Ice Storm Warning - please pray for us! 2 pic added #54 & 59

[cassiesmom]

MoFF, prayers being said. Be safe and warm. The weather forecast in Chicago is for every form of precipitation possible between now and Monday morning - rain changing to freezing rain, sleet and then to snow on Sunday with as much as ten and a half inches possible. If I ever earn or win a gazillion dollars I'm moving somewhere that it doesn't snow like this.

[Lobodeb]

Oh man! I hope this is one of those Y2K things where they freak out for thing, but as everyone said, be prepared anyway.

Make sure your cellphone stays charged, too so you can stay in communication with whomever you need to.

The power just went out on us Wednesday night for a few hours. Very scary.

Good luck!

[zippy-kat]

{{Thinking of you as always!}}

[slick]

Connie....please keep posting so we know you are OK.

{{{more hugs}}}
slick xoxoxo

[Karen]

Ooh, and one more thing - make yourself a great big kettle of your favorite soup/stew - if you have a crock-pot or slow-cooker, even better. If you don't have a crockpot, put it simmering on the stove in the heaviest pan you've got - that'll help keep it warm longer if the power and/or gas go out, and it'll perfume the air with a warm cozy smell.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Thanks everyone!

I did make some cornbread and had some with chili over it for lunch. I like cornbread with chili or beans; hot or cold!

I think my cook stove will still work even with the power off. It's gas but has no pilot lights; just little igniter things. I think it will still light using a match though.

We have been having sleet for several hours now. They say that's the best thing to have in this situation because it doesn't stick to the power lines. Yea for sleet????

[pitc9]

My thoughts are with you!
My sister and her family are in South West Missouri. They are getting/are going to be getting hit hard also.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

My thoughts are with you!
My sister and her family are in South West Missouri. They are getting/are going to be getting hit hard also.

Sounds like they are in the same corner I'm in. I'm in South East Kansas. We are real close to the Missouri/Kansas line.
I'll keep them in my thoughts and prayers too!

[lvpets2002]

MMmm oh yes nothing like the arouma & tummy full of Home Made Stew & Pot of Red Beans & or Chilie.. Now that will get you thru a storm..

Ooh, and one more thing - make yourself a great big kettle of your favorite soup/stew - if you have a crock-pot or slow-cooker, even better. If you don't have a crockpot, put it simmering on the stove in the heaviest pan you've got - that'll help keep it warm longer if the power and/or gas go out, and it'll perfume the air with a warm cozy smell.

[Lobodeb]

I think my cook stove will still work even with the power off. It's gas but has no pilot lights; just little igniter things. I think it will still light using a match though.

Ours is a gas stove with an electric ignite too. It did light up once we put a match to it, but you might want to test before the power goes out just to be safe.

[Lizzie]

Is this the storm that has moved on, and become much more vicious, we had in Washington state starting on Wednesday afternoon? The hail, sleet, and snow has stopped falling but we are now frozen. Even with blue skies and sunshine, there is very little thaw.

Good luck with coping with this storm and I sincerely hope you don't lose power. Being forced to live with candlelight for more than a day becomes very dreary. We don't get ice storms here that cause cracking of branches, that noise comes when we have very high winds. It's almost impossible to sleep at night with that noise going on around you.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

It's not the living by candlelight that bothers me. It's the living with no heat in 5 degree weather that does.

[DrKym]

Weather Bug just let us know we are in for it too Moff, I made split pea and cornbread! will let ya know if we get it and if it heads our way first!

[joycenalex]

the power here in my neighborhood in columbus went off on 12/23 at 6:03am. i know the time, i had just turned the coffee pot on and opened the door to let alex the wonder out for "morning duties". i saw the transformer across the block blow out, brillantly white blue as an ice encased branch broke onto it. we had no power here for a week. the temp in the house got as low as 42. we turned the gas stove on with matches, hung blankets over the kitchen doors to keep heat in, played board games by candle light, and slept, all of us, 1 canine,2 felines and 2 humans under 6 blankets in a queen size bed, cozy for all. true love is when someone will 'warm up' a toilet seat for you. check to make sure you know how to turn off your water, in case the pipes freeze as sustained low temps can make them burst,. mine didn't, but we were lucky. good luck, and may the storm be brief and easy for all

[lizbud]

Prayers from Indiana too Moff. We are supposed to get the ice too, but
only the northern part of the state. I really think the ice storms are sooo
much worst than plain snow.