Major winter storm possible in KY on Tuesday (Mayfield, Jackson: school, pharmacies)

[InLondon]

Originally Posted by Davart

Well NEW PREZ .... will this be your Katrina? Sure looking like it, just seems us country KY folks are better prepared and behaved ... (Sorry I digress)

This doesn't compare to Katrina whatsoever, believe me. Ice storms happen around the country every winter. No one has lost their home like thousands did due to Katrina.

[censusdata]

Statewide the death toll is up to 5 - 3 in Louisville and 2 in Cynthiana - all from carbon monoxide poisoning due to propane heaters. One other person is in extremely critical condition (also from cm)

Mayoral spokesman: Three reported dead | courier-journal | The Courier-Journal
3 dead, 1 critical in 2 Ky. power-out incidents | courier-journal | The Courier-Journal

[censusdata]

Here's the tale of the tape at my house:

Flat wood surfaces: 3/4 an inch of ice



Snow on flat wood surfaces: 2 inches



Ice accumulation on car antenna: nearly 1 inch



Ice accumulation on roof of car: 1 inch

[Spotted1]

For what it's worth, my husband is a tree trimmer/climber for a company that is subcontracted by Big Sandy RECC to keep right of ways cleared over here in Eastern Kentucky. They're currently working 8AM (staging at 7:30AM) to Midnight every day (including the weekend) to restore power where it's out. Yesterday he was in Martin County. They are, however, telling people it could be as late as mid-February before everybody is restored.

[Davart]

Originally Posted by InLondon

This doesn't compare to Katrina whatsoever, believe me. Ice storms happen around the country every winter. No one has lost their home like thousands did due to Katrina.

You been to western KY? NO? 68 counties have no power including hospitals and nursing homes.

There are people who lost there home as trees fell through their homes, no water, food hard to find, gas hard to find if you can find it ... it might not be Katrina but it's no picnic. Power will be out for 30+ days.

Short of it is, you're missing the point not surprisingly.


To everyone else ... very limited cell service is online due to mobile towers, it's spotty at best.


I'll post more images later, I'm sending the family to safer grounds. No need for them to be here. Water is undrinkable, bottle water is hard to find, so food and services are coming online in Paducah, Graves Co is 100% dead no power, little water in areas, patchy cell service and estimated 30 days to repair.

Calloway Co/Murray some power in town, limited, some cell service, some food and gas.

Marshall Co/Benton about the same Calloway Co/Murray

The river counties, about the same as Graves, pretty much crippled.

Most people are still pleasant and upbeat but some trouble with isolated fights over fuel, food and supplies.

Other than that oh well just got to deal with it.

[Cav Scout wife]

Originally Posted by InLondon

This doesn't compare to Katrina whatsoever, believe me. Ice storms happen around the country every winter. No one has lost their home like thousands did due to Katrina.

You are joking right?

I know of at least 6 homes that are 'totaled' in and around Henderson alone due to this mess.

Not to mention how much worse it will be when the (supposed) snow hits again on Mon-Tues; and when all this thaws, all the flood damage that will result.

While I love N'awlins, it's not a very well built city due to floodplain, and while we don't have to worry about that as much, it's still very very bad.

[DaninEGF]

Agree....as my mom said it is their Katrina...meaning a storm of a lifetime or anyones lifetime that is crippling a region. New Orleans was the flood waters....in western and north central Kentucky it is the ice.... My elderly parents have decided to take the advice of my brother and join him up in central Illinois.... Lastest estimate is 3-4 more weeks without power for parts of Madisonville....

Dan

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by lexingtony

I've heard chicken little forecasters screech "the snow is falling! the snow is falling!" too many times this winter, only to be disappointed when I woke up. As a winter lover, I'm hoping that this winter storm hits us good and hard, but I'll believe it when I see it!

I bet you are seeing it now.

[dixiegirl7]

They have called the Kentucky National Guard out to clear trees and such. We have a friend that has been sent to the Benton/Paducah area. He called his wife and said he will be gone about two weeks...maybe longer. He said there was unbelievable damage over in that area. We were lucky in Bowling Green. The northern part of the county was hit pretty hard and we did lose some trees and power in the county but nothing like the rest of the hard hit areas of the state. You should see our gas stations that sell kerosene though. Everybody is coming here to get restocked and it is wild. They are buying up all of the kerosene heaters and generators and I have heard many are going on to Nashville to get them...we must be out now. Desa might have been able to stay in business after this and all of the kerosene heater sells.

[InLondon]

I remember when I was in middle school in the early 90's and we had an ice storm here like you all are seeing in the rest of the state. We didn't have electric for a whole week and we had to cut down all our cedar trees in the yard. The ice just destroys them.