95K without power in Northeast due to ice storm

Associated Press ^ | Dec 22, 2013 8:43 AM EST

[Olog-hai]

A winter storm bringing ice and whipping winds to upstate New York and northern Vermont knocked out power to thousands of customers as officials urged motorists to avoid traveling in dangerously slick conditions.

More than 95,000 utility customers woke up without power Sunday morning in New York, Vermont and Maine because of widespread ice accumulations.

In New York’s St. Lawrence County, almost 2 inches of ice had accumulated early Sunday, coating tree limbs and power lines, county dispatch operations supervisor Jim Chestnut said. …

[Red in Blue PA]

Wow! Here is PA not too far away we are almost going to hit 70 degrees today!

[ClearCase_guy]

The global warming in PA is wreaking havoc on upstate NY and northern VT!

[umgud]

66 degrees here in central CA today. It’s been damn pleasant since the cold snap a week ago.

[who knows what evil?]

...just a little fog here in soviet Red Hampshire...

[cripplecreek]

We had an ice storm warning but never got the ice in my neck of the woods. Now its just wet with temps falling.

[no-to-illegals]

Prayers up for the 95K and all the utility workers working to restore electricity.

[jocon307]

That’s what I was going to say - I think it was 65 in Jersey yesterday and today is wonderfully warm too.

[Jim Noble]

Starting to glaze over in Central NH. My Gadsden flag is frozen flying, even when it’s not windy - kinda cool.

If it keeps icing like this for 24 hours, as they predict, it’s going to be a major disaster.

[guyfromjrz]

Here in Atlanta, GA, 70°s F, lite drizzle, mist. It supposed to drop 20 ° throughout the day, with 30’s to Start Monday. I am having coffee in shorts and a t shirt on our balcony. Its sort of nice out. Wondering if we are going to have tornados, there is warnings cow NW GA. Funky weather.

[Squawk 8888]

Toronto getting hammered now- power outages all over town, streetcar service suspended due to iced-over power lines.

[Terry L Smith]

I believe that upstate New York Americans can handle a good winter. They are used to things like that.

After the squall came through last night, here in Central Louisiana, we expect a balmy, cloudy 70 degrees.

[umgud]

Globull warming.

[BOOHA]

I went to college in Canton, they shut the school down and sent us home when the temperature was 35 degrees below zero.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

95,000? In three states? Is that all?

I feel sorry for them, but they live up north and should be prepared for this kind of weather.

We had over 250,000 without power in just the Dallas-Fort Worth area of North Texas from one ice storm 2 weeks ago. Of course, things are bigger in Texas, but maybe this headline was to attract viewers and readers?

(Anyone who lives in North Texas should be prepared, too!)

[RipSawyer]

In my part of SC it is like May today but in 1968 and 1969 we had bad ice storms, 1969 was the worst. I lived then in Cheraw, just south of the NC line, it was a huge rain and every drop froze, dropping huge trees on houses, every power line was down flat on the ground. For months afterward you heard chain saws running TWENTY FOUR HOURS a day, seven days a week as people tried to clean up their downed trees. The utility companies concentrated on getting power back to the workplaces first, the plant where I worked was shut down for a full week and it was one of the first to open back up. Some houses in the country didn’t get power back for months. Then in 1973 we had seventeen inches of snow where I live now and up to 25 inches in one location in South Carolina. We were having really extreme weather events, must have been global warming I suppose.

[MomwithHope]

west Michigan - about a inch of ice, some places more. No wind thankfully. Lots of power outages, we lost our but thankfully it was only for about 4 hours.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Setting at a balmy 27.3 *F with about an inch of ice covering things here in NE Oklahoma. High today projected @ 32*F and a low tonight around 15*F.

[SamAdams76]

Having been through more than a few of them, ice storms are the absolute worst. I would take three feet of snow in a heartbeat over an inch of ice.

It is impossible to maintain control of your car, 4WD or not. Even if you drive slow, you have to worry about the other guy losing control and slamming into you. When there is ice storm in your area - stay home!

But even staying home can be miserable too. Listening to the tree branches in your yard crack under the weight of the ice and falling into the yard - or on your house. Seeing the lights blink off and on in your house until they go out for good.

Then you have to spend several days with no electricity because the utility crews are overwhelmed and need to call in reinforcements from other states. Having to go out in the freezing cold every six hours to re-fuel the generator (if you are lucky to have one) and take cold showers.

Hell, give me four feet of snow over an ice storm.

[BillyBonebrake]

SLU grad? Me 1985. Canton can handle an ice storm. But 2” ice? I don’t remember ever seeing that, anywhere.