Oh shit, where did this come from, its not like we need anymore snow or ice here or anything

[madokie]

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I'm in the northeastern part of oklahoma and all our trees are damaged and a lot of people are without power. the power line in front of our house is about 10 feet off the ground with a big assed tree limb laying on it. At least I still have the gen sitting in the back of our truck fueled up and ready to go

[helderheid]

1. It won't get higher than 30 here in Utah. Our air quality is at unhealthy with no storms in sight.

[BOSSHOG]

2. I recall the winter of 78

We were living in Farmington (AR). Terrible ice storm. Tore up the trees terrible bad. Fortunately we had gas heat.

[madokie]

6. We use wood pellets for heat and just bought a ton last week or so

[helderheid]

7. I have a pellet stove but with our air quality so bad we cannot use it.

[madokie]

11. bummer,

they are so clean burning, why don't they, the powers to be, differentiate between a regular wood stove and a pellet stove?

[helderheid]

20. They didn't - I did - you mean if I use it it won't add much to the pollution?

[madokie]

27. they are approved in oregan and colorado I know, I think, for sure

Denver has real strick pollution laws too

[helderheid]

31. Thanks!! I'll check into that - that will definitely be a help for us!

[BOSSHOG]

10. Its 39 and windy this am in South Mississippi

I never complain about the heat and humidity in the summer. That I don't mind. I can barely handle the winters down here; and my ankles and knees and elbows bitch at me for months. And, most likely we will be moving to Kansas in the next three our four years to be closer to my mother in law but I'll just have to tough it out. I hope you all stay warm until this nonsense passes.

[madokie]

12. Kansas is where there is only a bob wire fence between you and the north pole

thats going to be a change for you no doubt, and I feel for you too.

[MuseRider]

13. Heh,

that's Bob Waaaare Okie!

Hey from NE Kansas where we seemed to luck out with only a little ice and an inch of sleet. Still very slick around though. It seems the county commission would rather die that put a touch of sand on our roads. I think I might actually get home today, I have been stuck for a week at the farm.

Keep warm and I hope that branch does not take down your power.

[madokie]

16. maybe they're saving it for hard times huh

:shrug::rofl:

[rwork]

24. The joke goes

The only wind break we have is a barb wire fence and it is down.

[madokie]

29. Hadn't heard that one

:rofl:

[MuseRider]

14. Boss

if you move between me and your mother in law you could come warm your joints in my sauna, built specifically for my aging Rhematoid Arthritic joints in the winter. I would be pleased to share that and some beer with you someday.

[BOSSHOG]

17. Thanks My Dear

I can truly find no reason not to move to Kansas. The decision is all my wife's but she has yet to decide to retire. Her and her mother have to be working 28 hours a day or they are not happy. My mother in law is 74 and I have to hustle to keep up with her. I'm not crazy about the winters up there but I'm not crazy about the hurricanes down here. Hopefully, some year soon I will be a bonafide Kansas resident.

[madokie]

21. another thing, is the crawdads in ok and kansas are different from the crawdads in Mississippi

you alls crawdads are more like shrimp whereas our crawdads are more like a lobster, just saying

[BOSSHOG]

22. And theres a good reason for that

The Cajuns who were banished from Canada headed south towards the gulf and were herding their Extremely large crawfish. By the time they got parallel to Oklahoma along the Mississippi river they were so exhausted they were reduced to the size of Lobster. Many escaped and migrated west. Finally when they arrived at the Gulf of Mexico they had withered to the size of today's crawfish; however during the journey they developed an incredible "eat me I'm delish" gene. And the rest, as they say, is history.

[madokie]

26. interesting

our crawdads are a feast in themselves, nothing better yousa

[MuseRider]

30. Well the winters are much different now

than they used to be. Less snow, more ice but overall much warmer for longer periods of time. It seems we only have about 2 weeks of the "old" winter anymore. Still it will be much different for you.

