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Title: Zipporah Iced in With No Power in Northern Ky. How's the weather where you are?
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Published: Feb 14, 2007
Author: christine
Post Date: 2007-02-14 11:03:35 by christine
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At least Zip's got gas so she has hot water and can cook on her stovetop. A kerosene heater is all she's got to keep warm as long as the kerosene holds out. There are power outages all over so it could be days before electricity is restored.
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#11. To: christine (#9)
It is cold with some flurries. We were warned about possible ice storms last night but apparently they hit further to the north. Not too bad here, just cold.
oh! i didn't know that! we're pretty cold here today. only 32 degrees. how do you do the degrees sign? i forgot.
I did that here when I ran out of propane. Covered a big table with blankets and lit a couple of candles inside. Moved in a futon and reading lamp. It was below freezing in the house but 70 degrees under the table.
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It got really cold here last night. Maybe five below. Had to go to a function on the other side of the mountain. It was dusting snow and it was creepy driving over. Out in the middle of nowhere with the snow and cold. No one else on the road. Coming back I jumped in the car and took off first. Figured if I ran off the road at least there would be people coming behind me.
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I dunno - my doors are all frozen shut. But if I look out the windows, I see a very thick coat of ice on them - which is kinda trippy...
My wife and I were in Vermont for the Great Ice Storm of 1998. People in many areas of New England were without power for at least a month, and longer, in some instances. It was unreal...freezing rain for several DAYS. I stopped and spoke with the Weather Channel's Jim Cantore, who was in Burlington covering the storm. For some reason, we never got freezing rain in the town I lived in, as we were at a higher elevation, where it was just warm enough to stay rain without freezing. (Higher 'up' doesn't always mean colder, as cold air sinks.) When I drove down into the colder Champlain Valley, everything was ice. It was amazing. We almost felt guilty that we were okay, while so many of our friends suffered for the better part of a month. I'm about a hundred-fifty 'crow miles' south of 'Zip', and our weather is fine...everything stayed north of us here in East Tennexico. This is precisely WHY it is SO IMPORTANT to 'be prepared'.
After we lost power in these parts (around D.C.) for nearly a week after Hurricane Isabel a couple of years ago, a lot of people bought gasoline-powered generators.
Katrina was America's Chernobyl.
Geeze, Chrissie, reading this thread makes me embarassed. Me who lives where the cold and snow is supposed to be has been mostly bone dry all winter. We get a few flurries, and they melt within a couple of days, if not sooner.We just haven't had a cold winter. We did get a few days at or below -0-, but nothing like I've experienced in the past; and the winds haven't been kicking up much. Must be all this global warming stuff, cause I have friends in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio, who are really pissed at this white sheet and want it to go away NOW! Never have been big on ice storms, though we have black ice at times. If you get to speak to her again, give her my best for the duration and I'll be including her and other southren friends in prayers.
omg. i can't imagine.
Geez, folks...people are really getting spoiled...this has been a MILD winter, with average temperatures running WAY above normal. It's only February 14th, for crying out loud. I remember getting 16 inches of snow on MAY NINTH, when I lived in Syracuse, NY years ago.
This is the coldest February here in thirty years thus far.
Probably about 90 degrees and pretty humid.
I understand that, but we should remember that winter didn't really show up until two weeks ago. My freinds up north are really greatful that they have saved so much money on heating costs this year (unless it stays cold until Memorial Day).
Probably about 90 degrees and pretty humid. Guyaquil?
And that is one thing that concerns me........how flowers and lilac bushes as well as a number of tree species are going to react. And, of course, another big concern is the bug kill. We need cold weather to kill off a goodly number of some pesky ones.
