I could hardly understand what that rebel was saying other than gro-ove. What a Forrest Gump accent. The grove looks like where one of my deer stands are. Maybe I should let the national news networks know how beautiful it is.
Damn - Oxford got it bad...
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Some shameless self promotion, but NWS used one of our cameras to list damaged buildings in a storm report. They used another to give an update on conditions in Kosciusko. Skycams...not just for tornadoes. Also been used to detect and report wildfires.
It's worse than the 1994 Delta event simply because it spans a strip across the entire state instead of just one smaller area. This is the worst ice storm in recent history in our state. That will become clear as we deal with very cold temps for multiple days and so many people are without power and heat. I hope I'm wrong, but there is a real risk tonight and tomorrow night for elderly.
The south delta is an area I'm very worried about with the lack of government emergency services. The southern portion of the delta was especially hard hit with ice accumulation. Some of those counties were over 95% with power outages. You won't see power restored until the ice melts, and that isn't happening soon.
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I thought he was saying "cut the branches out of the road" (paraphrasing). He does have a strange accent though.
I hate it for the trees, but **** the fans and their feelings
Maybe because I'm highly involved in weather, but this event, for me, supersedes rivalries. There's some large scale suffering going on and it's going to last a while due to the prolonged cold.
In the 3rd paragraph here, MDOT says it has 135 snow plows and 64 motor graders, so they're pretty well equipped for occasional winter weather.
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MDOT treating roads ahead of Winter Storm Fern
MDOT treating roads ahead of Winter Storm Fern
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@Xenomorph - check in with us. Let us know you have not succumbed to Oxford.
In his defense, he didn't wish misfortune on anyone just their feelings & disposition.
None of us want true hardships on anyone.
ETA: The Ayatolah & Putin not withstanding.
Maybe it's the Harvey Updyke coming out in me but I hope like hell the ice rips every limb from their beloved oaks in the grove and turns it into a pasture.
Not a horticulturalist, but in my experience, as long as it's just limbs and not into base of the trunk, they have a chance of rebounding. Over the years I've seen pine, oak, ornamentals, etc. bounce back from major damage. Won't look the same, certainly.
Nobody is suffering in "The Grovvve, which is the subject of this thread and the only thing I was referencing was the trees and their fans feelings for them. My own daughter has been told they won't have power for a minimum of 2 weeks and I hauled a dozen propane tanks to them and their neighbors today so you have obviously read more into my post than there was
You’re misremembering. It covered multiple states.
From the Weather Channel. It’s ranked as the 2nd worst ice storm of all time.
Feb. 9-13, 1994, Southern Ice Storm
The second worst ice storm in history hit the South Feb. 9-13, 1994. Extensive damage totaling $3 billion was reported in portions Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.1994 ice storm facts:
- Of all the states affected, Mississippi Tennessee and Alabama saw the worst impacts.
- More than 2 million lost power. A half million were still without power three days after the storm. Some residents in Mississippi were without power a month after the storm.
- More than 80,000 utility poles were pulled down by the weight of the ice.
- Downed trees and limbs caused widespread damage to homes, businesses and vehicles. Many roads were blocked as well, making travel nearly impossible in some areas.
- In Mississippi, 3.7 million acres of commercial forests were damaged severely.
- At least nine deaths related to direct or indirect impacts from the storm.
I'm South of there, but got plenty of tree damage. This will be a chore to deal with.
And it’s not over. Going to take a while to get things cleared & power in for a lot of people. We dodged a bullet here in Madison & I thank God for it. But a lot of people in north MS have real problems right now.
So.. the generator is sucking down 15 gallons of the strong stuff every 24 hours.
My kids will qualify for a minor in EE after all the mental gymnastics of figuring out what they can run with 6800 available watts.
My son and I spent 3 quality hours of bonding time this morning at daybreak running chain saws so we could clear the drive way and venture out like Hobbits leaving the Shire in search of gas.
If being in a room with a kerosene heater during every waking hour will kill you, I’m a dead man. Began Sunday morning with 15 gallons. Currently down to 7. That’s tomorrow’s problem.
I cannot keep 20 gallon propane tanks from freezing up on my generator no matter what I do. Putting them in front of the exhaust might extend the life…. But barely so. 4 hours is all I get before it stops flowing. Hence the swap to gas…
AT&T is completely overloaded and is probably throttling their bandwidth. No dice hot spotting phones to a Roku. But…. T-Mobile is ginning, baby! I’ve got a hotspot for work that I use from time to time and it’s money.
My current setup:
From APC battery backup with a USB C charging cord to the T-Mobile hotspot. The APC was fully charged yesterday and is at 83% tonight.
From T-Mobile hotspot with Ethernet to my WiFi router. Router has to run off the generator but thems the breaks. It’s too power hungry to run off the APC
I went in my router setting and swapped it to a Wireless Access Point.
Currently we have impeccable WiFi signal throughout the house. Pay no mind to the toilet that is frozen in the spare bedroom because we’ve kept the door shut back there.
