Well thanks to global warming we are getting a huge ice storm here, I'm running on generator and have huge limbs down everywhere, we've gotten about 2.5" of ice so far and it's still coming down. It's sucks, oh well!
Here a picture from Paducah KY Channel 6
(http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/media/news/7/b/8/7b8cad83-d3d5-487b-b7a1-2eb6b5de323d/Original.jpg)
So what about you are you getting hammered?
we're under an ice storm warning.
Incidentally it's just misting outside. texans get excited over nothing
If Britain gets any more than 2 cm of snow the entire country comes grinding to a hault :teddyr:
It's kinda funny.
texas comes to a grinding hault when they just talk about snow or ice. It doesn't have to. All they have to do is talk about it and you have millions of people stocking up on generators and spam like it's the end times
and yet ironically we are the yahoo's who will sit on the front porch with the barbeque grill watching a tornado touchdown
Quote from: Susan on January 27, 2009, 04:48:15 PM
texas comes to a grinding hault when they just talk about snow or ice. It doesn't have to. All they have to do is talk about it and you have millions of people stocking up on generators and spam like it's the end times
and yet ironically we are the yahoo's who will sit on the front porch with the barbeque grill watching a tornado touchdown
Same here ... we only get a really bad ice storm every 15 years or so, last one was in '93
Everything here is at a full halt, very few businesses are open (OMG even Wal-Mart is closed. I never go there.), nearly everyone is without power unless you have a generator your screwed. I have a gas stove so I can cook and a fireplace and a garage full of wood, no as full as it was yesterday. But tis life you just deal with it, they are not going to work on restoring power until the storms have past could be out here for days.
we're having somehting called a "wintry mix" here in Boston tomoroww. should be special
It's cloudy and 52 here in Alabama. Suppose to get rain tomorrow but nothing worse than that.
Seward Alaska, and I'm waiting for some F-ing snow so I can go ride my sled (Snowmobile). Friday we got a half a foot where I work, , but none where I live or ride, which is only 4-5 miles away. We have several inches of solid ice on teh ground, but it needs snow to keep the engine cool. Bummer, eh?
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on January 27, 2009, 01:29:34 PM
So what about you are you getting hammered?
Nope. No alcohol for me today. :tongueout:
It's about 11 degrees here today. We haven't had any snow in a while but there is still a ton of it on the ground. Everything's pretty much frozen.
I find it amusing how people in southern states freak out when it snows.
I've been exposed to massive amounts of snow and ice my whole life so it's no big deal to me.
When you live in Iowa, you get used to it.
The weather here changes so much that some people will joke that you'll shovel one day and mow the next.
70 degrees was the high today. Rained, though, so it was miserable.
Quote from: Ash on January 27, 2009, 05:21:24 PM
I find it amusing how people in southern states freak out when it snows.
True they do freak, but we don't have the equipment to remove snow, ice is just ice what can you do? The trees aren't "ice ready" so they get big and then the ice comes and the snap like twigs I go outside it sound like a shooting match with branches snapping. I've burned through a tank of fuel already on the generator I still have enough fill it 3 more times. My trees where beat to death by Ike and now this, it will be amazing if I have anything other than 40 foot stumps left after it's all said and done.
There are power lines hanging down across the road about 4 feet off the ground so I have 4 ways out and 3 are currently blocked. Oh well I've food, water, a generator and wood so I'm good for a while.
Hey Cheeze, you got the front end of this, while we got the back end here in Arkansas. Luckily I live in the central part of the state and have so far missed most of the really nasty stuff.
One of the weathercaster's here started rating winter storms by the bread-o-meter. Every time the forecast calls for snow or ice, there's a run on grocery stores and bread is the first aisle cleared out by weather panicked shoppers, followed by milk.
We have a "wintery" mix coming in as well, supposedly not accumulating more than 5 inches. Currently we have some massive snowbanks on the street so I'm hoping it goes more towards rain for some much needed melting. We're along the coast so I'm surprised we have this much.
Quote from: Trekgeezer on January 27, 2009, 06:49:54 PM
Hey Cheeze, you got the front end of this, while we got the back end here in Arkansas. Luckily I live in the central part of the state and have so far missed most of the really nasty stuff.
