Ice Storm from Hell

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by SoonerCoug

The national media are totally neglecting what is going on in Oklahoma.

Clearly the national media are anti-Okie bigots.

[TripletDaddy]

I have had had flights completely obliterated because of layovers in Dallas.....an ice storm comes through and I am grounded for hours.

How do those compare to the ones in OK? From the safety of a terminal, ice storms are really a sight to behold.

[FMCoug]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I have had had flights completely obliterated because of layovers in Dallas.....an ice storm comes through and I am grounded for hours.

How do those compare to the ones in OK? From the safety of a terminal, ice storms are really a sight to behold.

I would say the ice storms we get here are similar to the "normal" ones in OK, having lived in both places. But from the sounds of things, this one is anything but normal.

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by FMCoug

I would say the ice storms we get here are similar to the "normal" ones in OK, having lived in both places. But from the sounds of things, this one is anything but normal.

I would say it is "normal" compared to several others that I'm aware of in the past 10 years in the Southern Plains (Kansas-Texas), except this one happened in a swath that was centered directly on the two largest population centers in the state (OKC metro and Tulsa metro).

As for class discrimination, I think you'll find that neighborhoods with underground power service come up earlier because there are fewer breaks and they fix the lines that get the most people power the quickest. As for these being the wealthiest neighborhoods, I don't think so. Underground service is mostly in newer neighborhoods, yes.

[hyrum]

incidentally, if you're keeping score, the Bank of Beverly Hills is open, the lights are on, all available rooms are taken by refugees, and we are in need of a chain saw.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by hyrum

incidentally, if you're keeping score, the Bank of Beverly Hills is open, the lights are on, all available rooms are taken by refugees, and we are in need of a chain saw.

Call the local bishop. I'm sure he can find one for you.

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Call the local bishop. I'm sure he can find one for you.

Fr. Beltran is mean with the bow saw, but for this heavy work I went with Johnny from Purcell, job done.

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by hyrum

incidentally, if you're keeping score, the Bank of Beverly Hills is open, the lights are on, all available rooms are taken by refugees, and we are in need of a chain saw.

If you find one can I borrow it?

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This is one hell of a storm. Fortunately(?), we actually lost nearly all our trees in the flood over the summer, so we don't have much to clean up. My older boy goes to the only school in the district still without power, so he's been home all week. Other than that we're back to normal.

Thanks for the post on my behalf, Sooner. Regarding your question, we girls stick together and the ladies were kind enough to check on me. Hope you and SoonerUte get your power back soon!

[Jeff Lebowski]

That's just incredible. Best of luck to all of you.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by SoonerCoug

The national media are totally neglecting what is going on in Oklahoma.

First of all, it's 32 degrees inside my house. (I'm posting from a hotel.)

Several inches of ice covered everything. Every other tree in this city is split down the middle and laying in the road. Trees collapsed on power lines all over the place. I have never seen anything like this. ~700,000 people were without power originally, and now it's down to about 500,000.

Luckily, FEMA is here. They're passing out bottles of water, as if we couldn't eat the snow.

Wow- I had heard it was bad in the Midwest, but I didn't know it was that bad! Good luck to you.