MORE ICE ON THE WAY...

TUESDAY EDIT: NO ICE...WOOHOO GOTTA WORK NOW...BOOHOO

It's here...the freezing drizzle started about 20 minutes ago. We are in a winter/ice warning until midnight TOMORROW NIGHT!!! UGH...the fear of losing power is NOT a good one. When we moved here, 12/30/01, we had been here about 4 weeks before THE WORST ICE STORM EVER in the Kansas City area. I remember hearing LOUD cracking noises and the roof shaking while DH and I were in bed. I'd say, "WHAT WAS THAT?" Dh said probably ice falling off the trees onto the roof. We were fortunate that year...we never lost power. Here is a synopsis of that storm:

The initial storm

Up until the point of the storm the weather in Kansas City had been remarkably pleasant; The city appeared to be experiencing a mild winter, and 2 days before the storm the tempature was over 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
According to Weather Central;
"An arctic front moved slowly southward into the Central Plains from January 29 to 30, resulting in a shallow layer of cold air near the surface. Meanwhile, a strong southwesterly jet stream began transporting a large surge of moist air with connections to the tropical Pacific. A strong temperature boundary developed, separating the warm, moist airmass across the southern U.S. from the colder, drier airmass to the north. As surface impulses moved along the frontal boundary, the stage was set for a widespread variety of winter weather. An upper level low progressing eastward across the central Pacific provided the added ingredients for a prolonged precipitation event."

Aftermath

The storm left up to 2 inches over the affected reigions on the evening of January 30th. Affected infrastructure initially held, but began to crumble as the night wore on. Electric transformers were prone to explosion and in some cases created small fires, and trees shattered under the weight of hundreds of pounds of ice. After the 31st, More than 650,000 residents were without power, including 350,000 in the Kansas City metropolitan area alone. In some cases, power didn't return to residents for nearly 14 days. Approximately 500,000 trees were affected in Kansas City alone, including 2 "Bicentennial Trees" which were estimated at being over 200 years old. States of emergency were announced by the governors of all 3 states.

I sure hope we aren't in for that again. DH is in sunny Tampa, FL and said it's 80 there. I said that is SO NOT NICE! LOL...but he'll get paid back when he can't get home tomorrow due to this storm.

Maybe tomorrow will turn into a HUGE quilty day for me! WOOHOO!!! (I'm supposed to work at Old Chicago tomorrow but if this ice storm transpires they can get along without me!)

Hugs
Laurie