I shot the bowl with a laser thermometer earlier and it said 27 degrees. Told The Wife to have my MiL come up and use it.. then her asscould be as cold as her heart.
This 17ing blows and yet I can’t help but feel fortunate compared to so many. Checked on an elderly neighbor this morning. Her house was freezing. She had run out of firewood in the house and wasn’t strong enough to get the tarp off her stack out back due to the 2 tons of ice on it.
We brought enough in to last her a couple of days and she says her POS son is supposed to come down and stay with her tomorrow.
19.83% chance kids go to school here next week.
Maybe you're right. I thought it was just a strip across MS that was effected. Before I posted, I glanced at the Jackson NWS page on the 1994 ice storm, which I now see only shows the map including the Jackson NWS coverage area. The area of the country during that ice storm was much larger and covered multiple states, plus it paints an area of 2-6" inches of ice accumulation. I can't even fathom that.
I stand corrected. But at the same time, we don't know the full effect of this ice storm yet. The upcoming days will tell us how bad it really was, and I hope it doesn't make that top 10 list.
I have you know that I am currently posting from my "escape room", door locked as usual, with *** firmly planted on comfortable 72 degree porcelain while the kids are screaming at each other about who gets the last pack of Little Debbie valentines mini cakes for their lunchbox tomorrow (which my wife is packing of course, and charting her course of action to interrogate me about why I take so long in said "escape room" during such a laborious time before bedtime)
Thawing out that room, my friend, should be your first order of business. I wish you luck.
Oh this years ice storm is pretty bad from pictures I’ve seen. The worst part about this one is that it’s not warming back up for a while to help melt it.
Bad in Union County as well. We getting by… Hearing very bad reports out of Tippah county… no water, no gas, no nothing. Lots of elderly need checking in on.
Reed Timmer is in Oxford and is a good follow.
The mayor of Oxford is sitting in her warm house with electricity on doing TV interviews while the majority of Oxford doesn’t have power. Not a good look.
Time for these County EMA people and Supervisors to earn their keep instead of being first in line at the Mexican buffet.
Reed Timmer is in Oxford and is a good follow.
The mayor of Oxford is sitting in her warm house with electricity on doing TV interviews while the majority of Oxford doesn’t have power. Not a good look.
Time for these County EMA people and Supervisors to earn their keep instead of being first in line at the Mexican buffet.
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I live in Oxford, and it really is pretty bad. My power went off Saturday night and came back on late last night, so was only off about 2 days. I’ve got gas logs in the living room and in the den, and they kept the downstairs pretty warm - it was only when it got down to like 15 at night that it would feel a little cool, but everybody was plenty warm under blankets.
Haven‘t ventured out just because they’re asking people not to, and people I’ve talked to who have say a lot of the roads are still bad. Buddy of mine who had to drive on I-55 yesterday toward Grenada said it was completely iced over and barely even had ruts on one lane. Took him 2 hours to go about 30 miles.
I‘ve got a little 20 year old Honda 1000 portable generator that I hadn’t cranked in 10 years … a few days before the storm I got it out and it was running in no time. It saved us - I‘ve got an old fridge in the garage we use for beer and drinks, and we stuck our milk, eggs and other necessities in there and ran it off the generator. Also used it to recharge the little battery packs that kept our phones charged.
Every once in a while I think about doing a whole-home generator, but we live in town and our power is pretty reliable, so I struggle with the ROI. I think when this is over I’ll prob add another Honda, maybe in the 2000 or 3000 series.
Also, our water didn’t go out, so all in all we’re very lucky.
Haven‘t ventured out just because they’re asking people not to, and people I’ve talked to who have say a lot of the roads are still bad. Buddy of mine who had to drive on I-55 yesterday toward Grenada said it was completely iced over and barely even had ruts on one lane. Took him 2 hours to go about 30 miles.
I‘ve got a little 20 year old Honda 1000 portable generator that I hadn’t cranked in 10 years … a few days before the storm I got it out and it was running in no time. It saved us - I‘ve got an old fridge in the garage we use for beer and drinks, and we stuck our milk, eggs and other necessities in there and ran it off the generator. Also used it to recharge the little battery packs that kept our phones charged.
Every once in a while I think about doing a whole-home generator, but we live in town and our power is pretty reliable, so I struggle with the ROI. I think when this is over I’ll prob add another Honda, maybe in the 2000 or 3000 series.
Also, our water didn’t go out, so all in all we’re very lucky.
Meh, it's bad in spots, but it's got a long way to go to catch up with the 94 ice storm. A long way.
No doubt that it's bad. Agreed that there's still a ways to go for a lot of people.
But yeah, due to recency bias, we tend to forget how bad things were over time. That 94 storm is something you'll see once in a lifetime.
The difference between the 94 storm and the 2026 storm is that in 94 my parents were alive. The two freezers on their back porch and the canned vegetables pantry would have sustained us for 18-24 months. We could probably make 2-3 weeks with rationing now.