[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Ice Storm (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 1/27/2009 2:30:41 AM EDT
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How bad is it where you are.
A lot of trees down! Standing outside I can hear trees cracking and breaking. Still have power but I can see others without. Damn |
| Roads sucked coming into work this AM. The country roads I travel that had not been touched by road crews were fine. The main roads that had been plowed were horrible. They might as well just save the money and not run the plows. All they did was polish the ice. |
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No snow, just ice/sleet. Slid in 45 mi. to work. Secretary didn't make it - worse her way. Very slushy/icy roads. temp at 33F, raining, and will freeze later. I think we'll get snow later tonight. Reminds me of Feb. 14, 2004(?) Ice storm. I was in St. Louis and drove home to Prestonsburg the next day that year.
BTW, Pikeville/Paintsvile area. |
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Quoted: I heard you guys got a good amount of ice out there. Figured I'd drop by and say that i hope everyone is doing OK. Thanks, .....unfortunately....it's still coming down right now  I don't mind snow.....but ice sucks. My poor trees are looking bad right now, uggh. |
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i got stuck while i was onsite working today.. i tried for an HOUR to shovel the ice around my tires so i could get out. never happened i finally had a lady call a couple other guys and we PUSHED my car back onto the road... we put the car in drive and were able to push it back on to the road (this was basically farm propery i was on. and i had driven off road to a house and was on grass)
boy i might just be sick tomorrow |
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lots of ice here. I almost fell as soon as I stepped outside.
as a little test, I placed this 6920 on my deck last night at 10.00PM before bed and left it there until I got home at 500PM from work just to see if it would still work, not that I thought it wouldnt  But I fired the mag in it without incident. Enjoy pics of my brutality! Oh and the eotech was fine
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Heres an idea...I have a RRA you can leave out next time. Ill keep the Pony here in my stable safe and warm. You still get your experiment, I get to see a Colt in out of harms way. 
We all win! lol Rock on! HAHA yeah right
trust me, that pitiful display of what i did was nothing for that rifle. Besides, it was just a litte wet and cold. And some one has to do it right? who else would have tried that stunt? 
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Apparently you are all living in denial.
Al Gore and the Bamster say we have this thing called Global Warming. You sure the power loss is not due to melting powerlines and that poping and cracking fron the trees could be due to the fact that they are on fire. So far its not too bad in my area, 4 or 5" of snow and a light coating of ice. Havent heard about any power outages yet but I am sure they will be coming. |
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The main roads by my house here in Louisville were a frickin' mess. I slide around on the roads a bit on the way in to work this morning. Since my boss is a douche, I'll probably be repeating the process tomorrow on the ice if the forecast holds true.
Everything outside looks covered in ice, right now. |
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Damn just got power back on. The power went off about 9:30 am this morning. Several trees down and power lines across the road could not get out either way until 4:00 pm. The tried to kick the power back on at 1:00 pm and the transformer blew at the substation 2 miles away and it sounded like a canon going off. There are still several without power. I'll put up some more pics in the morning.
Hope everyone is ok and has no damage. |
| It's getting pretty bad where I'm at. Power was off for about three hours, but came back on, but is flickering like crazy. The news said about 600 people are without power in Boyd. Tree limbs are falling about every 30 seconds and a huge tree just fell in the hills behind my house. |
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I'm at a dealer show in Louisville and need to travel back home to GA tomorrow. My plan was to wait until 9ish to head out so that the sun and snowplows/ice trucks could help clear out the roads.
I'm only traveling interstate 65 down to Nashville and then home from there. Not being from around here- how are the interstates during a storm like this? Are the road crews pretty good about de-icing the roads? It's supposed to stay below freezing most of the day tomorrow. Hopefully I'm worrying about nothing but wanted some advice from some local arfcommers. |
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My trees are in the process of coming apart. This ice is going to finish off whatever the wind storm weakened.
ETA: I just cleared a branch from the driveway with my Sawzall.
All the while I heard *snap* *crackle* *woosh!* from the neighborhood. The tops fell out of 2 neighbors trees while I watched. It's gonna be an interesting drive in this morning. |
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Whoopee! UK just cancelled classes for today so I don't have to drive in to school. Too bad as I had a couple of practicals but can always make those up later. Good for you, bad for me. I am a plan B employee. For some reason, they consider me essential. 
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The thermometer in the car said 53F at 07:30, in Pikeville. By the time I got to Paintsville, it was 33F, and US 23 was closed on the north side of town. What a change in 45 miles. Trees down everywhere, some pretty big power outages, radio station down. I was kinda hoping the power would be off so I could close down and go home.
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I got sent home early so I've been making good use of my time by doing nothing. Maybe I'll start trimming a couple cans of brass I have sitting here. Dad in Meade Co. has been w/o power since early this morning; line's down right in front of his house. Bro in Richmond lost power some time this morning. I'm nice and cozy with all the lights burning bright. Branches are still falling; one just now.
Here's some pics of the neighborhood: Walking on ice last night 
Out the back door, 0400 today 
My poor trees
My white dog isn't white. 
Neighbors yard 
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Our power went out about 0400 this morning, and is still off. I'm posting this from the the Hilton where my wife works, as they've given us a room since she has to work tonight and in the morning. So far we've spoken to family members in Lexington, Richmond, and Shelbyville and all are without power.
View from our deck. 
There's a car under there somewhere. 
Leaving our neighborhood. 
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Heres an idea...I have a RRA you can leave out next time. Ill keep the Pony here in my stable safe and warm. You still get your experiment, I get to see a Colt in out of harms way.
We all win! lol Rock on! HAHA yeah right
trust me, that pitiful display of what i did was nothing for that rifle. Besides, it was just a litte wet and cold. And some one has to do it right? who else would have tried that stunt? I'll do it x10  dont make me do to that poor colt what I did to my old HK91
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In Berea here and we havent had power since 10 am tuesday and they said wont for another 2-3 days. Staying at a friends house till they get power back on. Everything froze and 50% trees are stripped of limbs or completely fell over. Richmond same way. My work is only a handful of placs with electric 1st shift only the ones working, 2 & 3 got to stay home So I had to drive both days in this nasty crap. We'll see what its like in the am. be safe all
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