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aggiecutter wrote:Portastorm wrote:aggiecutter wrote:Confidence is growing for a mid-week ice storm for North and Northeast Texas. The Austin area might even get into the fun with some freezing drizzle, maybe even a little grauple.
Freezing drizzle or graupel?! I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
Good luck aggiecutter. You seem to have good luck with these kinds of systems,
No thanks, the Christmas Day Ice Storm of 2000 is still fresh in my mind. The Weather Channel ranks it as the 7th worst ice storm in our Nations history:
Christmas 2000 ice storm facts:
Over 1 inch of accumulated ice in many locations from northeast Texas into southeast Oklahoma, Arkansas and northern Louisiana.
At least 600,000 customers were without power.
These were the two most widespread, damaging ice storms of record in Arkansas history at the time, dating to 1819, according to the National Weather Service.
Much of cities of Texarkana, Hot Springs and Little Rock, Ark. were without power.
Water systems in Texarkana and Hot Springs, Ark. were also down.
FEMA Director James Lee Witt's western Ark. farm also lost power.
I was a freshman at A&M that semester and it was a bastard trying to get home.
