Ice Storms

Anyone else been hit by this?  I've been without power for a day and a half, finally found a place to shower and get some hot food.  And internet access of course. 

We're looking at a couple days until it's restored in town, up to a couple weeks for the rural areas around here.

Yep.  Most people around here were stuck at home all day today because of the ice storm.  We had a good 1/2 inch of solid ice over everything.  (no sleet, no snow, just pure ice from freezing rain all night) All roads were like ice rinks.  It finally thawed out late this afternoon, and tomorrow will be an ordinary day, like nothing happened.

I did lose power several times today, but it never stayed off very long.  Hope you get yours taken care of SOON!

I wish.

Stupid... south... mosquitos and beer and REMIXIN' IT UP IN DA A.T.L....

Pretty bad ice here, too.  No power outages though, to my knowledge.  I got up and went to work as usual.

*basks in everlasting NZ summer*

Ice storms are one thing I do not miss about living up north. My last year of highschool we had a real bad ice storm and I was out of school for two weeks.... that we had to make throughout the rest of the year.

Thank goodness for California weather... Although it's the shaky ground i'm worried about... >_>

I've been snowed/iced in for the past three days. They are just now capable of getting the roads cleared, so I should be able to return to work today, seeing as how my employer doesn't shut down for anything less than the apocolypse, and even that has to be pondered deeply.

We get a couple days reprieve before another potential Winter Storm gets poised to charge at us. Fun stuff, oh well - we're overdue for a rough winter.

We got a few inches of ice, then rain, then more ice, then snow! It was horrible.. schools been out for almost two weeks straight cuz ofsnow, and they were off all this week cuz of the ice.. Luckily the roads here are clear, and we didnt lose eletricity (thank god.. No eletric and a newborn wouldnt of went well together..) but exactly half a mile away from me, on up has lost power. So I got lucky.

Well after everything thawed out from the ice storm here yesterday... we had a bad case of 'Phreezing Phog' overnight and this morning.  It's already burned off now, but it was pretty strange looking and a very interesting drive into work.  I don't remember ever seeing this happen here before.  Phrozen Phog creates 'Rime Ice'.  It's white and looks like snow, but it's not.  We're just not used to such things here in the South. o.O

Here's a picture of what our trees looked like early this morning. (this is from wiki though, and our trees were not quite this bad. I took some pictures of ours, and may post them later.)

/sarcastic   Must be that pesky Global Warming.

CODEMAN wrote:

/sarcastic   Must be that pesky Global Warming.

Based on the EPA's findings, the mean change in the lower atmosphere (9-14 miles above the Earth’s surface) since 1850 is between 1.0 and 1.7°F.

This is a graph documenting the recorded average temperature change. Such an increase doesn't so much mean the end of odd and severe winter storms, but more that changes are occuring that alter our climates in the long-term.

ChloeAnn wrote:

We got a few inches of ice, then rain, then more ice, then snow! It was horrible.. schools been out for almost two weeks straight cuz ofsnow, and they were off all this week cuz of the ice.. Luckily the roads here are clear, and we didnt lose eletricity (thank god.. No eletric and a newborn wouldnt of went well together..) but exactly half a mile away from me, on up has lost power. So I got lucky.

It could always be worse.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28900221/

In SE Virginia, we've been amazed at the stuff going on with this storm. Yesterday, there was a system that dropped snow from Texas all the way up to New England, but as it reached this area, it turned to rain. Strangely enough, it nearly hit 70 here, but just about everything north of the metropolitan area got covered. It's even snowed in NC, but it seems to clear up or melt when it gets here.

Today the ice is starting to melt.  Finally.

I still don't have power or heat, and I live about a block from our downtown/main street area.  People across the street have power.  This is getting old real fast.

/target Dallas
/shakefist

All we got in Houston was mid 50 degree weather, which was nice, but a snow/ice day would have been better.  =P