hm8 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The sleet stories from this storm sound nightmarish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 It's amazing there wasn't more widespread power outages then there was! I remember the lights flickered and even went out for 10 seconds or so maybe 5 times, but they stayed on! Cable did go out though, and my cell phone signal was weak the next morning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The sleet stories from this storm sound nightmarish You couldn't find salt around here for two weeks. We broke off two pick axe handles trying to break through the ice on a sidewalk at the church. We nearly resorted to renting a tile stripper from lowes to clean the sidewalk with, but they were out. Someone else had the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The sleet stories from this storm sound nightmarish It's much harder to dig out from and navigate through compared to snow. Roads were awful in the days following the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoFabulous Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I had never experienced a sleet storm close to this one. Picked up 3-4" of pure sleet before changing to snow. Having 40-50 mph gusts and moderate/heavy sleet hitting the windows was like being in a hailstorm that wouldn't end. That's what I'll remember about the storm. There's a corner in the roof just outside my living room, and I'll never forget the hours spent watching the sleet pour off the roof like sugar. The pile underneath that part of the roof was two feet high (I'll have to see where my pictures of it are). It was so deep on the ground, you could kick it around like sand. Then we got about 15 minutes of freezing rain, and the whole thing turned to cement. Thanks to that, Muncie was consistently three or four degrees colder than the rest of the region for about a month. When it finally got warm enough to melt, it took me two hours to dig a four-inch wide channel down my driveway so the water has someplace to go without turning the entire driveway into a hockey rink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Then we got about 15 minutes of freezing rain, and the whole thing turned to cement. Thanks to that, Muncie was consistently three or four degrees colder than the rest of the region for about a month. When it finally got warm enough to melt, it took me two hours to dig a four-inch wide channel down my driveway so the water has someplace to go without turning the entire driveway into a hockey rink. That's what made it hell. Sleep it just like sand, but once it cemented together, what was on the ground was staying there. I used a bag of salt and a hoe on my driveway over 3 hours and you would barely know I made a diffrence. I don't even remember how long the ice was on the ground for, I just know it was a miserable experience. I had a sore ass for 2 months because I biffed at least 4 times I remember distinctly. Also had to get winched out 3 times in my RWD car, 2 of them were from my front yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 That's what I'll remember about the storm. There's a corner in the roof just outside my living room, and I'll never forget the hours spent watching the sleet pour off the roof like sugar. The pile underneath that part of the roof was two feet high (I'll have to see where my pictures of it are). It was so deep on the ground, you could kick it around like sand. Then we got about 15 minutes of freezing rain, and the whole thing turned to cement. Thanks to that, Muncie was consistently three or four degrees colder than the rest of the region for about a month. When it finally got warm enough to melt, it took me two hours to dig a four-inch wide channel down my driveway so the water has someplace to go without turning the entire driveway into a hockey rink. The sand-like consistency sorta surprised me. I slid several times just trying to walk through it. It didn't take long for it to harden though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersnow12 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_bfCsuXDhQ&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 love this report lol 0450 PM HEAVY SLEET FRANKFORT 40.28N 86.51W 02/01/2011 M3.00 INCH CLINTON IN TRAINED SPOTTER WHITE-OUT CONDITIONS DUE TO SLEET. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowlord81 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 love this report lol 0450 PM HEAVY SLEET FRANKFORT 40.28N 86.51W 02/01/2011 M3.00 INCH CLINTON IN TRAINED SPOTTER WHITE-OUT CONDITIONS DUE TO SLEET. What could have been! I guess sleet is better than the 1-2 inches of pure ice we were expecting. Could you imagine the amount of damage caused if we had all ZR and the winds? I remember the night of the main event it was hard to sleep cause of the sound of the wind ( I have a forest behind my house ) We would still be recovering from it. Imagine Paducah 09 with 50mph wind gust. That would have been epic, but I honestly dont think I would want to expirence something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 What could have been! I guess sleet is better than the 1-2 inches of pure ice we were expecting. Could you imagine the amount of damage caused if we had all ZR and the winds? I remember the night of the main event it was hard to sleep cause of the sound of the wind ( I have a forest behind my house ) We would still be recovering from it. Imagine Paducah 09 with 50mph wind gust. That would have been epic, but I honestly dont think I would want to expirence something like that. Did you get hit hard in the Anderson/Muncie ice storm in.... 05 I think it