Winterweer in de V.S: Snow, Blizzards and Storms

Jep sprak net nog iemand uit Idaho, al dagen temperaturen van -17 tot -22

Freezing weather grips nation's midsection
_{115,000 homes without power; frigid temps reach California; 7 dead}

Hoewel ik niet vies ben van een echte goede sneeuwstorm hoop je toch niet in aanraking te komen met een ijsstorm. Zelfs Texas en Californie krijgen het zwaar te verduren.

Jan. 14: This satellite image shows cloud cover across the Southern Plains and into the Ohio Valley, dropping rain snow and ice throughout the region.

Van nu.nl:

Californie - Landbouwers vrezen gevolgen voor het citrusfruit. De oogst van sinaasappels, mandarijnen en citroenen vertegenwoordigt een waarde van bijna een miljard dollar.

oops, da's een pijnlijke tegenslag.

Nog wat linkjes

Severe Weather Map USA --> http://www.weather.gov/view/largemap.php

NOAA Long Range Map USA --> http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.(...)/threats/threats.gif

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Sneeuw in California Laat dat maar hier heen komen dan

Als je dat allemaal op het nieuws ziet zou ik toch best balen als ik daar nou zit. IJsstormen met terwijl er geen stroom is en 2 cm ijs op allés ligt

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Op maandag 15 januari 2007 11:31 schreef -skippybal- het volgende:
Als je dat allemaal op het nieuws ziet zou ik toch best balen als ik daar nou zit. IJsstormen met terwijl er geen stroom is en 2 cm ijs op allés ligt

das nog altijd te weinig voor een elf-stedentocht

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Op maandag 15 januari 2007 11:31 schreef -skippybal- het volgende:
Als je dat allemaal op het nieuws ziet zou ik toch best balen als ik daar nou zit. IJsstormen met terwijl er geen stroom is en 2 cm ijs op allés ligt

Stroom is wel klote natuurlijk.. Maar tog zou ik het wel een keer willen mee maken. Heb al veel sneeuw in Oostenrijk gezien. In 1998 was er in Oberstdorf +- 900 meter hoogte geen sneeuw.. Wij waren bang dat we voor de gek gehouden waren door de Hoteleigenaar. We rijden naar rond de 1300 meter en gelijk muren van sneeuw ( 5 - 6 meter ) dat zou ik hier ook wel willen zien, mja onmogelijk denk

Een paar jaar geleden was er hier ook dat o-ver-al een centimeter ijzel lag.
Je kon toen dus gewoon niks doen he. Ik ging op de schaats via het fietspad naar school

McALESTER, Okla — Hundreds of people hunkered down in emergency shelters and thousands stuck it out in darkened homes after a winter storm that left 54 dead in nine states.

About 340,000 homes and businesses in several states were still without electricity late Tuesday after a storm that brought ice, snow, flooding and high winds to a swath of the country from Texas to Maine.

At the First Baptist Church in McAlester, Okla., where most of the city's 18,000 residents have lacked power for four days, residents huddled under blankets and in front of space heaters.

"If it wasn't for the shelter, I don't know where we'd be," said Tara Guzman, 38, while playing board games with her four children. "We're tough; we lasted when the power went out until (Monday). We brought mattresses out in the living room and cuddled."

Subfreezing temperatures were expected to continue in the state Wednesday, with little sunshine to aid in melting the ice until Thursday or Friday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Brown.

Gov. Brad Henry on Wednesday planned to visit McAlester and other hard-hit areas of Oklahoma, where 92,000 homes and businesses remained without power.

"I want to see the damage firsthand and make sure we are doing everything possible to help the people there," Henry said.

Josh and B.J. Medley elected to stay in their dark home on Tuesday, noting they had electrical generators, a gas stove and propane heaters. B.J. Medley also had $100 worth of groceries cooling on her front porch.

"It's hard to keep milk, because milk freezes and goes bad," she complained.

