00:00He's in Greenwood, Mississippi, but an area that is more known for their severe weather
00:05than their ice and snow. But unfortunately, that's exactly what we're predicting. And
00:11I'm sure, Aaron, everything's shut down in Greenville.
00:16Yeah, good morning, guys. You absolutely got that right. This place is pretty much a ghost town
00:20right now. I probably haven't seen a car in well over a half an hour, which is a good thing. That
00:25tells me that a lot of the folks took those warnings seriously and the severity of the
00:29situation that's going to come with this ice storm. Now, since I've been standing here,
00:33there have been several snow plows that have gone by on a much smaller scale because, again,
00:38we're not in the Midwest. We're not in New England. They get cold weather down here on occasions,
00:42but they don't get the type of winter weather that we typically see in the northern states.
00:47So, therefore, they have their little less resources, and those are going to be stretched
00:51then, especially over the next 24 to 36 hours as this ice storm really starts to ramp up.
00:58And, Aaron, also, where would you go ahead? No, no, please. No.
01:01Well, Ari and I were just talking. It's 24 degrees right now in Greenville. What were you going to
01:06ask? Nope. I was going to say you just said that. Yeah. And there's also a concern, and we've seen
01:11this before, about pipes bursting just because of the cold. So, that's another thing that the
01:18residents have to worry about. Yeah, that's absolutely correct. And on top of that, this wind isn't
01:24going to do us any favor either. It's a little bit gusty right now, and it's just making that cold
01:29cut through the skin so much more brutally than what we typically see with normal cold weather.
01:34And what's going to happen is when these trees start to get weighed down with a lot of that ice,
01:38it's not going to take much to start knocking down those tree branches. You throw in gusts even
01:4320 to 30 miles an hour, that's going to cause even more significant problems than they're already
01:48going to be dealing with today. But, you know, it's one of the things that's the good news.
01:52There was a little bit of panic buying going on yesterday that tells me that a lot of the folks
01:56are taking this very seriously. And I think everyone is kind of sitting on the edge of their
02:00seats seeing just how bad it's going to get here. They all are kind of sitting there waiting and
02:05wondering if their power is going to go out, how long the cold is going to last. And I hate to say
02:09it, but there also could be a flash freeze potential behind all this for any of that melt that does
02:14occur during that brief warm-up followed by that cold surge that's going to come in behind the storm
02:19system. I feel like you said it, you know, the South's so used to severe weather, even tropical
02:24weather, but they take the cold so seriously because they don't get it all the time. Storm
02:28Chaser Aaron Dringsby, thanks so much for joining us. We'll continue to check in with you this weekend.
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