The WORLD ENDING ice storm !!! North-East Iowa

JD Seller

Well-known Member
The world ending ice storm now appears to be .10 to 1/4 inch of ice for a few hours before the temperatures raise and we get up to an inch of rain. The ice starting tonight and ending mid morning Monday.

It seems that everything is dramatized anymore. The weather has became a "NEWS" event not just another winter event that is "NORMAL". I can remember lots of ice storms in my life time and most if not all where worse than this one appears to be.

People can't stay at home anymore. They have to be able to "GO". So we have the road departments having to keep the roads ice/snow free so motorists can drive at high speeds like it was summer.

Now if this was a Friday event rather than the Sunday/Monday one, there would be school and full "Game night" activities. LOL The school district's office will light up with complaints if they called off school because of weather on "GAME" days.
 
I was waiting for them.to name this one too, like snowmageddon and other stupid names for storms.
 
I can remember back in the day if a storm was predicted you can bet the grocery stores would be packed before. I can remember my dad having to go to town and get feed ground he would drop my mom off at the grocery store then head to the feed store. I wonder how many city dwellers know how to chain up I've seen plenty of mail jeeps with chains .
 
Bingo, JD.

TV weather is sensationalized for ratings purposes.

I stopped watching TV news and weather for information about 20 years ago but occasionally tune in for entertainment.

Dean
 
Between people not being able to deal with snow/ice and the TV hyping everything up it is sad. It is just another winter storm. Same with rain around here. As soon as a rain comes they are talking about "possible local flooding". Trying to get the people all hyped up so they will "stay tuned for the latest weather advisory".
 
Farmerwithmutt: Do you even have any car/pickup chins anymore???? Since we went to 4 wheel drive pickups I have not used chains. 15-20 years ago I would put studded snow tires on the truck in the winter.

I do have several tractors with tire chains on. This includes the JD 4450 MFWD and the JD 4960 MFWD. IF it gets real icy I even have to put chains on the feeder wagons to keep them from sliding into the feed bunks.
 
Hmmmmm....central Kansas here.....1/4 ice and now much needed rain for our wheat.....temps did not get cold enough for much ice..... all is well. Thanks.
 
Weather forecasters are actually trained to make an outrageous statement about the weather just before a commercial break in the hopes that people will at least endure, if not watch, the commercials. That's one job where you can be wrong 90% of the time and still have a job.
 
The problem is to much air time devoted to the predictions. Got to have sometime to justify the air time so might as well sensationlize it. Combined with the barely post pubic reporters who are taught to over dramatize with hand movements. From an old coger viewpoint.
 
Amazon has them for sale . watched highway through hell on you tube once one comment made even though the guy had chains on he didn't have the right ones he was from Quebec. Just a thought pickup truck chains would be the same as size as county trucks buddy uses them all the time he's got a two wheel dump box and he uses that to haul manure to the compost pile
 
Around here they keep pushing back the timing of the ice. Two days ago it was going to hit early Sunday morning. Usually when that happens and the more they hype it up the less we get.

If they didn't make a big deal out of these weather events they would not be able to push their climate change agenda.
 
I work for the county hear in nw ia.and the weather man is all ways crying big storm big storm and every time it fizzels. I cant remember the last time we had a real blizzard. like the ones we had in the 60,s you know the ones that lasted 3 days and it was no big deal. now we git 2 inches and my god its the end of the world. what will thay do when we do have a blizzard? rant over' Bob
 
It called the new law of inverse prediction. The more they holler, the less chance of anything happening. The events that annoy me are the ones they totally miss! Every once in a while we get dumped on with inches of rain, or feet of snow, that's not predicted.
 
I would rather they would predict a catastrophe, usually means little to nothing, when they predict nothing we get walloped.
 
At 70 years of age, the most important place to have chains is on my feet! I do know that the ground is harder than it used to be. After that, any 4wd vehicle with chains all the way around shouldn't have any trouble in this storm or any other. Just can't go as fast and must be more aware of other drivers! Ice and ice storms just makes it so much harder than they can cover on the news shows for anyone feeding and taking care of livestock.
 
St. Louis forecasters had us in total devastation on Thursday.South and southwest of here took a pretty good hit. To the north not so much. My driveway never even got slick.

On the flip side some friends of mine who work for the county and state made some extra money and another buddy who owns a hardware store sold 10 pallets of ice melt.
 
It's not just people that have to go; it's Trucks. Trucks are the biggest thing on the road and too many drivers think they own the road. Since they pay more in fuel tax (Don't think about the damage their weight causes) companies insist the Interstate and State roads be kept clear. If our mentally (from too much alcohol) slow governor had kept the railroad functional as they did in Missouri there would be fewer deaths.
 
