[AT] OT Oklahoma Ice storm

Dennis Johnson moscowengnr at outlook.com
Sat Nov 28 19:56:40 PST 2015


Cecil,

Hope you get power back on. I am in Mannford / Westport area for holidays. Had little ice on pickup last night, but nothing on ground except rain. Leaving to go back to Houston area in morning.

Dennis


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> On Nov 28, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
> 
> Just missed getting the tractor hit by a falling tree limb coated with 
> ice.  My best shade tree with my tool truck nearby was split in tow by 
> the 1 inch of ice.  Temp has been 31 to 32 for the last 30 hours and 
> raining or misting the entire time.  Roads are good as the temps have 
> been warm prior to this.   Electricity went off this morning at 9am.  
> Internet connection quit at 1:30pm yesterday. Trying out a US Cellular 
> Hot spot wifi.  It seems to work.  The wind and rain had my cows 
> shivering trying to get out of the wind.  Fed them extra yesterday and 
> today and got them straightened out from being humped up.  It has rained 
> about 4 inches in the last 36 hours, so the pasture is wet wherever I 
> usually feed them.  This reminds me of the 2001 ice storm when we ran 27 
> days on generator.  Running the 60kw Onan with the Allis Chalmers 7030 
> engine right now.  If power still out tomorrow, will have to cut back to 
> the 8kw Allis chalmers 2cyl diesel and move to the propane heated 
> house.   Heat pump likes a minimum of 20kw to heat right...  Onan 
> generator likes fuel at the rate of 3gph....  It needs some 
> exercise..    The trees on my South line fence look to have really tore 
> up things when their limbs broke.  Maybe this will make it easier to get 
> them out of the fence and rebuild.
> 
> This storm is heading East slowly.  I hope you guys don't have to 
> experience the ice that we seem to always get.
> 
> Stay warm & safe.
> 
> Cecil in oKla
> 
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