Jan,07 18
We are buried in ice. The trees and power lines are dropping like flies. It is cold, and dark. Across the midwest almost half a million people are without power. At last count there were 70 deaths in 9 states. We have had power outages, but it could be worse. One town near us was told they would not have power for a month, maybe two. The ice coating tree limbs and power lines is not melting much and more snow, more ice and more cold are forecasted for Saturday through Tuesday. This just means more deaths and destruction. :cry:
Look at the destruction in my yard. The truck is under ice and trees. The corner of the house is okay, a miracle from God.
Now take a look at the neighbor’s yard. Notice that the electricity line is down in the yard.
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Oh, my goodness! I’m glad your house was spared. I had no idea the ice was that bad! When I left the US on Monday we had a lot of ice, and I knew it was supposed to cintinue for a few days. Wow.
Okay, i’ll apend my test,
If people are dying becuase of the weather it qualified as sucky
and
IF powerline, and or trees are falling due to the weather it is sucky.
How did you get on line to post with the power lines going into the ground?
Glad you’re okay though.
Wow! We don’t have it nearly as bad as that! And, thankfully, no power outages here … yet. At least not where I am.
I sure hope the truck isn’t too badly damaged, but what a blessing that the house wasn’t hit! Try to stay warm!! And be careful!
(hugs)
Stay warm. Keep the little kids inside and away from the power lines. Don’t lick anything metal, like that chain link fence.
lol these are just the beginning of the mess around here tons of ice tons of low low power lines and like she said some of the towns had it worse
Thank god her house is heated with gas its how we kept warm with no power:) Love ya mom
Jerry:
Here is the answer to your question about how I could post with the power out. Power is always prioritized on who gets restored sooner, than later. The main priority of who to restore immediately is simple. Hospitals, police and fire stations, and any other emergency rescue service buildings have power first. Then big business, followed by cities and towns. Rural areas like farms are last.
Most people around here have not had power for a week already. Some won’t have power for months. I, however, am very lucky. I live near a hospital. That is one of the first places to be restored in an outage.
My power has been going in and out. Up until now the longest time I have spent without power is 14 hours. There have been several 4 to 8 hour stretchs without power, too.
The minute the power finally quit flickering and stayed on steady for a while I hit the internet to post.
Bad news:
The electrical system here is very fragile, still. The power infrastructure is aged and was sadly in need of repair before this whole mess started. With more snow and ice predicted this weekend, I am afraid. I predict more trees and powerlines falling, and more deaths.
That was what Canada was like about every winter!
i hope that everything’s almost fine there right now…. i also do hope that there are no more casualties…
there are no ice storms here in the Philippines that’s why i dunno how disastrous/devastating they are…. but by seeing the pictures that you posted, i can say that it’d really take time for your place to recover…
just hold on…. eveything’s gonna be fine….
-11°C (12.2 degree Fahrenheit)
A few clouds
FEELS LIKE -22°C (-7.6 degree Fahrenheit)
WIND GUSTS NW 41 km/h
RELATIVE HUMIDITY 43%
DEWPOINT -21°C (-5.8 degree Fahrenheit)
PRESSURE 101.31 kPa
VISIBILITY 24 km
CEILING unlimited
Updated : Sunday January 21 2007, 15:00 AST - N-B
This was the report for where I live!
Brrrr… That’s really cold Authenticia… Nasty where you live too.
Wow, that’s awful.
How’s your local government mismanaging it?
Adi:
They could have done better. I do not understand why it takes over a week to go to any low income apartments in town and search for elderly and disabled and the poor and offer them ways to get to a shelter. How many complexes are low income? Not many are, maybe 10. How many needless deaths could be prevented?
Also the federal government is to blame here as well. These complexes of which I speak are are under the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). The national guard finally showed up, but by then we were ten days in to the disaster. Response time? No better than hurricane Katrina.
THis sure says a lot for our system of government. eh?
here in Malaysia we do not have any ice/snow storm, Malaysia was free from major nature calamities until recently when the tsunami destroyed some part of a state and now, we are dealing with flood that has never happened since the last 100 years (another state in Malaysia).
Generally, i am just glad that we are not in the “ring of fire” (active volcanoes, tremor and such) and we only has to deal with haze from neighbouring countries which conviniently clear their forest come every august till early november!
You people in the midwest! Look up whats really causing the terrible storms of this decade its not global warming caused by humans. See:
http://solarphysics.livingreviews.org/Articles/Irsp-2007-2/. Its the amount of sunspots on the sun. I am hoping the northeast is not as bad as last year.