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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:29:16 PM EDT
[#1]
The woods be scary at night.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:33:29 PM EDT
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Yeap I think I'm in the same area as you OP, South-West of Austin ? Anyhow, loads of old oaks down here, including in my back yard.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:40:39 PM EDT
[#3]
Survival of the fittest.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:41:35 PM EDT
[#4]
When I hear that sound in NH it means the power is going out for a day or two pretty soon, so I fill up a couple buckets of water in the bathtub for flushing the toilet.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:42:55 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yankees may laugh about it, but Southern Ice is no joke.  That shit happens everywhere. Sometimes the power crews from out of state are here for weeks unfucking the damage. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:43:23 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’d rather buy firewood and keep my giant oaks. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Firewood now. I’d rather buy firewood and keep my giant oaks. Agree with you 100% . Don’t have live oak in my part of world other than what I’ve planted. LO is the prettiest tree god made |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:48:19 PM EDT
[#7]
Aww Texas guys are so cute
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:48:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’d rather buy firewood and keep my giant oaks. I feel for y’all and I said the same thing after a tornado took most of my trees.  Y’all be safe out there. Falling limbs are nothing to be around. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:48:58 PM EDT
[#9]
2020 ice storm hit Oklahoma in October so the trees still had leaves. It was brutal we lost power for a week and I had to work 14 hours on 10 off and sleep go home to a house with no power.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:52:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yankees may laugh about it, but Southern Ice is no joke. Back in the early '80s, an ice storm damn near totaled our petroleum coke plant in Port Arthur. I saw a lot of screwed up stuff back in Feb 21 following the big freeze.. freeze protection was lacking at plants all over the area. Didn’t help that a bunch had their natural gas cut back/off |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:53:48 PM EDT
[#11]
Hearing a branch break of the 100 year old white oak in the back yard was bad.
What was worse was hearing it, (and others) hit the roof. What is especially infuriating is that I hired a local tree service to remove said tree last August. He's full of nothing but excuses as to why he couldn't get to it. Semper Fi |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:54:01 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeap I think I'm in the same area as you OP, South-West of Austin ? Anyhow, loads of old oaks down here, including in my back yard. I’m in Wimberley. Took a walk around the neighborhood and every tree is damaged. Thousands of them. I’ve probably got a thousand oak trees and all of them are damaged. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:54:14 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yankees may laugh about it, but Southern Ice is no joke. Back in the early '80s, an ice storm damn near totaled our petroleum coke plant in Port Arthur. You realize there’s ice in the north right ? 
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:54:14 PM EDT
[#14]
North San Antonio towards Spring Branch.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:55:34 PM EDT
[#15]
Quoted: Is deafening and depressing. Pretty helpless feeling too.. Probably lost over a hundred large live oak tree limbs so far. Sounds like gunshots outside every 30 seconds or so in all directions. Fuck ice. It’s even another thing when you’ve got a production saw buried about 80% into a back cut. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:59:28 PM EDT
[#16]
Pines blow at 50 below.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 7:59:40 PM EDT
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Lost multiple braces over the day. Have photos but they are too big to upload.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 8:03:54 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lost multiple braces over the day. Have photos but they are too big to upload. You can resize them as you upload them if you are using your phone. When you select the photo there is a little carrot at the bottom that lets you resize. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 8:04:24 PM EDT
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Bummer. Sorry to hear about your trees. I hate losing my trees to stuff I can't prevent.
Hopefully you guys keep it all down there in Texas though. So far we've not taken too much of a beating here in Arkansas. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 8:06:11 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’m in Wimberley. Took a walk around the neighborhood and every tree is damaged. Thousands of them. I’ve probably got a thousand oak trees and all of them are damaged. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yeap I think I'm in the same area as you OP, South-West of Austin ? Anyhow, loads of old oaks down here, including in my back yard. I’m in Wimberley. Took a walk around the neighborhood and every tree is damaged. Thousands of them. I’ve probably got a thousand oak trees and all of them are damaged. Sorry man 
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Posted: 2/1/2023 8:07:17 PM EDT
[#21]
Judging from the outages map on MyRadar, it’s a swath that extends from San Antonio all the way to Texarkana.
Y’all got a lot more precip down there I think. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 8:19:49 PM EDT
[#22]
Good luck, this looks bad. 300k without power too.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 8:23:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/1/2023 8:25:17 PM EDT
[#24]
Not ice related, but the noise this thing made when it came down...
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:10:38 PM EDT
[#25]
Quoted: Is deafening and depressing. Pretty helpless feeling too.. Probably lost over a hundred large live oak tree limbs so far. Sounds like gunshots outside every 30 seconds or so in all directions. Fuck ice. I feel your pain. We had an ice storm in'94. Will never forget that sound. No power for 5 weeks. Ice Storm 1994 |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:19:55 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I like the sound. It sounds like cheap and plentiful firewood You're a real class act. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:20:44 PM EDT
[#27]
when I was a kid during a snowstorm i went around with this gentleman in his 80s shaking and knocking trees to lessen the load to help save the trees.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:21:41 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: None of my liveoaks damaged here yet, Waco. Some Bradford Pears split so no big deal. Bradford pears are like tissue paper trees, even more fragile than cottonwood. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:22:56 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That shit happens everywhere. Sometimes the power crews from out of state are here for weeks unfucking the damage. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yankees may laugh about it, but Southern Ice is no joke. That shit happens everywhere. Sometimes the power crews from out of state are here for weeks unfucking the damage. It was several months here in 1994. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:28:36 PM EDT
[#30]
Sorry about the trees dude. Beautiful piece of property.
