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Originally Posted by Gangrell
Had the the biggest icestorm drive it's way through Kentucky and southern Indiana. They're saying it's the worst storm, period, the area's seen because of all the power outages, and deaths because people are using their gas heaters the wrong way.
I'm actually physically sick again, not to mention, everything's been iced over, they estimate over 500,000 people don't have power because so many of the trees collapsed on power lines from all the weight of the sleet and snow.
Was about to lay down the other night when I heard a boom, went outside and saw one of the powerlines caught fire. And it's snowing again.
Bah, winter sucks yo  |
What was the worst for us was, hearing the tree's "scream" as they broke, split, or busted under the weight of the ice, followed by the ensuing crash as limbs, trunks and tops covered with ice, shattered on the ice covered ground.
500,000 is very low, Arkansas had that yesterday, our local news, WAVE3 out of Louisville was reporting 1.5mill across the state, 200K in our region, with almost as much without water. Last report I got was just over 100K in the region, and missed state wide, yet those came with warnings that with the warming we could lose power again.
We were fortunate, power loss for less than 8 hours, water for 30 hours, interent was spotty yesterday for about 6 hours. Furthermore, DirectTv did not go out, so while the cable folks market there ability to deliver over inclement weather, which by the way, has not effected us since June 2004 when we moved in, they cannot deliver to my neighbors due to their lines being down. However, we did lose the HD service due to ice on our dish and LNB, but non-HD was there.
Mayor Abramson of Louisville, was pleading with folks on TV news to ventilate, ventilate, and get outside to get fresh air if you are using alternative heating sources.
http://www.courier-journal.com/artic...0420/-1/celebs
Our rural district is currently 90% back with water, and down to about 15K without electric, but Elizabethtown just reported a sub station going down at 4:00 PM, and crews working to get it back into operation.
Next is the dreaded clean-up...