<p>Here in Dallas the word is ICE and potential loss of power.</p>
<p>Cancelled plans to drive up US 35 to Wichita. OKC is supposed to get hit hard Thurs a.m.</p>
<p>How is it going in Denver?</p>
<p>What, we’re giving names to snow storms now? So instead of an old-timer recollecting how he industriously survived “the winter of Twenty-Odd Two,” he’ll regale us with tales of woe during the winter of Cleon.</p>
<p>Somebody please stop the world’s orbit because I want to get off.</p>
<p>Yikes. Ice is so much worse than snow.</p>
<p>The Weather Channel is the one who decided to start naming winter storms.</p>
<p>I hope my midwest friends who are here for the Vancouver & Seattle shows will be able to get back home ok.</p>
<p>07DAD, you asked about the Denver area. I’m in Boulder–we have about 5 inches of snow. I was just out, and the roads are slick, but passable. The real problem is the cold. Our thermometer read 12 when I checked around 7 am; a few minutes ago, it read 10. And these temps are supposed to stick around through the weekend. Brrrr!</p>
<p>Naming snow storms is stupid. There are so many (unlike hurricanes) who can even remember one from another? There was a named storm last week and for the life of me I can’t recall it’s name - and it was all over the news because of T’day travel troubles it caused.</p>
<p>EmilyBee - I agree! I refuse to “go there”. It’s something the Weather Channel dreamed up. Until the National Weather Service says it’s so, it’s not so!</p>
<p>Emilybee, that would have been Boreas. I am in Arlington with the same forecast as O7DAD. Going out to the front yard now to finish up some work in a humid 77 degrees. Other neighbors have been raking leaves and putting up exterior Christmas lights before the icy cold snap invades.</p>
<p>Leaving now to go home and cover the agaves while there is daylight.</p>
<p>When the storms of three weeks ago rolled through, the ones that spawned the horrible tornado outbreak here in the midwest, I was pretty glued to TWC. I kept hearing the broadcasters refer to a PDS. They finally clarified (probably after hundreds of people asked on their twitter accounts what a PDS was)… particularly dangerous situation.</p>
<p>Seriously? I think they make this stuff as they go along, not thinking about how they come across to the average viewer. </p>
<p>Will be interesting to see if any of them use term this for this storm.</p>
<p>LakeWashington storms are being named after 1969 NY Mets. The next storm is going to be called Buddy.</p>
<p>Here are the names so you can follow along</p>
<p><a href=“Unknown Roster by Baseball Almanac”>1969 New York Mets Roster | Baseball Almanac;
<p>My daughter is en route to Denver as I write this, so I’m all for no more snow and good weather!</p>
<p>Boreas, rolls right off the tongue. ;)</p>
<p>I was once stuck in Texas for 3 days because of an ice storm. This was in the 70’s and I don’t think they even had any salt to throw on the roads. It was the longest 3 days.</p>
<p>Well hell, one of our pipes burst. I didnt even know we had pipes in the ceiling/ roof and weve lived here since 1983.</p>
<p>Oh No! How unfortunate. Good luck with the repair.</p>
<p>Oh, NO!! What a mess. Good luck with the cleanup and repair. Growing up in Texas, a hard freeze, or a couple of days in a row with temps below freezing were always danger due to all the pipes being located in the attics. I remember several times, my parents would leave a faucet dripping during a bad cold spell to keep the water running. Don’t know if it ever prevented a burst pipe, but they were convinced it would.</p>
<p>Sey hey Tom! Here we go…</p>
<p>Flurries Clendenon
Deep Freeze Seaver
Frost Warning Ryan
Black Ice Harrelson
Icecicle Agee
Bridges Freeze Before Road Hodges</p>
<p>/\ Me too. I always leave 2 faucets dripping overnight when below freezing. So far, so good. I already have the faucet in the front and the backyard wrapped. Supposedly this helps too.</p>
<p>Back in the 70’s when there was an ice storm, I was living in a condo and being so young paid no attention to what was going on. Next morning, there was no water and came to find out that the pipes had burst. To shave and shower, I drove to a nearby Holiday Inn and got ready for work. Went back down to the front desk to checkout. The clerk asked why I was leaving already and I gave him my predicament and he ask what I had disturbed in the room. I said just the bathroom and as I recalled he charged me only half price.</p>
<p>OK- western slope of Colorado here- 13 degrees now and expecting minus 6 tonight. All my cabinet doors to the sinks are open slightly (I have cute little stoppers for this) and yes i will be running three sinks on drip (hot and cold) tonight- the outside wall kitchen one and the bathroom ones that once froze. And the heat is turned up to keep the house pipes warm…I do this when it gets below zero.
So sorry about the pipe burst!</p>