harrisale Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I was wondering that myself. He was posting profusely before and during the storm and now nothing. Hope everything's okay in Etobicoke. Etobicoke was hit pretty good from what I hear, lots of large trees in the neighborhoods. Have a good buddy in Etobicoke who usually responds to messages pretty quickly and haven't heard from him either. Hopefully SSC is has found a way to stay warm, or has changed locations. Still 219,000 customers in Toronto alone without power, plus nearly 100,000 Hydroone customers. Easily over 1 million people ('customers' could include a whole family) without power in the affected areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torontonian Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Most places seem to be fine now. I don't see anyone new losing power. About 220,000 homes without power still in Toronto proper alone, though. Lots of melting happened last night so I don't think there's enough ice to snap much It is actually STILL a big problem except your location. Up around Christie Pits here lost only a little ice to melt. Actually icier here today than yesterday after refreeze. If winds pick up could be more problems. Probably half million plus people (maybe SSC too) aren't fine. People i know in Forest Hill, Danforth, Leaside areas are frozen in the dark.this icy Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chances14 Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 There is still a lot of ice on the trees and power lines here. Hopefully we can get a good deal of sunshine tomorrow to help thaw it out a little. I tried to break off some of the ice on my internet antenna today. There had to be at least an inch of ice on it, even after the slight melting from yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 I made an interesting observation regarding local elevation and its impact on the ice storm. I live at approximately 938 ft elevation, ice is present around 960 ft here. Whats this mean? Trees taller than 22 feet have their top crown covered in ice. As you drive south toward my parents (5 miles), ice is only present above 980 ft, so land + tree height has to exceed 980 ft for ice to be present on the crown. The farther north you drive the lower the ice height is until its right down to ground level no matter where you are. My inlaws live about 10 miles south of me and ice height starts around 1000 ft, so the hills or trees exceeding 1000 ft have ice almost to the ground level, but most surrounding area has no ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHM Supercell Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Will hopefully get some photos/video up tomorrow evening. Was without power for basically all of yesterday and worked from 6am-10pm today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 I really feel like the majority of reporting on this ice storm has been unfairly biased towards the Toronto power and public transportation systems. I have basically found no news on the status of most areas affected. Haven't even heard a story yet from Brampton, Vaughan, Hamilton, Guelph etc. For info on Waterloo Region... - expected to take a month to complete storm cleanup - Woolwich Twp still under a state of emergency - power expected to be out until the weekend in areas around Cambridge. That is the whole picture from CTV Kitchener. They briefly mention the above info, while reporting on a family in Cambridge who are drinking eggnog and are unable to cook a turkey on Christmas Day, and then switch reporting over to the Toronto situation. Really frustrating there is no summary of the full scale impacts of this storm. Are there any other states of emergencies in effect other than Woolwich Twp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Thanks for the concern guys. I'm ok though. I just got back on the grid sometime overnight. Spent the last 48 hours mostly at my grandma's in south Etobicoke where they weren't hit as hard. She doesn't have internet access and I hate posting on my cell so that's why I've been silent. Pics to come.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Outside my house Before (or during I guess) After (notice the difference in the deep background on the left) Pearson clocked in with 0.96" of ice. Per my estimate, I'd say it was a little lower here (perhaps about 3/4 of an inch) but it doesn't take much for destruction to start happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Good to see that you and yours are okay. Congrats...or something like that. Nice pics and I hope everything gets back to normal for you soon. I'd almost rather see that than what we have right now, which is bare ground and 2° F, with a WC of -15° F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Good to see that you and yours are okay. Congrats...or something like that. Nice pics and I hope everything gets back to normal for you soon. I'd almost rather see that than what we have right now, which is bare ground and 2° F, with a WC of -15° F. I get that. With the trees glazed over it's going to be one of the prettiest Christmases I've ever experienced. But I'll always trade bare ground for power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 mess low already outperformed this whole event imby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 I made an interesting observation regarding local elevation and its impact on the ice storm. I live at approximately 938 ft elevation, ice is present around 960 ft here. Whats this mean? Trees taller than 22 feet have their top crown covered in ice. As you drive south toward my parents (5 miles), ice is only present above 980 ft, so land + tree height has to exceed 980 ft for ice to be present on the crown. The farther north you drive the lower the ice height is until its right down to ground level no matter where you are. My inlaws live about 10 miles south of me and ice height starts around 1000 ft, so the hills or trees exceeding 1000 ft have ice almost to the ground level, but most surrounding area has no ice. Ah yes the joys of geography. Nice observation, I guess you have a few more hills up there then here where it is literally all flat except along rivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boogieman Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Dang... Stebo hit this ice call right on. The I-69 corridor call was spot on as well. Genesee county was the worst hit in Consumer's coverage area and many here will be without power here until Saturday. DTE Energy's map is still lit up pretty good too. We were very lucky that we didn't lose power here, because transformers were exploding everywhere around us. We were a very small island of people with power surrounded on all sides by outages. Since we had power here at home, I loaned our generator to our relatives in Linden who lost power Sunday morning. I broke a chunk of ice off a table and it's about 0.4" thick. The trees look like they're from another planet with a coating of fluffy snow on top of the ice. The sun shining through them makes them look like they're electrified. There has been no melting at all thus far. We just got our internet and cable back about 20 minutes ago, it's been out since around 6AM Sunday. We had no local TV either because we don't have an outside antenna (yet). Local radio is crap. I finally caught some news and