Posted on 01/27/2010 7:11:54 AM PST by Star Traveler
This same garbage is slated to hit us tomorrow night in west central Arkansas, on the AR/OK border. I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that my kids are going to be home on Friday and they won’t be the least bit upset by it :)
I’ll pass on the ice storm, but wouldn’t mind getting some snow. We haven’t had much at all this winter here in Indy.
I have a son in the North Central Colorado Rockies and they are sayting the same thing, “what snow-pack?”.
while were enjoying temps om the 50s, I watch the news of the brutal winter they had back in the nations mid section and I pity the poor souls.
Portland’s biggest problem is ice storms (or what old mossbacks like me call a “silver thawâ€), when dense cold air from the Columbia Basin flows down through the Columbia Gorge and runs under the rainfall in Portland - major problem. A similar situation occurs down the Frasier and hits lower BC mainland and where the Straights of Juan de Fuca and the Georgia Straight meet.
Yes, the Silver Thaws..., I remember them from Portland, and that's what they were always called. But, out here in Oklahoma, they don't seem to refer to them as Silver Thaws for some reason, but ice storms.
But, in the last 20 years, in the Portland area, there's hardly been the Silver Thaws like there were in previous 20 years before that. For some reason, they seem to be less severe and less frequent more recently (in the last 20 years).
I remember some severe ones, but I do have to say that the Silver Thaw (or "Ice Storm" as it's known in Oklahoma) that happened December 10-12 of 2007 was the most severe of any that I had seen, even up in the Portland area for the last 45 years. You can see some information on it -- Mid-December 2007 North American Winter storms
I like the way the Silver Thaws look, as long as the power doesn't go off... but heck, I guess one can just get a generator and wait it out, otherwise... :-)
A quote from a government article/paper...
In December 2007, Oklahoma experienced an ice storm of historic proportions. A corridor from the central portion of the State, extending to the northeast, resulted in the largest power outage experienced by the numerous electrical cooperatives servicing the area. The outage, which lasted anywhere from hours to weeks, taxed both governmental and service provider agencies throughout the region.
There are a lot of links to the story in the following webpage...
Winter Weather Event
December 9 - 10, 2007
On Saturday December 8, an Arctic airmass moved into Oklahoma from Kansas. As the cold air settled in across Oklahoma, temperatures dropped below freezing. A storm system moved across Kansas/Nebraska early Sunday morning and produced widespread freezing rain in Oklahoma, especially along the I-44 Corridor. This area received at least 1.5 inches of ice accumulations with some areas up to 3 inches from Oklahoma City to Tulsa. Many adjacent areas received 1/2 inches of ice with 1/4 inches farther south and north from the highest impact areas. At one point over 600,000 customers were without power.
Here is the noon update from the Tulsa forecast office and it is not good — moving from a heavy snow/sleet forecast to a significant ice storm forecast.
See for yourself: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/media/tsa/briefing/player.html
Yikes!
They were saying possible power outages in some areas of up to two weeks, and even in the metro areas (of Tulsa) a possibility of power outages of 5-10 days...
But, they are still revising things as they go, and have said that this is the way it seems right now, but it could shift again...
Well, I’ll be fine, I’ve gone to the store and am totally stocked up on diet coke, peanut butter and jelly and bread. Right now it’s still sunny and 59 degrees..
Yes, it was amazing. Earlier today, I didn’t think it was really going to make it up to 60 degrees, but it did (here in Tulsa). And it’s just a tad below 60 right now. It was sunny and mostly clear for a good portion of the day. Right now, clouds are moving in from the west and you can tell the bad weather is coming. But, it’s still very nice outside.
It’s the damn Globull Warming. LOL
She just got back from Walmart and I guess that wasn’t enough , so she went to Dillards and some place at Utica Square. Of course, she thought I would be interested in hearing about that. LOL
wrap he pipes and leave a drip going. (like you wouldn’t know that) ;-)
That was cool.
Tulsa Freeper checkin’ in! Thanks for the threads Star Traveler. Geez...if I feel so unprepared for this, what am I going to do when the dollar collapses and the SHTF for real!
I was down at Walmart about an hour and a half ago and it was packed there. No room in the parking lot, no carts around, and the people checking out were backed up into the aisles... :-) But, I finally got out of there, after getting all stocked up.
I also had the problem of dealing with a cracked sewer line and had to dig up the yard, do a patch until after the storm is over and then when things are clear again — dig up some more of the yard and have a plumber fix about an 8-foot section of pipe. Oh boy, that’s a messy job... :-)
I could have done without that today...
I use to watch guys come flying by from 81st to 51st and Yale or from 71st to Sheridan in their 4 Wheel drives.
Wipeout, Wipeout, Wipeout.
Ron Owens use to have a saying this time of year “Ski the Tulsa mountains”.
wrap he pipes and leave a drip going. (like you wouldn’t know that) ;-)
That time around the Christmas Blizzard (last month) was really, really cold and if there was a time that the pipes were going to freeze, it was then. And for us, it did happen, for just about four hours, until we thawed it out in one small section. That's all the trouble we had.
But, you never know and they may do so now with this storm, but I think there is less of a chance if people's pipes made it through the Christmas Blizzard okay. That spell we had last month was more of a prolonged cold/freezing period than what's going to happen now. :-)
Tulsa Freeper checkin’ in! Thanks for the threads Star Traveler. Geez...if I feel so unprepared for this, what am I going to do when the dollar collapses and the SHTF for real!
That reminds me of "Armageddon Week" on the History Channel, that I watched a few weeks ago. Talk about being unprepared -- after watching all those shows about "the end of the world" and what will happen (society collapsing, amount of supplies dwindling, etc. and etc.) -- you really felt unprepared... LOL...
We better hope that the entire structure of government and civil authority doesn't collapse, or it will be like those movies, where you see roving gangs and criminals out there preying on everyone and it's every man (and woman) for themselves... Now, that would be really bad news...
I think I saw on one of those shows that someone was saying that, in general, we've got supplies (stores, at home, etc.) for about nine meals -- and then after that, if things are resupplied -- it's starvation time.
BUT, all we're talking about here is a simple "ice storm"... :-) and, fortunately, not the end of society and civil government.
I buy extra canned goods every shopping day....And attempt to make jerky fairly often, but I eat it as fast I seem to make it!! Ha!!
this storm isn’t as deep as the Christmas storm but it is long.
You’ll be fine.
Blocbuster, Hot Tea and Sleep. then you will be wide awake for the weekend. Yeahhhhh!!!
I used to live in Action City, KS.....
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