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

[DrKym]

My In-laws are in Lenexa, and Mom said it is all over the news that it is supposed to be awful! Our prayers are with all you! Stay safe and make sure you are equipped with extra blankets,candles ,canned food ,batteries, pet foods, jugs of water etc. Please keep us posted.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Oh no, I hope you stay safe and warm! This has really been a bad year for Colorado/Kansas. I hope spring comes early.

[Karen]

Run a few gallons of water into bottle or even pans for now, so if the power goes out, you'll have that. Get out your matchs, test batteries in flashlights, and locate candles while it's still daylight, put 'em on the kitchen table - or some other obvious place. Is your stove electric or gas? If it's gas, maybe make some dough to stick in the refridgerator that you can bake in the gas stove even after the power has gone out.

If you make all these preparations, maybe the power will stay on!

You can help keep the lines to your own house safe by going out every hour or so and shaking/knocking the ice off the lines, and off any branches that hang over them.

Stay warm and safe, and we'll be thinking of you!

[lvpets2002]

Thank you Karen.. Yes I have learned all of those cautions & preperations.. I start getting bedding thick for the outside dogs.. I keep them in warm food & water.. Then I make sure to get the indoors all set up with plenty of all kinds of food for the girls & me.. Yes I am lucky I have a gas oven & range..

Run a few gallons of water into bottle or even pans for now, so if the power goes out, you'll have that. Get out your matchs, test batteries in flashlights, and locate candles while it's still daylight, put 'em on the kitchen table - or some other obvious place. Is your stove electric or gas? If it's gas, maybe make some dough to stick in the refridgerator that you can bake in the gas stove even after the power has gone out.

If you make all these preparations, maybe the power will stay on!

You can help keep the lines to your own house safe by going out every hour or so and shaking/knocking the ice off the lines, and off any branches that hang over them.

Stay warm and safe, and we'll be thinking of you!

[ramanth]

I'll keep you guys in my prayers. Hope everyone stays safe and warm.

We're supposed to get some nasty weather this weekend, but thankfully no ice. I hope!

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

OH YUCK!

I'll be praying for you guys!! and you guy's powerlines to hold strong.. you will be just fine as long as your power stays on!

We had an ice storm 2 years ago the power was out for most of one day.. i'm not sure how much ice we got but it made for some pretty pictures.!




i put some birdseed out and these little bitty birds were *EVERYWHERE!!!*
(and a Tinky and Jupiter in the window watching them!!!!!!)







sorry to post so many pictures.. but i thought they turned out pretty... and it isn't everyday that you get to take pictures like that...

[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

[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!

[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.