Freezing Rain/Ice Storm

[Waterwings]

Yep, looks real and very recently familiar. You could probably take those pics, add a new title from a number of towns around the area, and no one would know the difference, due to the devastation that occured over a large area of the state. Looks like our town did last week, and there are still crews here from South and North Carolina replacing poles and rewiring them.

 

[Quackrstackr]

Here's my tree damage from the ice storm. The three smallest trees in the yard and one that Ike ripped to shreds in October are the only ones that didn't get busted up.

 

[Waterwings]

Dang, looks like the trees around here that were topped-out by the ice. The wind here has subsided some and I was outside a little while ago picking up shingles. I picked up 9 of mine that I could find (hopefully that's all, and also found some of my neighbor's. The wind pulled back some of the felt paper this tis time so I have what loks to be a 2' square are of bare plywood exposed. Called the roofers and hopefully he can get to it tomorrow. Looks like rain right now and I'm hoping like hell that it doesn't. The wind was blowing so hard that I could barely get the front storm door open, so we used the back door. I've had my fill of bad weather. Looks like we'll be in school tomorrow, so I have to get myself mentally prepared for that, lol. I'll post a pic shortly of my roof.

 

[Quackrstackr]

Mine are here: https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6892&p=72649#p72649

I got off lucky compared to a lot of the neighborhood.

 

[Broncoman]

I got lucky as far as the wind, didn't have any more damage. Did have a ton of tree damage from the ice. I'll try to post some pics tomorrow. I think about 98% of the electric is back on now in the county. I'm just glad it's over with; we were having two and three house fires a day during all of this, and talk about a nightmare trying to respond to them in this stuff it was a mess. Someone said the Farmers Almanac is calling for another winter storm in a week or so worse than this one.

 

[Popeye]

WW - I'm glad you made it home safe and now have power... how is the clean up looking for you in the yard? Any damage to any of your belongings?

Thanks, Russ. No cleanup for me as I don't have any trees around my house (gladd I don't now). My neighbor has some very large oaks behind us and there are some big limbs down that crushed part of his chain-link fence he just had installed last year, and a couple of small ones fell on his roof, but no damge done. Other people weren't so lucky and rec'd damge from trees. Still lots of power lines and poles down, but the crews are working through the cold weather to get things restored. We were actually expecting to be w/o power for another week or so due to we're in the county and not part of the town power grid.

As was mentioned in above posts concerning gouging, I heard there was some low-life SOB selling kerosene heaters for $400 a piece, and then there was a semi truck loaded with chain saws and some off-brand low-wattage generators which would probably sell for around $300, and they were selling them (generators) for $1k a piece. Of course they've left town now. I hope the authorities locate them and prosecute them. There were about 3-4 guys and they were also driving an RV with Texas plates. I can't believe that they were allowed to setup in the Kroger parking lot, and they even had a little kiosk-type shack where they gladly did the transactions.

Glad to hear there was just damage to property and nobody was hurt.

Not sure about any other communities but in order to sell things like that here, you need to get a vendors permit from City Hall. We've had people come to the door to sell something and when I ask to see their vendor permit, most just quickly leave. I've called the police a couple times about people going door to door selling things and one woman was so stupid and stuborn that when the police showed up she was 2 doors down trying to sell to my neighbor. She got a ticket and an escort to the city limits, literally.

 

[Broncoman]

Here are a few from the first morning, we had about three days of this crap so I have about three times the amount of limbs down than these photos show. I have some of the yard after everything had melted I'll post later.

Here is the driveway going toward the house somewhere in this pic.

The front yard.

The shop

Back behind the shop.

 

[Quackrstackr]

I finally made it over to retrieve a stand today and found complete destruction. Our place looks like a bomb went off on it or someone came through and topped every tree on the place.

You can not walk a straight line for 5 yards anywhere on the place and every trail and road for motorized access is completely impassable.

That stand was in the middle of dense woods surrounded by thickets. I couldn't see ground level 40 yards behind the stand previously for all of the tree cover. The entire property looks like a giant dozer pile now. It's just a dense tangle of downed trees, tops and limbs.... 450 acres of it.

 

[Waterwings]

The cleanup crews will be pretty busy in this area for quite awhile getting the limbs removed. Yesterday evening at 6pm I was sitting on the computer and we lost power again for around 20 minutes. Gettin' to where I constantly carry my mini-mag with me around the house now, because you never know when it's gonna be dark due to no power. :roll:

 

[Quackrstackr]

Well, here we are on the one year anniversary looking at a very similar forecast for Thursday night.

