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Oklahoma is being hit by the worst ice storm in 25 years. The ice and sleet started about 10 AM and isn't expected to stop until Sunday. The temperature isn't expected to go above freezing until next Wednesday.

I came home at 11:30 AM and the roads already were very slick with slush from the sleet. The temperature has continued to drop and they are expecting wide spread power outages due to the ice build up on power lines.

Fortunately, the wife ordered another rick of wood so we can have heat if the electricity goes out. We also have a gas stove and oven so we can cook. Lots of candles and an oil lamp will provide light and we have lots of food in the house.

I'll be glad to leave Oklahoma and move to Louisiana in two years, eight months, and two days. :)

Oklahoma is being hit by the worst ice storm in 25 years. The ice and sleet started about 10 AM and isn't expected to stop until Sunday. The temperature isn't expected to go above freezing until next Wednesday.

I came home at 11:30 AM and the roads already were very slick with slush from the sleet. The temperature has continued to drop and they are expecting wide spread power outages due to the ice build up on power lines.

Fortunately, the wife ordered another rick of wood so we can have heat if the electricity goes out. We also have a gas stove and oven so we can cook. Lots of candles and an oil lamp will provide light and we have lots of food in the house.

I'll be glad to leave Oklahoma and move to Louisiana in two years, eight months, and two days. :)

We're getting some of that right now in DFW. Went and stocked up on kerosene, dog food, and wood. Also have the benz filled up in case of electrical outage. ( I can use it like a small generator if need be)

If George Clooney isnt involved how am i for one supposed to care?

Michigan is also going to get hit pretty hard with ice. It's been warm here, so the ice is gunna play hell on the roads tomorrow.

ITS TEH OMG GL0BALZ WARMERINGZ0RX!!!1111!1!!!1

Great. And we're having the warmest winter since 1974 here.

so what actually happens in an ice storm then? is it where the ground temp is lower than the air temp so you get precipitation freezing on contact with the ground? just cuz i'm thinking that if there's ice forming the precipitation has to come down as liquid which means it must be at or above freezing point but you say the actual recorded temperature is well below freezing. i don't think we really get them over here so i don't have a clue what they are like.

Great. And we're having the warmest winter since 1974 here.

we were too, until late last night (I mean a warmer than normal winter)

so what actually happens in an ice storm then? is it where the ground temp is lower than the air temp so you get precipitation freezing on contact with the ground? just cuz i'm thinking that if there's ice forming the precipitation has to come down as liquid which means it must be at or above freezing point but you say the actual recorded temperature is well below freezing. i don't think we really get them over here so i don't have a clue what they are like.

it rains ice, not snow, not hail, but something inbetween, there is a foot of solid ice on my patio, my poor dog is sliding all over trying to get out to pee.

it rains ice, not snow, not hail, but something inbetween, there is a foot of solid ice on my patio, my poor dog is sliding all over trying to get out to pee.

Bah i live in way upstate NY we laugh at anything shy of 10 feet. If your dog doesnt dissapear under a snowdrift without a trace then you dont know winters.

Great. And we're having the warmest winter since 1974 here.

It's the warmth that kills ya here. In the Northern US, we live on the snow. Hell, back home we build houses with doors on the 2nd floor to get above the snowdrifts during winter. Its when it's warm, above freezing during the day, that kills ya. When the rain becomes ice it gets bad. It's like you're driving on a sheet of ice.

so what actually happens in an ice storm then? is it where the ground temp is lower than the air temp so you get precipitation freezing on contact with the ground? just cuz i'm thinking that if there's ice forming the precipitation has to come down as liquid which means it must be at or above freezing point but you say the actual recorded temperature is well below freezing. i don't think we really get them over here so i don't have a clue what they are like.

Exactly what the name says. It usually starts as freezing rain (rain that freezes on contact) and moves to sleet as the temperature drops. It does, however, stick to everything, similar to snow

I love Louisiana but it clearly has its share of bad storms too. Why are you so happy to be getting out of Oklahoma?

Michigan is also going to get hit pretty hard with ice. It's been warm here, so the ice is gunna play hell on the roads tomorrow.

ITS TEH OMG GL0BALZ WARMERINGZ0RX!!!1111!1!!!1

We're not getting anything.

We finally got snow for the first time this week though.

Exactly what the name says. It usually starts as freezing rain (rain that freezes on contact) and moves to sleet as the temperature drops. It does, however, stick to everything, similar to snow

It plays havok on roads and power lines. It gets really, really bad.

woo-hoo, can't wait for the storm to hit in full force here in Dallas. Hopefully classes will be closed on Monday.

