[Michsnowfreak]

It is a historic ice storm in the Plains and parts of the midwest, with Missouri particularly hard hit. Some posters have some fascinating pics...but it gets lost in the pages of the mega thread....so here is just for pictures. Please pin this thread.

Just a glaze here (0.10" precip), but slippery and unwalkable as its in the 20s.

WYANDOTTE, MI (my pics).

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[Michsnowfreak]

from Wunderground

JEFFERSON CITY, MO
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BOWLING GREEN, OH
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WINFIELD, MO
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CHANDLER, OK
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COLUMBIA, MO
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ASHLAND, MO (one of our members)
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[modelsgonewild]

my god.

[DFRI]

Only about an 1/8" of ice here this morning.

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[skiier04]

How anyone can not say that's a beautiful thing is beyond me.

That's why I love ice almost as much as snow.

[Jim in NOVA]

skiier04, on Dec 10 2007, 09:23 AM, said:

How anyone can not say that's a beautiful thing is beyond me.

That's why I love ice almost as much as snow.

It is very beautiful, but also exceedingly destructive. I like ice too, but generally only in amounts of 0.30" or less. Much more than that and the destructiveness starts to ramp up big time.

[yhbrooklyn]

Wow, had now idea it was that bad. Haden't been paying attention.

skiier04, on Dec 10 2007, 09:23 AM, said:

How anyone can not say that's a beautiful thing is beyond me.

That's why I love ice almost as much as snow.

Yeah it's beautiful.
I'd still rather have rain. I've said it before. My wife and kids are in cars and buses every day. I don't need the headache.

[Michsnowfreak]

TULSA, OK
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WAGONER, OK
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BUFFALO, MO
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CLAREMORE, OK
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[Eskimo Joe]

Good lord, these are amazing pictures!! This is why I want ice soo bad...

[Ridingtime]

Extremely cool. That tree that split right in half is ridiculous!

[BeauDodson]

Reports coming out of Oklahoma indicate they have been devastated by this ice storm. One of the bigger ice storms in recent memory for portions of the state. Huge ice totals with catastrophic tree and power line damage. Sounds rough.

[Mr.B]

Ridingtime, on Dec 10 2007, 01:23 PM, said:

Extremely cool. That tree that split right in half is ridiculous!

Ya it is pretty freak'n sweet.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Great pics, thanks for sharing!

[PennMan]

Great pics, I have never seen more than .30" in my area that I can remember, and am glad for that. After that, it goes from a beautiful scene, to a beautiful mess.

[MidlothianWX]

Amazing...especially that tree split right down the middle!

[AtticaFanatica]

I have never seen anything like this. I lost power about 5:30 AM and haven't gotten it back, I am now at the National Weather Center, where we have power. Thousands of people are without power in Norman, I'm guessing a lot of the Normanites who poste here are among them. I would estimate we have accumulated 3/4 of an inch of ice. On the ride here, about a mile, saw over a dozen downed trees. I'd say well over 50% of the trees I saw were actually split down the middle, like they had been hit by lightning. Before that, went to get some lunch, and there were about 6 or so trees down in the middle of main streets. Any tree that has not been knocked over is drooping severely. A complicating factor in all of this is that the historically rainy spring meant that there are many trees that still have leaves on them. This increases the weight on the trees when the leaves accumulate ice, so while we've had ice storms like this before, I'm guessing we have not seen this many downed trees before. Will upload pictures later when I have a chance.

[mathias1979]

the tree split in two is a pretty kewl site. i used to be okay with ice...but having just bought a house in a heavily wooded area, this is why I no longer want ice...

[Pathfinder]

Very cool pics. Ice is beautiful but as others have noted, very destructive. After the ice storm we went through in NC in 2002 I definitely understand the love/hate relationship with ice.

[whitelakeroy]

Pathfinder, on Dec 10 2007, 03:22 PM, said:

Very cool pics. Ice is beautiful but as others have noted, very destructive. After the ice storm we went through in NC in 2002 I definitely understand the love/hate relationship with ice.

Last year I had 3 ice storm of about 1/2" (one of them was a bit higher). That is the perfect amount as thing were just beautiful with only minor damage around at best. However back in 2003 we had over an 1" of ice on everything and destruction was everywhere & people were without power for over a week. Oh yeah it was pretty but not good.

In simple ... I love a good ice storm up to 1/2" or so but once you go over 3/4" of ice it is just not good.

Like you say love/hate!

[BeauDodson]

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