Ready for another ice storm?????

Forecasters are predicting up to 1" of ice to fall here Thursday Night and Friday morning. Wife is out of town so I stopped by the local IGA to find shelves already empty of bread and milk and eggs in short supply. I used to think it was all a conspiracy between the weather folks and grocery folks but after Feb 2009, most aren't willing to take the chance.

I've been getting my generator ready to run my 7 freezers in the studio if I have to. I can run a couple at a time so it was a full-time job in 09 to keep those, mine at home and my parents 2 going. They only have to be run an hour a day if they are kept closed. I am worried about 150 pounds of ground deer meat we have just packaged. I know we will have plenty of help eating it if it looks like it is in danger of ruining.

Good luck to those impacted.

I'm in NE Arkansas, and I sure hope it doesn't end up like 2009. I got lucky on the power outage, because my neighbor worked for the power company. I was only out for about 18 hours. My parents were out for 3 days, and my sister was out for 2 weeks. They're calling for us to get anywhere from 1/4" to 1 1/2 of freezing rain. Just depends on what the temps are. Good luck to you.

7 freezers holds a lot u mite need me to help

I am a lineman for a rural elec co-op. We serve 9 counties in southwest ky. I dont even like ice in my tea after 09. Ha ha. Hope everyone will remember the line men in their prayers if it gets bad. After 09 I put in an outdoor wood furnace, will be better prepared for my family if it happens again. My lights were off 13 days last time.

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Originally Posted by crossarm

I am a lineman for a rural elec co-op. We serve 9 counties in southwest ky. I dont even like ice in my tea after 09. Ha ha. Hope everyone will remember the line men in their prayers if it gets bad. After 09 I put in an outdoor wood furnace, will be better prepared for my family if it happens again. My lights were off 13 days last time.

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I admire the lineman as I have depended on many of them after our hurricanes to restore what we take for granted every day…..be safe and God Bless…..

I'm ready!!!! Bring it on!!!!! This yankee can handle it!!!

I got the generator out and fired it up to make sure it would run. I filled all the gas cans up and bought enough food for a week. I am ready...but not willing.

I was gassing my truck up last night and there was a guy in a new Chrysler van filling up 6 5-gallon cans of gas and putting them in the back of the van with his wife and kids in there. Nothing like risking your whole family over an ice storm.

Crossarm, you guys be careful out there. We had a lineman from Minnesota (I think) killed near here after the 09 storm. I watched crews from NC work on pretty much every line in SE MO during my snow goose hunts the whole month of Feb. Seems like they worked pretty much that whole year restoring the lines that came down.

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Originally Posted by crossarm

I am a lineman for a rural elec co-op. We serve 9 counties in southwest ky. I dont even like ice in my tea after 09. Ha ha. Hope everyone will remember the line men in their prayers if it gets bad. After 09 I put in an outdoor wood furnace, will be better prepared for my family if it happens again. My lights were off 13 days last time.

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Hopefully it's not as bad as 09. Hats off to you guys that have to try & repair all that damage. I work at a Electric co-op myself & all you lineman are appreciated.

Hats off to the lineman here and those fro Miss, Alabama and the Carolinas that came to help in 2009. I put in propane fireplace logs and a ceramic heater in the basement so I will have heat. If I lose power will have to unload freezers and take to friends with power and freezers, or stand in line and hope I can find a generator.
If this fails and powerout for a long time (11 DAYS in 2009), then telling the wife and daughter go stay with her girlfriend, I'm cleaning out the freezers and flying to Florida to crappie fish with friends wintering there. Beback when the power is back on. Best of luck to all, be safe and don't take any chances.

Thanx guys. mrdux I remember well the guy that got killed. Transformer pole broke with him on it.

Well this yankee moved south to get away from winter! I looked ahead at the 10 day forecast and am now wondering if I'll be able to fish again this year:fish. Mrdux, if your needing help with that deer meat I'll be right over. :Rofl

You guys to the east of KY Lake had better be prepared. It is slicker than goose crap here with 1/4 inch of ice with about 1 inch of sleet on top. Sleet is forecast then snow for the rest of the day.

We got lucky and dodged a bullet, thank The Lord. Only had one trouble call all day and it was a house fire. Poor woman lost everything but she has a big family that will help her. We got a little ice and a little sleet but are in good shape. Thanks for everyones thoughts

waiting for the second wave that's supposed to be here tomorrow, so far everything in Louisville is COOL:santa

I work in management for Ameren Missouri. We were a big part in that 09 ice storm along with many others in getting the power back on in Western Kentucky and southeast Missouri. The amount of work and logistics that goes into a major storm like that is off the charts. When something like that takes place, it is no fun. So much can happen. Though I will tell you, it is pretty awesome to work hard and make a difference in times of need. The devistation in some areas was astronomical!

DKB23 you are correct. We all take electricity for granted when it is up. 2009 was a game changer, Major logistics, I know one supervisor locally that retired Dec 2008 from the local electric cooperative, he was in Florida for the winter and was called to come back and work as a subcontractor to lead Mississppi crews here in Central KY. Ice storms are a major inconvenience to the customers, the power companies and to all the lineman in state and those that come from out of state to help restore power. They work LONG cold hours for days, weeks even months. During 2009, I thanked several lineman while eating breakfast at local restaraunts before going to work myself for their services. By the way,they came to Etown, established power to motels and restraunts that did not have power, so they could eat warm meals and get some sleep in a warm place after after those log days. Several people had problems with that, but I don't think they saw the big picture.

Many of the electrical contractors who we were around in SEMO had actually brought large generators with them and hooked the motels up to them. I missed 9 days of my snow goose hunts in 09 because Sikeston, MO had no power. That meant we had access to no lodging, food or fuel. Pretty pointless to try to bring a bunch of hunters from as far as 16 hours away into those conditions.

I know some farmers in SEMO who got rich helping the line crews. Most of the main lines were down in farm areas where the roads might be 2 miles apart and the farmers were on stand-by to use their huge tractors to drag the power contractor equipment across the gumbo mud fields. Everybody involved in that task earned their money.