Enough was enough. After the last power outage/ice storm I bought one of these and plugged it into my electrical box.
Posted on 01/27/2009 6:06:36 PM PST by janetjanet998
reports coming in of major damage from 1-2 inches of ice over the area..its still raining with temps below freezing in many areas.
information is sketchy but major damage to infrastructure are trickling in. Damage to houses from falling trees, multiple power poles down, and widespread power outages
Travel is impossible in many area because of 100's of downed trees blocking the roads.
Fires are reported in some area
widespread state of emergencies issued
Northern AR, SE MO and western KY seems to the the hardest hit so far..but things are icing up fast now in the Louisville/Lexington areas too
Oklahoma???
Is he just going to let white people freeze?
I pray everyone to be safe and warm tonight. If not, no one needs to worry....Capt. 0 is in charge now.
Yes.
Prayers to everyone.
NE OK got decent icing 1/4-3/4 inch causing some damage but its way worst a little east
Is he just going to let white people freeze?
President 0bama must hate white people.
Isn't that kind of a strong word....???
"Catastrophic"???
Just checked the IR / precip radar....the icing is extremely wide spread.......a serious SOB of an ice storm....looks to be a few thousand sq miles of serious mess tonight.
Prayers for everyone in the area.
It has cleared the center of Oklahoma where I live a short time ago. No classes at OU, schools, and the Governor is asking people to stay off the roads.
Luckily we had a mix of snow and sleet and not freezing rain this afternoon. We have ice under that mix and roads are very slippery. Unlike in Dec 2007, we didn’t have a huge number of power outages and trees/power poles down this time. Last time we had rain before the ice and caused tree limbs to be heavy.
After going through lack of power in Dec 2007, I really feel for these people tonight.
Clearly it’s a racist-motivated plot by Obama. He’s having FEMA intentionally delay their response as an attack on areas where he suspects he did not get support from. (That’s how the libs spun Katrina, right?)
obammers handlers are working with him to instruct him on what to say about that horrible Rush Limbaugh...and how well his Sec. of State is doing....and what he should wear to his next appearance on islamo-muslim TV....
Oh...??? You mean where is he about this ice storm?
Nowhere...
Shoulda' been emergency housing there already, standing by so that when the trees fall on people they just move right in.
And food! Shoulda' been food, and new clothes for everybody.
There's no excuse for this ~ and you just know Obama is already in bed ignoring all the suffering.
There are dead bodies out there and FEMA is no where to be seen.
The weather forecast here keeps changing. We’re expecting 8-12 inches of snow. So much for gore-bull warming.
Pong.
On a serious note, I went through this here in New England on Dec 11th. A massive ice storm downed thousands of trees and power lines in my area. I lost power for a week but I was one of the lucky ones. Many others didn't get their power back until after Christmas.
Ice storms are no fun. I'd rather have four feet of snow.
Mid afternoon it stretched back to Rosewell NM and into KY. Huge storm.
Western WV here. 6-7 inches of snow this morning, followed by rain and freezing temps this evening. I just looked out at the ice forming on the power line that runs in front of the house. Hopefully we get through without any power outage.
I thought we had it bad in South Texas. It went from near 80 degrees to 46 in 30 minutes. Guess we shouldn’t complain down here, but I was wondering if Al Gore made a trip to Texas.
Enough was enough. After the last power outage/ice storm I bought one of these and plugged it into my electrical box.
My sister is in a hotel room in Richmond, KY and she said there are 50,000 people with no elec. She’s not able to plug in her phone or comp for recharging, not able to eat as nothing is open..pretty bad
reports from weather expert beau Dodson this evening near Paducah(posting in generator power)
-Power poles now falling in Graves County - prob McCracken as well from what I am hearing
-there are concerns of a water shortage in Danville, KY right now... there is no electricity to pump the water supply for the city
- We just got hit twice more - taking video - you can hear loud crashes all around. Constant breakage now.
Lost part of the garage lights broken - all hit the roof over me here by my computers.
Several big ones are getting ready to go.
Don’t know how long I will be on. But still here. More and more damage.
-Worse and worse here. House took another hit - cam looks to be destroyed now - roof damage on SE side of house. VERY loud crashes constant now.
