O.T. Weather in Western Ky?

I've been trying to reach Ben Brown of this forum today seems as both cell phone and land lines are out, power must be too as he doesn't appear to be on the net. Just wondering how bad the weather is. Thanks Bill

Ice and snow was thick earlier. Clearer weather now.

Brutal, they said on the news tonight that two western KY highway districts couldnt even be contacted. Im in central KY, we got hit hard but they were positively slammed. Powers been out here since 1 pm, my s.o. lives 45 mins east and hers has been out over a day. Got the generator running and a fire in the wood stove so at least Ive got heat, TV, and internet. Cell phones are out but right now at least Ive still got a land line. Main roads are mostly clear, and secondary state roads have at least 1 lane open. Some county roads totally impassable.

Do you know what town or county he lives in?

I live and work on the Henderson/Webster line. We lost power at the house 9 Tuesday night, lost internet at work at 10, lost AT&T cell service at about midnight, lost power at work about 2, and some time after that all AT&T land lines went out. My cell phone just started working half and hour ago, same time as net.

My boss did not want me to leave work this morning but I went home and did chores. Normal 20 min. drive was way over an hour. Tween house and work on the way back I counted 7 phone lines in the road.

They said on the 10:00 news that 75% of Henderson county don't have electricity yet.

Let me know if he is close to me, I'll help you hunt him down.

Dave

How are you even posting???? Just saw on the news that 453,000 people were out of power. Thought Kentucky would have to borrow some people to make up that number :roll: :roll:

Just kidding....

Hope everyone gets through OK.


Dave

My wife works in an electic utility office. She would tell you more people than that called her yesterday.

Dave

I live about 40 miles south of Louisville. Power is off to over 200,000 customers in just one county there. South and west of Louisville bore the brunt of the ice storm. Trees snapping like toothpicks under the weight of all the ice. That took down power lines and phone lines. Then it got colder. Conditions inhibit repair crews. Some areas are estimated to take a week to 10 days MINIMUM before power is restored. Rural areas somewhat longer. Normally they"ll call in crews from surrounding states to assist. Unfortunately, those areas got hit also. No back-up crews. Mysteriously, gasoline prices went up $.25 to $.30 overnight. Hmmmm Any excuse. We got this in 2 waves.

In the north central part of the state, we got snow, followed by freezing rain, then more snow. The weight of the last snowfall compounded the tree problems. Many key roads are still blocked with downed trees. It is a MESS. Kentucky doesn"t normally get a lot of significant snow events, so little money is budgeted for snow removal equipment.

We got nailed with 90+mph winds back in Sept when Hurricane Ike blew through. We had massive damage and power outages then too. These two events have been #1 and #2 worst power outages in state history, all with-in just over 4 month period. You can name your price for a generator right now.

Ky-bout 70 miles south of Louisville. Most around us have had it worse than us. We've had TV, internet and phone through it, with power outage for only about 6 hours. Our little town lives in the 60s-70s so if you have a scanner or get the weekly newspaper you find out what's going on and with the paper a week after it's happened. So with that we didn't know our water system didn't have power and was shutting off after the tower ran out, so we don't have bathtubs full of water. Some of you might stock up on water unless you know your systems up.
None of ours is a problem more an inconvenience but there is other stuff that I would do for next time.
One thing is putting some kind of through the wall receptacle for the generator, And what was the circuit breaker replacement for generator usage called and were can you get them?

I thought NC was the only place were this happens,,, I feel for ya,,, hope the power crews can git in and restore power soon as possible,,, the power crews sure are a welcome site and do a tuff job,,, thanks for the update did not know it was that bad

hi bill cell up this am but seem i can call out sometime but no in comeing calls as of yet have a small generater up this am refreezing ice boxes checking e-mail letting all no we have no power probley be a weak at the best ol big ciders in front of houes striped look like all the trees are in bad shape . for thoes who dont know where dawson springs is i am about 15 miles north hopkinsville ky , it is wores going north to dawson springs. madisonville 6 pm curfee road icie some passable if you brave might be open going cloes comining back. i post some pic, in a few days. just tryed to call no service, i can post i ues wildblue battery on lap top generator runimg sat. feed

He probably don't have power ,,, We are 18 miles west of Louisville in Beautiful Harrison County IND ,, You oughta see the sun Shine on all that ice coating on the trees ,,Half the folks haveelectric ,,tress are a mess , tops just cant take the load , not going to warm up above frezin today neither .. i havea wire on the south drive that i will not go near ,feeds power to my 6 neighbors ,, cant get thru to REMC , called the head honcho on his cell , and He told Me it may be a week, they are bringin' Guys up from Georgia and Tennesee like they did after Ike blew the Hell thru here back in SEpt .. Timber sure has taken a trashin in the last 4 yrs

Ben,glad to hear you are Ok, will try again today to call.

Hey Bill,long time no see. The sister in law has been up here in Michigan since Sunday. She's heading home to Lexington today. Think she might spend the night in Ohio at one of her sons house. Don't know what she's gonna be driving into,but I doubt it's gonna be pretty.

I am about 35 air miles east of Lexington.
pertty nasty here as far as backroads and power.
Mina roads are pretty clear and I think most of Lexington has power. But still outages. I hve been without power for a few days. Generator and wireless net access.
About $30/day to feed the generator though.