The storm had largely blown out of New England by Tuesday, but forecasters expected more freezing rain to hit parts of Texas on Wednesday night, said Dennis Cook of the National Weather Service's Austin-San Antonio office. Gusty winds were forecast to make the Northeast bone-chilling through Wednesday night before warming Thursday.

Eighty-five shelters across Missouri were expected to accommodate more than 3,600 people Tuesday night, according to the State Emergency Management Agency. About 163,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity.

In the town of Buffalo — population 2,800 — nearly all stores, gas stations and restaurants were closed Tuesday.

"There are no services," Mayor Jerry Hardesty said. "I've talked to residents who have lived here 50 years and nobody can remember it ever being this bad."

The town lost all its power by Saturday. Water towers ran dry Sunday, and water service was restored only late Monday, after the National Guard hooked a generator up to a pumping station.

On Tuesday, ice, sleet and snow forced Texas officials to move the governor's inauguration ceremony indoors for the first time in five decades. Gov. Rick Perry's inaugural parade was canceled and part of Interstate 35 near the University of Texas campus was shut down.

Numerous schools and universities, as well as some local and state government offices, were also closed across the region.

Waves of freezing rain, sleet and snow since Friday have been blamed for at least 20 deaths in Oklahoma, nine in Missouri, eight in Iowa, four in New York, five in Texas, three in Michigan, three in Arkansas and one each in Maine and Indiana.

Elsewhere, Washington state's Puget Sound area, known for drizzle rather than its recent freezing weather, was hit by another round of snow Tuesday, snarling traffic and closing schools for more than 380,000 students. The Oregon Legislature delayed hearings and sessions until afternoon because of the weather.

In California, three nights of freezing weather have destroyed up to three-quarters of the state's $1 billion citrus crop, prompting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ask the federal government on Tuesday for disaster aid. Other crops, including avocados and strawberries, also suffered damage.

"This is not just about the crop this year. It could also have a devastating effect next year," Schwarzenegger said.

Vooral juist in het zuidwesten is het bizar weer: Texas en Californie krijgen er goed van langs.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- The latest in a series of icy storms blamed for at least 65 deaths in nine states spread snow and freezing rain across Texas all the way to the Mexican border Wednesday, closing the Alamo, glazing freeways and immobilizing communities unaccustomed to such cold.

Accumulations were light by many regions' standards -- the Dallas area topped out at a half-inch of snow, and more than 3 inches piled up west of Fort Worth. But hundreds of flights were canceled, tens of thousands of customers lost electricity and a 300-mile stretch of Interstate 10, a major east-west artery, was closed.

Marc and Courtney Unger, visiting San Antonio with their 3- and 7-year-old boys from Tallahassee, Florida, found most of their plans wrecked by the cold weather and closed attractions. The Alamo shut down for the morning but reopened at noon.

Instead of visiting the Children's Museum or Sea World, the boys amused themselves knocking icicles off signs and benches.

"We're very disappointed it didn't go those few extra degrees colder for snow," Marc Unger said, laughing.

Storms nationwide since Friday have abruptly ended what had been an unseasonably mild winter in many areas, plunging hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses into icy darkness, many for days. Ten deaths were blamed on the storm in Texas. (Watch the many ways ice is creating havoc )

In Oklahoma, the ice storm killed at least 23 people, most in auto accidents, and about 75,000 customers in eastern Oklahoma remained without power.

In the mountains north of Los Angeles, California, a sudden snowstorm brought traffic to a halt on busy Interstate 5. Snow mixed with hail also fell at lower elevations of northern Los Angeles County, leaving some neighborhoods with rare coatings of white.

California already had been suffering from an unusual cold snap that threatened many of its winter crops and wiped out most of its citrus.

In Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, roads were largely empty Wednesday morning. Motorists unaccustomed to driving on ice took the day off after waking up to light snow, trees sagging with ice- and icicle-draped cars.

