Ice Storm From Hell

[LowRyter]

Today folks are getting out and cleaning up.  The sun came out, cold wind blowing.  Chainsaws are being readied.  I hope folks look above before finding a work spot.  There are lots of big branches hanging by threads. 

I hope to clean my yard later today and help the widow lady next door.  Her neighbor over the fence is bringing his chainsaw, she'll need it since there are huge branches from his tree in her yard and on our shared fence. 

Next week we'll be back in 70s, perhaps by the weekend. 

[LowRyter]

It's back up into the 60s now and 70s soon.  The clean up has started.  There are crews from out of state.  One of them took down the 50ft elm next door. The cherry picker didn't stretch to the backyard so all sorts of ropes and climbing brought it down.  Lots of brush piled up on the curb.  Next door on the other side, the scrubby beech tree is shattered with limbs fallen on my yard and some ominously hanging, the house is empty and for sale, no one has even inspected the place.

In Okla City, major traffic lights are still out, some with no stop signs or warning.   Okla City Park Dept is declaring that 1000+ trees were killed in parks.

Although the clean up will take months, some like my neighbor were cleaned-up right away but many are like the other house next to me.

Luckily I kept my trees trimmed and suffered no damage.  Had some big Crape Myrtle branches (12ft) and Ewe bush damage.  I took it to the curb but the crew next door put it through chipper for a backdoor fee. 

[PJPR01]

Hoping it all works out...falling frozen branches are always my big worry with ice storms.  Stay safe John!!

[Lannis]

Glad you're OK Lannis but the very idea of Cold that splits trees terrifies me  ................... ................... ................... ..

How can you have an "ice storm" from "Hell" anyhow?   Seems a bit of an odd source for ice ....

[balvenie]

How can you have an "ice storm" from "Hell" anyhow?   Seems a bit of an odd source for ice ....

 

[LowRyter]

How can you have an "ice storm" from "Hell" anyhow?   Seems a bit of an odd source for ice ....

Obviously hell froze over.   You're slow on the uptick.

[PJPR01]

Obviously hell froze over.   You're slow on the uptick.

It happens...once in a Blue Moon (pun intended!)  :)

[craigclu]

Gotta share....  This weekend, we were up doing some work at our hunting cabin.  A brisk wind came up while I was hauling some things to my truck.  A friend hollered to get out of there and I started running, luckily in the right direction and it just missed me.  It was getting dark and I couldn't see what was happening.  This picture is from the next day, in the daylight.  The same friend had a spare tire come off his UTV trailer on the way to the cabin that day, bounce down the highway and take the front suspension from an oncoming Chevy Traverse with a mom, grandma and 3 little kids.  Studying the mount showed no indication of why it came loose.  No one was hurt in either incident but luckily, there were no lightning storms in the area or we would have been zapped, too....




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[LowRyter]

I'll provide the final update.  Crews were hired per my photos and took out entire broken tree.  Then they put the logs and limbs on the curb.  The city hired these crews with these huge machines to pick up off the curb.  Man, those guys can clean a yard in about 5 minutes.



Missing from the photo is the original pile that was 4 ft high, 8 wide and 25 long.