I wish I had a set. I'd even through on a set of chains if I had them. BTW do they even sell studded tires here in NC?
Studded tires are allowed under NC law. "Permitted if not projected more than 1/16 inch when compressed." It would be better though to get siped tires for use in NC as they would be useful for a larger part of the year. http://tires.tirerack.com/tires/Siping Alternatively, if you call around, you might find a tire place that will Sipe your current tires for you, generally about $10-20 per tire.
Looking like at least an inch for our area (up to 2-3 though), but it will stay below freezing until Tuesday around 11am. So anything on the ground will stay frozen or at least re-freeze each night.
There are two upshots to this.....Right now it is warm so if it comes it wont last long....and they are talking about it a lot. When this happens, it always misses us. But when they blow it off, we get dumped on. Lol
Totals updated for Clayton to 3-5". It's supposed to stay below 32F (freezing) from about midnight on Friday night through about noon on Tuesday. Dropping as low as about 8F.
Its warm today, but its suppose to get to 40s rest of week, and stay cold like jesse states most of next week. So its not going to melt at all once it comes.
Storm totals have been increased once again for our area, most stating closer to 5-6" for northern JoCo now, with 6+ for northeastern Wake County.
Just trying to provide as many sources as possible. Should be all snow for the most part for us, so no big worry about power outages at least.
On my way home from Wake Med Cary. I noticed that a lot of the roads have been brined. But once I got off at exit 312 I noticed 42 was not brined, nor was Cleveland School Road. I guess they will be done today. But one thing I have noticed over the years is they do not brine the roads Connecting Cleveland School Road to Polenta. Also they do not brine Polenta. I figured they would at least now do Polenta since there is a High School there
I don't think the high school would have anything to do with whether a road gets brined or plowed. If there's any snow remaining on the roads Monday (which I'm sure there will be), school will probably be cancelled for the whole county.