One of the weathercaster's here started rating winter storms by the bread-o-meter. Every time the forecast calls for snow or ice, there's a run on grocery stores and bread is the first aisle cleared out by weather panicked shoppers, followed by milk.
This crap is said to be going to changing to snow and were going to get 5"-10" on top of all this ice, it's been right at the freezing the mark so it's freezing rain and rain, but the sun is down and now it will turn off cold.
90% of the area is without power, only a few isolated spots have power ... luckily our local country store has power, but there running out of stuff. They were going to stay open all night and they have a big side dinning room they've cleared out for folks without power to crash if needed.
I'm still running on a generator ad looks like I might be for a day or so, they have already said some areas may be without power for a a week or longer I know there are power crews coming in from your state, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
Oh well .... at least I have some power and a fire.
My local weather bulletin:
FREEZING RAIN...OCCASIONALLY MIXED WITH SLEET...WILL CONTINUE
UNABATED THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN CENTRAL KENTUCKY.
BECAUSE SURFACE TEMPERATURES ARE NEAR FREEZING...ROAD CREWS HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO KEEP MAIN ROADS PRIMARILY SLUSHY. HOWEVER SIDE ROADS
AND ELEVATED ROADWAYS ARE EXTREMELY SLICK AND HAZARDOUS.
ALSO...ICE ACCUMULATING ON TREES AND POWER LINES WILL INCREASE THE
LIKELIHOOD OF POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE THIS EVENING. DO NOT
TRAVEL TONIGHT IN SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNLESS
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
The lights have flickered a couple of times already.
Ice is much worse than snow.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 27, 2009, 08:32:00 PM
My local weather bulletin:
FREEZING RAIN...OCCASIONALLY MIXED WITH SLEET...WILL CONTINUE
UNABATED THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN CENTRAL KENTUCKY.
BECAUSE SURFACE TEMPERATURES ARE NEAR FREEZING...ROAD CREWS HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO KEEP MAIN ROADS PRIMARILY SLUSHY. HOWEVER SIDE ROADS
AND ELEVATED ROADWAYS ARE EXTREMELY SLICK AND HAZARDOUS.
ALSO...ICE ACCUMULATING ON TREES AND POWER LINES WILL INCREASE THE
LIKELIHOOD OF POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE THIS EVENING. DO NOT
TRAVEL TONIGHT IN SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNLESS
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
The lights have flickered a couple of times already.
Ice is much worse than snow.
My weather Bulletin:
A SHALLOW ARCTIC AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH
THE NIGHT WITH TEMPERATURES REMAINING OR FALLING BELOW FREEZING.
MEANWHILE...AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH FROM WEST
TEXAS AND BRING MOISTURE AND LIFT. PERIODS OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN
POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET WILL BE LIKELY IN MOST AREAS THIS
THROUGH TONIGHT WITH ICE AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN 0NE
TENTH AND ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH. ALL RESIDENTS WITH PICKUP TRUCKS ARE ENCOURAGED TO GET OUT ON THE ROADWAYS AND DRIVE AROUND THE CITY FOLK STEERING THEM INTO A DITCH. YOU'LLAUNTO PUT THE DOGS IN THE GARAGE AND GO DOWN TO THE WALMART TO STOCK UP ON FLASHLIGHTS, A HUNTING SUIT AND SOME AMMO. NOAA RECOMMENTS KEEPING THE TRUCK STOCKED WITH SPAM IN THE EVENT YOUR TIRES SPIN OUT AND YOU WIND UP IN A DITCH. BE SURE TO THROW THE BEER CANS OUT OF THE CAR AS THERE IS AN DANGEROUS HIGH PRESSURE WIFE MOVING IN
Quote from: Ash on January 27, 2009, 05:21:24 PM
I find it amusing how people in southern states freak out when it snows.
I live in a Southern state and I never freak out over snow. That is cause 90% of the time when we get any it is gone by noon. However in the same vein, it is so rare we see snow that it is exciting for a lot of people when it does happen.
Granted even a forecast for the possibility of winter weather triggers one of my favorite things to watch, panic shopping in stores. When else can you see two church ladies duke it out over a loaf of bread or watch someone buy enough toilet paper to wipe everyone in a 3 mile radius butt.
Here in Roanoke VA (in the valley) we just got rain. I had some ice on the decks at my house but that was about it. It didn't cool off quite enough prior to the clouds moving in for us to get major ice. However the mountain areas probably got hit with some serious ice.