was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoFabulous Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The sand-like consistency sorta surprised me. I slid several times just trying to walk through it. It didn't take long for it to harden though. Lol, I do admit having a lot of fun watching people go down all over Ball State. Of course, I joined them several times. What could have been! I guess sleet is better than the 1-2 inches of pure ice we were expecting. Could you imagine the amount of damage caused if we had all ZR and the winds? I remember the night of the main event it was hard to sleep cause of the sound of the wind ( I have a forest behind my house ) We would still be recovering from it. Imagine Paducah 09 with 50mph wind gust. That would have been epic, but I honestly dont think I would want to expirence something like that. This is true. After the storm, I was telling people what our possibilities were: a foot of snow, 3-4" of sleet, 2" of ice or 2" of rain. While the snow would have been the most fun, I think we got off pretty easy all things considered. Certainly could have been a lot worse. The power was out at the house for a week after the ice storm in '05, and I ended up living at my office for three days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 What a difference a year makes. Those piles looked healthy. It was a good event for us around here IMHO. Sustained Blizzard conditions for a few hours. And whats worse, when I was looking up these pics (its nice because everything on your wunderground photo account is organized by date)...I started looking at pics from other recent years. Looking at data/stats is one thing but its even more pronounced when looking at pics. Man, to say we were due for a stinker winter is an understatement. (Still think we have some better snows coming, but the first half of this winter is definitely a karma one). Oh, and to those who had sleet, I cant even imagine it. I think the most sleet Ive ever witnessed is 0.5", if that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I think it would be kind of cool to see a sleet storm like that. The bad thing though is you know you're missing out on very heavy snow not too far away, which takes all of the "fun" out of it. I remember a few winters ago we had a major sleet storm that piled up to around 1". It was also cemented with freezing rain and took forever to melt. That seemed pretty epic, and hadn't seen anything that extreme before. I can't imagine 3+" of that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokomoWX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I think it would be kind of cool to see a sleet storm like that. The bad thing though is you know you're missing out on very heavy snow not too far away, which takes all of the "fun" out of it. I remember a few winters ago we had a major sleet storm that piled up to around 1". It was also cemented with freezing rain and took forever to melt. That seemed pretty epic, and hadn't seen anything that extreme before. I can't imagine 3+" of that stuff. That second sentence sums it all up. Very heartbreaking last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaves Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Truly a remarkable storm and probably one of the most disruptive Midwest snowstorms of all-time given the large area affected by heavy snow/blizzard conditions. 3 day snow/sleet totals from January 31-February 2 Parts of MO, IA, WI, IL, IN and MI saw 18" or more. Here are the 18"+ totals that I pulled together from NCDC database and various NWS pages. A couple of them didn't have many totals listed so this is underdoing it. Kenosha, WI: 27.3 Racine, WI: 26.0 1.4W Beach Park, IL: 24.2 0.6ESE Elk Grove Village, IL: 23.7 Spring Grove, IL: 23.4 1.7S Inverness, IL: 23.1 5NW Woodstock, IL: 23.1 Antioch, IL: 23.0 Highland, IN: 22.9 Downers Grove, IL: 22.3 Payson, IL: 22.0 Quincy, IL: 22.0 Chicago Midway Arpt: 21.7 Willowbrook, IL: 21.7 2.2WSW Elk Grove Village, IL: 21.4 2.2N Waukegan, IL: 21.3 Chicago O’Hare Arpt: 21.2 1.2SW De Motte, IN: 21.2 1.8E Lincolnwood, IL: 21.2 Grayslake, IL: 21.1 2WSW Schererville, IN: 21.1 Hannibal, MO: 21.0 Lake Zurich, IL: 21.0 Park Forest, IL: 21.0 St. Charles, IL: 21.0 Lisle, IL: 20.8 4.6W Hoffman Estates, IL: 20.7 McHenry, IL: 20.5 0.7SSW LaGrange Park, IL: 20.3 0.9ESE Portage, IN: 20.2 1N Abingdon, IL: 20.0 3E Columbia, MO: 20.0 2WSW Crown Point, IN: 20.0 Monmouth, IL: 20.0 1.5NE North Aurora, IL: 20.0 6W Perry, IL: 20.0 South Haven, MI: 20.0 1.5NNE Lakes of the Four Seasons, IN: 19.8 Milwaukee, WI: 19.8 Davenport, IA: 19.7 4WSW Mundelein, IL: 19.7 4NW Wolf Lake, MI: 19.7 Elburn, IL: 19.5 2ESE Kahoka, MO: 19.5 Oak Brook, IL: 19.5 3.7NE Hebron, IN: 19.4 1.5S Oak Park, IL: 19.3 St. David, IL: 19.3 Stoughton, WI: 19.1 3SW Barrington, IL: 19.0 4.1SW De Motte, IN: 19.0 Marengo, IL: 19.0 New Bloomfield, MO: 19.0 2NW Paw Paw, IL: 19.0 4.8NNE Poplar Grove, IL: 19.0 4NW Rockford, IL: 19.0 Saverton, IL: 19.0 Shelbina, MO: 19.0 1W Tennessee, IL: 19.0 DeKalb, IL: 18.7 Madison, WI: 18.7 5NE Avon, IL: 18.5 Pontiac, IL: 18.5 5.3W Watseka, IL: 18.5 Wauconda, IL: 18.5 Moline, IL: 18.4 Winfield, IL: 18.3 2SSE Newark, IL: 18.2 Ashland, MO: 18.0 1SSE Bartlett, IL: 18.0 4S Glen Ellyn, IL: 18.0 Hudsonville, MI: 18.0 Montgomery City, MO: 18.0 Pittsfield, IL: 18.0 Ripley, IL: 18.0 2E South Haven, MI: 18.0 Winchester, IL: 18.0 preface = not a complaint post, just a balanced reality check post. GHD was an incredible and historic blizard/storm/event, but not so much for Michigan. In defense of a few of the MI (especially SEMI) posters I feel compelled to share my thoughts: I see a whopping (2) MI cities making your list, and they are both in the LES