Many schools closed for the day or opened late. (Watch large chunks of ice fall off house )

Freezing rain and sleet were reported in Laredo and other communities along the Mexican border. In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, icicles hung from famous fountains and other landmarks.

Tree limbs laden with ice snapped and brought down electrical lines in the San Antonio area, where as many 65,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm late Tuesday.

More than 350 flights out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, San Antonio and Austin were canceled as officials worked to de-ice runways.

About 50 motorists were stranded at a convention center in Ozona. The jailhouse lent blankets and pillows to the emergency shelter.

"They have air mattresses and cots for everybody -- and pizza and doughnuts," said Joe Stokhaug, at the shelter with his pregnant wife.

In addition to the fatalities in Oklahoma and Texas, the storm was blamed for 11 deaths in Missouri, eight in Iowa, four each in New York and Michigan, three in Arkansas and one each in Maine and Indiana.

In Missouri, more than 120,000 homes and businesses were still waiting for power to be restored, but some residents were told the work could take several more days.

More than 3,600 people sought relief from the cold at 85 shelters throughout the state.

Amazing car collisions

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2007 14:17 schreef francorex het volgende:
Amazing car collisions

Wow!

Hier in Michigan valt het nog mee in vergelijking met het midwesten, de mensen zijn hier wel wat gewend ook. Je ziet hier eigenlijk geen verkeerschaos als het sneeuwt of stormt.

Wel grappig om te zien dat er nu ook sneeuwscooters als vervoermiddel gebruikt worden. Of het legaal is weet ik niet, ze rijden wel zonder kenteken. Ook zie je mensen die langlaufend naar hun werk gaan. Toch zijn veel scholen gisteren en vandaag dicht.

Als het echt heftig wordt blijf ik gewoon thuis.

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- The latest in a series of winter storms battered Colorado on Sunday, dumping several inches of snow and whipping up strong wind that created whiteout conditions on the state's eastern plains.

Accidents caused by blowing snow and icy roads closed southbound Interstate 25 near Fort Collins for two hours Sunday morning. State Patrol Master Trooper Ron Watkins said no injuries were reported.

Wind up to 60 mph piled the snow into drifts as high as 3 feet in parts of the state, the National Weather Service said.

Meanwhile, a plane in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with 104 people on board skidded off a runway in snowy weather Sunday after the Northwest Airlines crew aborted the flight as it began accelerating for takeoff, airline officials said.

No serious injuries were reported in the late-morning incident.

The crew of Flight 1726 bound from Milwaukee to Detroit, Michigan, "opted to discontinue its takeoff due to an engine problem," an airline statement said.

The plane came to a stop off the runway surface, the statement said.

The plane skidded when the pilot applied the brakes, said Pat Rowe, spokeswoman for General Mitchell International Airport.

A blizzard warning was in effect for much of eastern and northeastern Colorado, and the State Patrol advised against unnecessary travel.

The stormy weather in Colorado followed closely on the heels of a storm that spread heavy snow across parts of the Plains on Saturday, limiting visibility and creating hazardous driving conditions.

That storm was blamed for at least eight traffic deaths: four in Nebraska, three in Kansas and one in Oklahoma

The Plains storm spared much of Oklahoma from heavy snow, but utilities reported about 30,000 homes and business were still without power Sunday because of an ice storm one week earlier.

"We're coming down to what we expect to be very near the end of the restoration process," said Stan Whiteford, a spokesman for Public Service Company of Oklahoma, which reported about 4,000 customers still blacked out, mostly in the McAlester area. "We think we're going to be pretty close to wrapping things up."









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Op donderdag 18 januari 2007 14:17 schreef francorex het volgende:
Amazing car collisions

pff.. ik was allang uitgestapt.. je houdt de auto toch niet meer tegen.. dan maar ff springen, iig geen persoonlijke ongelukken..

