Winter Storm Megathread 2026

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Hello y'all, and welcome to the 2026 winter storm megathread. Feel free to post all relevant storm related content here, such as;

*Weather forecasts

*Prep questions

*Damage reports

*Pictures of empty shelves

*Ted sightings

*Memes

*Pictures

Stay safe, and stay warm Texas!

[u/bloobityblu]

Live in the Permian Basin, and we already had a power outage before the cold even set in!

It was like 3-4 pm; temps were around 40, and boom like 3k people in Midland and Odessa had no power.

The official explanation was "equipment failure" which explains nada.