How's everyone doing with the ice storm?

[Earth_First]

Looking at the radar, a good portion of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are under the storm now.

Its 30.1F here with steady rain; NE wind at 12 mph and 0.10" of ice accumulation so far.

Portions of the North Country in NYS have been declared States of Emergency by the Governor.

The overnight could not end sooner. Temperatures are supposed to moderate into the low 40's by mid afternoonon.

Hopefully all is well where you are...

[Agschmid]

1. Sure looks cold in VT...

I saw many power trucks on their way up there today.

[HarveyDarkey]

2. Got the ice here yesterday

Bracing now for 8-10" of snow with high winds. Blowing and drifting. Then it will drop to -15 Sunday night. I think winter has arrived.

[LoveMyCali]

3. Safely tucked in on my couch

with a cat on my lap, Christmas lights on and the electric fireplace blazing. I don't have to be anywhere until 9 tomorrow morning and Im hoping the roads have been well sanded by then. I'm in Upstate NY.

[eShirl]

4. so far so good

still have electricity, but the "toe test" on the step reveals the presence of dangerous slick ice

we have a wood cookstove (with oven!) in the kitchen that hasn't been used in a couple years, but it's been declared "ready for use" (by people who know their stuff about stove & chimney hygiene)

we must have at least a year and a half's worth of cut, split, stacked and dried wood in the woodshed and in the cellar

[dipsydoodle]

5. Just great.

I'm UK.

[DFW]

6. All I ask is for it to be gone by Thursday

My wife and I are flaying back to the States, and this time, instead of changing in Atlanta, they have us changing at JFK.

Here in the Rheinland, we're singing "I'm dreaming of a Wet Christmas" about 3° (that's about 37°F) and raining. Yecch!

[magical thyme]

7. here in midcoast Maine, its a fine drizzle

Everything has a thin coat of ice from the overnight. It wasn't doing much when I headed down to the barn to take care of Dahli. She wandered around outside for a while, and then decided to come back in.

By the time I was finished mucking out, it was a steady, but very fine drizzle. I was mostly worried about Jake on the ice, what with his bad hips, but it ended up being Luna who did a little ice dance while climbing the steps back in...

[Purrfessor]

8. 73 degrees at 2:30 this morning in southeast Ohio. eom

[malthaussen]

9. No ice storm in Philly...

... in fact, it's 64F right now, which is actually not unusual for this time of year. Had a lot of rain, though, which washed away the snow accumulated during the cold snap.

-- Mal

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. It got over our border in Ontario without checking in at customs

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We got quite a few power outages - over 100,000 customers without hydro in Ontario.

Check it out:

http://www.hydroone.com/stormcenter3/



Above is a screenshot from almost an hour ago

CC

[whistler162]

11. Above us, below us , and to the west of us

there is a ice storm here in the Syracuse area it has rained and nothing else. Brother drove up from Alabama through the Buffalo and Rochester area. According to him not fun.

[avebury]

12. It has passed Oklahoma and we

are now looking for the ice to thaw.

I rode out the storm cat sitting/house sitting for a friend. They have a media room with the most comfortable chairs. I am working my way through the Oliver Stone history series on Showtime but after about 15-20 minutes I just want to take a nap. LOL! The best part is that I was able to put my car in a garage during the storm. I could not have asked for a better place to ride out the storm. I hope to go check on my house this afternoon.