[AT] OT Oklahoma Ice storm

[Dave Rotigel]

Apparently 11 are already dead from the storm! See: http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/winter-storm-cara-impacts 
	Dave

On Nov 29, 2015, at 8:47 AM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:

> We set the corrals up in some trees where I once had a trailer house.  
> The squeeze chute was between 2 small trees and gave us some good shade 
> in the summer.  Those trees are laying over the chute.  Home depot on 
> the other side of OKC had the last gas pole saw in town.  I can't afford 
> to wait until the commercial stores open tomorrow.   They will be out in 
> an hour.. It is worse this morning as it drizzled all night long at 32deg.
> 
> Cecil in OKla
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/29/2015 7:19 AM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
>> Ice storms are the toughest in my opinion. Snow is slow going, doesn't cause
>> much power outage. Tornado and hurricanes are generally over quickly and
>> repairs can begin immediately. Ice on the other hand, It can last for days
>> and cause damage that can take weeks to repair. We had a small one a couple
>> years ago that only caused us inconvenience of about a day, some folks were
>> without for a week. 14 years ago we had a real bad one, I had to step up my
>> game real quick as we had an infant. The storm hit during the night--I had
>> to figure out how to warm baby bottles before dawn. That one was bad enough
>> that generator sales skyrocketed here and electricians were busy wiring
>> folks houses up for them. Hope it thaws on you guys soon, I see the storm is
>> big enough it is making national news. I especially hate it for you guys
>> with livestock, you can't exactly opt to stay inside! One thing I'm certain
>> you know, stay out from under trees!
>> 
>> John Hall
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cecil R Bearden
>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 10:32 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT Oklahoma Ice storm
>> 
>> 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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