Cataclysmic Oklahoma Ice Storm of '10
 

We're supposed to get 3 to 5 inches tomorrow.

Don't laugh! Have you seen okies drive in the snow? It's not pretty. :D

lulz

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, klahoma where the wind comes driving snow & rain!

The more I live here, the less I like it...and mostly I'm not talking about the weather.

Anyhow, we're just getting rain in Lawton/Cache.

Is just because your in Lawton, trust me. That's not a pretty place. Spent 2 years in college there.

Tell

After letting me drive 25 minutes to work and waiting for the precip to change over to sleet, our blessed governor decided to send all state employees home. Brilliant!

Sleet and ice are the worst part about any storm in the southwest. Remember a storm way back in the 80's that froze my grandfathers pond 6 inches thick, no snow, just sleet! Or the storm in late 90's that knocked power out in southern OK for two weeks because they hadn't kept the trees trimmed back off the power lines. Stupid OG&E. KG&E had to come down after two weeks to help them out.

At least you don't have to drive on it after it sticks, duckman.

Hopefully.

Tell

On a side note, I'll take the foot+ of snow where I currently am over an inch of ice any day of the week. Thanks all the same.

Tell

Yeah, it's been raining since yedyerday down here, and it's going to get down into the 20s and start snowing soon. It's not going to be pretty...

Ugh. I'm driving up to DFW in about an hour and a half. I should be getting there just as it starts getting interesting.

Wow, we've had actual blizzard conditions for several hours now! I have about 6 inches of snow in my yard with drifts as high as 2 feet.

We had blizzard conditions for most of the day. We lost electricity about 10:30 Central and just got it back (about 7:00 PM Central).

I ate an MRE.

Anyhow, since it was dark we got the Christmas presents out and put them under the tree. The power came back on and the kids didn't realize that it came back. We then scrambled to get the presents back in our room before we let them know.

Under a snow deluge, might get me out of the mother in laws tomorrow. Yippee Ki Yah, will it be a Christmas miracle!?!

We have a blizzard warning in KC metro area for the first time ever. Expecting a foot of snow with 40-50 MPH winds. Guess we'll stay inside for Christmas.

Just started sleeting/icing here. Oh, joy.

The drive up was interesting. Heavy snow and winds started about an hour into the drive, and lasted about 40 miles. Then it let up for a bit, and came back with a vengance about 60 miles south of Fort Worth. A pickup towing a pop-up camper jackknifed and blocked both lanes of I-35W. Then when I got to Fort Worth, the big overpasses were either closed by the police, or closed because someone spun out and wrecked at the top. After a stop by my parents' house, I continued on to my aunts' place, and that took me another 45 minutes to go 15 miles. Lots of black ice formed after nightfall.

Had to drive across Fort Worth 1hr and half ago. It was touch and go. Glad to be home.

Oklahoma City had the largest snowfall total ever for the month of December: 14 inches.

Heh, 38 and clear as a bell in Buffalo.


just sayin....

Hope everyone is staying safe. Just heard from someone in Lawrence and, yeah, it's pretty much a blizzard there right now. Not quite as much snow as expected but really strong winds

SI

An honest to goodness white Christmas in Dallas and SMU wins 45-10. Hell freezing over?

Who could argue? Next up, Romo and the Cowboys win out.

I'm stuck at home for Christmas because all the state highways are closed. We had to move our Christmas dinner back in hopes it will be safe enough to travel tomorrow or Sunday.

Well crap, we were supposed to head down to Tulsa this afternoon(One I actually wanted to go to, doesn't happen often.) It's not too bad up here I'm just a little South of Wichita, the wind has died down and it stopped snowing pretty early this morning.

Doesn't sound good down there though.

My mother is snowed in in Norman. Was supposed to work today 20 minutes south of there but the highways were closed, she said. 14 inches in OK is almost on disaster level. I'm not even sure they have enough plows in the state to take care of this in any kind of timely manner. Same for north Texas really.

Tell

Nuts here. Still snowing with heavy winds. Hard to tell how much snow we had. 14-16 inches in some parts of the yard with other parts only having 2-4 inches. Blowing all over the place.

And just like that... all melted and gone away.

pooring rain here... I noticed a dripping sound, my gutters are frozen, so the water was getting under the ice, and into the roof? or something, spent some time on a ladder, in 35 degree rain, chipping ice with a channel lock! wooo

Finally ventured out with the snow blower late this afternoon. Driveway near the home had 2-4 inches, most of the drive had 7-9 with drifts of 12-18 inches. We've got drifts in the side yard and back yard around 3 feet -- enough to tower over the air conditioner.

I've never seen a storm with so much dispute over snowfall totals. The drifting makes it almost impossible to get a good measurement. Apparently same thing in OKC -- reading some of the weather-nerd comments online, looks like a lot of people are disputing the 14" inches in OKC.

Regardless, any storm putting out 8-10 inches in Missouri, Oklahoma and eastern Kansas is out of the norm.

Oh, and it's still snowing. :)

Yeah, it's supposed to snow off and on today. I'm quite pleased with my home builder right now. Evidently, he built it just right so a north wind would blow off most of my driveway. :)

We're getting hammer right now. Some places already have an inch of ice. My area not too bad right now, but the heavier rain is moving in and could put us in the same position as some others in the area.

Chill out.

7 degrees, feels like -4 in Lansing, MI.

We're supposed to be hit by the ice storm here. I wouldn't mind no classes for tomorrow.

Watching the Miss St-Arkansas game and there are a lot of empty seats.

The ice is hitting here now. People are smart to not be there.

The announcers are saying as much.

I'm not convinced the players are there, either.

White out conditions in Buffalo tonight...I went to get a glass of milk tonight and realized we were out...I had to get to the store for milk for the kids and their breakfast.

If it keeps up, there will be a Snow Day.

Snow day? We don't have snow days in Buffalo, we have hangover days...

We're supposed to get hit by...something...tomorrow night into Saturday. Raleigh, as always, is sitting somewhere on the boundary between one form of precip and another. It's a little different this time in that it should be frozen no matter what, but what sort of frozen precip it is depends on time of day. Moreover, the local stations are all over the place on the forecast accumulations, ranging anywhere from 1-2" up to near a foot (though that prediction has since backslid to about half a foot). Since the predicted mixture of precip oscillates between nearly all snow and mostly snow, it's pretty hard to determine what about an inch of forecasted liquid precip will actually amount to in snow and ice. If it were all snow and the standard 10:1 ratio is used, then that's nearly 10 inches, but obviously, any amount of icing will trim the snow total back.

Some models are saying we could get 20-24" in Arkansas. Unreal. I am so pumped.

I thought that earlier this winter when we had our big storm. After a couple of days, the novelty wears off and you get REALLY tired of shoveling snow and dealing with mud everywhere.

But don't let me kill your excitement. :)

I don't think it was the ice.

Yes, it was. We had 13,000+ for last week's Thursday night game.

cant touch this

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Saturday's men's basketball game between No. 18 Ole Miss and Arkansas has been rescheduled for Sunday because of inclement weather.

The game will be played at 7 p.m. (et) at Ole Miss' C.M. Tad Smith Coliseum.

While originally slated to be shown on the SEC Network, the contest will not be televised live.