[anoldafvet]

"I say this dealing with the same weather here in Southern Ohio."

Trust me, you're not dealing with the same weather where you are. The areas SOUTH of the river and from Louisville WEST got hammered. There are areas in my neighborhood where the lines were down on 6 to 7 different poles in a row. Areas where we have never lost power in the 7 years we have lived here.

The trees were so heavy with ice that they bent 10 feet and ultimately blocked the street.

One of my neighbors has 2-3 feet of broken tree limbs covering his entire lot.

I work in Indiana (7 miles north of Louisville) and the ice/snow are not anywhere near as bad here as in Louisville.

[Badeye]

So did we. Exact same weather pattern went literally over my house. got the same amount of ice, same amount of snow.

Its not nearly as bad as what took place over Christmas of 05.

Not saying it isn’t difficult. Just noting this isn’t ‘katrina’ and anyone claiming it is is belittling what took place along the Gulf Coast.

[JamesP81]

Trust me, you're not dealing with the same weather where you are.

I was listening to the local news station on the way in to work this morning. One of my electric coop's linemen commented to one of the linemen from Michigan that they must be used to this. They disagreed, stating they'd *never* seen anything like this. The crews that were called in for Katrina say the electrical grid damage here is significantly worse than it was for Katrina. That's difficult to believe, but they were there. I know there are some remote rural areas that likely won't get power until the first week of March. There are other neighborhoods where there's so much damage to the electrical grid that they're simply tearing down what few poles and lines are left and rebuilding from scratch.

[an amused spectator]

Trust me, you're not dealing with the same weather where you are. The areas SOUTH of the river and from Louisville WEST got hammered. There are areas in my neighborhood where the lines were down on 6 to 7 different poles in a row. Areas where we have never lost power in the 7 years we have lived here.

The further south you go in the lower flatitudes, the less people and governments are equipped to deal with below-freezing "weather events". People from more northerly areas sometimes can't understand what even a dusting of snow can do in a normally warm area.

You guys used to snow and ice where you're at, anoldafvet?