[Lawman_Kyle]

33 degrees and raining hard here on Lake Texoma...no ice at all and according to the news, we may miss it all! You folks north of here are in for it though! Stay safe.

[_redbird_]

Hughes County checking in. We are icing up nicely. The trees have that beautiful ice covering.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by prerunner1982

Robyn... think that thing is due for a trim.. of course you don't think about it until times like this huh?

It's probably too late. Those things simply fall apart under the load of heavy ice. They're not that strong to begin with and, with the branches growing upward, they tend to shed every limb, leaving just the trunk sticking up like a toothpick.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by Lawman_Kyle

33 degrees and raining hard here on Lake Texoma...no ice at all and according to the news, we may miss it all! You folks north of here are in for it though! Stay safe.

Since I'm a first-responder tasked with initial damage assesment for chain saw crews, please let me know if you see any serious tree damage that involves houses. That means either on the house or blocking acess. If it looks like there's enough to warrant a look around, I'll come up there and see.

Thanks.

[Lawman_Kyle]

Originally Posted by _redbird_

Hughes County checking in. We are icing up nicely. The trees have that beautiful ice covering.

Hughes County?

I graduated from Moss High School, and my parents still live inbetween Wetumka and Horntown.

[Guthrie Kid]

Guthrie reporting in! Around 1/4" of ice and now it has turned to sleet! WOO HOO! Looks like our electricity will stay on!

[Nameless]

Just like in Guthrie. Sleeting now in NW OKC. Has been since about 2:30. Ground is all white now. Almost no ice at all on power lines and very little on tree limbs. I'm not worried about loosing power at all, we dodged that bullet.

[Alaskapat528]

Originally Posted by stillkit

An Uncle in Tuttle reports this (Tuttle is between OKC and Chickasha):

The ice that is now falling, the sleet and snow later is what we are concerned with today. We have a very serious situation developing. Altus and other communites in SW OK are reporting down power lines and tree limbs at this time. What we are praying for is a quick changeover to sleet.
West of El Reno, I-40 is ice covered with freezing rain still falling.
The OKC area is being forcasted to have about an inch of ice. If that be the case, we will be in serious trouble. Pray for us.

You all have my prayers.

[stillkit]

We Oklahoma Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers are being warned that this may be our largest call out EVER, and that's saying a lot!

Already, there have been at least 17 requests for feeding units, though I don't know where. Chain saw assessors are already out and about in the Altus/Lawton area, but the going is still pretty tough.

It looks as though this will affect the entire state before it's over, with heavy damage over about half of it.

[jessisokieforever]

i am in wilburton and we are having rain here. i hope we stay above freezing.