Posted on 01/29/2009 7:36:13 PM PST by neverhome
Thursday (01.29.09) I traveled up I-55 through Arkansas and Missouri on the heels of a rather nasty winter storm. From just north of Blytheville, AR to a bit north of Charleston, MO the storm dropped an unbelievable amount of ice. The results were devastating. Thousands of people without power and significant damage to homes, trees and power lines.
Being the shutterbug that I am, I grabbed my digital camera to get images for my blog. But the batteries were dead. And since no one had power and all the stores were closed, I could not get any batteries. So, I was reduced to walking around in the cold snapping low-resolution pics in bad light with my cell phone. Most of them came out too crappy to use here, but I've managed to salvage a few. Most of these were shot at or near the Pilot Travel Center in Hayti, MO. A few others were shot north of Hayti after I hit the road again.
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Stay safe!
“Could you be from the Portland, Oregon area?”
Grew up in Fairfield, TX. Lived in KCMO for a few years. Been living in Mississippi since ‘98.
“Wow-I wouldn’t want to be driving in that...”
Roads are plowed and salted. All good. It’s just everything else that was a mess. Got out of the ice about 50 miles north of where I shot the pics. In Ainsworth, IA tonight - snowing off and on but nothing major.
Years ago (1997)the DC area got hit by an ice storm somewhat less than what just hit Missouri but it did something funny to my neighbor’s tree. It was an old White Maple, lightweight wood and probably hollow.
It was covered with ice and fell from the right side of his yard, between his pine tree and his house, hit his new truck and fell onto the top of my Kwanza Cherry Tree, smashing a few upper branches but they saved my new car.
We heard the crack of the tree coming down (had it happen to my old neighbor’s tree and my car years before 1997).
Then we heard the sound of “tinkling”. When daylight came, I went out and saw that the tree had fallen across the driveway and had landed in the top of my cherry tree, all the while dropping several hundred pounds of ice from around the branches.
I had to push-shovel it down the driveway into the street because it was too heavy to lift. Looking at the diameter of the ice on the one branch in this article, I can say that the damage from the weight of the ice has got to be immense. Good luck to the people out in Missouri.
To Al Gore: Missouri is the “Show Me State”. They want you to “show” them “global warming”, you big fat pig fraud.
Then we got about 2 inches of sleet...then 2 inches of snow. What shut down MSU was the sleet and snow. Just too much for us. We only have 3 snowplows....lol.
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