Ice Storm

While all that ice does suck and hurt utilities, it does make a beautiful landscape. It happens here in CT every couple of years.

Wow. That is too much ice. Hope everybody is doing well and gets power/utilities back soon.

Nice Pics... \r Looks like somthen out of a Doomsday Movie or somthen...lol

HS! That's crazy. 90 days without power?\r \r I need to go get a generator for my home. It's probably only a matter of time before a hurricane hits NC something nasty again or we get ice like that. We got it bad, granted not THAT bad, a few years ago and had friends staying in our apartment. We were one of the few areas around Chapel Hill/Durham that had power for a few days.

Yeah, a lot of the pics that I've seen are gorgeous.\r \r Jared - Yeah, most of them are the really small communities that have less then 500 people in them.\r \r I've read that the ice caused over $50 million worth of damage to the power infrastructure alone, which is sure to increase over the next few weeks as they discover more damage not initially found.\r \r My dad does \"Rider's Assist\" for the State Patrol, and he saw 3 semi's worth of telephone poles drive by him in less then 5 minutes.\r \r The Public Power district ordered $1 million worth of poles to begin with. That's a lot of poles, as they are not very expensive.

Beautiful pics!! The windmill pic and the barbed wire pic are my faves.\r \r I was watching the news where a family of 3 living in a 3 bedroom house took in 41 people in NM. That's a total of 44 people in a 3 bedroom house until the blizzard passed. The way they were prepared to feed all the people was that they were caught behind an Affiliated Food truck. What are the odds?

The extensiveness of this storm will have lasting effects on the western part of Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. The loss of livestock because of suffocation and lack of food and water is enormous. This is further expounded by the fact that the farmers do not have electricity to pump water or heat their homes. There are some towns that are effectively shut down. People are being relocated because of the lack of power. We are looking at a long term process of rebuilding.

That brings back memories of living in Ok.\r \r I lived in a town of 25,000 but there would still\r \r be a couple bouts of power losses each year.\r \r People on the outskirts had it the worst as they were\r \r last to get help. Every year a huge sales spike \r \r in generators sales the first big storm. Not many\r \r Boy scouts there eh?

Those pics are unbelievable. I know utilities (up North) design for the additional weight of ice on power lines but that ice is rediculous.\r \r

Been there, done that. Not fun at all. Check out these stats:http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/weather/p/icestorm.htm\r My parents electrical service was ripped right off their house.