I was a non-believer earlier in the year because of their prediction but the farmer's almanac actually called this one. :shock:

Cross your fingers, WW.

(I can't see the images in my post from way back in February because of my firewall on this computer so my apologies in advance if they are not what they are supposed to be )

 

[Popeye]

The pictures are still there and still look just as bad. Hope this storm is milder

 

[Waterwings]

Well, here we are on the one year anniversary looking at a very similar forecast for Thursday night.

I was a non-believer earlier in the year because of their prediction but the farmer's almanac actually called this one. :shock:

Cross your fingers, WW.

(I can't see the images in my post from way back in February because of my firewall on this computer so my apologies in advance if they are not what they are supposed to be )

Fingers crossed tightly that it doesn't happen! I never want to go throught that again. :shock: . People around here are hittin' the grocery store hard now.

Jiggy, you ready!?


Update: Just copied this from MSN Weather5:00 CT)

"* SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI BY THURSDAY EVENING... THEN SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TIP OF ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY THURSDAY NIGHT. THE SNOW WILL PERSIST INTO FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE TAPERING OFF FROM WEST TO EAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

* 4 OR MORE INCHES OF SNOW MAY FALL ALONG A LINE FROM MARBLE HILL MISSOURI TO GREENVILLE KENTUCKY. CLOSER TO THE ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE STATE LINES WITH KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI... AMOUNTS MAY EXCEED 6 INCHES. SOME SLEET MAY MIX IN WITH THE SNOW... MAINLY ALONG A LINE FROM POPLAR BLUFF MISSOURI TO HOPKINSVLLLE KENTUCKY.

* TRAVEL CONDITIONS MAY DETERIORATE RAPIDLY THURSDAY NIGHT AND COULD REMAIN EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS INTO THE DAY FRIDAY. VISIBILITY MAY BE POOR WITH GUSTY NORTH WINDS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE 20S. SOME HIGHWAYS IN THE WATCH AREA THAT COULD BE AFFECTED INCLUDE INTERSTATES 24... 57 AND 55... THE WEST KENTUCKY AND PURCHASE PARKWAYS... US 45 HIGHWAY... AND US HIGHWAYS 60 AND 67.

THIS POTENTIAL WINTER STORM MAY AFFECT MUCH OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI... NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE AS WELL... FOR THOSE WITH TRAVEL PLANS THAT EXTEND BEYOND THE LOCAL AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS WINTER STORM WATCH IS BEING ISSUED TO HIGHLIGHT THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS."

:shock:

 

[Waterwings]

There is a light at the end of the tunnel for better weather though........................................because I rec'd the 2010 copy of BPS Spring Angler Catalog in the mail today! Guess I can read it while I'm stuck in the house, lol.

 

[masterofillusion]

They closed schools here yesterday in Nc. Just for the rain. I guess one creek must have flooded so they closed the whole county :roll:

 

[Codeman]

That puts me in that 6" swath of snow. Snow I can handle ice, pee on that. :shock: Fingers crossed.

 

[Waterwings]

I'm kinda between the 4" - 6" zone, lol.

 

[S&MFISH]

Sorry guys,my fingers are crossed so that it doesn't come any farther north.I really need to get back to work steady like.If that hits here we are looking at another 2weeks off possibly.I had to make a run to Paducah last year to do a roof repair at the Greyhound Bus staion.It looked like hell from about 5miles south of the I-57/I-24 all the way to KY.

I was in Paragould,AR when the storm started wirh rain and light sleet.Margaret and I just stayed ahead of the ice,as we decided to head home.My sister got stranded there for 2 days with all the road closings.

Hope it goes easy on all of us this time.Take care all.

 

[Quackrstackr]

I think the guys on down into TN down to about Nashville may be looking at a bad ice storm this go 'round.

I am [-o< that I am in that 6" snow band. Snow and sleet I can handle. I have had enough ice to last me the rest of my life.

 

[Popeye]

Y'all can have the snow. I'll take some nice below zero cold for a couple days so we can get the ice on our lakes back.

 

[Quackrstackr]

10 to 12 inches in the next 24 hours for us WW, what about yourself?