Rant: Ice Storms

[BW23]

I've never had problems posting images, but here's the link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26534954@N08/3249618234/

[Leroy]

I knew you'd get that reply in before I could fix it!

You just need to right click and you can see it.

[Freed Roger]

Thats tough. I heard SEMO got it bad. Hope the crews can get the power up for you guys in a hurry. We were out for several days two winters ago, and know its not fun. Then another few days in the Summer. The winter is worse, not just because its cold, but because its dark so much of the time. The summer of course has the fridge/freezer battle -but we needed a good purge of that stock anyway.

A hard part is not knowing how long the power will be out. So you don't know what measures to take. Anyhow, stay warm BW.

[Leroy]

Thats tough. I heard SEMO got it bad. Hope the crews can get the power up for you guys in a hurry. We were out for several days two winters ago, and know its not fun. Then another few days in the Summer. The winter is worse, not just because its cold, but because its dark so much of the time. The summer of course has the fridge/freezer battle -but we needed a good purge of that stock anyway.

A hard part is not knowing how long the power will be out. So you don't know what measures to take. Anyhow, stay warm BW.

I remember the first town I worked in as a tax guy...the power was out from 8 in the morning until (for us) about midnight. But just accross the street...they had power back by noon. Luckily my wife worked at a convenience store at the time, so we got in (with the key), and loaded up on 18 packs, chuckwagon sandwiches and Doritos.

[Freed Roger]

I remember the first town I worked in as a tax guy...the power was out from 8 in the morning until (for us) about midnight. But just accross the street...they had power back by noon. Luckily my wife worked at a convenience store at the time, so we got in (with the key), and loaded up on 18 packs, chuckwagon sandwiches and Doritos.

My office never lost power that summer - and the building has issues with its heating and cooling, so at home without power, the temps were in the mid80s and at work it was a chilly 65.

[BW23]

Thats tough. I heard SEMO got it bad. Hope the crews can get the power up for you guys in a hurry. We were out for several days two winters ago, and know its not fun. Then another few days in the Summer. The winter is worse, not just because its cold, but because its dark so much of the time. The summer of course has the fridge/freezer battle -but we needed a good purge of that stock anyway.

A hard part is not knowing how long the power will be out. So you don't know what measures to take. Anyhow, stay warm BW.

We got power late Saturday, but I still have plenty of friends just here in town that don't. Last numbers I heard were just 30% residential was up and going. People are bonding and helping others out a lot, though. Generators sales are through the roof. Luckily it's been pretty mild weather the last three days.

We still had to get rid of everything we had in freezers and the fridge.

Thanks.

[BW23]

There, that works. I wasn't using a mouse, and I forgot about copying the image address rather than the URL. Duh.

[Freed Roger]

thats a lot of willow trees.... oh um....poor trees.

If I recall correctly -For about a year after our ice storm we had quite a few subsequent limbs come down causing line and outage issues. As your picture shows - quite a few weakened danglers just waiting for a strong enough wind to finish them off.

[BW23]

I think crews have done a good job at cutting down all of the bad limbs as a precautionary measure.

There are some really big, old trees in town that took a beating and were bigger contributers to the damage to power and homes. There aren't a lot of good pictures up yet as people haven't had power long enough, if they have it at all.

[AdmiralKird]

There, that works. I wasn't using a mouse, and I forgot about copying the image address rather than the URL. Duh.

Wow, those trees look like something out of Dr. Suess.