We will be honored to have you here.

[blue cat]

3. I'm near Austin Tx

It's 25 degrees and there is ice on my the steps of my 2nd floor apt so I haven't been out in almost 3 days.

[Warpy]

4. Brace yourselves

We had a little one come through here (NM) overnight, and a big one is due to sit over us from late tomorrow through Sunday morning.

We just got the streets cleared from the nasty one 2 weeks ago.

[NMDemDist2]

5. even we got snow down here by the Texas line

not much, but snow nonetheless

I have a job interview today, then I'm holing up til next week (I hope)

poor hubby is working out in it though :cry:

[madokie]

9. I feel for him

I used to work construction so it was always out in the cold in the winter and the heat in the summer. I don't miss that now that I am no longer working either.

[Lars39]

15. Good luck on your interview, AZDemDist6.

:hug:

[NMDemDist2]

25. thanks! what's funny is that Hubby is interviewing for the same job

I actually hope HE gets it to get him out of that oil field truck

but if I get it, he can work for about 6 months out there and we can completely finish getting out of debt fast fast fast with savings to spare.

so I just hope ONE of us gets it, either way is fine

[LiberalEsto]

8. Mother Nature keeps missing Crawford

although She's really trying.

I'm sorry about your ice misery. I hope everything thaws out soon.

:hi:

[sweetheart]

18. looks like a plague on bush

The weather gods are on to him.

[sweetheart]

19. Bush's adopted homeland gets a wallop

Looks like the weather gods got a fish to fry.

[TahitiNut]

23. Saudi Arabia? Paraguay? Hades?

:dunce:

[sweetheart]

37. bummer about texas

But that east texas is indeed home to some racist evils that are behind
these war crimes to this day.... Saudi Arabia, Paraguay and Hades surely
have less evils per capita at this point in time. Texas of the huntsville
murder chamber, of the bush fortune, of Enron, of so many things it begs
wonder what it is about texas that attracts a plague of ill will?

When those nazi's move on to hades, then the ice storms will freeze them there
and their skin will crack open, a wind will revive them, and they will freeze
and die of exposure over and over again as many times as grains of sand on all
the world's beaches. Some tibetans might believe that those souls are more
inclined towards "crushing hell" or one of the hot hells, but seems cold hells
are giving them wormsign.

[seabeyond]

28. got a call from hubby driving to childress. wow he says, tis snowing

lol lol where did that come from. after reading your post i went into weatherunderground. saw all that going your way. also changed in my area to low chance of snow saturday to high chance friday saturday sunday. what one day will change. lol lol.

[Horse with no Name]

32. I didn't know it was coming either

Stay safe and warm--it is supposed to be here in an hour.
:hug:

[rwork]

33. I live in Eastern Ok.

It is the worst ice storm in my life time. I spent most of the day Tues., cleaning up around my wife's store. It is surrounded by pine trees.Her entrance cable and electric meter were jerked off of the wall of the building. We hauled off 4 small dump truck loads of pine branches.We have a generator at home that I have been firing up at night.The electric people are saying any where from 2 to 6 weeks. We drove down the hiway leading to McAlester and counted 89 poles down.The power line wires appeared to be about 1 inch in diameter with ice.Tremendous weight.

[madokie]

36. I'm further north than you but you all got more ice than we did

we have a good 2 inches of solid ice on the ground right now.

[catmandu57]

34. We got lucky

again, the big storms have been missing us. We're in NWMO, traditionaly this is our cold week, so I'm used to that, I don't like it, but, I'm used to it. I installed Google Earth recently, now I think I may be addicted now. With the cold, snow, sleet, it's a good excuse to stay in and play with it.

[madokie]

35. Hopefully your luck will hold out, ours isn't

I used to like google earth when they first released it. I could see my house and recognize it no problem but I guess because we live near a large industrial park they have blurred the shots so I don't get a very good pic any more.