areas of SWMI and are accustomed to getting large totals. Outside of that, this was way over hyped/forecasted and "busted" notably on accumulation totals and "real-feel impact" for the majority of areas covered by all the red-zone, mby included. The winds were sweet, but the grainy sugar-sand flakes were lame thus the visibilties never seemed worthy of the bliz-warnings. And, the stretched-out (18 hour-ish) duration to get the 9-11" totals (half what many forecast maps were showing across S. Mich) meant plows had their way with the storm instead of the other way around (as you want to see and would expect from a historic storm). Nope, this was not historic, let alone epic for S. Michigan. Bliz of '99 easily matched or exceeded GHD (even in the areas that made your list) in both total snowfall and real-feel impacts. And that one ranks only perhaps #3 on the list of modern era mega-storms for our area, and a distant 3rd if it does hold that spot. One year later, would I take another GHD? You betcha, especially with this season! But those of us in S. Michigan can't pretend it was the epic event like it was for a lot you west and SW of us. I think most of us in S. Michigan are still waiting for that day to dawn.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 What could have been! I guess sleet is better than the 1-2 inches of pure ice we were expecting. Could you imagine the amount of damage caused if we had all ZR and the winds? I remember the night of the main event it was hard to sleep cause of the sound of the wind ( I have a forest behind my house ) We would still be recovering from it. Imagine Paducah 09 with 50mph wind gust. That would have been epic, but I honestly dont think I would want to expirence something like that. If the original zr forecasts would've panned out around Indy, it would've been a catastrophe. Serious infrastructure damage with that much ice and winds that strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 preface = not a complaint post, just a balanced reality check post. GHD was an incredible and historic blizard/storm/event, but not so much for Michigan. In defense of a few of the MI (especially SEMI) posters I feel compelled to share my thoughts: I see a whopping (2) MI cities making your list, and they are both in the LES areas of SWMI and are accustomed to getting large totals. Outside of that, this was way over hyped/forecasted and "busted" notably on accumulation totals and "real-feel impact" for the majority of areas covered by all the red-zone, mby included. The winds were sweet, but the grainy sugar-sand flakes were lame thus the visibilties never seemed worthy of the bliz-warnings. And, the stretched-out (18 hour-ish) duration to get the 9-11" totals (half what many forecast maps were showing across S. Mich) meant plows had their way with the storm instead of the other way around (as you want to see and would expect from a historic storm). Nope, this was not historic, let alone epic for S. Michigan. Bliz of '99 easily matched or exceeded GHD (even in the areas that made your list) in both total snowfall and real-feel impacts. And that one ranks only perhaps #3 on the list of modern era mega-storms for our area, and a distant 3rd if it does hold that spot. One year later, would I take another GHD? You betcha, especially with this season! But those of us in S. Michigan can't pretend it was the epic event like it was for a lot you west and SW of us. I think most of us in S. Michigan are still waiting for that day to dawn.. It definitely lost steam as it got to your area, no denying that. But for areas farther west that went through '99 and GHD, I think many would say that GHD was better/more intense. '99 had a wider snow band but the higher end amounts had less areal coverage than GHD. I can't recall too many storms that have produced 18" or more from Oklahoma to Lake Michigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 And whats worse, when I was looking up these pics (its nice because everything on your wunderground photo account is organized by date)...I started looking at pics from other recent years. Looking at data/stats is one thing but its even more pronounced when looking at pics. Man, to say we were due for a stinker winter is an understatement. (Still think we have some better snows coming, but the first half of this winter is definitely a karma one). Oh, and to those who had sleet, I cant even imagine it. I think the most sleet Ive ever witnessed is 0.5", if that. Yeah, I've never seen very much sleet either, maybe 0.75". Sleet is usually short-lived here either going to freezing rain or back to snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Yeah, I've never seen very much sleet either, maybe 0.75". Sleet is usually short-lived here either going to freezing rain or back to snow. Most I had ever seen prior to GHD was about a half inch. Sleet is normally a transitional ptype, not the dominant one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The sleet was so awful here, that I have an adverse reaction to it now. Like last week, even though it was for a short amount of time...the horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I noticed that the GHD storm was one of the billion dollar disasters of 2011. Pretty impressive to have a winter storm cause that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 The sleet was so awful here, that I have an adverse reaction to it now. Like last week, even though it was for a short amount of time...the horror. I developed diarrhea last week in the small sleet storm we had. Sent from my ADR6400L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoFabulous Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 