snowing solid in Blowing Rock right now. Got the ground/parking lot covered in about 15 minutes. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QC_Halo Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, WNC_Fort said: How well equipped do you think Duke is to deal with a widespread ice-related outage. Especially with the cold air expected after? Think they can realistically get places back online fairly quickly? Not sure, but usually when there is an event like this or hurricanes, etc. you get a lot of help from linemen from out of state. In this case, a lot of them will be busy in their own areas I’d suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Latest HRRR at 18. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafminesaw Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 It's a testament to the wedge how the column. Is slowly moistening but the dewpoint dropping. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleEverett Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Regarding electric, there was an entire Lakeland Electric crew set up at a hotel in Rock Hill, SC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaleighNC Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 36 minutes ago, Blacksburg Coach said: It's a monopoly on public infrastructure. They control waterways, politicians and make money hand over first. There is nothing safer than an investment in utilities and their dividends.Power companies often charge too much because most customers have little to no choice in who provides their electricity, giving these companies monopoly power with limited competition. Rates continue to rise faster than wages, even though service reliability and customer support do not always improve at the same rate. At the same time, power companies frequently report strong profits and high executive pay. The lack of transparency in how rates are set ? If you were on the up and up you wouldn't need to hide charges like a credit card company. Not a knock on you, I have several friends who are linemen and I appreciate them, these companies are a business and legally their CEOs are required to make these companies as profitable as they can and profitability always trumps affordability for families. Sorry guys, I know this is a storm thread. I'll make this my last post on the issue. a whole lot of not true in Boone's post 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazdaddy Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 https://news.duke-energy.com/releases/winter-storm-fern-duke-energy-has-18-000+-workers-from-27-states-and-canada-ready-to-respond Helps enroute 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ander Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 7 minutes ago, frazdaddy said: https://news.duke-energy.com/releases/winter-storm-fern-duke-energy-has-18-000+-workers-from-27-states-and-canada-ready-to-respond Helps enroute Always love this aspect of America for whatever myriad reasons it happens. Hits me right in the feels. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayman Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/mesoanalysis/new/viewsector.php?sector=17&parm=850mb&underlay=1&source=1 current 850 temps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gman Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I am back to being stressed about this storm. After looking at all of the moisture to our west and watching the temps dropping quickly, Chris Justus might just be right. It looks bad for the Upstate. Hope I am wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange county Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 21 minutes ago, KyleEverett said: Regarding electric, there was an entire Lakeland Electric crew set up at a hotel in Rock Hill, SC. An entire Army of them at "Walnut creek" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowncanes Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Just another observation: lots of reports of precip with not much in the way of radar returns. Just a reminder that with a wedge airmass (especially a shallow one) we can get light precip thats not necessarily showing up on radar. In turn that means models dont resolve this well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neatlburbwthrguy Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 8 minutes ago, gman said: I am back to being stressed about this storm. After looking at all of the moisture to our west and watching the temps dropping quickly, Chris Justus might just be right. It looks bad for the Upstate. Hope I am wrong. Yep upstate & north ga gonna get it bad I think as well. Temps dropping dew points low & plume of moisture barreling in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Esasky Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 2 minutes ago, neatlburbwthrguy said: Yep upstate & north ga gonna get it bad I think as well. Temps dropping dew points low & plume of moisture barreling in Did you ever find a sleet map for N GA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neatlburbwthrguy Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 2 minutes ago, Nick Esasky said: Did you ever find a sleet map for N GA? Nope can’t find one anywhere bud it’s like a hidden treasure. Seeing .65 of freezing rain one county north of Atl hopefully some of that is sleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilj4425 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Is it ever going to get here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCG RS Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 26 minutes ago, gman said: I am back to being stressed about this storm. After looking at all of the moisture to our west and watching the temps dropping quickly, Chris Justus might just be right. It looks bad for the Upstate. Hope I am wrong. Based on everything I've seen... Current observations, models which have been handling this storm well, cold air digging in, I believe he is. As I've said... From a risk management perspective, this is a pull out all the stops situation. Even if it ultimately turns out to be wrong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow dog Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 4 minutes ago, USCG RS said: Based on everything I've seen... Current observations, more models, cold air digging in, I believe he is. As I've said... From a risk management perspective, this is a pull out all the stops situation. Even if it ultimately turns out to be wrong Yeah- count me as someone who is getting concerned again. Nothing more I can do at this point..it’s gonna do what’s it’s gonna do. Got the generator gassed and ready…. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCG RS Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Just now, Snow dog said: Yeah- count me as someone who is getting concerned again. Nothing more I can do at this point..it’s gonna do what’s it’s gonna do. Got the generator gassed and ready…. Unfortunately that's really all it is at this point. Pray we're wrong and be ready. Check on neighbors. Use judgement and be safe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEGA_Dawg Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 42 minutes ago, gman said: I am back to being stressed about this storm. After looking at all of the moisture to our west and watching the temps dropping quickly, Chris Justus might just be right. It looks bad for the Upstate. Hope I am wrong. Yeah, i was feeling good about things just after lunch.Now i am eyeing that main line of precip that will come through after temps drop below freezing. I have wood in the house and covered wood outside. Its going to do what its going to do. Nothing more i can do. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Sleeting here now. WRAL still calling for at least a half inch of freezing rain for the Triangle. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gman Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 2 minutes ago, Brick Tamland said: Sleeping here now. WRAL still calling for at least a half inch of freezing rain for the Triangle. Sleeping? Will any of us sleep tonight? 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 minute ago, gman said: Sleeping? Will any of us sleep tonight? Sleeting. Stupid autocorrect. RAH is only calling for a quarter to a half inch of freezing rain compared to the half inch plus WRAL is calling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooneWX Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, olafminesaw said: It's a testament to the wedge how the column. Is slowly moistening but the dewpoint dropping. Noticing that here as well. We’re getting moderate to heavy sleet but my dew has actually ticked down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidyr2k Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 HRRR is saying "It gone rain...and freeze....a lot." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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