r/HuntsvilleAlabama • u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ • 8d ago

Reminder: Start prepping for cold weather Events

The 10-15 day models are consistently showing it's going to get substantially colder by middle/late next week (Jan 8-ish). It's shaping up to be a pretty substantial cold as well.

With this cold, obviously comes the chance for frozen precipitation. Anyone saying it will definitely happen is lying, there are no definites this far out. But conditions are likely to support it happening, so might as well plan and prep for it.

Since we're 1.5-2 weeks out from it, go ahead and start gradually doing all of your extreme cold weather prep. Buy whatever supplies you use. Refill gas cans for generators. Get battery packs charged up. Make sure laundry is all done (at least washed and dried) a few days before the cold.

Comment below for your typical routines to give others ideas.

Edit: if we do end up having a weather episode, us mods will organize a megathread or two. Probably one with information, and one with pictures/videos/misc ice/snow banter

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u/ShaggyTDawg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 8d ago

Lived in the south all my life. To this day, I still don't understand this.

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u/raevynfaerie 7d ago edited 7d ago

If you lived through the ice storms of '93/94 then you would understand. No power for days, weeks in some places. We ate a lot of sandwiches and bowls of cereal. Heated up canned soup over the wood heater. I was a kid but still remember it and always make sure to have those items on hand whenever we have a winter storm warning. Plus milk is good for snow cream :-)

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u/Infamous_Entry_2714 6d ago

THIS IS THE ANSWER 🦅 We also cooked a lot on our grill,since all the meat was thawing anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/AppFlyer 6d ago

Why was the meat thawing?

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u/Infamous_Entry_2714 6d ago

Because we were without power for 10 days and it was in the freezer

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u/AppFlyer 5d ago

And it wasn’t cold outside?