Escaped the big ice storm
susie
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We were lucky. We got a tad bit of ice. It quickly turned to sleet. Roads are slicker than snot, but nothing is hanging on the power lines.
I can deal with slick roads much better than having no power. I prepped for the possibility. Plenty of propane for the generator that is sitting ready to be hooked up to the camper for neighbors and me to have a warm tiny home. Two large plastic water tanks are filled and strategically placed for use. Also, filled multiple one gallon jugs with water. Plenty of food in the pantry. Gas cans filled should stations be without power.
Now we wait to see what happens Monday with snow predicted. Last round of snow was only about 2-3 inches and only stuck around in areas that didn't get sun the next day.
Our area is so rural that graders/plows don't come down our gravel road.
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Lucky for you. We just started getting freezing rain, with 10" of snow expected in the next few days....
It’s coming this way. I’m skeered.
Supposed to rain and snow here in Utah for the next five or six days. Hal and Lulu! Praise the Lard! We've been whipping the Navajos and Utes mercilessly until they collapse from exhaustion from rain dancing. To no avail until now. I was just about to order a 4WD kit for my boat.
I think we got a bit more ice than you, trees are sagging under the weight, and the dogs look like bad figure skaters as they make there way across the yard to do their business. Supposed to be pretty cold this weekend, and then snow coming in Monday, so I may be snowed/iced in for awhile.
yes ma'am
but my bunch is excited about the forecast that says we could get a foot of snow
I like snow alot better than ice
single digit temperatures are forecast-ed also we are not used to that cold of weather
I don't want to go through another ice storm like we did in 2009. Absolutely took out hundreds if not thousands of power poles throughout Northeast Arkansas and Southeast MIssouri. Many folks without power for 30 days or more. We were without for 7 days. I connected a generator through the breaker panel but then put two large surge protectors/battery backups between the plug in and my computer just to be able to work. It was probably a little overkill using two of them, but I was paranoid about a surge from the generator getting my computer.
Temps in the 40's and rain for the next 4 days eastern nc
yes sir I worked 38 or 39 days in a row during that one
That was the worst one I have worked
It brings up some night-mares when we get freezing rain
Some places in north MO still has ice from the storm 3 weeks ago. My driveway is a skating rink with a 45* slope. Two wheel drive farm tractor with chains has difficulty making the climb. Everything else is "at your risk--try it if you feel lucky".
It's supposed to hit here (in SW Arkansas) this Monday, so we are headed for Georgia ( where it will be much warmer).
I survived the Arkansas ice storm of 2000. A day or two before it hit was unseasonably warm. Then BOOM! Power went out on the 12th of December. It was back on to stay I think around January 5th. No generator. We had all our camping gear so we cooked on the Coleman stove, read by lantern, watched the battery operated TV and heated with fireplace and kerosene heater. I would heat water for baths and pretended it was life I lived when just a whippersnapper. Kept food on the deck in coolers. It never thawed out.
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/arkansas/ar-ice-storm/
I remember ice storms in St. Louis when I was a kid.
not many power outages in Northeast Arkansas
just a few in and around Jonesboro Arkansas
this time
Great!
The storm went to the north of us we have a bunch of rain we don't need and its cold. One drop of ice or snow and our power goes out for days. I too have a whole house generator and 2x 500 gal propane tanks for power and heat.
Its good to be prepared.
Trying to get prepared here in north Texas for Sunday night/Monday snow predicted and single digit temps possible... we don't do that very often... Gotta jump start the tractor and switch the hay fork for the front loader today, tried yesterday, but the cold temps this week already had drawn the battery down, it had only been a week or two since I last started it... I don't do well below freezing temps and we usually only have that for a day or two, been going on since Tuesday and worst to come over next 4-5 days. I don't see how y'all do this stuff on a regular basis...
Back in the '50's (when I was a sprout) we lived on a farm 12 miles from town on dirt roads. County had maybe one snowplow.
Blizzard blew in . Don't know how much "accumulation" there was because of the wind but cattle could walk over barb wire fences due to the drifts.
We had enough food, etc and never lost electricity (natural gas heat). Old farmhouse had snow in attic, dad had to shovel some out and melt in bathtub.
Only problem was water line wasn't buried deep enough. Plenty of snow to melt for cooking, etc. but that was it.
When we finally got back to school teacher was asking about what we really remembered about the time we were at home I am told I said not having to take a bath for two weeks was the best.🙄
Another time a South Texas cattle buyer (he was no "cattleman" or anything close) rented a half-section of winter wheat from dad to pasture cattle on to fatten up for the feedlot. Mid March he called dad and told him he was sending him 300 head of Brahma calves. Dad told him it was too early, he needed to wait a few weeks. Cattle buyer said, "Naw, it's March -- it's spring!"
Blizzard blew in two weeks later and all those warm-weather calves died.
At least the blizzard brought enough moisture the wheat did well so we didn't lose any money that year.
Driving to Dallas from KY in 2014(?) and hit a streach of interstate that was ice covered.
How thick it was can be seen from the chunks that got thrown onto the trailer I was pulling.
Had to keep driving because all the exits were closed due to ice, all the motels full. Semis started pulling over on the shoulder due to drivers timing out.