Oklahoma Braces for Major Ice Storm
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by M.L. Zupan in Local, Local Weather, Video
It has already being compared to the ice storm of 2007 and it hasn’t even arrived. Power lines were down, large old trees snapped like twigs under the weight of the thick heavy ice. Oklahoma City lay crippled under a blanket of ice.
Now, with the approach of the first major storm of 2010, Oklahoma residence are hoping for the best – but preparing for the worst.
Oklahoman Weather
If there is one thing that Oklahomans’ like to talk about – it’s the weather. And this year has given them much to share. Record snows of 14.5 inches fell of on Christmas Eve leaving Oklahoma in a state-of-emergency for almost a week. They have had ample time to sit around and compare it to storms past. And it was much to talk about – only six times in one hundred and fifty years has it ever snowed on Christmas Eve – and when it did it was never that much. Now the kids of today will sit around years from now and say to their kids: “I remember that big Snow of ‘09″.
In the same fashion people are talking about the “big ice storm of 2007″. And they had much to talk about. Over half a million people were out of power. It was reported as “one of the worst that the State of Oklahoma has experienced“.
Yesterday, Jan. 26, 2010 – with reports that the coming storm could be as bad as the “ice storm of 2007″ people were out in massé stocking up on all essential items and preparing to be ice in for several days. The Super Walmart parking lot on Pennsylvania Avenue near Memorial Ave. looked like “Black Friday” all over again – and that was in the middle of the afternoon. Aldi, Buy-4-Less and others looked the same way.
0815 hours: Temperatures have just reached freezing just north of central Oklahoma City and a light drizzling, freezing rain has begun to fall. At the moment the streets are relatively dry; however, south of Oklahoma City, conditions have already started to get worse.
For a current listing of Closings in the metro area visit Oklahoma Weather-Related Closings at NewsOK.com
We will be following the storm and conditions as they progress.
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