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I’m sure many of you in this area know that there is a significant weather event this weekend. Oxford and most of North Mississippi is under an Ice Storm Warning. Ice accumulations are expected to be one inch or greater in The Oxford to Tupelo area. If this occurs, it will cause serious disruptions in travel, damage to infrastructure, and extensive power outages. Compounding this will be bitterly cold temperatures lasting most of next week, preventing any large scale melting of the ice. Some sleet and snow is predicted along with the freezing rain. Take care and be prepared.
Everyone stay safe. I’m in Nashville. For most of the week, they have been predicting a big snow event. Now, things are trending for more ice than snow, though not as much as y’all are getting south of us. I have “meant” to get a small generator for years. There are now none in town when I started checking this morning. So if power goes out, we’ll wrap up and try to stay warm. I guess I’ll walk around the house dressed like I’m going to a cold November football game.
As soon as this is over, I’ve got to get a backup plan in place. I’m thinking about a solar panel/generator combo. I just want to be able to keep one room in the house warm. I can cook outside on the grill (I always keep a spare 20lb LP tank ready for the grill) and this time of year, I can put items from the freezer outside in a cooler or in a car. I would love to hear the plans those of you without a fire place have for getting through this.
All of our power banks and devices are charged.
Good luck everyone and God bless!In 94, we had a wood stove insert in our fireplace and a back yard full of wood. My son was diagnosed with asthma a few years later and his doctor told us we shouldn’t burn wood in the house. So I haven’t used it in 25+ years. There is no way I am going to fire it up. I’d rather be cold than have a fire in my flue.
I could kick myself for not following through with my plan to do something last winter.It would be awful risky to build a fire in a fire place that hasnt had a fire in it for 25 years unless it thas been cleaned and inspected by a chimney sweep. Better to be cold than burn your house down.
I was told by an hvac guy that a car equipped with a inverter (i.e., as evidenced by a regular 110v house plug) will produce enough electricity to run a furnace blower. If your home’s thermostat runs on batteries, you might be able to run your furnace that way.
I live down in a wooded hole across the street from Lafayette High School in Oxford. We have bought groceries for a week, but nothing I can do if the power goes out. BUT…Lee Ann is in Houston, Texas, and Steven Willis is in Florida. If me and our Oxford crew get incapacitated by weather, the site will still be on and going strong. I will still be on the board thanks to my cell phone, as long as I still have service. Ole Miss tells me they will play Tennessee in women’s hoops Monday night unless the Lady Vols can’t get here.
This is gonna drive me crazy!
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