Ice Storm!

[mudmucker]

Yeah, dogs aren't allowed in the bed! Cats make good foot warmers, though.

We dodged the bullet this time. There is snow in Kansas and Missouri to our north, and ice in OK and central AR to our south. Our schools are back in session today, but only in the two northernmost counties.

Karen

Tuckerville, where exactly are you? That's wild.

Day 6 here, no power yet.

[bmccasland]

Beth, are you guys getting any freezing rain or sleet?

Neither. Dare I mention that it was 72 muggy degrees? Had the back door open until the mosquito invasion got too bad. Is currently in the 60s, foggy, grey. The cold front is just north of us and the weather prognosticators are taking stabs at whether it'll dip south or not.

[sundial]

We dodged the bullet this time. There is snow in Kansas and Missouri to our north, and ice in OK and central AR to our south. Our schools are back in session today, but only in the two northernmost counties.

Karen

Our schools are closed, we had sleet off and on throughout the night but no snow. Still have power which is a good thing. I have had to fill my bird feeders twice--the cardinals are really busy.

Mudmucker, I'd love to have you over for a nice hot meal if you were closer. My gsds would keep you nice and warm too.

[bambu101]

Still no power here, and no sign of any restoration efforts in our immediate area. Some towns around us still have almost 100% outages, including Otis, and we are in day 5. Even with generators, it is getting old.

Crankin, the strangest thing about this ice storm was that the roads never iced up, just the trees. It was like mud season in April on the roads, but January on the trees. The roads were impassable because of snapped power poles, trees, and wires down all over the place, but not because of ice on the road surfaces.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I am thinking of you guys still with no power.....how simply AWFUL.

Wish I could bring you a hot shower and some radiators....

Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

[bmccasland]

Mudmucker - are you warm YET???

Concerned minds out there are sending you warm thoughs of crackling bon-fires, hot cocoa, and plain old central-air.

[mudmucker]

Mudmucker - are you warm YET???

Concerned minds out there are sending you warm thoughs of crackling bon-fires, hot cocoa, and plain old central-air.

No I am not warm yet. Wait a minute, I think I just caught one of your warming thoughts or a spark from a virtual bon-fire for just a moment....

read your post earlier - what I'd give to slap a mosquito right now...

Temps will drop a little more into the 20's but nothing that would threaten pipes and cause more problems at least...

I've just gotten my first actual estimate of power restoration, possibly by Thursday.

My electricity gets distributed by National Grid. Big Utility. There are utility companies here from Tennessee, South Carolina, Michigan that are obliging these contracts. There are some towns near me who aren't off of Big Utility but from small util - those without these larger service contracts. I've heard estimates of power restoration by Dec. 24 to some of those towns.

[Crankin]

Good luck, Mudmucker. The snow is moving in! I don't think tomorrow will be too bad, but Friday looks like a big one.
We live in a town with its own utility company. It was fine when they came and got our power back on after 45 minutes,from downed branches on our street. I don't know what would happen if the devastation was worse.

[mudmucker]

Good luck, Mudmucker. The snow is moving in! I don't think tomorrow will be too bad, but Friday looks like a big one.
We live in a town with its own utility company. It was fine when they came and got our power back on after 45 minutes,from downed branches on our street. I don't know what would happen if the devastation was worse.

Thank you very much. Snow is moving in? Cripes, I've been so pre-occupied with the weather inside my house I am unaware of what is happening outside on its way!

The small util company I was speaking of is Fitchburg Gas and Electric that serve solely I believe, Townsend, Ashby, Ashburnham, and some of Lancaster. Townsend is real bad.

[Crankin]

Yea, I heard that about Townsend. One of the other students in my grad program is from there, although she lives in Sommerville now. She said her dad is a teacher there and the schools are closed for the rest of the week. They didn't know when the power would be on. I noticed that Chelmsford and Westford have school tomorrow, so the power must be mostly back on. Those are the places closest to me that have been dark.

[nancielle]

I am in Blandford, which is on the slopes of the Berkshires, and also referred to as the Hilltowns. We are at around 1400 feet in elevation, which means more snow and ice. The other towns in the valley got only rain.

On the news here the weather people commented that those cities/towns along the Route 7 corridor of Berkshire County only got the rain (I'm in Pittsfield) but those towns off the corridor (the hilltowns like Savoy, Otis, etc.) got slammed. The weather was warm (almost 60 degrees) most of yesterday but the rain that started falling froze overnight making the roads all over pretty darn slick.

Snow's in the forcast for tonight.

[Tuckervill]

Tuckerville, where exactly are you? That's wild.

Day 6 here, no power yet.

I'm in the extreme northwest corner of Arkansas, less than a mile from Oklahoma, about 25 from Missouri and about 70 from Kansas.

The weather is usually quite a story around here.

Hope your power is back on by now!

Karen

[Zen]

The weather is usually quite a story around here.

You and Sundial seem to live in some type of of hellish weather vortex

[sundial]

Tuck and I like to live on the edge.

Mudmucker, have you thawed out any over there??

[sundial]

Speaking of bizarre weather, check out this cool cloud:

http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20...S/812169924&tc