With the impending ice storm, our Fareway trucks were pulled off the road for Monday deliveries, friday afternoon.
 
We got .03" of rain here in sunny AZ yesterday. The TV stations had a reporter at every water puddle, predicting a doom and gloom "turn around, don't drown" type of message. All the ADOT cameras were shown with cars splashing thru the rain. People auger off into each other in a heavy dew around here.
 
The weather in our area is pretty boring, so the weather guessers embellish over a 6-inch rain; that is, the rain drops are 6 inches apart.
 
Right on brother. Around here we have 4 pm. 4:30 pm 5 pm, 6 pm, 9 pm and 10 pm news on just 3 mainstream of the local dozen or so channels out of Dallas. On at least 2 of these channels and maybe the third, at least half an hour is national news where it seems weather is included for one reason or another, whereas the rest of the broadcast is local.

All 3 stations have a "staff" of meteorologists and during the half hour of local news, they are in the picture at the start, mid way making their full presentation and in summary, 3 times. When the weather is bad they ARE the news cast. Most of the time it is a horror movie and the worst possible prediction comes flowing forth, only to be ignored the next day when they over did it. Most admit to having 3-4 computer models to tell them what's going to happen and all that and still it's normally a big snow job. And then there is my radar picks up more things than yours does and my meteorologist got the the award for best in Texas kind of stuff.

Time for the protesters input: Oh but we have to make it look bad just incase ONE person is offended by the fact that of the several million residentsinf the viewing area just one might get more than anticipated.....pffffft.

Whole shebang is just an opinion slanted farce if you ask me.
 
The two best. I love the "Weather Channel " when they have the reporter standing out in the hurricane and craps is flying past at very hi speeds. The other is on U-Tube and a female reporter is giving the report and the snow plow just burys her in a wave of slush.
 
The sobering thought from all this hype is that six people lost their lives because they didn't respect what problems that even minor winter weather can cause. As said on here time and time again, "you can't fix stupid"
Loren
 
We got very lucky here and only got 1/4th inch of ice...We got 1 inch of rain overnight... If it would have been 2-3 degrees colder we would have had 1 inch of ice on everything this morning which would have been a major disaster..
 
Its all AL GORE's fault. Normally the cold blast from the north would hit the warm moist air from the south and cause all kinds of problems. Then AL invents this Global Warming thing (just like he did the internet) and screws it all up! He should have stuck with perfecting the internet, then maybe we wouldn't have so many fizzled storms, and Hilarity wouldn't have gotten her Emails read!!
 
we had aweather gal say this around chrismastime during the high winds ,.. watch out for Christmas decorations gettimg loose like air upsanta clus's and reindeer ,. and be careful about leving lite packages at relatives ansdfriens homes that mite blow away into ythe road and get smashed ,,. ahh so thoughtful,..shux,, and here I wascavoiding the woods route takin round bales outvto the cows ,.. never thought about airborne santa clasausec
 
What gets me is that every time a storm is predicted people flock to the stores and pick the shelves clean. You would think they're going to be snowed in for weeks. I bet the store owners love it! It's supposed to be in the fiftys here in central Iowa by Thursday.
 
Boy you hit the nail on the head JD.. Out here on the west coast as soon as people hear on the news snow or ice is coming, they rush to the grocery stores and stock up. As others have said, store managers are laughing all the way to the bank as the shelves go empty. I try to stay stocked up all the time and I don't wait for a storm to hit. I try to stay off the roads as there are too many people who don't know how to drive in ice and snow.
As soon as the snow or freezing rain hits, then it's "extended storm coverage" on all local tv channels. With live reporting if a tree fall or near an icy or snow covered hill.
Sure glad you brought up the subject so there could be lots of input on the subject..
Dick
 
I left Cedar Rapids about noon with a load going to Dallas. Started misting 40 miles south of Des Moines and wet roads all the way to Wichita. 40 degrees at 10 p.m.
 
I swear it's because of 24 hr weather channels needing something to dramatize. Winter storm Jupiter, when did we start naming snow storms for crying out loud?
 
(quoted from post at 13:03:34 01/15/17) Farmerwithmutt: Do you even have any car/pickup chins anymore???? Since we went to 4 wheel drive pickups I have not used chains. 15-20 years ago I would put studded snow tires on the truck in the winter.

I do have several tractors with tire chains on. This includes the JD 4450 MFWD and the JD 4960 MFWD. IF it gets real icy I even have to put chains on the feeder wagons to keep them from sliding into the feed bunks.


Tire chains dot com. I was probably the last NYS Trooper that knew how to put chains on and used them. When you get a big snow or ice storm and people need help, you have to get there in your 2WD car. I think they have cable chains now, but I don't know if they ever get taught how to use them.
 

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