17 degrees Celsius in Pretoria, 88% chance of rain here.
Here in Michigan,we have LOTS of snow. About a foot and a half on the ground left over from the last couple of weeks. It's about 15 degrees F here this morning...which is a heat wave compared to the sub zero crap we had last week. Ugh...winter...I don't mind it except I have to walk about a mile to work every dam morning! Oh well...it wakes me up. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on January 27, 2009, 07:25:48 PM
This crap is said to be going to changing to snow and were going to get 5"-10" on top of all this ice, it's been right at the freezing the mark so it's freezing rain and rain, but the sun is down and now it will turn off cold.
That sucks. When I lived in Minneapolis years ago, we got a bunch of freezing rain followed by a pretty good snowstorm. On the roads, people drove over the snow and packed it down real good on top of the ice. That made it impossible for the road crews to get the ice off, but they tried, resulting in the roughest roads you can imagine. It was like that all winter. I sold my Camaro the next summer, it was completely worn out after that.
Not much going on with the weather here in Minnesota, other than that it's 12 below, but it's supposed to get up to 19 (above) today. 30% chance of snow this evening.
Well, good luck Cheeze!
Well well well . . . Susan and I are apparently neighbors! :buggedout:
We have about 1/4" of ice outside, and both my school and my wife's school are closed for the day!! :cheers: Supposed to melt away this afternoon though. I would go back to bed, but I have a little baby goat that needs bottle feeding as soon as it gets light enough.
After that, though . . .
snuggling time!!!! :teddyr:
WE got 3 inches of ice, 5 of snow, I have intermittent phone, tv, internet I'm on generator a couple a hours a day.
We got SLAMMED they is 100% power outage in the county, and 95% in the area. NO gas, NO food, water running low .. I have some gas and a few days of food and water ... but it is bad. I have trees down everywhere, they are saying power could be out for weeks ... I don't have that much gas. I have a neighbor drive 100 mile today looking for gas, nothing!
Where the hell is the FEDS and FEMA were under a state of emergency and the Governor has asked for help and so far nothing. Where are all of those pointing fingers at Katrina at now???
cheeze you only got a couple days worth of food? i usually go shopping for the month so i could live out of my apt for a good solid 9 weeks before going hungry.
Do the neighbors have any dogs? :wink:
If that band of icy mess is widespread, Cheeze could be in for a few rough weeks. Getting power restored to lots of areas can take a while. Downed lines also make clearing trees out of the roads a dangerous undertaking. At least you have a generator.
What you mention is another reason I keep thinking we need to add a wood stove to the house, just for backup heat.
We got about 1.5" of snow, then about .25 - .5" ice. The roads today were bad. They're getting bad again, as the temp warmed up this afternoon and it rained. Now the temp is falling quick and we're supposed to be in the mid-20's tonight with a wind chill in the teens. Sounds like black ice bonanza tomorrow morning.
I've been very lucky in the fact that the ice storm didn't extend down this far. The cold temperatures are just now moving into the area and the moister that produced the ice storms to the North moved out ahead of the cold front. Now on Monday there is a slight chance of snow flurries where I live but odds are it will be just another rain event.
I did see where power crews from my state are moving up North to assist in the repairs to the electrical lines in the areas hit by the ice storm. So hopefully they will be able to restore electricity to many soon.
A wood burning stove or wood burning heater are good to have for such situations. When I was a kid, an ice storm hit and my parents cooked on top of a wood burning heater. Granted we also had a few dozen brass oil lamps that kept the house well lit to the point people wanted to know why we were the only home with lights. We melted and boiled the ice we scraped up for water until a old well we had thawed out then we boiled the water out of it to use.
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on January 28, 2009, 07:26:38 PM
WE got 3 inches of ice, 5 of snow, I have intermittent phone, tv, internet I'm on generator a couple a hours a day.
We got SLAMMED they is 100% power outage in the county, and 95% in the area. NO gas, NO food, water running low .. I have some gas and a few days of food and water ... but it is bad. I have trees down everywhere, they are saying power could be out for weeks ... I don't have that much gas. I have a neighbor drive 100 mile today looking for gas, nothing!
