Got a major ice storm in progress...

[Joe Biden 2020]

Oklahoma City is under the gun with a major winter storm that is solid freezing rain.  The storm just started about 90 minutes ago and is already icing up bridges and overpasses and exposed objects like car windows, power lines, bridges, etc.  The ground temperatures are still around 40 after highs near 70 the first four days this week, but we didn't get above 32 today and won't get above 30 the next three days.  The storm is moving to the NE and the back edge is still SW of Midland, Texas and there is no break between here and there.  All that moisture has to move over us before we can dry out and its not expected to start winding down until late morning tomorrow.  Expectations are nearly an inch of ice with local 1.25" ice totals.  There is already a 15 car pile-up on I-40 Eastbound just east of I-35 in Del City due to the icy bridges.  There are a lot of elevated roadways at that interchange.  Power outages look likely.  Its supposed to all end as snow late Saturday/early Sunday and we may get an inch of snow in OKC with significantly higher amounts in NW Oklahoma and Kansas.  Our local meteorologists are saying things like "we bought the farm with this one."  Anybody else in the path of this ice storm?

[kcguy]

We'll probably get hit sometime tomorrow.

I normally do my grocery shopping on Saturdays, but I went out of my way to buy $130 worth of groceries tonight.

Of course, I chose to go to Whole Foods this time, so those groceries will probably only last me about 3 days.

[RedSLC]

I got to experience one of these when I lived in Kansas.

At first, it was cool going outside and seeing everything coated in ice...but then the power went out from ice building up on the power lines and weighing them down to the breaking point.

Also, it got colder than I've ever seen it while I lived there - the temperature actually dipping below zero during the night.

[Sopranos Republican]

There is a pile up, because the roads are icy? LOL

[Joe Biden 2020]

There is a pile up, because the roads are icy? LOL

Yep.  We've got over 20 wrecks in the OKC Metro, one of them fatal.  No power outages yet in the OKC Metro, but we've got a wave of very heavy, torrential freezing rain coming in from SW Oklahoma that will likely start bringing down the power lines.  We already have between 1/8 and 1/3" of ice in most of the Metro and likely at least another half inch to three quarters of an inch left to go.  The power will start going out here within the next hour to hour and a half.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

How's CADD going?

[LastVoter]

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Close this thread, plx thnks bai.

[morgieb]

IT'S BACK

[angus]

Yep.  We've got over 20 wrecks in the OKC Metro, one of them fatal.  No power outages yet in the OKC Metro, but we've got a wave of very heavy, torrential freezing rain coming in from SW Oklahoma that will likely start bringing down the power lines. 

ouch.  Weird.  For this part of PA they're predicting that it'll be 55 and drizzly tomorrow, but in Oklahoma it's icy.  Weird weather.  Anyway, be careful.  I know it's yahoo fun to go out driving during these festive ice storms, especially where you don't get much snow, but my advice is to stay home, build a fire, and convince whatever honey you're cruising just now to join you.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Ice storms are not fun.  Not fun at all.  I'd much rather have a foot of snow than an inch of ice.

[muon2]

I just drove home through light freezing drizzle in Chicagoland. It should stop soon, but it expected to resume in earnest tomorrow afternoon with a mix of rain, freezing rain, and snow. I'm not looking forward to picking up my daughter at the airport tomorrow evening. And that's assuming the flight isn't too affected by the conditions.

[badgate]

Ouch. I lived in OKC during the major ice storms 2007-2011 so I know how bad it can be. Not only is it an issue for drivers because they are not used to that type of weather but occasionally every year, but you have to remember this is Oklahoma. The City and state is desperately underfunded when it comes to handling things like this, and has old equipment to boot. I was lucky to miss a very bad one in Dec 2010 by only a day.