I just spent a long week-end with my son and his family in Savannah. We had rain and thunderstorms from Friday through Monday night. Spent a couple of hours at the Mighty 8th Air Force Museum, a sobering experience but well worth the time.
Back home in NC; tonight we're looking at 1/4 + inches of ice across a wide swath of the state. A quarter inch is our threshold for widespread power outages. Ground is soaked so pines will uproot easily, along with oaks and others.
Looks like the beginning of a very bad week-end.
Gas up the generator, buy more gas, water (and bourbon) and stay safe!
good luck- it's been a real mess around here.?ÿ what would qualify as "a nice february" in anything north of, say, the 35th parallel has rendered bedlam around here.?ÿ luckily i have a 4wd and plenty of experience driving in this stuff.?ÿ though i've gone backwards on getting caught up on office work (partly because so many city/county/state GIS and websites are down), i've stayed busy ferrying generators and supplies to people who are stuck one way or another.
quite remarkable how... helpless so many are in the face of this.
Numerous courthouses have been shut down in recent days.?ÿ On several of those days the thought of spending eight hours freezing to death while spending an hour to do something that would normally take fifteen minutes has kept up away from field work.?ÿ Drafting, cleaning out old files, etc. becomes tedious quickly.?ÿ Welcome to MeTV, StartTV, GritTV and PBS.
@holy-cow hahahahahaha- been hanging out at my buddy's next door every evening this week, we've been running through more green acres than i've seen in decades.
also caught this, which is just absolutely stunning when you consider it up against how things are produced anymore:
So far, so good. It's 11:40 am and my phone says temp is 33. Water is dripping from icicles on porch railing. We're supposed to have a brief respite above freezing for a couple of hours, but just a degree or two, so ice will remain in the trees. More freezing rain after that.
I fired up the generator yesterday. It hasn't been used since the last one, a hurricane, I think. When that run was over, I ran it to empty. When it stopped, I was able to restart it to burn the last drop out of the carburetor. Stabilizer is good, but draining is better.
You folks in Texas have my sympathy. Our primary heat source is two sets of gas logs, one on each of the first two levels of the three-level house. That's been a blessing in past outages, but if the gas stopped flowing, we'd be SOL.
Good luck; I'm thinking about you.
@mathteacher The last power outage we had (only about 36 hours) I went and picked up our Class C motorhome and parked it in the driveway.?ÿ The little generator won't power the entire house but it kept our refrigerator and freezers going.?ÿ Several of my neighbors came by to charge their cell phones too.?ÿ This was all during warm weather but I also have a full tank of propane so I can keep it warm if necessary.
Andy