Where the hell is the FEDS and FEMA were under a state of emergency and the Governor has asked for help and so far nothing. Where are all of those pointing fingers at Katrina at now???
Sorry to hear that Cheeze. I'm just a bit east of you and I've had my power knocked out, but it's OK. Only about 20% of the power is lost here in the big city; my parents and my brother both have power.
"Late Wednesday, Obama declared federal emergencies in these Kentucky counties: Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boyd, Boyle, Breathitt, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Clark, Crittenden, Daviess, Edmonson, Elliott, Estill, Fayette, Floyd, Fulton, Garrard, Graves, Grayson, Hardin, Harrison, Hart, Hickman, Hopkins, Jackson, Jessamine, Johnson, Larue, Lincoln, Logan, Lyon, Madison, Magoffin, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McCracken, Meade, Mercer, Metcalfe, Morgan, Muhlenberg, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Owsley, Perry, Powell, Shelby, Todd, Trigg, Union, Washington, Webster, Wolfe, and Woodford." http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/01/26/daily72.html
Sounds like the Feds will be sending the calvary your way.
Ice here, mostly on the sidewalks and neighborhood streets. Makes it a pain in the neck to walk, but driving (except in my driveway) is OK. And the trains & buses were running on time. That's more of a concern for me, as my car needs a new catalytic converter so it's semi-retired for a few months till I decide what to do.
frozen fog isn't a myth after all. This morning driving to work it was so foggy i could see only 7 carlinks in front of me. I looked around and it almost looked like it was snowing but I knew it wasn't because all the precip had moved out. It was the fog freezing into tiny little flakes that looked like powdered sugar whirling all around and coating the grass. was pretty cool
Quote from: Susan on January 29, 2009, 11:20:28 PM
frozen fog isn't a myth after all. This morning driving to work it was so foggy i could see only 7 carlinks in front of me. I looked around and it almost looked like it was snowing but I knew it wasn't because all the precip had moved out. It was the fog freezing into tiny little flakes that looked like powdered sugar whirling all around and coating the grass. was pretty cool
We had that in NJ the other night, cold and snow in the wee hours, but by afternoon it kept getting warmer and warmer after the snow (which had turned to freezing rain) it stopped precipitating and the fog kept rising like a horror movie, and then there were bits of ice in the air... then by midnight it had almost all melted and it was starry and clear and damned windy. Today, SUNNY, cold, but not bitter, and beautiful!
Live from the ICE BUNKER via gas powered internet ... it's CHEEZE!
After a road trip I have food, I have water, I have gas and only took a day to get it. They say our power will be out for 30 days or more. I'm sending the family outta here and I'm going to be Jeremiah Johnson hell I don't even know what day it is. I'll post pictures when I get time when the power is back on which could be awhile.
Short is we got SLAMMED ... I have a train load of limbs, trees etc down the big melt was today and I was dodging huge icicles while cutting wood now I'm drying the wood by the fire. I've lost all my fish in the aquariums, dogs are fine. Can't find D batteries.
I've heard that this area I'm in was the hardest hit of the entire storm ... looking around I believe it. The power company I'm with has 100% outage there are main transmission line down in the TN River coming from KY Lake dam, there are 2500 or more busted telephone poles there are lines down everywhere.
On a up note at night the sky is so cool there are no lights anywhere in my area except mine when I run the generator ... and to look up at the universe reminds me of the desert where the sky star where so bright.
Ok gotta kill the power will catch in as I can now I need to put Netflix on hold, no need in getting movies if I can't watch them.
Later kids ... sadly for some, I'm ok. :buggedout:
Glad to hear your hunkering down and weathering the storm. Just think back in the old days that's just what they had to do. Well unless it was the donner party..
Good thing you got food, be sure to always keep at least a months worth of food in the house at least of canned food and bags of rice and stuff.
And bury those dog bones before someone finds out
Cheeseflixz, do you have somewhere warm to go when it gets you down? I don't mind cold and all, but I need a little relief sometimes. We had an ice storm in MD that knocked our heat out for 5 days, but we gave up after 3 and took the kids to a motel. I can't imagine getting through 30 without going nuts.
I was most worried about the tropical fish I had to leave behind obviously, but they seemed to do fine. Didn't lose one.
Hope you're doing OK.
