States from New Mexico to New England are under a warning until Saturday. Temperatures are dropping outside, but social media is heating up with jokes as an estimated 140 million people prepare for the winter storm. Even DoorDash got on board, warning the ladies that delivery wouldn’t be possible for all products, so choose your snow companion wisely! As the jokes continue, so do the updates on the first winter storm of 2026, just 23 days away.
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As mentioned, National Weather Service forecasts promised widespread heavy snow and a catastrophic ice band stretching from eastern Texas to North Carolina. That means services will be disrupted, from electricity to DoorDash deliveries. The company took action via social media to remind its customers to stay safe and choose their snowy friends wisely. And, as expected, the comments started pouring in with reactions to the not-so-subtle message about life…nine months from now.
“Ladies: If Saturday comes and you’re stuck with THIS man, there’s nothing we can offer you to help. Please be discerning,” DoorDash wrote on X Friday.
The company continued the jokes with responses, from “He will definitely try to eat the snacks, get him out of there!!” And “Because why would a man be here??”
Social media users don’t take anything seriously
And then off we go, following the DoorDash feed with the crazy jokes! Keep scrolling for a kiiii and real-life updates on what experts say will be an unforgettable winter storm!
I eat my winter storm snacks before the storm even hits: pic.twitter.com/cV42or3f9r
-Drebae (@Drebae) January 24, 2026
and it better be STORM after buying all those groceries!!! pic.twitter.com/trmuwTv57k
— 𝕜𝕚𝕠𝕟 . (@MrFlyyyGuyyy) January 23, 2026
The winter storm hasn’t even hit yet and I’ve already eaten all the toilet paper I bought.
— 𝑴𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒓 (@MoMohler) January 23, 2026
The Typa Performances DoorDashers Are About to Have During This Winter Storm pic.twitter.com/TohoujOFJv
– MattBeGreat (@mattbegreatyt) January 23, 2026
With the snowstorm approaching, I made sure I had ONLY the essentials 😋 pic.twitter.com/RfNGiz5GAN
— 🥔 (@salzmann__) January 22, 2026
How people on the East Coast feel watching the weatherman make jokes about the approaching snowstorm…. pic.twitter.com/x8apliotIU
–Bruce Straughan (@bruce_straughan) January 24, 2026
I check the weather app for the 17th time to see if it’s actually going to snow pic.twitter.com/wifsNTHPhR
– Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) January 23, 2026
The whole house is going to run out of toes and arms by next week pic.twitter.com/Mz5quKB3Mo
– Mesh🇧🇧 (@rahsh33m) January 24, 2026
Literally my mood until summer returns pic.twitter.com/qLVmdLGHai
-Callunc (@Callunc) January 24, 2026
How serious is this winter storm anyway?
DoorDash and social media users may be cutting while waiting for the snow to fall, but authorities are taking the warnings seriously. Some areas are already affected, and forget about traveling! More than 12,000 flights were canceled Saturday and Sunday across the United States, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. Disruptions were also mounting at airports from Dallas to Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Churches have moved Sunday services online. Mardi Gras parades in Louisiana have been canceled or postponed. School principals in Philadelphia and Houston announced school closures for Monday. Some universities in the South canceled classes on Monday.
Governors in more than a dozen states have sounded the alarm about the looming winter storm. Many have declared a state of emergency or urged people to stay home. Forecasters estimate that damage, particularly in areas pounded by ice, could be comparable to that of a hurricane. As of midday Saturday, a quarter-inch of ice was reported in parts of southeast Oklahoma, east Texas and parts of Louisiana.
“What makes this storm really unique is that right after this storm it’s going to be very cold,” said Allison Santorelli, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “The snow and ice will melt very, very slowly and will not disappear anytime soon, which will hamper any recovery efforts.”
About 120,000 power outages were reported in the winter storm’s path Saturday afternoon, including about 53,000 in Texas and 45,000 in Louisiana, according to poweroutage.us.
This winter storm will be extremely cold, experts say
After sweeping south, the winter storm will likely move northeast. It will dump about 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington to New York and Boston, the weather service predicted. Georgia officials advised residents in northern areas of the state to get off the roads before sunset Saturday and prepare to stay put for at least 48 hours.
Will Lanxton, the state’s chief meteorologist, said Georgia could get “Perhaps the biggest ice storm we’ve expected in over a decade” followed by unusually cold temperatures.
“Ice is a whole different game than snow,” Lanxton said. “With ice, you can’t do anything. You can’t drive on it. It’s much more likely to bring down power lines and trees.”
The Midwest experienced wind chills as low as -40°F. This means frostbite could occur within 10 minutes. The temperature of -36°F in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, on Saturday morning was the coldest in nearly 30 years.
“I think there are two parts of this storm that make it unique. One is just a wide expanse of spatial coverage of this event… You have 2,000 miles of country that are being hit by the storm with snow, sleet and freezing rain,” said Josh Weiss, a meteorologist at NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center. “The other really impressive part of this storm is what’s going to happen right after. We’re looking at extreme cold, record cold.”
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Associated Press writers Thomas Peipert, Jeff Amy, Dave Collins, Mike Schneider, Rio Yamat, Julie Walker, David A. Lieb, George Walker and Laura Bargfeld contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.
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