The first ice storm of the winter has come and gone in the great state of Oklahoma. By some measurements, it is the worse one that we've had. More people in the state have lost power in this storm than in any others previously. For its effects on me, personally, though, it is the most mild one.
The damage caused by the storm in the small town in which I live is fairly slight. I've seen no downed trees or branches locally, and as far as I know, no one's lost electricity here. The town did lose water for most of the day on Monday, but the way I see it that had more to do with cold temperatures and not the ice storm itself.
The 2000 storm did a lot of damages to the trees in our yard. There is still evidence of that storm's damage high in our pecan trees. Branches that were broke, and partially healed, growing now at odd downward angles, their contortions mostly only visible during the winter when they are not obscured by leaves. We were without power for three or four days. That storm also took our our mailbox.
The most damage this week's storm caused me was that I slipped on the icy steps leaving the house yesterday and bruised my buttocks and shoulder. I'm a little sore, but a lot better off than a lot of other people in the state.
I find it a bit odd that the four most severe ice storms in Oklahoma's recorded history have all happened since the year 2000. Is this the shape of things to come? A local side effect of global climate change? It's enough to make a person go 'hmmmmmmm'.
Another winter storm is due Friday afternoon/evening, this one bringing mostly snow. The kids will like that.
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It's hAS. We have a boatload of snow right now, and haven't had much for a few years now. We're definitely not nearly as cold as I remember, and even with this snow, not nearly as snowy as I remember from even my early twenties.
Sorry about the bruising.
I can't imagine how much snow you'd normally get in the winter, up there in Canada. When I lived in Kansas, as a kid, we'd sometimes get tons of snow. It was great, other than, even though we lived miles from town on old country roads, the snowplows would have the roads cleared overnight and we'd not miss any school. Still, the drifts those plows made were amazing for digging snow tunnels and making snow forts!
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