any ice where your at ?

[colt044]

I'm in central mo. where doing allright here, no power outages as far as i have heard yet. I heard springfield got it pretty good. anybody got some other news?

 

[Redbull]

Here in Kansas City we dodged the bullet. Streets are a little slick, but that is all.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Here is the NOAA/NWS national radar loop map. Don't click if you're dial-up.

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

Click here

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/

 

[ddhlakebound]

I live about 15 miles west of Springfield, and our whole area was hit VERY hard with the first wave of freezing rain. Two more waves are expected tonight and tomorrow. The first round was enough by itself. The only houses without tree damage don't have any trees.

We have about 1/2 inch of ice coating everything above ground. Thankfully, the roads are fairly clear of ice. The last ice storm we got in December was especially hard on elms and cedars. This one is much worse, nearly every tree has some damage. Many major failures, including oaks and osage oranges. The remaining elms are demolished and silver maples took it really hard in this storm.

I'm worried that the trees which havent lost limbs will start to uproot as ice and wind load is added tonight and tomorrow. I've seen that twice today, trees which were standing when I'd driven by earlier were uprooted later in the day.

Springfield had roughly 60,000 homes without power today, and all the surrounding areas have large percentages of the power grid down. I have no power at my house, my family is staying at my brothers house about 5 miles from home. His road is the only place around here where people have power in this ordeal. And thats only because he's 3/4 of a mile from the substation.

We started receiving calls about 11pm last night, from people who wanted to be early on the list. One client, a property manager called today and said she had 53 rental properties, all with damage.....heres the list, start the cleanup as soon as you can please. We just got caught up from the last storm, and this one is much worse. By monday night, we will probably be booked for 30-40 days at least.

 

[Sprig]

Oh yes, ice where I'm at. This last wee freeze came with a couple of inches of snow last Wed/Thurs, temps hovering around freezing during the day and a few degs below at night. On Thursday they actually closed some of the hills here on the main roads till they got to them with the sand 'n' salt, apparently they were a bit late doing so as from the stories I got later it was quite the entertaining gong show. Amazing how stubborn people can get when they have new 'all season' tires on, they figure it means good to go in snow too, sheesh! Worst offenders, and first in the ditches, are SUVs (hey its a 4x4 I can go anywhere) with mercilessly inexperienced drivers. :help:
The side roads are sheets of ice and the (long) hill in front of the property is a never-ending source of both amusement and aggravation (my tow ropes are getting good workouts).
Wheeeeeeeeeee! We havin' fun yet???? :hmm3grin2orange: :yoyo:



opcorn:

 

[kevinj]

I live in west michigan, I have two ponds out back, and the last few days there has only been a very thin layer of ice. So thin that the ducks fall thru.

 

[pbtree]

Yes!