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 Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: <mailto:k8je@arrl.net> k8je@arrl.net; Tel.: 513-459-0142 ARRL - The Reason Amateur Radio Is! Members - The Reason ARRL Is! _____ 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 Arkansas 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.