rockm
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winter storm warning for the gulf coast. New Orleans 3-5 inches. Get the trees on the ground and let the snow cover the pots
Snow in Houston Beaumont Baton Rouge and New Orleans
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The window to get milk, bread, beer and bourbon is rapidly closing, so don't wait!
Seriously, good luck, and be safe! My son is in Houston and expecting at least one day off work.
Seriously, good luck, and be safe! My son is in Houston and expecting at least one day off work.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
The amount of snow predicted for that area is potentially paralyzing. Plows salt and snow removal capabilities along the gulf coast are shallow to say the least. Five inches might as well be five feet in New Orleans
DeepSouth
Sapling
I have all of my potted trees in an unheated detached room and the crated yamadori and water basin cypress on the ground.
The water basin for my cypress had a layer of ice this morning. I may try to move that one indoors as well, otherwise it will be a solid block in the morning.
Most models are showing 5-8" for me, some up to a foot.
The water basin for my cypress had a layer of ice this morning. I may try to move that one indoors as well, otherwise it will be a solid block in the morning.
Most models are showing 5-8" for me, some up to a foot.
DeepSouth
Sapling
Is it wrong that I am jealous of all the snow down south - I live in Wisconsin and we have no snow but a high of 0 degrees F and a low of -16 degrees. I usually count on snow to insulate my trees in these bitter cold temperatures but I have nothing this year.
namnhi
Masterpiece
We got about an inch
Joe Dupre'
Omono
We have about 4-5 inches already and it doesn't look like it's going to let up. Definitely the most snow I've seen in my 70 years. I've only seen it here maybe 6 or 7 times. Sensitive trees are in the semi-heated workshop. Most everything else is on the ground. BC and junipers stayed where they sat.
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
Bald Crystal bonsai
Gabler
Masterpiece
No.
Joe Dupre'
Omono
We're running close to double the depth as at 11:00 in my picture. The forecast is for another 4-5 hours or so. 
Joe Dupre'
Omono
It stopped snowing about two hours ago. People from the snow belt can't grasp how profoundly foreign this is for South Louisiana! I could use me some global warming about now.
Gabler
Masterpiece
You don't like snow? Maybe it's just the association between snow and a day off of school, but there's something magical about it. That attitude is foreign to me.
Joe Dupre'
Omono
Foreign as in very strange. I love snow, but there's almost no association with snow days off. I think I had ONE snow day off in 12 years of schooling. We just don't have a much history of dealing with 7+ inches of snow and the 10 degree F temps we'll have tonight. My lawn was still green before last night, and I was barefoot in the yard last week.
RaginCajun
Mame
My friends in south Louisiana reporting 6-8” and all the way down in karnes county Texas, south Texas coastal plains got 4”.
4hrs away in north Louisiana we got nothing. Wild!
4hrs away in north Louisiana we got nothing. Wild!
DeepSouth
Sapling
We ended with 8” outside of Baton Rouge. I am a bit worried about the 10F temps tonight, but it is what it is.
Desert O'Piñon
Chumono
Our pipes are frozen at work until it warms enough to thaw, but 0 precipitation. 9° at 6am when I got to work this morning. December 26 and 27 of 2015 we had ±15". Livestock lost, hundreds stranded at drilling sites across the region. Glad we're not facing that. But sitting down to take care of business in a 20° outhouse still isn't my idea of a good time.
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
7 deg F right now in south west Louisiana. Expected to dip down to 5 deg!
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
When will you get a warm up/melt off of all that snow? That's crazy, people up north don't understand what a big deal it is for you, but having travelled extensively and being in a snow event down there, I can't even imagine the scope of this one. It's life threatening, nothing is built to deal with this, and there is little equipment to remove it. Be safe, and hunker down!
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
I would be brushing off that heavy snow from the trees. I knock it off my own landscape shrubs for fear of branches snapping.
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