I can remember a hail storm in Montana back in 78 or maybe 79, where we had hail the size of snowballs! My daughters were in a wedding in CA--either June or July--and we put some ini the freezer to show them when they got back. In the area of Helena, the state capital, they had cars dented, windshields broken, lots of house windows broken, and double wide homes with major dent damage, as well as roof damage to multiple types of construction materials! It was a huge financial whammy to insurance companies. We had a cow that had just calved a couple of days before and she had her baby laying right out in the middle of the pasture. All the cows headed for the woods when the hail started, and momma cow did, too. This baby heifer was really special to us, so my husband headed out to the field using his construction hard hat and a couple of metal trash can lids for protection. His plan was to get the baby up and moving to at least under a tree in the pasture. The hail was bad enough had it hit right, it could have killed her--seriously. Anyways, he got the baby up, and apparently it was about the time momma remembered 'oh my baby'....and she come on a rip from out of the woods bellering for all she was worth! He stepped back a good many steps, and little Stormy (she acquired her name that day) headed for momma! Our trash can lids were ruined--warped out of shape!
In Phoenix it is around 70 for the high today. got the back door open to air the place out. I saw some snow today, I was on the highway and it fell off of a truck.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Pretty much snowed in in Chicago. My apartment is below street level, so the snow has blown into my entranceway about two feet deep. Since my door opens outward... My back door leads out to a small alley that likewise has about two feet of snow. If it's an emergency, I can slog through it. But since I braved the 50 MPH wind yesterday before the snow got deep to stock in supplies, I'm just taking it easy. After this extremely nasty storm, we're getting a cold front and the temp's going back below zero tonight and tomorrow. But it's supposed to be nearly 40 by Tuesday. And Braves' pitchers and catchers report tomorrow, so life is looking up.
Damn right. It's been a rough three weeks here, but I was at a Pere Ubu concert on Dec. 2, and coming home at about 2 a.m., it was 70 degrees. In Chicago. In December. In the middle of the night. I may hate this weather right now, but compared to the average winter, we got off easy so far.
One of the first things I noticed when I moved to South Dakota was the little dings I saw in cars parked in a mall parking lot. I told my wife "they must let their kids run amuck with B-B guns around here". Little did I know... Several months later, a horrible hailstorm brushed the northern suburbs of Rapid City, causing damage similar to what you cited: smashed windows and windshields; amazing destruction for a relatively small storm. They had to call out the plows to scrape the deep hail off of the Interstate. We never suffered any damage with out there, though...but with two weeks to go until moving day in Tennessee, a very localized hail event went right over my damn house, and dinged my Toyota all to hell, after five years of hail-free weather. Go figure. (Let me tell you...the racket of all that hail hitting my house was deafening, and had my cats completely freaked out.)
Vacationed in SD last summer. Rental car had recent hail damage according to the retail agreement . . . and hood to tail dents. Don't think that I'd want to live in an area where ice falling from the sky is a regular event. Richard W.
Then there are the tornadoes...not to mention the good 'ol fashioned high plains blizzards. One year was enough.
And so you know what I was talkin about! And I know about the sound on the roof. At the ranch we had composition roof, but here I have metal....I really don't want to go thru another one of those, even without having my kitties any longer! I think back to the days in So-Cal when my husband would come home on the weekends from his work down in Palm Springs and he'd talk about the sandstorms--the damaged cars, etc. We had an acquaintance that had rented a car back in NY or some New England state to drive back to So-Cal rather than fly. And she took the southern route and out somewhere in the Coachella Valley she hit a sandstorm and it took the paint off that car! So there are quirky weather things just about everywhere.
So you were the one.
Zippy the Ice Queen :P
About twenty years ago, my wife and I were driving from New Hampshire to San Diego. While barreling across the So Cal desert on Interstate 8, I noticed a 'cloud' at ground level several miles in the distance. I thought it was a sandstorm, and I knew what it was going to do to the paint on my brand-new Toyota van. Turns out it wasn't sand, it was...BUTTERFLIES! Thousands and thousands of them. It took months before we were able to clean the last traces of splattered butterflies and all-around goop off the van...what a mess!
