First major winter storm of the season...

ldarrellc · Senior Member

You be careful out there on those roads. I still would like to meet you this christmas. Not go to your funeral. so Be very careful and stay save and warm.

Steven · Expert Member

11-30-06 5:37pm lost electric. Transformers began popping like firecrackers all over town. Power lines smoking. Bright blue flashes filling the skyline. Sirens all night. Freezing rain and sleet. Trees cracking and limbs falling. One is on top of my house hanging over the incoming power line. No heat only candle light. Had to work my normal 10 hour shift today, in prison, 12-01-06. No heat at work, emergency lighting only. Nowhere to get a hot meal. All restraunts without power. No traffic lights, only lights in the near by towns I could see were at the hospitals and at work. Today I heard 3-5 days before a chance of power coming back on. Brother in law offered his generator then his power went off and he needed it. Getting really cold. Heard 500,000 without power. 9:37pm got a recorded call. AMERENUE asked is your power on. Got out from under the two blankets and sleeping bag and saw a little blue light on the VCR. Cranked up the heat. MUCH BETTER NOW Smile

Hope everyone else out there is OK.
Steven

ldarrellc · Senior Member

Guess we got lucky other then some high winds last night the bad weather missed us here in mississippi

coppercoins · Site Admin

Well, we ended up with what the NWS is calling 11 inches of snow. Looks more like an inch of ice and about five inches of snow on top of it, but who am I to use a ruler....so 11 inches it is. Because we got 7 inches of that after midnight, it doesn't count as November snow, so the total I measured as 5 inches won't break the November record of 8 inches because the missing 6 fell in December. Clear as mud?

Anyhow, Mikie and I went out and played in it for a couple of hours this afternoon, and it was fun. However much we did or didn't get, it was enough to cover the grass completely and make for piles a few feet tall on the sides of the driveway when I shoveled it. Heavy stuff, that sleet is.

Anyhow, we did end up with power outages here too, and the street up the hill to my house was slick as snot this morning - couldn't make it up the hill back to the house when we went out, so we went playing instead. When we got back the street had been plowed and I didn't have any trouble getting up the hill.

Temperatures are another story. It is currently 8 degrees here - pretty cold for this time of year. Well, shit, who am I fooling...it's pretty cold for any time of the year. Forecast low for tomorrow night is -2. That'll break some pipes.

creilly · Veteran Member

Here I am in MN with NO SNOW!! temps in 40-50's.....
Just thought I would rub that in for you people south of me.

coppercoins · Site Admin

Umm, there's only an inch in Kansas City, and none in Des Moines. We were the lucky ones this time.

Oh...and as far as rubbing it in...won't work on me, because I like temps below freezing and snow. If it were my choice it would be like that from November to March here.

creilly · Veteran Member

Well Pooh bear!!

I want snow. I have no way to punish my teenager without it in the winter. Im kidding. But I still want snow.

Dick · Expert Member

I hope you folks are happy with the nice weather we sent from CA. Had to take it easy on Coop. Don't want him to freeze. Temps down around 35, and he will hibernate, for sure! See, we Have mountains that tend to protect us from all that nasty weather you folks in the midwest got. I guess it is what you deserve, living there in Tornado Alley, and all "them flat lands". Except for Chuck, that old polar bear is livin' it up!
Dick

Steven · Expert Member

Beautiful when that bright globe of orange sends it's teasing rays dancing about the frozen ice covered tenticals of maple and oak on a cold southern Missouri morning bringing a hint of life giving warmth but not quite making it through to thaw the earth below.

So you end up busting your butt Laughing

Steven