We're getting some of that right now in DFW. Went and stocked up on kerosene, dog food, and wood. Also have the benz filled up in case of electrical outage. ( I can use it like a small generator if need be)

So, what brand of dog food do you eat? :eek:

so what actually happens in an ice storm then? is it where the ground temp is lower than the air temp so you get precipitation freezing on contact with the ground? just cuz i'm thinking that if there's ice forming the precipitation has to come down as liquid which means it must be at or above freezing point but you say the actual recorded temperature is well below freezing. i don't think we really get them over here so i don't have a clue what they are like.

An ice storm is a large quantity of freezing rain due to an inversion layer. Air higher up is above freezing. Air at ground level is below freezing. As rain falls it super-cools and freezes on contact to whatever it hits. This causes an ice layer to build up on everything.

Ice - like water- is heavy. During the huge ice storm in the north east about a decade ago (freezing rain for four straight days) it brought down almost the entire network of high-tension wires that brought all the power into Montreal. And by "brought down" I mean "collapsed the entire towers and lines". These fallen lines wind up getting buried into the ice on the ground and had to be carved out with chainsaws while the towers got rebuilt.

http://images.usatoday.com/weather/wice98.htm

Between the destruction of power lines, trees, etc, the roads also become impassable which makes emergency services completly ineffective.

We're having a pretty mild winter here. I went to the mailbox this morning in barefeet and shorts, no shirt. :D

I suppose it probably won't be too good come summer time. I'm thinking this mild winter isn't allowing the water to get too cold which means it won't take it too much to rise to the Hurricane formula. We'll see.

We're having a pretty mild winter here. I went to the mailbox this morning in barefeet and shorts, no shirt. :D

I suppose it probably won't be too good come summer time. I'm thinking this mild winter isn't allowing the water to get too cold which means it won't take it too much to rise to the Hurricane formula. We'll see.

So lucky, it finally started to get really ass-cold up here, not much snow as of yet, at least none that stays for very long...

so what actually happens in an ice storm then? is it where the ground temp is lower than the air temp so you get precipitation freezing on contact with the ground? just cuz i'm thinking that if there's ice forming the precipitation has to come down as liquid which means it must be at or above freezing point but you say the actual recorded temperature is well below freezing. i don't think we really get them over here so i don't have a clue what they are like.

The upper air temperature is above freezing so the precipitation comes down as rain. However, the lower air temperature is below freezing, so the rain freezes when it contacts the trees, power lines and ground. The trees break from the weight of the ice and hit the power lines when the limbs fall. The ice on the power lines weighs them down and they break. The result is lots of ice on the roads making driving almost impossible and wide spread power outages.:mad:

my poor dog is sliding all over trying to get out to pee.

Don't make snow cones out of the yellow ice. :D

Bah i live in way upstate NY we laugh at anything shy of 10 feet. If your dog doesnt dissapear under a snowdrift without a trace then you dont know winters.

this isn't a foot of snow, this is a foot of solid ice, I don't think you understand the difference.

Bah i live in way upstate NY we laugh at anything shy of 10 feet. If your dog doesnt dissapear under a snowdrift without a trace then you dont know winters.

Big difference between snow and ice my friend, big difference.

The weather all over has been pretty strange. Friends tell me it's been snowing in Southern California - Riverside, San Bernardino, Redlands - all places that never get snow. There've been blizzards in Colorado Springs, which is highly unusual. Another friend has reported that there has been no snow in Indiana, also unusual. Now ice storms in Oklahoma and Texas.

woo-hoo, can't wait for the storm to hit in full force here in Dallas. Hopefully classes will be closed on Monday.

UNT in dallas?

It's the warmth that kills ya here. In the Northern US, we live on the snow. Hell, back home we build houses with doors on the 2nd floor to get above the snowdrifts during winter. Its when it's warm, above freezing during the day, that kills ya. When the rain becomes ice it gets bad. It's like you're driving on a sheet of ice.

Horse http://www.nearlygood.com/smilies/kngt.gif:)

I just realized that if my power goes out we will all probably die.

we have no back up heat, we have an electric stove and oven, my manual can opener is broke, and I can only find 39 blankets..........

I don't wanna die.........http://forum.digital-digest.com/images/smilies/cry.gif

Ice storms are really depressing and sucky. *nods*

A few years ago when we had one, the only thing you could do was look out the window and see nothing but a sheet of ice one the window. And all that noise from the falling trees.. :(

Got some cool photos, though. :D

I love Louisiana but it clearly has its share of bad storms too. Why are you so happy to be getting out of Oklahoma?

I've been in Oklahoma to long, since 1988 which is 18 years and 4 months to long. :)

woo-hoo, can't wait for the storm to hit in full force here in Dallas. Hopefully classes will be closed on Monday.

