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The National Weather Service is currently predicting up to 1.75 inches of ice for large swaths of the southern US
(hexbear.net)
If this forecast holds, the infrastructure damage from this storm is going to be catastrophic, potentially worse than a category 5 hurricane. People will be without power for weeks or potentially months and the roads will be completely impassable with downed trees and power lines.
Any comrades in these areas, please do your best to stay safe and warm. Stock up on some non-perishable food if you still have time.
It will not be worse than a cat 5 what the hell. Cat 5 wipes out your town, like all of it
But yeah it will be bad with that amount of ice
He said "infrastructure damage," which is extremely plausible. Even a regular ice storm does WAY more damage to power lines and trees than you'd think it would. The magnitude of this combined with the fact that the power grid in a lot of these places is perpetually hanging on by a thread anyway (and nobody owns any serious winter gear or knows how to prep for a big winter storm) is a recipe for pretty serious damage. It's not gonna take the roof off of houses (though trees might do damage to some homes), but power down for weeks and roads impassable for days isn't at all out of the question.
This won't destroy buildings (maybe some that already have structural issues or second-hand through pipes bursting) but it will completely wreck power lines and roads. A quarter inch of ice can bring down enough trees to cause issues for a week or more, I can't even imagine what an inch of ice will do, especially in a part of the country that has zero resources to handle it.
Yeah my bad. I get prickly on hurricane comparisons. It'll be significant nonetheless and an inch of ice is indeed pretty terrible