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:29:52 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Live oaks don't drop their leaves until right before the spring blossom. Interesting. I was in Houston for four years and cannot recall how the trees changed through the seasons. |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:29:55 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’m in Wimberley. Took a walk around the neighborhood and every tree is damaged. Thousands of them. I’ve probably got a thousand oak trees and all of them are damaged. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yeap I think I'm in the same area as you OP, South-West of Austin ? Anyhow, loads of old oaks down here, including in my back yard. I’m in Wimberley. Took a walk around the neighborhood and every tree is damaged. Thousands of them. I’ve probably got a thousand oak trees and all of them are damaged. I know it's no consolation, but the trees here recovered surprisingly fast. Live oak is highly prized by wooden boat builders. Maybe some of your losses can be used instead of becoming firewood. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:03:07 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Live oaks don't. Hence the name. They lose leaves and bud new ones at the same time. I just googled live oak and surprise: "Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree endemic to the Southeastern United States. " |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:20:16 AM EDT
[#34]
Cedar park/leander is hit pretty hard. A bunch of people I know are without power. Trees have been snapping all day long.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:21:49 AM EDT
[#35]
Up here in Ft Worth (2 hrs North of Austin), it was about 5 degrees colder…..so it all came down as sleet. Covered the roads and ground and made driving like being on a skating rink. The good part was since it was sleet, it didn’t coat trees and such like the devastation happening further South. Plus, North Texas has a lot more post oaks (lose their leaves) versus the live oaks that don’t.
And oh, btw, for the random person that can’t resist making the old, tired jokes about Southerners and winter and driving….even in this thread about ice destroying majestic old trees…..I lived in Montana for a decade and hunted all Winter long in the mountains and in snow and such. Southern ice sucks, it isn’t snow, and nobody, northerner or not, is going to drive on it without sand, chains, 4 wheel drive, and a heavy vehicle…..it isn’t snow, which is easy. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:54:11 AM EDT
[#36]
We had a snow/ice event a few months ago. My woods look like Armageddon. I have a couple of creeks on my property. It's tough getting to them for all the felled trees, and when I make my way down there, my usual access spots are blocked. I like going there in winter because of no ticks & no snakes, but all the felled trees have made a bunch of potential bear dens, and I don't want to disturb (or startle) them.
Mother Nature's pruning. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:56:36 AM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: And oh, btw, for the random person that can’t resist making the old, tired jokes about Southerners and winter and driving….even in this thread about ice destroying majestic old trees…..I lived in Montana for a decade and hunted all Winter long in the mountains and in snow and such. Southern ice sucks, it isn’t snow, and nobody, northerner or not, is going to drive on it without sand, chains, 4 wheel drive, and a heavy vehicle…..it isn’t snow, which is easy. Ice is bad. 4 wheel drive is of marginal help. Best to stay home until the roads are not covered in ice. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:57:27 AM EDT
[#38]
Yeah, some really good friends live just South of dripping and the video they sent was sad, lost probably 1/4 of their trees/branches
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:03:09 AM EDT
[#39]
Scott I am out on lake Travis in Point Venture and could not sleep last night after 3am for all the odd noises=my next door neighbor’s CEDAR tree crashed IN BETWEEN his golf cart and Mule- he was lucky as hell. Many other who rarely park outside have had trees fall on BOTH cars- Feel sorry for them. Our 150 yr old oaks are laying down on patio rails. Hoping all better in 24 hours.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:04:13 AM EDT
[#40]
Better this than a EF4 tornado.
Be careful with cleanup, some of those branches are gonna have live power lines in them. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:05:16 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn man, where's the pics? I didn't realize TX was getting hit so hard. It ain't the storm, it's branches trying to support hundred of pounds of ice. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:06:59 AM EDT
[#42]
   I'm NE of Austin. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:07:24 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Live oaks don't drop their leaves until right before the spring blossom. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Do your deciduous trees not lose their leaves in the winter? That is what is causing the limb failures. Live oaks don't drop their leaves until right before the spring blossom. Live oaks are shit as well, they break like glass with ice or any load on them. I have one thats as big in diameter as the hood of my truck. Every time its ices, fire up the Husqvarna |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:13:57 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Aww Texas guys are so cute And MA yankees are so butt-ugly. 
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:14:27 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: BTDT, not fun. Yep, it sucks a lot. FWIW, #4 steel shot will dislodge thick ice from tree branches. Lead shot won't work, you need steel. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:23:27 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bradford pears are like tissue paper trees, even more fragile than cottonwood. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: None of my liveoaks damaged here yet, Waco. Some Bradford Pears split so no big deal. Bradford pears are like tissue paper trees, even more fragile than cottonwood. I just had the large Bradford Pear in our front yard trimmed way back, not long ago. It's been coming down, branch by branch, since early this morning. We live in Sun City, on the north side of Georgetown. Just moved here, in 2021. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:39:34 AM EDT
[#47]
So depressing. All my oaks are damaged.
on my largest oak it seems I lost about half of the branches.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:22:12 AM EDT
[#48]
Ouch, looks pretty rough down there.
Be careful everyone |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:24:01 AM EDT
[#49]
 Desperate times. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:40:41 AM EDT
[#50]
A decent sized redwood tree fell on my dad's house a couple of weeks ago during a storm. His neighbor came over at 3:30am to check on him because he heard the tree break and heard the sound as it landed - distinctly not on the earth.
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