Good for those who go to school. Bad for those who need to work to pay rent and eat.

I just realized that if my power goes out we will all probably die.

we have no back up heat, we have an electric stove and oven, my manual can opener is broke, and I can only find 39 blankets..........

I don't wanna die.........http://forum.digital-digest.com/images/smilies/cry.gif

Maybe you should fill some pots with water? Heat up some food? Find that emergency chocolate? Boink hubby to keem warm.

Give your kids the blankets, you wont need them. :p

I've been in Oklahoma to long, since 1988 which is 18 years and 4 months to long. :)

I've lived here longer than you have, hahahaha........oh wait........:(

So, what brand of dog food do you eat? :eek:

It's actually for my dog, DUKE. He's a bloodhound/Akita mix. Faithful, fat, and dumb as a rock.

The weather all over has been pretty strange. Friends tell me it's been snowing in Southern California - Riverside, San Bernardino, Redlands - all places that never get snow. There've been blizzards in Colorado Springs, which is highly unusual. Another friend has reported that there has been no snow in Indiana, also unusual. Now ice storms in Oklahoma and Texas.

Global warming....No, golbal cooling...no, a golbal cooling/warming...no...;)

If George Clooney isnt involved how am i for one supposed to care?

Oh, but George Clooney is involved. He's producing and starring in a new movie called A Storm in the Heartland, set in Oklahoma. No joke. It is the story of a veteran ER pediatrician who finds his hospital swamped with snake-bitten terrorists from a hijacked plane that was downed by the worst ice storm in Oklahoma in 25 years. Meanwhile, he gets intimate with an attractive female U.S. Marshal and battles corruption and nepotism within the hospital and eventually learns of and takes down a corrupt lobbyist who is defrauding American Indian tribes and the American public at the highest levels.

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ah i see, thanks for the education :). sounds really crappy :( . do you get them every year or is it like el nino where you have to get certain climatic conditions all happening at once for it to happen? back when my parents had a little farm up in the highlands they used to get snowed in almost every year with no central heating or double glazing so they always had to have a huge supply of logs stocked up before winter otherwise we'd have all frozen, we used to all sleep in the living room by the fire with all the hundreds of cats my parents kept occupying the end of our sleeping bags. my sympathies for all you getting stuck in this, have a :fluffle: for what warmth it might give, you know, with the friction and stuff :)

I just realized that if my power goes out we will all probably die.

we have no back up heat, we have an electric stove and oven, my manual can opener is broke, and I can only find 39 blankets..........

I don't wanna die.........http://forum.digital-digest.com/images/smilies/cry.gif

Break up the furnature and burn it in the living room. Use an axe to open the can goods. Buld an ice house in the back yard and move in. Camp out in the back yard. Use a sled to go the local lake and go swimming naked. :eek: You will be fine.

guess who just showed up on my freaking porch?

their heater is out........the kids are cold, they claim not to have electric heaters or blankets (which I actually believe)

Ice storms are really depressing and sucky. *nods*

A few years ago when we had one, the only thing you could do was look out the window and see nothing but a sheet of ice one the window. And all that noise from the falling trees.. :(

Got some cool photos, though. :D

yeah ice storms are so beautiful the next day when the sun comes out and hits all that ice. its like the whole world is made of diamonds.

guess who just showed up on my freaking porch?

their heater is out........the kids are cold, they claim not to have electric heaters or blankets (which I actually believe)

your neighbours? shoot them with your potato gun! they can warm up as they run away, you'd be doing them a kindness really ;)

It's actually for my dog, DUKE. He's a bloodhound/Akita mix. Faithful, fat, and dumb as a rock.

Obviously not the same dog as the one in the Bush bean commercials. Damn, and I want those secret recipes. :D

Oklahoma is being hit by the worst ice storm in 25 years. The ice and sleet started about 10 AM and isn't expected to stop until Sunday. The temperature isn't expected to go above freezing until next Wednesday.

I came home at 11:30 AM and the roads already were very slick with slush from the sleet. The temperature has continued to drop and they are expecting wide spread power outages due to the ice build up on power lines.

Fortunately, the wife ordered another rick of wood so we can have heat if the electricity goes out. We also have a gas stove and oven so we can cook. Lots of candles and an oil lamp will provide light and we have lots of food in the house.

I'll be glad to leave Oklahoma and move to Louisiana in two years, eight months, and two days. :)


I was once caught in the 'narth waads' of maine in an ice storm when the power went out. We also thought that having food, wood and a wood stove would make everything a-ok. But there was no generator! And the house was on a well.