Two degrees this morn in Colorado Springs, got a little sun but by noon the icey clouds rolled in and it's spitting snow now. Supposed to get more in the next few days. Gad - we were just starting to thaw out of the last two months of artic ice. The roads here are in terrible shape terrific pot holes and destroyed lanes of major roads aroung the city. Gonna cost millions to repair. But the ciy council just gave juicy raises to the city manager - $188,000/yr plus juicy benefits all the while saying there's just not enough money.
LOL I was actually surprised at how many tourists were there. Richard W.
"Guayaquil" actually, but yes.
puke - same here
According to Colorado's 'Comprehensive Annual Financial Report'; the state has a 6 BILLION dollar surplus that they currently "aren't using".
S Dakota is actually a great place to visit - as you know. There is just about no crime, usually clean and good heartland folks.
36 and breezy, with a wad of freezing rain the next county over. I'm eating pizza heated in the wood stove. Monday's storm knocked down some medium sized oak branches, pieces of which have the stove radiating nicely.
Hope she has dogs; they keep you very warm at night. Except pugs, which are almost completely worthless since they want to sleep in your armpit, where it's already warm.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
& deg; without the space will produce the degree sign: ° If that doesn't work then just use & #176;
God is always good! yep, the entire northeast has.
34° here in austin right now. thanks, ricky.
resourceful ;)
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#12. To: noone222, innieway, Critter (#8)
#13. To: noone222 (#8)
Whenever you're without heat you should have a small tent
#14. To: christine (#12)
#15. To: christine (#0)
How's the weather where you are?
#16. To: christine (#0)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#17. To: christine (#0)
#18. To: christine (#0)
#19. To: who knows what evil (#16)
People in many areas of New England were without power for at least a month, and longer, in some instances.
#20. To: rowdee (#18)
Must be all this global warming stuff, cause I have friends in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio, who are really pissed at this white sheet and want it to go away NOW!
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#21. To: who knows what evil (#20)
#22. To: christine (#0)
How's the weather where you are?
#23. To: Fred Mertz (#21)
This is the coldest February here in thirty years thus far.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#24. To: rowdee (#18)
#25. To: Neil McIver (#22)
How's the weather where you are?
#26. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#24)
#27. To: who knows what evil (#20)
#28. To: christine (#0)
#29. To: christine (#0)
#30. To: who knows what evil (#20)
this has been a MILD winter, with average temperatures running WAY above normal.
#31. To: rowdee (#27)
I can remember a hail storm in Montana back in 78 or maybe 79, where we had hail the size of snowballs!
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#32. To: who knows what evil (#31)
I noticed when I moved to South Dakota was the little dings I saw in cars
#33. To: Arete (#32)
Don't think that I'd want to live in an area where ice falling from the sky is a regular event.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#34. To: who knows what evil (#31)
#35. To: Arete (#32)
Vacationed in SD last summer.
#36. To: christine, Zipporah (#0)
Zipporah Iced in
#37. To: rowdee (#34)
I think back to the days in So-Cal when my husband would come home on the weekends from his work down in Palm Springs and he'd talk about the sandstorms--the damaged cars, etc.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#38. To: christine (#0)
#39. To: tom007 (#35)
So you were the one.
#40. To: tom007 (#25)
#41. To: tom007 (#38)
But the ciy council just gave juicy raises to the city manager - $188,000/yr plus juicy benefits all the while saying there's just not enough money.
#42. To: tom007 (#38)
Gonna cost millions to repair. But the ciy council just gave juicy raises to the city manager - $188,000/yr plus juicy benefits all the while saying there's just not enough money.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#43. To: Arete (#39)
#44. To: christine (#0)
#45. To: christine (#0)
#46. To: christine (#12)
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]
#47. To: Mekons4 (#30)
I may hate this weather right now, but compared to the average winter, we got off easy so far.
#48. To: RickyJ (#46)
#49. To: RickyJ (#46)
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#50. To: DeaconBenjamin (#44)
Monday's storm knocked down some medium sized oak branches, pieces of which have the stove radiating nicely.
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