I am an US citizen who lives in Atlantic Canada, married a Canadian .
This storm is a big deal. My step son runs a line construction company, they already have been called out on an emergency basis and will be leaving early tomorrow morning ( Friday 23 January) to Arkansas, and they will travel in 40 truck convoy to get there.Their top speed is about 55 mph ( bucket trucks etc), a long slow trip.They will have 60 linemen.
This is going to be a bad storm.
I hope they will be safe. We rely on people who are willing to do these hard jobs, and are very grateful for them.
Anybody know where the highest ice accumulations are likely to be?
Yeah, you can tell big weather is impending when you see those convoys of linemen and tree removal trucks. I remember one year we were driving north to KY from ATL when a hurricane was headed for FL, and we passed like a dozen such convoys headed south.
We have awesome local guys with our EMC, but we’ll take all the help we can get in a big weather event.