No toilets for you lacadeamon!!!!

Oh, but George Clooney is involved. He's producing and starring in a new movie called A Storm in the Heartland, set in Oklahoma. No joke. It is the story of a veteran ER pediatrician who finds his hospital swamped with snake-bitten terrorists from a hijacked plane that was downed by the worst ice storm in Oklahoma in 25 years. Meanwhile, he gets intimate with an attractive female U.S. Marshal and battles corruption and nepotism within the hospital and eventually learns of and takes down a corrupt lobbyist who is defrauding American Indian tribes and the American public at the highest levels.

Sounds like a non fiction story out of Washington DC. :D

Speaking of Ice Storms...I need to clean my freezer. That's about as close to an ice storm I can expect. :D

do my neighbors not understand that I hate them? do they not get it that I would love to see them all locked up forever and ever and ever? why are they here????

why?!
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NYC is lame.... :headbang:

do my neighbors not understand that I hate them? do they not get it that I would love to see them all locked up forever and ever and ever? why are they here????

why?!
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Boot them out into the cold.

Boot them out into the cold.

but I feel sorry for the kids.......especially the little ones

boy 10
boy 9
girl 7
boy 4
baby girl 8 months

can't I just boot the parents out?

how bad would I be to send them across the street?

hubby is calling their landlord to yell at them and make them do something like bring electric heaters or I don't know, I really hate these people.......

maybe hubby and I can pay for them to stay in a hotel?:confused:

do my neighbors not understand that I hate them? do they not get it that I would love to see them all locked up forever and ever and ever? why are they here????

why?!
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Kill them smunks.

It's really your only option at this point.

NYC is lame.... :headbang:

It's traditional that people with less than ten posts use a gun smiley, not the headbang.

can't I just boot the parents out?
Sure. Weren't they taking pot-shots at your dog not too long ago?

maybe hubby and I can pay for them to stay in a hotel?:confused:

Maybe, would you rather save the money or spend the night with them?

Kill them smunks.

It's really your only option at this point.

I am about convinced of that. They are like vermin, in my freaking house.

I tell you one thing, I am not going to be the good hostess, I refuse to put my dog out, I don't care if he does try to eat them

Sure. Weren't they taking pot-shots at your dog not too long ago?
yeah, and that freaking boy who hit my daughter......and they tried to set my house on fire New Years eve of 06, and the kids were shooting potatoes at my house last week......



Maybe, would you rather save the money or spend the night with them?

it wouldn't be a nice hotel, cab ride plus hotel, I am out maybe $100......

but I feel sorry for the kids.......especially the little ones

boy 10
boy 9
girl 7
boy 4
baby girl 8 months

can't I just boot the parents out?

how bad would I be to send them across the street?

hubby is calling their landlord to yell at them and make them do something like bring electric heaters or I don't know, I really hate these people.......

maybe hubby and I can pay for them to stay in a hotel?:confused:

Kick them out. Well, the parents.

Tell them you only have enough room, and supplies for the kids and that you can't keep them there.

Or give them a blanket and tell them to get the hell out. :)

Oh, and go make sure they aren't stealing your things.

Kick them out. Well, the parents.

Tell them you only have enough room, and supplies for the kids and that you can't keep them there.

Or give them a blanket and tell them to get the hell out. :)

Oh, and go make sure they aren't stealing your things.

they are sitting in the floor behind me, while hubby is calling the red cross to pick them up, apparently their landlord is uninterested in their current plight seeing as how they have been squatting for 3 months.

do my neighbors not understand that I hate them? do they not get it that I would love to see them all locked up forever and ever and ever? why are they here????

why?!
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You should have just said that the ice froze your doors shut and you couldn't let them in.

Oh, and welcome to a normal winter from Minnesota. You seem to have gotten our weather this year. Thanks for taking it off our hands.

We have had little snow, it was warm up until a few weeks ago(Now it's freezing balls outside), and overall it hasn't sucked.

However, the day after the one bloody time it snowed(Alot), it got warm for a day, then balls-cold, leaving everything in a nice sheet of 6 inch ice, that for some ungodly reason the City crew hasn't gotten around to salting and sanding the bloody streets yet. So, for the past two weeks, I have been driving on thick as hell sheets of ice.

Seriously, what the hell is going on with that? Usually they have it off in a day, but it's been there for bloody two weeks now.

Uh... a bit of a tangent.

Anywho, thanks for taking our weather.

yeah, and that freaking boy who hit my daughter......and they tried to set my house on fire New Years eve of 06, and the kids were shooting potatoes at my house last week......

