Ice Storm

[bacpacker]

I will add more later, but the short of this thread is as follows. We got hit with an ice storm on Monday. It came down from about 10:00am until after midnight. We ended up with a good 1/4" coating everything around. Things went well until about 8:30pm. Lights flickered three times, 4th time, didn't come back on. At least not until about 3:00pm today. We never did lose water.

I sure found some holes even though things really weren't that bad. Some of it was a few things that could be purchased. Others things I need to work on and improve. I gotta do a full review of what all has went on and come up with fixes for them. I'll post more later once that is done.

[Stormfeather]

I was wondering if any ANTS were affected by those ice storms that came thru.

[Sniper-T]

for once, we missed them. Hope things work out BP. looking forward to hearing the synopsis!

[bacpacker]

I haven't gotten much news the last several days. What I have heard is that at the peak there was more than 60,000 homes without power in Tennessee..
More than 15,000 in our utility district alone. I finally got thru to them this morning around 10am. They told me that there was no estimate on restoring power, they still had 10,000 left to go. My mom told me that at 6pm the report was down to 7000. The crews had a heck of a day. My hat is off to those crews. Not a fun job to be on. And dangerous as well.
Tonight we are expecting single digits and maybe below zero tomorrow night. Expecting more snow and sleet by Friday.
At this point I think the worst we may have would be losing some food from the freezers. But at first check I think we may have scraped by on that.

[Stormfeather]

How are you losing food from the freezer?
Bag it in trash bags, set it outside...let Mother Natures freezer take over.

[bacpacker]

Our temps have been fluctuating in the mid 20 up to low 30's. It just didn't seem like we would benefit from that. If it had been tonight, absolutely. We really had no snow to bury the food in either. I felt like we were better off keeping the freezers closed. It seems to have worked at this point. I checked them both tonight and everything is still solid with no indication of frost thawing and pooling in the bottom. The wife had made some strawberry freezer jam and it was stored in the door of our upright, there was zero liquid in those. The best I have been able to learn, uprights are less efficient and doors are usually the worst.

[Domeguy]

BP, I wish you the best. I saw on the news your area was going to get a lot worse than we got. We just slid under this one. Monday we just got rain with temps in mid 30's. I got everything ready, but nothing happened, we had some ice build up, but not much. I think our valley holds some heat in, as yesterday, my wife and I went to Lyncgburg to see how the roads were so she could go in today. The closer we got to Lynchburg, the more ice build up there was. Then Wednesday morning, we got about 1 inch of snow and ice. The temp right now is about 10, and will get to about zero. I will probably be awake all night, just in case anything should happen to freeze and brake. Again, BP, please let me know if I can help in any way.

[bacpacker]

I know the forecast had a thin band across the state with mostly ice. North of that was snow, south just rain. I guess we got lucky. It is funny how valleys and ridges can have such a difference in conditions.
Thanks for the offer, but things seem to be getting better. 6 degrees this morning, but we had a good night's sleep.

[ak474u]

I guess you could put water bottles outside and let them freeze and move them inside to the freezer to extend the cold in the freezer a little.

[ElevenBravo]

We got the snow... I got around in the Jeep just fine, but the temp is a record setting 6degF right now, still dropping. High today was 12!! I think Sunday is going to be better, but its only Thr!

EB