Yeah, why not?

Surely the end is nigh. Human sacrifices. Dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.

without precipitation I wouldn't be worried. Ice and we will have problems.

Cold on it's own won't hurt power.

You'll know they're expecting outages if you see bucket trucks staged in empty parking lots around the city. Given that there is only rain forecast, I expect they aren't too worried about it.

The gusts are likely to cause outages in areas prone to them, however, this isn’t Texas and DE maintains the infrastructure so that it still works in cold temperatures. It would still be in everyone’s best interest to be prepared for an outage just in case, but as another commenter said, if you’re seeing a lot of trucks it means they’re ready to restore power as quickly as they can.

Always expect outages when there are freezing temperatures, precipitation, and surface level winds in excess of 20mph

Probably. It is hard to tell, but generally wind is what gets us. The thing that can help us is that the leaves are gone, so it will not have as much drag. They are also providing maximums.

Not sure where you were looking, but you can get all the NWS Wakefield stuff here:

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.540455000000065&lon=-77.43702999999994#.Y6SzWXbMKHs

They also have probabilistic maps for snow. https://www.weather.gov/akq/winter

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This storm is going to nail a good portion of the country. For Richmond, we will see cold Peak cold right now is 3-6am saturday, looking at 10 degrees with a wind chill of negative 3. The big issue will be how much water is left on the roads to make black ice saturday morning.

Also, i hope we get all our homeless in a good place.

The cold doesn't kill the power, the over use of the heaters draws more than available. Our power grid is very fragile. We could strengthen it, but then it would be harder to charge people.

My comment about our power still working in cold weather was in reference to Texas’ failure to winterize their infrastructure, resulting in the massive outages in February 2021.

Ok but you do realize it is not the cold, but the extra strain on the grid? That is what failed. Just like this summer when it was crazy hot in pacific north west.

The extra strain caused by the failure to winterize and ERCOT isolating itself from the rest of the country. DE is part of the PJM interconnect, so they can receive power from other generators, and they maintain their infrastructure.

I got an email from Dominion this afternoon stating they were making preparations to deal with outages by staging crews, etc., along with a review of the ways to report an outage.

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So 100% yes they are expecting outages.

You are right about wind of course I should have caveated my answer above that wind will be less of an issue with the leaves off the trees.

In general in the winter it's ice that's more of a big deal since there is so little windage without leaves

Biggest reason why we won't have an issue is I just used my chainsaw and it's working fine. So Murphy is going to be scared off

"Getting stabbed by the knife didn't kill him, he died of blood loss"

Ha! I left our gas can at a friends an hour away. I picked a new one up to fill the generator. We will not lose power now!

Looks like the wind is settling, most of the gusts should be under 30, however looks like we will see them through tomorrow, just lower to 20. BRRRR