# Ice Storm **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874 "2000-12-31T04:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/1 "2000-12-31T04:58:02Z")
Did anyone else have trouble with the ice storm? (Yeah, I know, “If you can’t read this. reload…”) We have been without power since Tuesday. My Mother, bless her, bought me a generator today. The pipes are still frozen, but we are running the furnace, a fluorescent light and the laptop and praying that it runs through the 15F predicted low tonight out here in the woods. There will be a little something extra this Mother’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/2 "2000-12-31T08:18:51Z")
Just a light mist here. Crunchy snow, but not real ice on wires and things. ---
**Author:** ![PRNYouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PRNYouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PRNYouth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/3 "2000-12-31T08:46:14Z")
I’m in the northeast corner of Arkansas, **carnivourousplant** , and this corner escaped most of it. Apparently there was a light icing on Monday evening and Tuesday (I was out of the state), but by the time I drove back in Wednesday evening, there was no ice and the roads were dry. Sorry to see all the difficulties ya’ll have been facing down that way. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/4 "2000-12-31T10:47:57Z")
I first thought this thread was about one of the more popular spells in _Warcraft 2_… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/5 "2000-12-31T18:26:45Z")
No no no, this thread’s about the 4th-level magic-user spell in _Advanced Dungeons & Dragons_! Personally, I prefer “cone of cold.” ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/6 "2000-12-31T22:07:07Z")
I thought this was going to be about the book/movie. . . but I’m in South Carolina at the moment, so despite all the whining we do, it’s really not so bad right now. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/7 "2001-01-01T08:26:23Z")
I’m from Northern NY. A couple of years ago we had a really bad ice storm also. I was out of power for 9 days before we got ahold of a generator. It was 12 days before power was back on. I know what kind of hell you guys are going through. E-mail me if you have anything interesting to say about the weather (lol). [cs302b@yahoo.com](mailto:cs302b@yahoo.com) ---
**Author:** ![dewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/8 "2001-01-02T01:02:28Z")
The 98 ice storm left some of us up in Quebec (like me) with out power for almost a month. Mid January. I was hospitalized within a few days after the power came back. Stupid me wouldn’t leave the house. Insisted on taking care of pets so that some of the old folks would go to the shelters. I also had secret dreams of catching looters. No such luck. I just froze my b@lls off. The first week was kinda fun. It was all downhill from there. ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-storm/47874/9 "2001-01-02T06:09:20Z")
We were out of power a couple of years ago.Ice storm. We are on REC. The first day after the storm we were ok but then the power went out for three days. The storm was several counties wide and the other counties were hit harder than we were so I didn’t think much about it for the first couple of days. The REC crews are friends and I knew they were working long shifts in pretty horrific weather. On the third day I finally called and they didn’t even know we,ours and two neighbors were out. It was turned on in a few hours. I found out later that our power was diverted to someone else and they forgot to turn it back on. Carniverousplant. Hope you have kerosene heaters or something. I’ve often wondered if I’m prepared enough for a long period of lights out.