Festus Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 32.9F here at the moment. Any chance we sneak a little sun at any point today? Would really help clear the trees and power lines. CTP shows winds 13 - 17, G28 for me tonight. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfox1 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Just got to work...holy cow! It is like a war zone out there. The only thing I can compare it to is the morning after Isabel down this way. I was starting to think the way the trees were coming down in the woods behind me it was going to rival the holloween snow then it all kinda stopped at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I really need to invest in an axe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I measured 5 right on the nose. Like walking in wet sand, this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anduril Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Steady rain coming down in Mechanicsburg now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 By the way, congrats to you good folks up north on the snow. How much did IPT get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomixwx Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Crazy to see all these pics of what appears to be a crippling ice storm. I'm in Huntingdon county right now and from the window it looks like very little precip even fell. A glaze on porches and bannisters but that is it. No limbs hanging or even ice on the power lines. Have to think it was prmarily sleet or one hell of a dry slot lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeffsvilleWx Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Power was restored for 10 minutes. It's out again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashtown_Coop Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 just melted down 1.36" liquid equiv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Never lost power but hbg made good morning America! Hope Eskimo Joe's happy with the ice storm he wanted. I don't know if its because I live on a hill, but we only have about 0.25" ice. I hope he loses power for a week. Anomalous weather is fun, until it starts negatively impacting life. We never lost power. Underground lines. Roads were passable, just had to dodge a few small tree limbs in the subaru. I really need to invest in an axe. Go to Lowe's and get a Fiskar's Axe and hatchet. You won't regret it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I measured 5 right on the nose. Like walking in wet sand, this stuff. ...and like shoveling wet sand too. Just cleaned the yard for the dog and wow...what a workout! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 just melted down 1.36" liquid equiv. Nice. Glad to see qpf was not overdone. Gulf connection FTW. Made it into work in Bellefonte. Outside of town the main roads aren't too bad. In town was a mess...some main roads basically unplowed. Almost got stuck. Light freezing rain here now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 freezing rain and sleet right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 freezing rain and sleet right now. Yeah, pretty heavy here. Should re-ice the roadways nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 BTW anyone around harrisbug, did the sleet wake you around 3 am? It was so heavy and so our it sounded like pea-sized hail in a TX thunderstorm. VD07 didn't bring that even. oh yes sir. i have been up since about 245ish and that is why. I left for work about 530, i wouldn't say the roads were bad but they were not great. I-81 was plowed, but felt like rumble strips because of the ruts, it was also like driving in a lake from the water pooling. Side roads i don't think were touched then. Mount Holley area of Cumberland County took a good hit, i hear them going from call to call, trees and wires down, transformer fires etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm93 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Needless to say, it's bad here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wmsptwx Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Getting very skating rink like out with this freezing rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr5001 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Needless to say, it's bad here. ScreenHunter_62 Feb. 05 09.41.png I have been watching that PPL outage map slowly inching northwest... more and more outages in cumberland and dauphin where there is a little less ice than york I have .15-.20" with trees not leaning nearly as much as monday ... currently a light rain again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I went to shovel, holy f be careful. It'll give you a heart attack. 2" sleet compacted topped with roughly .3" zr. Then t started raining and I gave up for now. So, who's up for a 6" Sunday Special? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NortheastPAWx Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Got freezing drizzle atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowalot Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 This..main reason why I don't get the fascination with tornados. Maybe cool to see the evolution and all that, but why wish for something that will ultimately bring destruction. Exactly. As I said I hate freezing rain and lived through a Rochester NY ice storm - we got between 1.5 to 2 inches of ice. Power out for several days. Severe impacts to infrastructure. Did not want to see it happen again. Even the little ice we got caused us all these problems today. Lighting flickered a couple of times in Lititz. Got to work remotely at least. Hope everyone is safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Millersville University now closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I went to shovel, holy f be careful. It'll give you a heart attack. 2" sleet compacted topped with roughly .3" zr. Then t started raining and I gave up for now. So, who's up for a 6" Sunday Special? it seems like its getting worse on the west shore, as far as storm related emergency calls. i haven't looked ahead to Sunday, is that what it is now 6" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeffsvilleWx Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 i haven't looked ahead to Sunday, is that what it is now 6" MDT and RDG are both about an inch per GFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 So winds this afternoon, 15-20, are going to cause bigger issues won't they? All the heavy branches and lines flying in the winds doesn't pain a sustainable picture for electricity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runupthescore Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I went to shovel, holy f be careful. It'll give you a heart attack. 2" sleet compacted topped with roughly .3" zr. Then t started raining and I gave up for now. My sidewalk (interior townhouse walkway) is basically a frozen lump of snow-ice about 5" tall. I'm a big guy and I can't make a dent in it with my foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scummyratguy Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Here's a pic of the ice from my front door. Trees are basically popping, cracking, or falling almost constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoar_Frost Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I've got 3.7" on top of my car, though that's probably an underestimate since some of the sleet may have just rolled off onto the ground. I don't have a good location to measure it elsewhere. That's around what I had on top of my car, as well. But, I also noticed that there was a lot of snow piled up all around it to the side, as if, yes, much of the sleet just rolled off. I have a couple of good, sheltered measuring locations in a grassy field between my place and the building to the north of mine; from measuring three or four times during the night, I arrived at a total of 5.9", which seems to agree basically with what PennMan and Jamie got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irvingtwosmokes Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Looks like Johnstown, skated through this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr5001 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 So winds this afternoon, 15-20, are going to cause bigger issues won't they? All the heavy branches and lines flying in the winds doesn't pain a sustainable picture for electricity. that is what I am curious to see... are we sheltered from the 40s ahead of the front in west virginia/southwest pa where it is getting gusty now so not all ice melts if much even melts at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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