Got Ice?

Larry · January 13, 2007, 07:09:08 PM

Well, guess if you got ice you probably don't have the juice to respond. 1-1/2" in Springfield Missouri with more forecast for tomorrow. Couple hundred thousand without power in a band around I-44. I'm in KC...not much yet but nuff to cancel most of the flights out of the airport and shut the train station down. Boss is in northwest Arkansas...no ice yet but 1" forecast for tonight.

Chainsaws gonna be busy tomorrow...be safe.

Kcwoodbutcher · January 13, 2007, 09:09:05 PM

Where are you at in KC?

Larry · January 13, 2007, 09:25:40 PM

Well, I was out in Raytown attending a funeral...back in far north Missouri where we don't allow ice...at least at the present time. :

Bibbyman · January 13, 2007, 10:21:56 PM

We've got a combination of about an inch of ice and sleet. Sounds like more is falling after dark now. No loss of power. I hope we don't. We've got wood heat that don't depend on power but our water comes from a deep well. Three women without water starts to be a real problem in a few hours.

Bro. Noble · January 13, 2007, 10:40:54 PM

We are just above freezing so just a light rain all day. Weatherman talks like we might get about a fourth inch ov ice later tonight. Sure makes it hard on dairymen as well as the stoopid cows :( That doesn't worry me as much as my grandson -------he's due to be born in the next few days. It's about 80 miles to the hospital in Springfield and they are coated with an inch and a half of ice and expecting more. I suppose everything will turn out O.K.-----We only got about half way to Springfield when our youngest son was born and it was nice weather then. :D :D

Say, that reminds me, whatever happened to Gordon-----remember him?

beenthere · January 13, 2007, 10:52:03 PM

Why, didja lose him on da way to Springfield ??? 8)

breederman · January 14, 2007, 06:59:02 AM

We are still above freezing this morning but have a winter storm warning for ice tonight.
Better go get the cows bred and get back home I guess.

jgoodhart · January 14, 2007, 07:24:12 AM

Nope, got some real thick fog though.

Norm · January 14, 2007, 07:31:00 AM

No ice but cold with snow, first real snow this year too. They started out saying 12"s then 8" then 6"....how about we don't really know. :D

Bibbyman · January 14, 2007, 07:50:55 AM

Quote from: Bro. Noble on January 13, 2007, 10:40:54 PM
That doesn't worry me as much as my grandson -------he's due to be born in the next few days. It's about 80 miles to the hospital in Springfield and they are coated with an inch and a half of ice and expecting more. I suppose everything will turn out O.K.-----We only got about half way to Springfield when our youngest son was born and it was nice weather then. :D :D

Last time I was through Springfield I noticed they had a lot of motels. Maybe a room on the ground floor somewhere neer the hospital would come in real handy?

Faron · January 14, 2007, 09:03:52 AM

Beenthere, I believe Gordon delivered his son ? in a parking lot on the way to the hospital a few years ago.

woodmills1 · January 14, 2007, 09:12:57 AM

we are getting ice right now.

Bro. Noble · January 14, 2007, 10:12:52 AM

Quote from: Bibbyman on January 14, 2007, 07:50:55 AM
Quote from: Bro. Noble on January 13, 2007, 10:40:54 PM
That doesn't worry me as much as my grandson -------he's due to be born in the next few days. It's about 80 miles to the hospital in Springfield and they are coated with an inch and a half of ice and expecting more. I suppose everything will turn out O.K.-----We only got about half way to Springfield when our youngest son was born and it was nice weather then. :D :D

Last time I was through Springfield I noticed they had a lot of motels. Maybe a room on the ground floor somewhere neer the hospital would come in real handy?

The problem is that it's a long trip over partly impassable roads to Springfield at the present time. My daughter-in- law has a brother that lives a couple of miles from the hospital, but he, as well as most of Springfield is without power and don't expect to be until Wed. or Thursday. They are going to church this morning, so evidentally don't think he will arrive today ;D

Bibbyman · January 14, 2007, 05:27:59 PM

It's 4:30 pm 32 degrees and raining. We've just had to go out and clean the ice from the gutters on the house because we were getting some leakage. Looks like it'll rain for an hour or two then turn to freezing rain/sleet and then to snow. I'm sure Brooke would say "COOL!"

Here is a picture I took about 10:00 am. Brooke is just above center of the photo with her slead on her head. She's been wanting more snow so they could have another "snow day".

The strange thing about this ice is that it came over warm ground. You can walk on the ice and its like walking on thin ice on a pond. It will crack and you can see water and air bubbles move under your feet. Yet it's strong enough that it won't crush through when driven over.

woodmills1 · January 15, 2007, 07:15:30 AM

sure was slippery goin out to fill the wood furnace this morning. We didn't get much, just a light drizzle that froze on almost all surfaces. It is supposed to be more of the same today, only heavier.

Paschale · January 15, 2007, 08:12:05 AM

I awoke to ice covered with snow. Blech.

Should make the hour long trek down to Kalamazoo for work today a little longer than an hour!

I went out before I showered and fired up the car--let the heater do most of the work for me. ;D

Cedarman · January 15, 2007, 08:24:21 AM

Just checked rain gauge. Over 3" and still raining. Been raining since 2 Friday afternoon. 54 and no ice. Don't want any either.

TexasTimbers · January 15, 2007, 08:31:36 AM

We have it. "pose to clear off this a.m. but everyone knows weathermen are liars.

bull · January 15, 2007, 10:47:48 AM

31 degrees, Rain and ICE !!!! guess we got it
10:45 AM 50" birch trees top's are bet to the ground...... Hopefully nothing snaps !!

TexasTimbers · January 15, 2007, 11:30:27 AM

bull take some pictures of that!

bull · January 15, 2007, 02:28:25 PM

kevjay i have pictures..... but thanks to the ice storm unable to get a DSL connection..... had to short 1 minute power outages and lost the DSL...... have phone connection but to slow for pictures
will try later.......

Ed_K · January 15, 2007, 09:09:51 PM

Rain,ICE and 34. I sanded town rds this am then went back a 3pm to cut road trees that bent onto the rd. Did 10-12 barberchairs not fun.

Qweaver · January 15, 2007, 11:43:15 PM

We are about 30 miles below Houston and the temps are forecast to be @ 32 tonight. You'd think that the world was coming to an end! Every news program focused almost the whole program on the cold and how dangerous it was going to be. Few people know how to drive in freezing weather down here so I guess it is dangerous because of that. If we applied the same rules that are used here to our roads in WV, no one would go anywhere most of the winter.
Quinton

woodmills1 · January 16, 2007, 10:03:31 AM

we were partially lucky that it was less than quarter inch of ice, but lost power around 3 till 9:30 and then again some time after midnight till 8:00 am. In between as I went outside to fire the furnace with smaller hot burning wood I could hear branches falling around 1 or 2 a minute in the woods. I took a ride this morning and didn't see many whole trees down but branches large and small down eevery where. In one of the photos the vertical branch is actually hanging down on the wires, and road is closed. Only trouble is now wind and temps in the single digits for tonight.