Wow, fuck them.



it wouldn't be a nice hotel, cab ride plus hotel, I am out maybe $100......
That would a humanitarian effort considering the shit they've done to you.

they are sitting in the floor behind me, while hubby is calling the red cross to pick them up, apparently their landlord is uninterested in their current plight seeing as how they have been squatting for 3 months.

What do you mean "squatting"?

guess who just showed up on my freaking porch?

their heater is out........the kids are cold, they claim not to have electric heaters or blankets (which I actually believe)

Your mother-in-law?

What do you mean "squatting"?

Do you have doghouse? Put the parents there, along with the child who hit your daughter. Then call child protective services for the children. If they've been squatting, they've been doing worse.

I am about convinced of that. They are like vermin, in my freaking house.

I tell you one thing, I am not going to be the good hostess, I refuse to put my dog out, I don't care if he does try to eat them

Look, if these are the potato gun people, I would put them in the garage with a space heater and soup.

You know, send them a message like.

All I can say is that you are a better person than me for letting them in in the first place. I mean, I can't imagine there are no soup kitchens and such.

Do you have doghouse? Put the parents there, along with the child who hit your daughter. Then call child protective services for the children. If they've been squatting, they've been doing worse.

Doesn't answer my question...

What is squatting?

What is squatting?

Living in a residence without paying for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting

do my neighbors not understand that I hate them? do they not get it that I would love to see them all locked up forever and ever and ever? why are they here????

why?!
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Because you and Mr. Smunkeeville are wonderful people? :confused: :confused:

Don't make snow cones out of the yellow ice. :D

Works best when throw under someone's dorm room door in the middle of the night. Noone has ever figured out where the smell and wet yellow spot on the floor came from.

What is with all the extreme weather that has been going on ... hurricanes, storms, tsunamis, and 2006 was the hottest year ever, or something like that. My power was out in the pacific northwest for days after the storm a month ago. And we got snow in Seattle twice this winter.

Must be Global Warming. Shit.

What is with all the extreme weather that has been going on ... hurricanes, storms, tsunamis, and 2006 was the hottest year ever, or something like that. My power was out in the pacific northwest for days after the storm a month ago. And we got snow in Seattle twice this winter.

Must be Global Warming. Shit.

ya answered your own question there.

well, I called my church and they brought the church van and drove the family to the red cross shelter.......the shelter wouldn't keep the baby so they brought her back to me, I wish I could keep her, poor kid, I gave her a bath this morning and she acted like she never had one......:(

I have to head to the store soon and pick up baby supplies, so everyone send good ice driving thoughts.....I already called Child Services and told them the situation, I have to keep the kid through the weekend though anyway.

Celtland and Smubnk and anyone else who got the ice, thanks for taking the hit. The forecast earlier was for that to hit here in Iowa where I'm visiting family. No ice storm, but it's still cold as the proverbial witches teat. I can't remember the last time I saw negative F, if ever. (Yeah, I know some of ya'll will laugh - just remember I grew up in southeast Texas.)

Your mother-in-law?

LOL. From all that poor Smunkee has told us about these people, no, but that was just too good to let pass.

Living in a residence without paying for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting

In this case, sounds like they just stopped paying their rent.

well, I called my church and they brought the church van and drove the family to the red cross shelter.......the shelter wouldn't keep the baby so they brought her back to me, I wish I could keep her, poor kid, I gave her a bath this morning and she acted like she never had one......:(

I have to head to the store soon and pick up baby supplies, so everyone send good ice driving thoughts.....I already called Child Services and told them the situation, I have to keep the kid through the weekend though anyway.

Good luck and good job. Sounds like you did the right thing - a shelter and CPS sound just like what these people need.

well, I called my church and they brought the church van and drove the family to the red cross shelter.......the shelter wouldn't keep the baby so they brought her back to me, I wish I could keep her, poor kid, I gave her a bath this morning and she acted like she never had one......:(

You should have let them stay. If weather worsens and you find yourself trapped without food, you can eat them.

I hope bitchkitten is all right....

What is with all the extreme weather that has been going on ... hurricanes, storms, tsunamis, and 2006 was the hottest year ever, or something like that. My power was out in the pacific northwest for days after the storm a month ago. And we got snow in Seattle twice this winter.

Must be Global Warming. Shit.

It kicks ass, that's what. It wasn't like the snow we got here was anything serious, so all that happened was school got cancelled (and as a senior, I don't have to make up snow days =D).

The wind storm sucked, though. That really sucked. No power for five days and it was freezing.

And Global Climate Change (Not warming, everywhere. It's a misnomer.) is gonna mean we get more snow and more intense snow in the winters. Flooding will become worse too, so all us unfortunate Eastsiders are gonna have fun...