Don’t most ice storms, usually tend to be a little on the disruptive side?
Another day... Another ‘Oh my god, we have weather happening’ announcement... It’s called ‘winter’ and it happens every year... According to Al Gore, this winter stuff was supposedly coming to an end like the snow on mount Kilimanjaro... But alas... It’s been 16 years since his dire predictions from an ‘Inconvenient Truth’, and we still have winter and there is still snow on top of mount Kilimanjaro, six years after Al said it would be gone... As a Canadian living in the hinterland of the north... I was truly looking forward to palm trees by now.
How’s that solar / wind turbine electricity plan working out in this storm? Times like this, electric power is critical.......
Daughter’s flight from Oregon has been cancelled. We will see if she can get another one on a different day. I’m thinking the equipment never showed up. Her location isn’t having issues.
I have about a quarter inch of snow and 23°F. Big deal.
Oh no....Not snow and ice in summer....oops...watcha mean it’s not summer.
After today, it rains until Jan 6th and maybe beyond. But at no point are any freezing temperatures forecast all temps in high 30s. Any ice the forms in spots will quickly melt.
Just imagine how bad it would be if we didn’t have man made global warming threatening spontaneous combustion on a planetary scale
Yesterday morning local radio had on a meteorologist from a tv station who projected that the ‘ice storm warning’ began at about 4pm 12/22 through 7am this morning.
Yesterday about 1pm it began to rain.
I looked up the weather - having NOT gotten any alerts - and found that the NWS had posted a new ice storm warning on 11:34am yesterday...for 12pm 12/22 through 7am 12/23.
Many businesses shut down and sent employees home. I went home as well.
Long story short, we have power and, other than some ice on my porch steps/car, there is not a problem, even though it is 28 degrees outside (no wind, ground is too warm).
It will be interesting to see what fares elsewhere, but this storm was an overhyped dud for us.
Now imagine all you have is an electric car whose battery dies in the cold.
You’d be stuck out there with the choice to freeze in the car or attempt getting to safety on foot.
Of course, by 2035 they’ll have banned wood stoves and gas heat leaving everyone with electric heat... which is fine... until the transformers start exploding in the ice storms.
Good luck.
Another flaw in Biden’s power grid system who knew.