Hey Cheeze, good to hear you got out and got some supplies! I think you're too darned ornery to let any old storm beat ya :teddyr: If the power's going to be out for 30 days, you might want to keep an eye on your neighbors - they'll probably be banding together and forming raiding parties and stuff. Might wanna keep your rifle handy :teddyr:
There is a sign on my doors that says "Occupied and Armed" in small print it says, "I will shoot you and I'm an excellent shot."
I'm burning wood and drying it out by the fire so I'm keeping the house about 60. I had a lot of food but most required cooking and I'm low in propane and can't find any. I can cook over the fire so that's not a big issue ... but if I had propane I could fire up the furnace. So I went out and got cases of ravioli, pop tarts, chips, cereal, energy bars and all that crap. 5 cases of bottled water and some clean in reserve. Everything in our area that works is on generator, TV, radio, internet, water, EM services, etc ...
Well have a look here ... http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/default.aspx (http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/default.aspx)
Quote
Graves County:
Graves 3:30/1-30-09...........EOC- 1-270-856-1020
100% without power,
Shelter: Graves County High school, food and shelter 490 people in the shelter
Water--please conserve water and boil if you can
Food--Wal-mart is letting people in a few at a time. No other restaurants or stores are open at this time for food
Fuel---a few stations have been open, but not for long. So, it is too hard to give a specific location. NO KEROSENE OR PROPANE
Banks: 1st Kentucky and FNB with both try to be open Saturday.
Pharmacies: Stones, Apothecary, Duncans, and Gibsons are all open.
HOSPITAL: OPEN AND RUNNING ON GENERATOR
So there you have it and I have yet to see glorious new leader here helping the elderly and poor ... some folk have no water, no heat, no food nothing ... if it gets real cold it could be really bad for some folks.
I'll spend all day cutting wood and getting the family out of here, I'm sending them to my Dad's he has power and is about 2 hours away ... no need for everyone to stay here and it's getting a little cabin fever-ish ... you think I'm cranky normally ... you haven't seen anything, I can tell I'm going to bite heads off real soon. But to there credit they've not really complained about it, a few assorted comments.
I'm in survival mode so I don't want a long story just get to the damn point ... and I have a family that takes the long way around that barn to get the point I'm ... JUST GET TO THE FREAKING POINT, PLEASE!!!
Oh just had to help unload two more generators for the neighbors down the road ... after Ike and this I think I'm going to put in a 20,000 watt diesel or propane hardwired into the house, power goes out to much anymore. Down side is they are expensive to buy and run.
So the joke here how many MPG does your TV/Internet get? Mine about 1.5 gallons a hour. So I only run it about 4 or 5 hours a day.
OK kid thanks for the kind words, got to power down and go cut more wood .... I'm so excited. :lookingup:
Cheeze, stay safe & warm. Hope you don't hurt your back while chopping wood, or sprain your trigger finger shooting at looters. :wink:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 31, 2009, 09:25:05 PM
Cheeze, stay safe & warm. Hope you don't hurt your back while chopping wood, or sprain your trigger finger shooting at looters. :wink:
Chopping? Chainsaw brother ... and a gas splitter I have got a few 100 gallons of gas so I'm good, I'm cold a sh!t right now a let the fire go out so the chimney could cool down.
I heard that some folks have had there generator stolen and that the WKTV (TV, Internet, Phone has had a few of theirs' stolen that they have out on the county to keep it up, mine comes and goes so I guess they've had the one keeping our area up stolen, I see anyone do trying I will shoot them then I'll yell STOP.
You in KY you know how things work.
OK gotta go get warm now and build a fire it's 48 in here.
Hope things are going well for Cheeze and anyone else without power and whatnot. Mine came back on Friday afternoon to my surprise, so I feel very lucky. I've got quite a few large tree limbs in the back yard, a couple of which did some fence damage, and it looks like those that did it were from neighbor's trees. I'll be spending the next couple o' days doing some sawing, hooray!
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on February 01, 2009, 09:31:47 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 31, 2009, 09:25:05 PM
Cheeze, stay safe & warm. Hope you don't hurt your back while chopping wood, or sprain your trigger finger shooting at looters. :wink:
Chopping? Chainsaw brother ... and a gas splitter I have got a few 100 gallons of gas so I'm good, I'm cold a sh!t right now a let the fire go out so the chimney could cool down.
