Feb 19th - 20th Weather Thread

[Shawker]

I was in middle school the last time a decent ice storm hit Ames so I don't remember much. If we end up getting .25 inches tonight, just how bad will that be? Trees and power lines down? Schools closed for multiple days?

You will never be able to leave your house again.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

I was in middle school the last time a decent ice storm hit Ames so I don't remember much. If we end up getting .25 inches tonight, just how bad will that be? Trees and power lines down? Schools closed for multiple days?

You ever heard of Y2K? It will probably be right along those lines.

 

[VTXCyRyD]

I was in middle school the last time a decent ice storm hit Ames so I don't remember much. If we end up getting .25 inches tonight, just how bad will that be? Trees and power lines down? Schools closed for multiple days?

It will be an apocalypse. We will probably lose at least 50% of the population in central Iowa due to car accidents, electricity being out, and people starving from not having enough bread and milk.

Pray it never happens.

 

[RunninMan]

We had a pretty decent ice storm last winter. I woke up early, called our company hotline to see if we were still open and it said we were. Spent a half hour scraping the ice off my car, called the hotline again and it still said we were going to be open. Ice skated my way across Ames to work, sat down at my desk, and at 8:05 got a text from my boss that we were closed for the day so don't bother coming in. In hindsight I'm pretty sure it all melted by that afternoon but in the morning it was pretty bad.

 

[ChrisMWilliams]

I just bought some ice melt this morning.

This blogger is ready.

 

[alarson]

I was in middle school the last time a decent ice storm hit Ames so I don't remember much. If we end up getting .25 inches tonight, just how bad will that be? Trees and power lines down? Schools closed for multiple days?

 

[nfrine]

I just bought some ice melt this morning.

This blogger is ready.

It's good you are ready. The ice will be here "any day now."

 

[alarson]

I just bought some ice melt this morning.

This blogger is ready.

Have you considered going on vacation again instead?

 

[ArgentCy]

What are you guys talking about? Walked outside from Lunch today and it hit 67 degrees. Of course then we had a thunderstorm roll through and dropped to 55.

 

[wxman1]

A good graphic and explanation on precip types.

http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/WWC-How-the-different-types-of-precipitation-happen-474508393.html

 

[CloneGuy8]

Stupid question; if I put salt down before the freezing rain comes, will it prevent freezing? Or do I need to wait for everything to freeze first?

 

[Clonehomer]

Stupid question; if I put salt down before the freezing rain comes, will it prevent freezing? Or do I need to wait for everything to freeze first?

The issue is whether the rain will wash the salt away before it starts to freeze.

 

[BigJCy]

Stupid question; if I put salt down before the freezing rain comes, will it prevent freezing? Or do I need to wait for everything to freeze first?

Was wondering that myself.

 

[Gunnerclone]

I remember the ice storm of 1990 in Des Moines. That was messed up.

 

[ISUAlum2002]

I remember the ice storm of 1990 in Des Moines. That was messed up.

I was thinking about that the other day. I remember it well also. We lost a couple of trees to that one because so many of their main limbs broke off under the weight. Think our power was out for about 3 days or so. We were putting chunks of ice falling off the trees into coolers to keep our food from spoiling.

 

[Gunnerclone]

I was thinking about that the other day. I remember it well also. We lost a couple of trees to that one because so many of their main limbs broke off under the weight. Think our power was out for about 3 days or so. We were putting chunks of ice falling off the trees into coolers to keep our food from spoiling.

We were making soup on the wood burning stove.

 

[theshadow]

You ever heard of Y2K?

 

[dirtyninety]

Merge this with the NASCAR threads please. I-35 weather and paint swappin' boogity boogity boogity.

 

[jbindm]

Stupid question; if I put salt down before the freezing rain comes, will it prevent freezing? Or do I need to wait for everything to freeze first?

I figured it wouldn't hurt to be proactive and get some down tonight. I guess it's possible it might just wash away with the rain but it won't hurt to try and get out in front of it.

 

[BigJCy]

I figured it wouldn't hurt to be proactive and get some down tonight. I guess it's possible it might just wash away with the rain but it won't hurt to try and get out in front of it.

Yep, did the same thing too. Might all be for naught but what the hell...