snow and ice storm

bakaracer · Post by **bakaracer** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:39 pm

hope all you washington guys are doing good out there. I know some of you might be without power so stay warm and off the icy streets. not fun trying to drive in 1/4in of ice ontop of 7in of snow.

Bear45-70 · Post by **Bear45-70** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:45 pm

Doing OK here. No power loss and if there were I have 3 generators. Have an extensive wood supply and quads to get off my hill if the requirement arises and a 4X4 for street travel parked at the bottom of the hill if that becomes necessary. But thanks for asking. Hope all is well at casa Baka.

bakaracer · Post by **bakaracer** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:14 pm

got power so doing good. I got a 4000watt generator so if i loose power I can fire that up to run my heater,tv and computer. hope the other guys are doing good.

bakaracer · Post by **bakaracer** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:28 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdVG2tp_ ... ature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVQrX_e ... ature=plcp

a few videos I shot this morning.

mousewheels · Post by **mousewheels** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:29 pm

Good to hear you guys south are ok. A co-worker down south reported 1/2" of ice on top of snow, downed trees and no power. Northeast, several folks could not get out of their neighborhood, and had no power. We had it good - 1/8" of ice under snow on the truck to break free, almost zero traffic and only power glitches that kept resetting the 'puters.

turtle13 · Post by **turtle13** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:55 pm

Odd that you guys are getting a standard KC winter while KC is getting one of the most mild winters I have ever seen in my life... I we usually have atleast one really gnarly ice storm a year, and so far this year we have like 1 inch of snow...
Keep warm and safe, guys. Good to know you got generators incase you loose power, after loosing power about once a year you would figure i would learn that lesson.

eliteguy50 · Post by **eliteguy50** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:09 pm

They have already declared a snow emergency here. 14 hours before the start.

Ice is no problem, that is why we have studs. The weather channel keeps showing Seattle here.

Bear45-70 · Post by **Bear45-70** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:03 pm

turtle13 wrote:Odd that you guys are getting a standard KC winter while KC is getting one of the most mild winters I have ever seen in my life... I we usually have atleast one really gnarly ice storm a year, and so far this year we have like 1 inch of snow...
Keep warm and safe, guys. Good to know you got generators incase you loose power, after loosing power about once a year you would figure i would learn that lesson.

Actually it has been several years since we have had a real winter storm and this one barely qualifies. A number of years ago we had an 18" dump of snow, high winds and a second 18" of snow on top of the first frozen solid 18" of snow. Without power for a week, a 7 full days, mainly because not only were the local lines down but all the feeder lines and the main power lines were down. They were helicoptering crews in because the roads were impassable. The water system has several large tanks on top of the hill. When the tanks went dry on day 4 because there is no power for the well pumps. The wife spent the whole week at work because travel was impossible until day 6. This is just play fun on Mother Natures part. It happens but not every year.

Carnie · Post by **Carnie** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:18 pm

Last year, we in Joplin got 18-20 inches of snow. But that's crazy in our book. A couple years prior we had a huge ice storm. Power was out all over town for minimum of 8 days some places over two weeks. We couldn't walk outside because branches were snapping off of trees left and right. Glad you guys are doing okay though. Stay warm and safe!

bakaracer · Post by **bakaracer** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:59 am

the worst part of the northwest having a storm like this is that alot of places here is very hilly. thats the dangerous part. sliding down the road on ice is not fun at all.

turtle13 · Post by **turtle13** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:03 am

I forgot about the fact that you guys up there are way more hilly and mountainous then we have here in MO. Even when we got the like 18 or so inches in 24 hrs mentioned before, with ice to boot, and i was still able to get to work. Granted it took me 3 hours to get home rather than 30 minutes...
Where as if you guys get some where and it gets nasty, and your just screwed...
Either way stay safe guys.

niftyman · Post by **niftyman** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:20 am

After our earthquake 16000 homes went without power,water and a sewer system for 3 weeks some even longer

Bear45-70 · Post by **Bear45-70** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:40 am

niftyman wrote:After our earthquake 16000 homes went without power,water and a sewer system for 3 weeks some even longer

And this has what to do with anything relevant to the subject.

niftyman · Post by **niftyman** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:49 am

Just sharing yes you ard talking about snow and ice storms all so about having no power because of what mother nature decided to do.
so yes it has some relivance to the subject

stop trying to start a fight

see that no rude comments just thetanswer to the queston you asked

Bear45-70 · Post by **Bear45-70** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:44 am

niftyman wrote:Just sharing yes you ard talking about snow and ice storms all so about having no power because of what mother nature decided to do.
so yes it has some relivance to the subject

stop trying to start a fight

see that no rude comments just thetanswer to the queston you asked

Your earthquake has no relevance to our snow, none, nada, zero. zip.

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