Midwest ICE STORM?!?!

[ovrszd]

Woke up to 1/4" of ice. No broken trees. Raining now so it'll be gone in a few hours. NW Missouri.

 

[grnspot110]

We had a little frozen drizzle Saturday morning & some ice with rain this morning in north central MO, but no real damage!

 

[Redneck in training]

We have about 0.25" of ice and will get little more. It looks like there is very small potential for damage. Based in doppler radar it should stop raining in about an hour. Had to throw some hot water on our SAT dish to get rid of ice and make internet work again.

 

[kcflhrc]

As usual, the media hyped this out way beyond what it was. At least in Kansas City anyway.

 

[nybirdman]

As usual, the media hyped this out way beyond what it was. At least in Kansas City anyway.

You are lucky if you didn't get it,media hype or not.We went thru one,very serious.Main transmission lines ,huge metal towers came down.We had people without power for six weeks.We were lucky,lost some trees and a few local power lines and telephone but only were without for about four days.Ran four house with a little 2500 watt generator.Now the whole family has their own generators.

 

[kcflhrc]

You are lucky if you didn't get it,media hype or not.We went thru one,very serious.Main transmission lines ,huge metal towers came down.We had people without power for six weeks.We were lucky,lost some trees and a few local power lines and telephone but only were without for about four days.Ran four house with a little 2500 watt generator.Now the whole family has their own generators.

We had a bad one in 2002. Power was out for 2 days. I live rural now and have a big enough generator to run the frig and furnace. Last time power went out it was back on about 15 minutes after I got the generator hooked up.

 

[dirt ditch]

We are out of power and the new Generator has been running for over 10 hours. Got a lot more frezing rain last night so the ice got thicker. The power has been out for over 10 hours now. New generator is working great, the ice is just starting to melt, but there is about as many limbs on the ground as there is up in the trees.

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[PJSprog]

We're about 30 miles east of St. Louis, and had about 1/4" on Friday, but it was mostly melted by Saturday afternoon. Still some on trees and grass yesterday, but pretty much all gone this morning.

 

[dodge man]

West central Illinois, we had a glaze Saturday morning but it was gone by noon, the roads never got real bad and no ice build up so no power outages. Guess we got lucky.

 

[kcflhrc]

KDOT and MODOT did a fantastic job of pretreating around Kansas City. It certainly helped a lot.