Ice Storm

[Tira]

I've been in the house all day watching the trees crack and break. Hopefully it will warm up soon so we don't lose all of them. At least we still have power - Huzzah! They are saying about 750,000 without power right now. As bad as it is for the infrastructure, trees, etc. it is beautiful and strangely quiet except for the cracking of the ice falling off the trees as the wind blows.... Anyone else caught in this storm?

 

[KCSteve]

Is your storm the one that dropped 8-10" of snow on me yesterday in KC or is the one I just had going to hit you in a day or two?

Been a while since the last big ice storm here. Destructive as all heck but very pretty.

And the potential loss of power is just one reason to keep a Lindsay around - get the CO2 fittings and you don't need power.
Of course what I really would like would be to add an Enset next to my Lindsay and my GRS GraverMach SC. Too bad I work retail now and lack both time and money...

 

[mrthe]

Ouch! how much degree you have outside?
Here is not very cool but yesterday we have the most great sea storm in 100 years 15 meters of waves an a lot of many boats, piers and infrastructure destroyed along the coast

 

[Roger Bleile]

I spent two hours breaking ice in my driveway this morning and only got it one third cleared. Also pulled a tendon in my leg for my trouble.

 

[Idaho Flint]

Right there with you Roger. I pulled a tendon in my foot while trying to do some ice capades on the sidewalk at work the other day. Not fun. Hope your legs gets felling better soon.

 

[rod]

Paolo,

The Med is looking like the Pacific shore, outside my window, as the West Coast braces for its first decent storm that will bring much needed rains. This is not the blue sea that we like to think of in your part of the world. However, on my last visit to Antibe, the taxi into Nice had waves breaking on top of the car roof, au bord de la mer.

Tira, it must be a heart ache to listen to branches breaking, heavy with ice, I hope most of the noise is ice falling off still healthy branches.

Roger, I have to drive through this upcoming storm to do a Robert Burns Supper south of my town. Wish I could beam you over, so we could sing together, "Rattlin' Roarin' Willie". You did a great job on that song in Vegas!
Look after that tenon, these things do not get better so easily as in our youth.

I do believe that back in Wales, and Marcus' part of England, it has been the wettest January in 250 years.

Best of luck to those facing into the harsh winter, and yes, I can just see you sunning yourself in Christchurch summertime, Andrew!

Good luck to all

Rod

 

[golden forge]

Tira, the forecasters are calling for mid 20's and snow tonight up on the hill I live on in Northern California. So nothing much compared to what you have going on....

 

[Marrinan]

I grew-up at the Camp Bird Mine 6 miles south of Ouray, Colorado-Mine elevation at my house 10,568 ft above sea level. Average snow fall 360 inches. In Dec of 69 we had official snow fall in 24 hours of 73 1/4 inches-Dig out of that to get to the Jeep we used for a school bus in the morning!

 

[monk]

ah, pity me-- i'm just enjoying the global warming ! frozen pipes, thawed with small electric heater, i quit cleaning my sidewalk- dont give a hoot in hades if the city wants to sue me. been as low as a negative ten degrees- windchill took that to about negative 35 can anybody say h.a.a.r.p. ?

 

[Tom Curran]

We have 10" of snow in upstate NY, and still snowing lightly. Tapering off, should be done by the morning.

 

[Dulltool]

Well it's cold and windy here at 27 degrees with waves pounding the shore... it's all great hot coffee weather.

Stay warm everyone,

 

[diandwill]

Here in Spokane it has been pretty consistently around 20 + or -. Not warm enough for the ice to melt, but fortunately not much new snow. We have now entered a cold streak...the windchill this morning when I walked my dog was -20. Tonight is supposed to be -5 with 15-30mph winds. Pretty cold.
I was very fortunate. Last week, on Tuesday morning, I was walking the great shaggy beast and slipped on th ice. I managed to catch myself without falling, but (even though I have relatively low to normal BP) I felt it shoot up, and I had a stroke. None of the normal symptoms, and luckily none of the normal results...no paralysis, no loss of motor co-ordination etc. I did lose the perepheral vision in my left eye, and spent 2 nights in an acute care ward at the hospital. Just hope I don't have another when the bill comes in! LOL

 

[Marrinan]

I'm really sorry to here that news. Take care of your self. Carry baby aspirin (chewable) at all times. Fell the tingling or arms feel asleep, neck pain like a strained muscle chew and aspirin right away. Minutes really count. Take care and follow Doctors guidance. Fred

 

[rod]

Will,

I really do trust that peripheral vison loss is only temporary, you certainly have not lost your sense of humour!

Fred, I did not know about your Colorado life, so how did you land up in Georgia? I was looking up at Pikes peak last week, from Colorado Springs and remembering a totally dumb and dumber Sunday in 1961, when I chose to drive up that huge mountain and sky down, alone in deep powder. Of course I broke a ski, and should rightly have sunk into the deep powder and perished in the cold, as it was already late afternoon, no second chances at that altitude on a winter night. Somehow I got moving on one ski, and eventually intersected the summit road. I can tell you, I had one throbbing thigh. What stupid things we do when we are young.

But .... a beautiful state is Colorado, Fred.

Rod

 

[Roger B]

Not much snow around here - not when the temp got to over 44C the other day - that would be about 112 in your language. Wouldn't mind it too much if we had air conditioning!!

Roger

 

[Peter_M]

Just a normal winter cold spell here - 30 C at the moment, its nice to stay close to the fire.



Peter

 

[Marrinan]

Rod, Thanks for asking. Moved around a lot after I got full grown. Got married, outlawed for a long time, went to college at 34. Liked college, went on to grad school at FSU. Got sick and my "Harley gave out of gas in Albany GA" That's what I tell most people anyway. actually got my first college teaching position here and cancer to go with it. Been stuck here ever since.

The little snippets of your incredible journey through this world and life are always a delight. Someday I hope to read your memoir's and adventures in detail. There was a time when true life adventures of folks with a life as full as yours were published with great anticipation. Sadly not so much now. Instant everything. Perry's note to the Pole, Frank Buck's Bring Them Back Alive. Now morons with nothing to say Blog about how tight there shorts are. One of your many admires Fred

 

[GTJC460]

We had the ice pretty bad here in Maryland. Trees down all over, electric out for many, fortunately we have power. It flickered a few times but came back on quickly.

 

[atexascowboy2011]

I know how y'all feel.
It's been pretty cold here also.
It was down to a nippy 80 here Sunday!

:biggrin: Jeff

 

[BrianPowley]

No ice, just 10 inches of snow. Yesterday, I spent over 4 hours on the John Deere removing it from the 1200 ft. driveway. The snow was so heavy, I had to use the front end loader for most of it.
Power never failed. Fortunate to have the equipment to deal with it.