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Op maandag 22 januari 2007 13:26 schreef addie het volgende:

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pff.. ik was allang uitgestapt.. je houdt de auto toch niet meer tegen.. dan maar ff springen, iig geen persoonlijke ongelukken..

je hoort iemand ook nog roepen " GET OOOUTTT "

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Op maandag 22 januari 2007 13:27 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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je hoort iemand ook nog roepen " GET OOOUTTT "

volgens mij hoor je halverwege ook nog help, maar dat kan mijn verbeelding zijn

ERIE, Pa — About 50 vehicles, including an ambulance, were involved in a massive chain-reaction crash on Interstate 90 under whiteout conditions Thursday, leaving one person dead, officials said.

Police closed I-90 in both directions over an approximately 10-mile section east of Erie to the New York border after the 12:45 p.m. accident. The highway remained closed Thursday night and authorities did not know when it would reopen, state police spokesman Cpl. Mark Zaleski said.

Among the vehicles involved were 22 tractor-trailers, he said.

Several tanker trucks were involved and a hazardous materials crew was dispatched to the scene, but the trucks were not damaged and remained upright, said Maria Finn, a spokeswoman for thePennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.



One person was killed, Zaleski said. Authorities were not releasing the person's information. Investigators are trying to determine whether the person died when he was thrown from a vehicle or pinned between two, Zaleski said.

A number of people sustained minor injuries, Finn said.

Police also closed southbound lanes of I-79 for several hours because of accidents south of Erie.

Doctors from St. Vincent Health Center in Erie were dispatched to help emergency crews treat victims and free them from wrecked cars on I-90, hospital spokeswoman Cyndy Patton said.

"We sent one of our emergency room physicians along with a trauma surgeon from Hamot (Medical Center) up to the scene," Patton said. "It's more to assist in extrication. They're just having trouble because of the pileup getting ambulances in and out of there."

St. Vincent and Hamot said they had a total of seven injured people from the I-90 accident plus two from crashes on Interstate 79. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.

Lucia Conti, a spokeswoman for Hamot Medical Center in Erie, said she expected the hospital would get as many as three more patients.

Ann Bloxdorf, deputy director of public safety for Erie County, said the I-90 accident occurred between the Wesleyville and Harborcreek exits, just east of Erie.

"I know there are evacuation efforts under way for stranded motorists to some warming shelters nearby," she said.

Zaleski said one vehicle in the crash was an ambulance carrying patients.

Snow was falling across western Pennsylvania at the time. Erie was expected to get up to 6 inches by late evening and possibly more overnight, according to the National Weather Service.

Geen schokkende verhalen vanuit Michigan maar dit weekend wordt het wel zo'n -20 graden. En heel veel sneeuw verwacht.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Blowing snow and intense cold was blamed for two more deaths on Wednesday — a total of 13 nationwide since the cold settled in — and kept schools closed for a second day and in some cases a third across much of Ohio and West Virginia.

The arctic weather disrupted flights from Chicago to the Northeast on Tuesday, leaving some travelers to camp out in airports overnight. Slick roads led to huge chain-reaction traffic accidents, and schools have been closed in places from Minnesota to upstate New York.

There was some relief Wednesday in the Great Lakes region.

Chicago woke up to temperatures around zero with a wind chill of 14 below zero — an improvement over its minus-30 wind chill Monday. The area was expected to rebound into the low 20s by the end of the week, National Weather Service meteorologist Tim Seeley said Tuesday.

The cold air returned to the northern Plains, where Hallock, Minn., had a temperature of 27 below zero early Wednesday, the weather service reported.

Five feet of snow in places
Residents of upstate New York were digging out from lake-effect squalls that dumped more than 5 feet of snow over a two-day period at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. The weather service reported 62 inches of snow at Oswego, 35 miles north of Syracuse.

In addition, ferry service was suspended on the Hudson River in upstate New York because the water began freezing over.

Despite the snow, most schools in Oswego County were back in session Wednesday. Meteorologists said some areas in the New York lake-effect snow belt could collect more than 100 inches before the system breaks up, which isn’t expected until at least the weekend.