weather on one of the Central Michigan University radio stations last night. We had a 1G connection on our cell phone to keep up with facebook. A little rant about local TV service... they should have at least left a an analog B&W w/Mono aural on the carrier for times like this. A lot of people do not have an outside antenna and digital isn't worth poop dust without one The powers that be would love to screw radio the same way, but it's not been going so well for them. AM & FM are fine in analog, leave them alone IMO. Rant over... I'm better now. I'd post a couple pics, but they'd be pretty much indiscernible from many pics already posted in here, so I'll spare the bandwidth. So, IMBY, 0.4" ice and 4 inches of fluffy, light snow since Sunday. I hope everyone came out of all this okay. It was quite a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Merry Christmas and/or happy holidays to you all, at least you have something wintry to see outside your windows, here it looks about the same as it does every other month, minus the leaves. I was just thinking about Georgetown which is where I spent my formative years (that probably explains a lot) and last visited just back in September on a beautiful fall day, this is what one maple tree looked like then: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YHM Supercell Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Just a quick video capture of one of the many power flashes, as I begin to look over my photos and video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Merry Christmas to all if you. My power and heat were restored late Monday afternoon after 35 hours out. The temperature dropped to 51F in my house by lunchtime Monday. Coldest night I've ever experienced in the house. I'm one of the lucky ones, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Thanks for the concern guys. I'm ok though. I just got back on the grid sometime overnight. Spent the last 48 hours mostly at my grandma's in south Etobicoke where they weren't hit as hard. She doesn't have internet access and I hate posting on my cell so that's why I've been silent. Pics to come.... Good to hear you're okay canuck. Merry Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Most places seem to be fine now. I don't see anyone new losing power. About 220,000 homes without power still in Toronto proper alone, though. Lots of melting happened last night so I don't think there's enough ice to snap much It looks like you were very much justified in your concern late last week about the potential for power outages. I really feel for the people who had to spend this Christmas in the dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Good to hear you're okay canuck. Merry Christmas! lol, was it worth it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 lol, was it worth it? What do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestCoaster Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Merry Christmas to all if you. My power and heat were restored late Monday afternoon after 35 hours out. The temperature dropped to 51F in my house by lunchtime Monday. Coldest night I've ever experienced in the house. I'm one of the lucky ones, though Houses on the Danforth were reporting 4C (40F) inside their homes. Those old houses have awful insulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowstormcanuck Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 What do you mean? Was it worth it to be without power to experience a decent ice storm? I'd say yes, but just barely. Had my power been out deeper into Christmas Eve day I would have started chirping. Plus I know there are tens of thousands in this city that'll disagree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Was it worth it to be without power to experience a decent ice storm? I'd say yes, but just barely. Had my power been out deeper into Christmas Eve day I would have started chirping. Plus I know there are tens of thousands in this city that'll disagree. I'd have to agree with you but then, again, I had power restored by Monday evening after only 35 hours in the dark. It was certainly the prettiest Christmas I have ever experienced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Houses on the Danforth were reporting 4C (40F) inside their homes. Those old houses have awful insulation. That is just awful. Are you referring to the area around Greektown/ Danforth and Main? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Hopefully the brief warm-up this weekend won't lead to new power outages as the ice comes crashing down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitelakeroy Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Finally back after losing power and internet. Luckily my power was out for 1/2 a day (my neighbor across the street is still out today) but internet just finally got restored to the area. I will post some pics tomorrow after I down load them from my camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitelakeroy Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 This DTX map does not tell the whole story. These measurements were at ground level. As you went up on the trees you could easily add 1/4-1/2" to these measurements in the I69 corridor down to M59. During the storm around 3-4 PM is when ground level started to freeze at my house. I went out at that time and you could clearly see and hear ice on the trees starting about 15' off the ground getting thicker as you went up. I know from various people and relatives to the north that the ground level freeze time was earlier and earlier as you traveled north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitelakeroy Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Destructive photo from Vaughan pic.twitter.com/tMkX5uNFBB Wow ... thank God is was not that bad here!! While it was bad enough here ... that is nasty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitelakeroy Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 I made an interesting observation regarding local elevation and its impact on the ice storm. I live at approximately 938 ft elevation, ice is present around 960 ft here. Whats this mean? Trees taller than 22 feet have their top crown covered in ice. As you drive south toward my parents (5 miles), ice is only present above 980 ft, so land + tree height has to exceed 980 ft for ice to be present on the crown. The farther north you drive the lower the ice height is until its right down to ground level no matter where you are. My inlaws live about 10 miles south of me and ice height starts around 1000 ft, so the hills or trees exceeding 1000 ft have ice almost to the ground level, but most surrounding area has no ice. Yeah it was crazy this way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Message posted within the hour from a family friend in Halton Hills: And on the 8th day of the Acton Ice Age we were given the Christmas gift of.....HYDRO! It is difficult to put into words the Christmas our family experienced this year, but I can certainly say that I appreciate even more the great family and friends the ----- have been blessed with. They're very lucky they had a wood stove to keep them warm this week. Twitter photo from Sunday of the RM of Halton region limits sign: pic.twitter.com/vn3ApA5tP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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