That second sentence sums it all up. Very heartbreaking last year. I disagree. Yeah, it would've been more fun to get the massive snow amounts. However, most of us have seen 12-15" of snow in a storm, and most of have seen 2" of ice accumulation, I don't think there are a lot of people out there who have seen 3-4" of sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 i went for a walk prolly around 9 or 10 that night with the camera...there are some open areas around where i live....very very wild storm...great stuff i do remember during one of my walks that there was a moment were i did get a little freaked out... i think it had more to do with the fact that I had absolutely no bearings with how blinding the falling and blowing snow had gotten...All it did was get my heart pumpin' a little extra...but i could see how it could become quite dangerous for people caught out in those conditions...extremely disorienting anywho... This was in front of my house. . . one of the better gusts hits a little after 30 seconds. . . footage quality is junk. . .but still tells the story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Photo's like these tell the severity of the storm well. I believe this was a photo from a car that was left on Lake Shore Drive. Cool satellite loop of the storm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feb_2011_Storm_Moves_Across_the_U.S.OGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbertfly Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Photo's like these tell the severity of the storm well. I believe this was a photo from a car that was left on Lake Shore Drive. Cool satellite loop of the storm. http://en.wikipedia....oss_the_U.S.OGG that photo reminds me of a story my dad told me about the '67 blizzzard. . . he had just bought a brand new car three days before it hit. He was a manager at a local Jewel at the time. He had to work the day the blizzard started, but had a date with a girl after work...(the "girl" would eventually be my mother years later) He was a smoker at the time, but didn't want the "girl" to find out. So after he had his cig on the way to work that day he decided to leave the window cracked a little bit so the car would still smell new for their date, instead of it smelling like smoke. Obviously the blizzard hit while he was at work and most of the employees got shut in for over 24 hours. He eventually made it out to his car the next day and found that it was full top to bottom with snow. All just from the small amount he had left it cracked open. Needless to say, the new car smell was long gone from that point forward. . . the worst part about it is that my mom new he was a smoker and she was a smoker herself at that time.... they are still married now and they both quit smoking soon after that blizzard . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 that photo reminds me of a story my dad told me about the '67 blizzzard. . . he had just bought a brand new car three days before it hit. He was a manager at a local Jewel at the time. He had to work the day the blizzard started, but had a date with a girl after work...(the "girl" would eventually be my mother years later) He was a smoker at the time, but didn't want the "girl" to find out. So after he had his cig on the way to work that day he decided to leave the window cracked a little bit so the car would still smell new for their date, instead of it smelling like smoke. Obviously the blizzard hit while he was at work and most of the employees got shut in for over 24 hours. He eventually made it out to his car the next day and found that it was full top to bottom with snow. All just from the small amount he had left it cracked open. Needless to say, the new car smell was long gone from that point forward. . . the worst part about it is that my mom new he was a smoker and she was a smoker herself at that time.... they are still married now and they both quit smoking soon after that blizzard . . . That's quite a story! Good ending! Cool video above by the way. You can clearly see how bad the visibility was by pointing the camera towards the street lamp. Snow drifted into my garage through a 1/2" gap along the floor during the storm last February, talk about weird places for snow. I remember I had snow in between some of the windows and the storm pane. Wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 Classic. Jim Cantore FTW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJt4nV6hM1Y That was directly on top of them. The digital flicker of the Camera shows that the EMI associated was incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 And whats worse, when I was looking up these pics (its nice because everything on your wunderground photo account is organized by date)...I started looking at pics from other recent years. Looking at data/stats is one thing but its even more pronounced when looking at pics. Man, to say we were due for a stinker winter is an understatement. (Still think we have some better snows coming, but the first half of this winter is definitely a karma one). Oh, and to those who had sleet, I cant even imagine it. I think the most sleet Ive ever witnessed is 0.5", if that. I lived in Lancaster, PA for the Valentine's day storm several years back. It was UNREAL...6 to 8 inches of SLEET that froze solid. It was by far the most dense stuff I have ever had to shovel. On top of that, it froze rock solid the night after, so if you didn't shovel your car out or anything out, it was literally frozen in a block of ice. It took that stuff a loooong time to melt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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