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Well, we were supposed to get snow on top of the ice, but it never materialized (whew!). I was talking to the tree-trimming company yesterday who sub-contract with the elect. co. and were out clearing lines and they reckon that we have the least damage they've seen thus far! (I find that unbelievable--you should see the trees without most of their limbs and bushes that are simply gone....all the warm weather had caused trees and flowers to bud out and now they're encased in over an inch of ice.) The further north you go--and we're talking each mile literally!--the more ice, the slicker the roads (it rained here and so the roads stayed wet but never froze. Here we were totally without power for 24 hrs--but they had predicted it to be 3-4 *days*. The only reason we were restored so quickly was the fact that our power supply comes from two different directions and the perimeters of town retained electricity fulltime. There are still numerous lines down, tho.
I just saw on the tv news that Kansas City is still reporting over 150,000 ppl in the metro area alone without power (was 185,000 just a few hours ago, so they're making progress) but the rest may have to wait up to a full week. And that is *with* crews brought in from approx five other states to help!
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