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[amzrigh]

So, no power at home, no power at the office. Mike, Kyle and I have been hopping around from hotspot to hotspot to get work done. While a wardriving workday is conceptually rather badass, it's really quite annoying, especially considering that most of the company servers are now down, and Kyle's scrambling to get them back up

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[raspberrysorbet]

What?? WTF happened?

[amzrigh]

High-altitude warm front and a low-altitude cold front. It's coming down rain and freezing when it hits. Powerlines are down all over the place.

[raspberrysorbet]

Holy crap. O_O

Is this a common occurrence where you live? I've never heard of anything like that before.

[amzrigh]

I don't remember this happening in the few years I've been here, though colliding fronts aren't that uncommon -- this is Tornado Alley, after all.

Trees and plants and things have an inch of ice on them, if not more. That's what's bringing the lines down, mostly. Also have trees falling and blocking streets. The icy plants look really pretty though. I took some pictures walking to work this morning, hopefully they turned out alright.

[langs_n_england]

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen on occasion. The ice storm this past January wasn't quite as bad as what this one sounds like, but it was much worse than normal for the area.

There was an ice storm many years ago, must have been around the mid 1980s, that was very bad. Power lines down everywhere, many trees lost branches, etc. Haven't been any quite that bad until this year, but there was one around 1992 that shut down the whole town as well.

[amzrigh]

Yeah, all the trees around the Boren house, it looks like all the branches broke off simultaneously and fell through the trunks.

[rainychan]

I believe that there was a stormthis bad last year, but we only got the fringes of it. It got a lot of small towns filled wit elderly, though.

[langs_n_england]

Well, yes, the storm in January was MUCH worse in the southeastern portion of the state. Many people were without power for days. Maybe even weeks. I don't remember clearly... but I was just talking about the Norman area.