Ice Storm '07

#1 Postby **CrazyC83** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:50 pm

Coverage from Oklahoma City - http://www.koco.com/index.html

Could be a long - and dark - week ahead for many from Texas to Indiana...

#2 Postby **CaptinCrunch** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:04 pm

We will be able to move that coverage south to D/FW by Saturday night. Forecast now includes Ice Storm Warning with .5 to 1.5 inches accumalation by Sunday afternoon.

#3 Postby **simplykristi** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:33 pm

We are having a mixture here in the KC area. Our temps have been slowing falling from 20 to the mid teens throughout the day.

Kristi

azsnowman · #4 Postby **azsnowman** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:49 pm

WOW....be careful what y'all ask for eh? Holy SMOKES...good luck, just PLEASE don't send the ICE my WAY...I've got my own problems to deal with, "WIND"!

HarlequinBoy · #5 Postby **HarlequinBoy** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:49 pm

Yupp, it could be quite an ice storm.

I hope everyone prepares and follows advice from local authorities that way there are not deaths/injuries.

Aquawind · #6 Postby **Aquawind** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:49 pm

Buy salt rock! Put something over your windshield! I hate getting that thick ice off in the morning before work..

#7 Postby **wlfpack81** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:18 pm

It's been mainly a mixture of sleet/freezing rain here in central OK all day which has been a saving grace so far. Still enough to cause problems on the road obviously but better than what it could've been if it had stayed all ice. Should be interesting to see what goes on with round 2 and 3 on Sat and Sun.

Miss Mary · #8 Postby **Miss Mary** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:27 pm

Also, simple granular, not liquid, garden fertilizer melts ice and is safe for the environment. I buy a bag or two each winter (straight feed, not weed and feed). Also, fertilizer doesn't erode concrete - another bonus.

Stay safe everyone caught in this fierce storm's path. What I fear is that most people have written off this winter and weren't prepared as they would have been during a more typical winter.

Mary

#9 Postby **wx247** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:33 pm

Hey everyone... just what I need right??? An ice storm. Eek!

Good thing is that grandpa is home and we have enough oxygen tanks to go five days without power.

Local met here is calling for 2" of ice before all is said and done. Conditions are getting awful here and quick. If you don't here from me much it is because the power has gone.

HarlequinBoy · #10 Postby **HarlequinBoy** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:49 pm

Yikes, I hope it doesn't!

Keep us updated.

ETXHAMXYL · #11 Postby **ETXHAMXYL** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:55 pm

HEY WX247 My stepdaughter lives up in Springfield...how's the icing up there? I heard back in Dec. they had lots of trees damaged due to the ice. Keep me posted ok? Thanks

#12 Postby **simplykristi** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:37 pm

Stay safe, Garrett! We will just have a snow/sleet mixture.

Kristi

#13 Postby **wx247** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:54 pm

ETXHAMXYL wrote:HEY WX247 My stepdaughter lives up in Springfield...how's the icing up there? I heard back in Dec. they had lots of trees damaged due to the ice. Keep me posted ok? Thanks

About 1/2" of ice already here. Power has flickered numerous times. I have already lost two major limbs in the front yard. Hard to see everything else. Will know more by daybreak. By then, I likely won't have power.

Chicky · #14 Postby **Chicky** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:01 am

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#15 Postby **CrazyC83** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:11 am

Power outage estimates now:

Texas - 2,000 people

Oklahoma - 16,000 people (not too bad, but the worst is to come)

Arkansas - minimal

Kansas - minimal

Missouri - at least 210,000 people (Rural Greene County 95% out, Springfield 65% out, more scattered elsewhere)

Illinois - still to come

#16 Postby **simplykristi** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:31 am

That's not people..... That's customers (both residential and commercial).

Kristi

#17 Postby **JonathanBelles** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:33 am

what is the deepest ice and where right now?

#18 Postby **simplykristi** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:45 am

Probably southern MO. I am trying to find some news online for up to date info.

Kristi

MetSul Weather Center · #19 Postby **MetSul Weather Center** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:51 pm

OKHALHOMA NEWSPAPERS' FRONT PAGES THIS SATURDAY

HarlequinBoy · #20 Postby **HarlequinBoy** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:20 pm

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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1205 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007

...UNPRECEDENTED ICE STORM FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS...

.A PROLONGED AND INTENSE ICE STORM HAS UNFOLDED OVER EXTREME
SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THE MISSOURI OZARKS. AN ARCTIC AIRMASS WAS
SPREADING INTO THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING AND INTERACTING WITH
COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF SOUTH PACIFIC AND WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO
MOISTURE. THIS INTERACTION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE
WEEKEND AND CAUSE WAVES OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET TO CONTINUE
OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE SPRINGFIELD METRO
AREA.
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Wow. Unprecedented? It must be pretty extreme.

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