Wednesday, January 28, 2009

1/28 - 1pm - A Wild Storm Comes to an End

The snow and ice are out of here, but the region will be dealing with power outages and tree damage for quite a while. Temperatures are steadily dropping across the area, with 25 degrees at my house right now. The interstates are passable, but side roads and county roads are treacherous if they have not been plowed. Tree limbs on roads are also causing quite a few problems as well.

Here's what it looks like in my neck of the woods:



Since temperatures will not get above freezing until at least the weekend, the trees are going to look sickly for quite some time. My neighborhood roads are terrible, but it's not impossible to drive on them. This is one of those days where an all-wheel-drive or 4-wheel-drive vehicle will come in handy.

UPDATE (1:15pm): LG&E is now reporting 100,000 without power in the Metro, with KU reporting 176,000 outages throughout the state.

8 comments:

Moncorbuus said...

Amazing pictures, just happen to randomly arrive to your blog and saw the photo of the iced up ceiling fan and wood joists. Amazing. The storm is passing by NY now. It stopped snowing here and replaced by freezing rain... Stay warm!

Ryan Hoke said...

Be careful with that freezing rain up there. Thanks for checking out the blog!

Anonymous said...

That's some serious Ice coverage. What do you predict with JCPS tomorrow? I'm thinking two hour delay but with 100,000 without power and still poor road conditions could it be a closure?

Anonymous said...

Update: I just read an article on the Courier Journal's website that says 67 JCPS Schools are without power and also 473,000 without power total compared to 600,000 with Ike's wind storm.

Ryan Hoke said...

I'd say no school if 67 schools are without power. The secondary and neighborhood roads are terrible too.

Anonymous said...

I just heard on the radio JCPS will make an announcement around 4pm.

Ryan Hoke said...

Excellent! Thank you for the information!

Anonymous said...

Numerous storms have been analyzed for planet-star symmetries.
A common pattern is emerging for tornadoes and storms including this ice storm and the recent extreme storm in Spain/France. A triad or tetrad involving Aldebaran and Spica is often indicated with storms. With this ice storm and the Europe storm, the associated pair was Sun/Jupiter and Saturn with those two stars.