-Trees falling left and right. Very bad here. Catastrophic damage. Power is now out in my entire neighborhood. We have seven hits on the house - so far the roof has held. Looks like damage to parts of the house but so far not major - lost my cam and instruments. Damage to parts of the roof - shingles - gutters - lights have broken off house.
Another tree just hit our house.
It’s over here. heh I told everyone since Wed to prepare here - went with “catastrophic in my email yesterday and worried I was being too extreme. Looks like we ended up with worse case.
Will take lots of pics and hopefully will get running again in a few days.
We are heading to the basement.
Yeah, I saw that on the news, and the pictures looked just like it did here in January 2007.
This time, the worst of the ice is south of us. Here in Springfield, MO, we got just enough ice to see it on the trees, then it turned to sleet/snow. It’s ugly out there, but it’s not a big deal, as power is still on, services still running, etc. It’s just a pain to get around, etc. Nothing like they’re having south of us, or what we had two years ago. I expect we’ll see some people from south of us coming into the city into hotels/shelters or to get warm with family till power gets back on/stuff gets fixed. They’re in my prayers.
Yes - Here in northern Arkansas I have over an inch, and it’s still coming down. The TV news said they have over 100000 customers without power in NW Arkansas. Prayers up for them tonight, the temp is supposed to drop to about 10.
Well at least hopefully after it passes, we’ll still have enough able bodied men (who are out of work) that can cut up the wood for next year’s heat......we’re gonna need it. Think the ACORN folks will show up to help clearing the mess?
If they get as much ice as the weatherman is predicting, a lot of people will be without electricity!
2” of ice on power lines and trees is catastrophic.
My prayers are with you!
Take care janetjanet998.I will pray FRiend.
I hear tell that there could be upwards of ten thou--er ten milli-er I mean ten ka-billion people dead out there... What will O-Boy do?!
We still have power here on the stateline ‘twix AR & MO.
4 inches of sleet, about a half inch of ice beneath that.
North central AR is majorly trashed-they got way more ice than us.
But I suspect our power might be out by morning. The crap is still coming down.
Be safe and warm there.... tail end of this storm is about to descend onto Central Texas, too.
Oklahoma is hammered. OKC is not bad, but Tulsa and points northeast and east towards the AR line are a mess. No real word on powe outages yet.Just checked OGE website, looks like only a couple of thousand homes without power system wide. OK had a huge ice storm last year and many thousands without power for weeks - OGE has had a major tree trimming project ongoing and cleared tree limbs from around their power lines system wide. We are fortunate that we had very little wind with this storm.............red
LOL!!! ACORN work?
Hope you have better luck with FEMA then we had in Oklahoma. There were so many restrictions by FEMA and no support for Home Owners that they were basically told to take a hike. FEMA was more trouble in Norman then they were worth.
FEMA is a worthless organization. We had crews and tree people from a lot of states that came in under local contracts after FEMA blew it. FEMA contractor was in our green belt behind the house and created more damage then help with the people they had. If they were tree people, I would be shocked. We had crews from NY that came in and cleaned up after them along with a local group hired by the city who did a great job.
Prayers for you.
CAntore and others on the Weather Channel web page haven’t reported in since late afternoon...seems to be pretty serious. I don’t have cable or sat any more, so now Wether Channel reports for me currently.
Good idea ... hopefully, you're using a cross over box.
Otherwise, utility repair crews working working your area will be totally pissed.
Obama must fly to the scene immediately.
Good luck. God Bless.
I can only imagine as it was supposed to end here at 2:00 and kept getting worse the rest of the afternoon until early evening. I read somewhere that moisture from the Gulf was heading north and colliding with the cold air which would guarantee a huge mess.
Stay safe!
My sentiments exactly. Our culture sure has debased words of any meaning... or rather, our breathless yellow media has stripped language of real meaning.
Bush’s fault.
I’m in Tulsa and its a lot worse than that!
Prayers for your sis and for everyone caught in this miserable storm.
I’ll take snow over ice anytime.
I see many reports of sleet in that area but not pure freezing rain ...or at least not huge amounts like just east of you
I pray for those tonight not able to actually take care of themselves (kids, sick and elderly).
Prayers
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