Snow Forecast For Virginia

[MossyDell]

This may have been mentioned already, but I read a story today about a Virginia guy whose car broke down in the storm, he tried to walk home, got lost, and froze. He called his family and told them where he thought he was, but the deputies couldn't find him. They found his body yesterday not far from the road he had used as a reference, in a thick stand of pines.

I imagine nothing looked familiar, especially with roads covered. He was young and strong, knew the area since childhood. Rule of thumb, stay in your car!?

 

[Hay Dude]

More than once...

Maybe this comes in your size?

 

[TMGT]

Obviously. No one expected to be stranded for all that many hours but there was a FORECAST. Is it that hard to be prepared? I realize that Common Sense has been drummed out of this younger generation but so much so that they lost Self Preservation? I guess so, college kids walk across main streets without looking.... The 'book' says that pedestrians have the right-of-way, they interpret that as walking out in front of cars is OK

The problem was on I95, it was the Monday after a holiday weekend and had a lot of people traveling back home from out of state. It's hard to check weather like this for your full route when traveling through multiple states.
That's part of the reason I try to listen to local radio stations when traveling, but with all the options for streaming media in a car I doubt that's very common now.

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[Steppenwolfe]

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Maybe this comes in your size?

3xl tall please.

 

[Hay Dude]

Uh huh

 

[Fxfymn413]

That's part of the reason I try to listen to local radio stations when traveling, but with all the options for streaming media in a car I doubt that's very common now.

We use WAZE on our phones. It is an absolute god send when travelling since it will re-route you away from trouble, sometimes many, many, miles away from the trouble spot. You have to have faith in it since many times there is no obvious trouble when it is telling you to turn off of your planned route. One example: my son was leaving Raleigh, NC to head home in Charleston, SC after one of the hurricanes and WAZE sent him to Charlotte instead of I-95. He did not believe it and ended up getting stuck in flooding in NC on 95 for several hours.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I check weather in cities along my route. Usually by the time waze see’s an issue it is too late for a major detour.

 

[Fxfymn413]

Here we go again... the weather liars are predicting 6 to 8 inches for us on Sunday.

 

[TMGT]

Here we go again... the weather liars are predicting 6 to 8 inches for us on Sunday.

So now that everyone is going to freak out due to the last storm, we probably won't get anything.

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[ovrszd]

Here we go again... the weather liars are predicting 6 to 8 inches for us on Sunday.

We are 1-3" Friday and 3-5" Friday night. My guess is 3-4" total. But it makes for great drama on their part.