chad4359 t1_jc04sy5 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:38 AM

Freezing rain is very uncommon around here, it requires very specific conditions and can be predicted pretty accurately. If you see a forecast for rain during winter months it will just be rain.

James19991 t1_jc05a7d wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:42 AM

You're right. It's very rare for damaging ice storms to occur here because cold air damning is tough to get west of the Appalachians.

chad4359 t1_jc0688p wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:49 AM

Yeah I'm pushing 40 and I can count the number of significant ice events on one hand, I don't think I have enough appendages to count the snow events during that time though lol.

James19991 t1_jc06yaw wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:55 AM

I'm in my early 30s, and I can think of only one or two truly major icing events where trees and power lines had issues near the city.

chad4359 t1_jc084mx wrote on March 13, 2023 at 2:04 AM

I was intimately involved with one where I was forced to attempt to walk home from work. I had to bear crawl most of the way and ended up only making it to my friend's house which was about halfway between work and home. Thankfully, his family was happy to let me spend the night but we were all pretty pissed when we had to go to school the next day.