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Post by johno on Jan 26, 2009 16:22:28 GMT -5
Got an ice storm headed this way, followed by snow. Or so they say at the moment... If I'm gone for a few days, it will be because there's no power. Hopefully it will blow over.  |
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Post by houseodessey on Jan 26, 2009 17:17:36 GMT -5
We're supposed to get the ice part, but probably not as much as you guys to the North. Make sure to have lots of supplies ready and some warmth inducing beverages, too.
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Post by moonlilyhead on Jan 26, 2009 18:08:52 GMT -5
The overpasses here are already slick. I didn't think we were supposed to get the ice until tomorrow or Wed.
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Post by johno on Jan 26, 2009 18:47:42 GMT -5
I've been busy all day making sure we won't be cold or thirsty, and set back plenty of water for flushing, too! Cooking a big pot of venison chili that I can keep warm on the wood stove; made cornbread to go with it, of course. I forgot all about warmth-inducing beverages, but fortunately that's just because I rarely drink them - I'm still fully stocked in that department. I think we're all set.
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Post by plantsnobin on Jan 26, 2009 19:31:38 GMT -5
Johno, that chili and cornbread sounds good. I grew up with a woodstove, bought the house I grew up in, loved the woodstove. We built a new house on the same property, husband said there was no way he was going to cut wood anymore and I couldn't have a stove in the new house. We freeze our asses off, no matter how high the thermostat is set. There is just nothing like wood heat. Makes you all warm and fuzzy just knowing that no matter what happens outside, you'll be toasty. We have some snow on the ground already, supposed to be getting up to 5 inches before morning. Then the ice.
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Post by plantsnobin on Jan 26, 2009 19:36:45 GMT -5
Just wondering if anyone here was in the area of heavy snowfall in the 'winter of '78'? OK, so I know some of you weren't even born then. In our area we had 3-4 ft of snow, and that is not normal for us, school was shut down for an entire month. It was the drifting that caused so much trouble, more than just the amount that had fallen. No one went anywhere. There were highways you couldn't even see. We didn't even have to make up for all those school days lost, they said there were just too many.
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Post by Alan on Jan 26, 2009 20:18:17 GMT -5
Though I wasn't alive, my mother and father talk about it all the time, as did my grandparents. My uncle on my mothers side and his wife and son lived on the highest hill in Washington county at the time, way out in the middle of nowhere, very close to the Clark County forestry on an old gravel road, they were stranded for nearly a month, they had to have a helicopter land and come and get them because they were running out of supplies!  |
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Post by canadamike on Jan 26, 2009 20:26:42 GMT -5
Kind of remind me of last year, when I said to my father in law: ''are you crazy, you're 76 years old, you have no business going to clean the roof of the garage, you could fall and kill yourself'' -What do you mean killing myself? I have to walk down from the top of the snowpile to get on top of the garage and climb back on top of it to throw the snow away....  |
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Post by kimikat on Jan 26, 2009 22:08:57 GMT -5
Take care Johno...We've got a whale of a snow storm headed our way too...looking at a total of 10inches by wednesday afternoon. I know to most people 10 inches isn't much...But around here it will flat shut EVERYTHING down...At least until the highways are cleared. Then the bosses are threatening people to get them in to work.
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Post by grungy on Jan 27, 2009 2:30:23 GMT -5
You people all please take care. Snow - one of the reasons we live where we live.
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Post by flowerpower on Jan 27, 2009 5:45:44 GMT -5
Take care Johno...We've got a whale of a snow storm headed our way too...looking at a total of 10inches by wednesday afternoon. I know to most people 10 inches isn't much...But around here it will flat shut EVERYTHING down...At least until the highways are cleared. Then the bosses are threatening people to get them in to work. You're right, 10 in is not very much here. It's the drifting that's a pain. The same storm is headed here. I think the best thing we ever got was the woodstove. My friends have a nice wood furnace, but that doesn't work if there is no power. |
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Post by johno on Jan 27, 2009 13:29:18 GMT -5
I think I remember the snow of '78 - was the big one in November? I remember one winter around then when we got 2' of snow.
Sounds like lots of us are headed for a power outage - hope everybody makes it through okay! The power has flickered here 3 or 4 times today. They say on the radio that 10,000 in the surrounding area are without power already.
I took some pics of the ice a little while ago, but now I am recharging camera batteries... The peach tree bit the dust, other limbs down too. Everything is coated with 1/4" of ice, maybe a little more, and dripping with icicles. Mostly we're getting freezing rain - no snow - but it sleeted for a time last night. The ground is covered in white stuff, but it's like a snow cone, little balls of ice. Beautiful, really...
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Post by ottawagardener on Jan 27, 2009 15:02:27 GMT -5
Take care everyone. They are calling for 15 cm tomorrow here but that's about regular around these parts. At least no ice as far as I've heard.
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Post by kimikat on Jan 27, 2009 21:34:05 GMT -5
My cousin the meteorlogist called a little bit ago. They are now calling for an inch of ice over night in our area, switching back to snow in the morning, with an addition accumulation of 3-5inches of snow on top of that. So...it may prove to be an interesting night after all...The lights flickered once here...about 2 hours ago. So I guess we'll see what happens. I didn't even try to go to work today. I figured if they closed both Kimballs plants then there was probably no reason for me to even attempt to get out. Tomorrow I'm scheduled off...so that saves me the pain in the ass of having to call and get ahold of a manager. And then have said manager feed me a line of bs that they need me sooooo bad etc. Right...I live a half an hour away from the store...surely to god you can find someone closer...lol!
How is everyone else fairing?
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Post by pugs on Jan 27, 2009 22:19:29 GMT -5
I guess I'll stop complaining about the low 30s high 20s nights and high 30 day time temps.
Otherwise I'm doing fine here in Oregon.
I just heard from macmex that his wife is without power in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Pugs
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