That sucks. One thing we get very little of here in CO is freezing rain.
Bread looks good. Got butter?
Some people.....
One thing we get very little of here in CO is freezing rain.
I'd rather have 2 feet of snow than one inch of freezing rain. It's pretty amazing that so little ice can bring down those big long haul high tension power lines.
The power company down there says they've had to replace over 275 miles of the stuff. That's what took so long. None of their vendors keeps that much of it in stock.
They were working 3 shifts to get it replaced. Oh people were bitching, but nobody got too squirrelly. It is downstate IL after all. You can get away with looting in Chicago but south of I-80 you're far more likely to get your backside shot off than make off with a sixer of Heineken.
So by and large folks helped each other out. IEMA was there and we dispatched some of the State assets we're responsible for tracking but there wasn't any big call for FEMA to show up.
At the height of it there were something like 200,000 people affected in one way or another.
Well that's one more subject I can add to my Preparedness Training Seminars anyway.
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Anyone seeing this Bronco game on CBS... it is snowing in Denver. I think the forecasters missed this one.