I heard that some folks have had there generator stolen and that the WKTV (TV, Internet, Phone has had a few of theirs' stolen that they have out on the county to keep it up, mine comes and goes so I guess they've had the one keeping our area up stolen, I see anyone do trying I will shoot them then I'll yell STOP.
You in KY you know how things work.
OK gotta go get warm now and build a fire it's 48 in here.
I just thought of something... do you have enough Maker's to last the whole month? I'm sure you stored cases of the stuff when you were stockpiling for the zombie apocalypse, but I'm afraid you may have dipped into your emergency reserves after the Obama election!
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on January 30, 2009, 08:58:58 PM
Live from the ICE BUNKER via gas powered internet ... it's CHEEZE!
Later kids ... sadly for some, I'm ok. :buggedout:
:smile: Glad to hear you're OK, Cheeze. :thumbup:
My heart bleeds for you, Cheeze.
Fortunately in Middle Tennessee we just missed the ice storm, but I've gone through several in the past.
Believe it or not, the worst one I've experienced was in North Alabama around 1984 or 85. We got a foot of ice and then a foot of snow on top of that. Many buildings simply collapsed because they were not built to withstand a fraction of that much ice. Power was off for about a week and I lost all the fish in my aquariums, including a prolific breeding pair of convict cichlids.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 01, 2009, 11:42:22 PM
I just thought of something... do you have enough Maker's to last the whole month? I'm sure you stored cases of the stuff when you were stockpiling for the zombie apocalypse, but I'm afraid you may have dipped into your emergency reserves after the Obama election!
I know this will shock you, one of my buddies owns a liquor store I can get it anytime day or night ... regardless of the sales law.
My power is still out, still running on generator jeez that things drinks more that anyone I know! About a 1.5 gallons an hour. Finally got a propane delivery and filled the tank up ... don't ask what that cost not even Makers will make the pain go away. BUT I could boil water and finally get a hot bath, cold pit baths wasn't cutting it.
I've cut wood for a week and I haven't put a dent in it yet.
Here's a couple of ice images ...
The paper box
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Front Yard
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Power Pole about to snap
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Side Yard
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Well I hate winter and the ice is a pain, but those are beautiful pics. This is your property? How many acres do you have? I've been reading about your wood cutting, and, knowing you, knew you'd handle the situation as necessary. The storm in Kentucky has been in the news for days; you're in my thoughts. :thumbup:
Back in the early 90's in southwest VA (might have been in the tale end of the 80's, my memory is a little foggy), we got hit with a particularly nasty ice storm. From what I remember we got about a solid 4 inches of nothing but ice. I was out of school for the entire week. It didn't get out of the teens and twenties the entire week. Where I grew up at, we lived at the base of a mountain.
I remember just standing outside and listening to all of the limbs cracking and breaking up in the woods. It was so unbelievably noisy that I had trouble getting to sleep at night it was so damn loud.
I love snow and can deal with snow just fine but ice is completely different matter.
Hang in there,man! But I'm not too worried about you,yer tuff as nails! Kentuckians made this country. Bless you-
AHD, yes that is my yard I have about a 5 acre yard and many more ... I'll be cutting wood all year. I lost huge parts of 4 huge pecan trees that yielded a fantastic crop of pecans ... I'll get images of those I have to use my online tome wisely.
Torgo I think we got 3" of ice and 2 of snow our trees and infrastructure is just not designed for that the trees get huge and begin Ike last year and the ice this year I don't know how many will recover.
RC thanks man ... I've weathers far worse than this.
It's getting down in the low teens here tonight so it will be rough here for some people. I'm just bummed I lost all my aquariums ... oh well I was going to move them this year anyway, sorry of the for the fish though ... I think I sew one or two still alive but no telling how long they'll last.
Well suns up, cold as crap but got to go cut more wood ... boy do I look forward to that.
This it what it takes to bring London to a grinding halt :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008)
Pretty much every west end show was cancelled as the cast and crew couldn't get to the centre because of the snow.
Pathetic, isn't it.
While not as telling as Cheeze's pictures, here're are a couple of views from my back yard after the storm:
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Some mo' ...
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Getting down real cold tonight so I have the fire blazing.
NEVER NEVER NEVER BUY CHEF BOYARDEE CHEESY NACHO TWISTARONI! They are vile cans of puss.
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