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stumpjumper1
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Waiting with anticpation for it to hit here later tongiht in nc ky be nice to have some snow for a change calling for 6-10 by wed might give me a chance to try the xmas light free track as well
Not done much in the last hour here, I would like snow other then ice anytime . My wife drove in from Rogers/Bentonville to our home in Gentry around 30 miles west and said the roads were not bad yet. She works at the Wal_mart Home office so she brought a lab top home to work if it gets to bad to get to work tomorrow.
flyer01
flyer01
ICE STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST WEDNESDAY, WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED This is for NW Arkansas. GOOD NEWS
FLYER01
FLYER01
stumpjumper1
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6:43 AM EASTERN TIME JSUT GOT IN FORM WORK 7.2 INCHES ONT HE GROUND WITH ABOUT 1/2 ICE ON TOP OF IT MAJOR ICE STORM WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR TONGIHT THRU TOMMORW AFTERNOON WITH UP TO 1 MORE INCH OF ICE AND 4/6 INCHES MORE OF SNOW, AND IM OFF WOKR TILLWED NITE YEAHHHH:woot:
Tailwind
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Carnivore
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Rgr that Tee Dub! , lol.....I describe this area as 9mnths of winter, and 3 mnths of bad skiing!
~S~
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Carnivore
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2:30 tuesday ice is getting bad on trees and ground In NW Arkansas. Freezing rain.
flyer01
Awesome pics Flyer!!
This is some from my place last week.The deck is about waist height roughly in the summer..crazy, crazy this Country!!..~S~
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Carnivore
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Be safe bro..~S~
Phew--Not Light Aviation Weather---------
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Phew,
That icing conditions is very nasty stuff to be in -in a light Aircraft. You load up with ice so quick, stalling speed goes up high, windscreen ices over and Carb becomes choked.----- Yuk !!
May be a Snowmobile would be handy-LOL. Here's a pic. showing worst weather we've had here in Nth.Wales UK, this winter, ( Taken last week out of front bedroom window. No comparison really, although we quite often catch some sort of fall-out from Bad USA weather about a week later.
Keep safe guys.
Bill T. :d ( Hi Joe -:wave:
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:mixedsmi:
Phew,
That icing conditions is very nasty stuff to be in -in a light Aircraft. You load up with ice so quick, stalling speed goes up high, windscreen ices over and Carb becomes choked.----- Yuk !!
May be a Snowmobile would be handy-LOL. Here's a pic. showing worst weather we've had here in Nth.Wales UK, this winter, ( Taken last week out of front bedroom window. No comparison really, although we quite often catch some sort of fall-out from Bad USA weather about a week later.
Keep safe guys.
Bill T. :d ( Hi Joe -:wave:
)After this post Tuesday the power went off and came back on wednesday 11:00 am CST Wen.. Looks like the worst is over here in NW Arkansas but there is still a lot of folks with out elec.
Flyer01
I would have to say that who ever put the ice storm cancellation out was wrong!!!!!!
stumpjumper1, I hope all is well with you![FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]More than a million wait in icy darkness across US[/FONT]
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Well over a million people shivered in ice-bound homes across the country Wednesday, waiting for warmer weather and for utility crews to restring power lines brought down by a storm that killed 23 as it took a snowy, icy journey from the Southern Plains to the East Coast. But with temperatures plunging, utility officials warned that it could be mid-February before electricity is restored to some of the hardest-hit places. The worst of the power failures were in Kentucky, Arkansas and Ohio.
Just getting to their source was difficult for utility crews. Ice-encrusted tree limbs and power lines blocked glazed roads, and cracking limbs pierced the air like popping gunfire as they snapped.
In Kentucky, National Guard soldiers were dispatched to remove the debris. Oklahoma, already struggling to restore power there, planned to send crews to help in Arkansas later in the week.
"It looks like a tornado came through, but there wasn't a path; it was everywhere," said Mel Coleman, the chief executive officer of the North Arkansas Electric Cooperative in Salem. The power is out at his house, too, and he spent Tuesday night in a chair at his office.
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif](AP) A car slid into a utility pole, breaking the pole, at theIn Cincinatti, Ohio Wednesday, Jan. 28,...Full Image[/FONT]The storm was "worse than we ever imagined," he said.
In Arkansas - where ice was 3 inches thick in some places - people huddled next to fireplaces, wood-burning stoves and portable heaters powered by generators. When it got too cold, they left for shelters or relatives' homes that weren't hit as badly.
"We bundled up together on a bed with four blankets. It's freezing," said Pearl Schmidt of Paintsville, in eastern Kentucky. Her family endured 32-degree weather Wednesday morning before leaving their house for a shelter.
Kyle Brashears' family rode out the storm in their Mountain Home, Ark., home before fleeing to relatives after half an ice-caked oak tree fell into their home.
"It caved the roof in and ripped the gutter off, although it didn't penetrate inside," he said. "I was walking around outside until about 1 a.m. and it was just a nonstop medley of tree limbs cracking off."
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif](AP) Rick Lucas of the Dayton Department of Public Works prepares to move a resident's car after a...Full Image[/FONT]The number of homes and businesses without power totaled around 1.4 million Wednesday evening, in a swath of states from Oklahoma to West Virginia. Arkansas had more than 350,000 customers in the dark; Kentucky had about a half-million. The actual number of people affected the power failures could be much higher.
In Kentucky, the power outages produced by the ice storm were outdone only by the remnants of Hurricane Ike, which lashed the state with fierce winds last year, leaving about 600,000 customers without power. Gov. Steve Beshear said he was seeking a federal emergency disaster declaration, a key step in securing federal assitance for storm victims.
"We've got lots of counties that do not have any communication, any heat, any power," he said.
Various charities opened shelters across the region, but with the power out nearly everywhere - including at some radio stations - it was difficult to spread the word. Some deputies went door to door and offered to drive the elderly to safety.
Meanwhile, some community leaders buckled down for a long haul. Kentucky Public Protection Cabinet spokesman Dick Brown urged people to conserve water because power failures could limit supplies in some areas.
[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif](AP) Fallen trees block Eastern Avenue at Stanley Avenue Wednesday morning January 28, 2009 in...Full Image[/FONT]Since the storm began building Monday, the weather has been blamed for at least six deaths in Texas, four in Arkansas, three in Virginia, six in Missouri, two in Oklahoma, and one each in Indiana and Ohio. Some parts of New England were expected to see well over a foot of snow as the storm kept moving northeast, but because it turned to snow, ice-related power failures weren't as big of a concern.
That didn't mean a trouble-free day for commuters. Delays or cancellations were reported at airports including those serving Columbus, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Commuters on highways encountered a slushy mess.
Tracey Ramey of Waynesville, Ohio, a village about 20 miles southeast of Dayton, said her husband left for his job as a plow operator late Monday with an overnight bag and hasn't been able to return. He did call her Wednesday morning to caution her not to go to her data-entry job. "He said, 'There's 2 inches of ice on the road and there's no way you're going to make it to work,'" she said.
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