In Ohio, snow and ice had not been removed from most residential streets in Columbus and Cincinnati, and nearly all schools in those areas were closed Wednesday. Most Cleveland schools were closed for a third straight day.

“We had a couple hundred passengers spend the night at the airport because all the hotel rooms in the area were taken, not just because of canceled flights but because highway travel was virtually impossible,” said Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport spokesman Ted Bushelman.

Elsewhere, Chicago city crews responded to more than 1,000 reports of frozen pipes Tuesday, said Department of Water Management spokesman Tom LaPorte. The cold also hampered firefighting efforts because emergency workers had to use propane torches to thaw frozen hydrants.

More than 140 flights were canceled at O’Hare International Airport, which reported average delays of 45 to 90 minutes for all arrivals and departures Tuesday night, city aviation department spokeswoman Wendy Abrams said.

“When the snow started falling it impacted visibility,” Abrams said. “That combined with deicing delays have slowed our operations at both airports.”
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CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- Blowing snow and intense cold blamed for 11 deaths across the country kept schools closed Wednesday across much of West Virginia, where temperatures have been at their lowest in more than a decade.

The arctic weather disrupted flights from Chicago to the Northeast on Tuesday, shut down some Amtrak service and caused huge chain-reaction traffic accidents. Schools also have been closed in places from Minnesota to upstate New York.

There was some relief Wednesday in the Great Lakes region.

Chicago woke up to temperatures around zero with a wind chill of 14 below zero -- an improvement over its minus-30 wind chill on Monday. The area was expected to rebound into the low 20s by the end of the week, National Weather Service meteorologist Tim Seeley said Tuesday.

The cold air returned to the northern Plains, where Hallock, Minnesota, had a temperature of 27 below zero early Wednesday, the weather service reported.

Residents of upstate New York were digging out from lake-effect squalls that dumped more than 5 feet of snow over a two-day period at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. The weather service reported 62 inches of snow at Oswego, 35 miles north of Syracuse.

Despite the snow, most schools in Oswego County were back in session Wednesday. Meteorologists said some areas in the New York lake-effect snow belt could collect more than 100 inches before the system breaks up, which isn't expected until at least the weekend.

In West Virginia, however, schools were closed or had delayed openings in parts of all 55 counties Wednesday. The state's snowfall ranged up to 7 inches at White Oak, the weather service said.

"It was the perfect storm," said Joe Stevens, spokesman for the West Virginia Ski Areas Association. "Over 4 feet of snow has fallen since the middle of January, which has really turned the situation around for the resorts that were experiencing ... above normal temperatures earlier in the season."

Tuesday brought the coldest readings across West Virginia since February 5, 1996, when several records were set or tied for February, the weather service said.

The mountain city of Elkins fell to 16 below zero Tuesday, tying the record for February 6, set in 1979, and the state capitol of Charleston had a record low of 1 below, the weather service said.

Elsewhere, Chicago city crews responded to more than 1,000 reports of frozen pipes Tuesday, said Department of Water Management spokesman Tom LaPorte. The cold also hampered firefighting efforts because emergency workers had to use propane torches to thaw frozen hydrants.

More than 140 flights were canceled at O'Hare International Airport, which reported average delays of 45 to 90 minutes for all arrivals and departures Tuesday night, city aviation department spokeswoman Wendy Abrams said.

"When the snow started falling it impacted visibility," Abrams said. "That combined with deicing delays have slowed our operations at both airports."

Minnesota police reported 290 crashes during rush-hour traffic Tuesday. New York state troopers closed a section of Interstate 81 east of Oswego for an hour to remove cars and trucks that went off the road when blowing snow reduced visibility to zero. Ferry services across the Hudson River in upstate New York were suspended because the river began freezing over.

The cold and slippery roads had contributed to at least two deaths in Illinois, two deaths in Kentucky, two in Michigan, two in Ohio, and one each in Wisconsin, Maryland and Indiana, authorities said.