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Ice Ice Baby

13 years ago

Here in west central Ohio we got 36 hours of freezing rain, sleet and snow. @1 inch of ice on everything at one point, @80,000 without power. Thankfully here in the Dayton area, some of the ice melted and fell off the trees before we got our 50-60MPH wind gusts yesterday.

This morning it's 14 degrees, I have 1" inch of "solid" ice on my driveway and walks and 2" of snow on top of that, plus I shoveled the drive and walks clean of 1/2" of ice Tuesday night. Tried to shovel this morning at 5:00AM, but it made things worse, so I threw a little salt and am hoping the sun will help out today, I'll try again after work. Just a real nice early February here in Ohio.

On the good side, we haven't had any major snow storms (at most @6" at any one time), the Miami Valley Orchid Show is being held in 2 weeks (2/19-20 at Cox Arboretum) and Phil didn't see his shadow yesterday. Hurry up spring!!!

How did everyone else fair through this storm?

Arthur, how about you down under?

Vanilla Bob :-)

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orchidnick
13 years ago
It only reached 68F yesterday afternoon and it went down to 38F tonight here in SOCAL and I feel very sorry for myself. Needed to read the above to put things in perspective!

I think Arthur has plenty of water but no ice.

Nick
arthurm
13 years ago
There has been no water from the sky for about three weeks but that is par for the course these around parts. Category 5 Cyclone Yasi was a long long way north of here. Fingers crossed for some rain soon. UV yesterday 13 and temperature near 100F on that old fashioned temperature scale.

PS. I have said many times how much i hate snow. Yuk!
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Checking in! I'm also in central OK and we have two acres of humongous Oak tree's and it's going to cost a pretty fortune to get the place cleaned up. We stand on the porch and listen to the trees in the creek (and ours) and they sound like machine guns going off when limbs break. Had two beautiful Crepe Myrtle next to the house which were seen from the road,...gone. They should grow back. Too dangerous to go in the backyard, ice is hitting our roof bigtime. Hoping a branch doesn't break. Power, now we were blessed, but I think it has to do with a gas plant up the road even though they probably have backup power. About 75% of customers in my zip code are without power, but we have it. Which means DS has it. The reason I think it has something to do with the plant is because it's gone off several times and an hour later it's back on like clockwork, if I'm not back I just jinxed myself. I figured out how to describe getting power back when you lose hope...which was us the first time. It's like walking into a room and hundreds of people are there for a surprise bday party all screaming Happy Birthday!!! lol
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highjack
13 years ago
Glad you didn't lose power Bob. I'll take snow any time over the dreaded ice.

You know the weather is strange when Corpus Christie International Airport is close due to ice.

Brooke
orrin_h
13 years ago
Tucson AZ had basically the freeze of the century last week; nothing like most of the country is dealing with, but we are sooo not used to this level of cold. Covering plants was pretty useless without some form of additional heating protection (xmas lights etc). Many cacti sort of 'explode' when water freezes internally; so do water pipes, which burst all over town (local hardware store ran out of supplies to repair them). Eep.

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-O-
westoh Z6
Original Author
13 years ago
WooHoo!!!

Got to 49 degrees here Sunday. Actually thawed the 3" of ice off of my sidewalks for the first time since 2/3. Got an e-mail from EOoM Friday, they will be shipping the order I placed on 12/28 today, Yipee!!!

Bob

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