FWIW, this same storm system has given us
about 4 inches of snow coupled with periods of freezing rain since last night.
If one listens to the TV/radio weather talking heads, we are certain to be
housebound for another week, but provided the ice does not take down too many
utility wires, life should return to nearly-normal by tomorrow evening.
Does anyone know what nearly-normal is,
though?
73,
Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director
ARRL
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From: Sumner, Dave,
K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009
6:55 PM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:17535] Ice
storm hits
Joel Harrison reports that after
experiencing freezing rain since 3 PM yesterday that is giving his antennas a
beating, they finally lost power in Judsonia. He expects to be off line for
quite a while.
Joel doesn't know how much aluminum he'll still have up in
the air when the sun comes up tomorrow but he doesn't expect it to be much.
Dave K1ZZ
P.S. Here in Connecticut we're expecting up to 7 inches of
snow tomorrow morning, changing to freezing rain and then to rain during the
afternoon. The office will be open as usual but it may take the staff a bit
longer than usual to get in.