Ice storm tonight- PSA

[violachic]

Apologies for the caps, I cut and pasted from the website:


AN ICE STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO
MIDNIGHT CST TUESDAY NIGHT.

FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET...POSSIBLY MIXED AT TIMES WITH SNOW AND
SLEET...WILL DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. PRECIPITATION WILL
GRADUALLY CHANGE TO MOSTLY FREEZING RAIN TUESDAY MORNING.
PRECIPITATION COULD FALL RATHER HEAVILY AT TIMES LATE TONIGHT AND
TUESDAY LEADING TO THE POTENTIAL FOR RAPID ICE ACCUMULATIONS...
ESPECIALLY ON ELEVATED OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES AND POWER LINES.

INDICATIONS ARE THAT PORTIONS OF THIS WARNING AREA COULD RECEIVE
A QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH OF ICE...IN ADDITION TO SOME SLEET AND
SNOW ACCUMULATIONS. SOME OF THE WARNING AREA COULD SEE
TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING AND PRECIPITATION TURN TO ALL
RAIN DURING THE AFTERNOON TUESDAY...PARTICULARLY AROUND I-88 AND
I-290. FARTHER NORTH TOWARD THE WISCONSIN BORDER PRECIPITATION
MAY REMAIN FREEZING RAIN THROUGH THE DAY TUESDAY.

ANY SMALL CHANGE IN THE FORECAST TEMPERATURE...EITHER AT THE
SURFACE OR ALOFT...WOULD HAVE DRASTIC IMPLICATIONS ON THE
EXPECTED PRECIPITATION TYPE AND AMOUNTS. PERSONS PLANNING TRAVEL
ACROSS THE WATCH AREA TUESDAY SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR LATER
FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS ON THIS DEVELOPING WINTER STORM. THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS UPGRADED THE WINTER STORM
WATCH TO AN ICE STORM WARNING AND A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY.

AN ICE STORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF ICE ACCUMULATIONS
WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. TRAVEL IS STRONGLY
DISCOURAGED. COMMERCE WILL LIKELY BE SEVERELY IMPACTED. IF YOU
MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR
VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. ICE ACCUMULATIONS COULD LIKELY
LEAD TO SNAPPED POWER LINES AND FALLING TREE BRANCHES THAT ADD TO
THE DANGER.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE REMINDS PERSONS WITH PORTABLE
HEATERS OR GENERATORS TO MAINTAIN PROPER VENTILATION WHEN USING
THEM.



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/O.CON.KLOT.ZR.Y.0005.071211T0600Z-071212T0600Z/
DUPAGE-COOK-LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON-
LAKE INDIANA-PORTER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHICAGO...OTTAWA...OSWEGO...MORRIS...
JOLIET...KANKAKEE...PONTIAC...GARY...VALPARAISO
346 PM CST MON DEC 10 2007

Comments

[ironheadjane.livejournal.com]

Miss you!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Miss you too! I was going to call you this weekend, but I was really under the weather :-( my tummy hurts

[a-nightengale.livejournal.com]

Ice storms suck the infinite wang of God, they do. Be careful out there!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this one looks like it could get pretty serious. I wasn't planning on being out tonight anyway, but now I'm extra grateful for my soup and book and heated mattress pad :-)

[themiddlestates.livejournal.com]

you have a heated mattress pad?

soup and book sounds good, violachic. if things get really bad tomorrow maybe we can sled down the slight incline of the western part of our street. i'll be in touch if it looks possible.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

OMFG do I have a heated mattress pad! It is my salvation! I LOVE it!

I don't know if I'm up for sledding, but I'm definitely up for pointing and laughing at people who sled into things.

[geezerlee.livejournal.com]

If this is the same storm that just got done kicking Oklahoma's ass, it' a doozy. Schools closed today and tomorrow both. Good on you for passing on the warning.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Chicago doesn't generally get hit as badly as other places- NW IN gets three times what we do- but yeah, it looks like a doozy.

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

indeed it is that same storm. i hear at one point there were 600,000 people without power? now still around 500,000? and mostly in oklahoma? yikes.

reminds me of the ice storm canada got struck with a few years back.

[varsitynj.livejournal.com]

Eeep... stay warm and dry. Sorry you are feeling under the weather to boot. I dunno if you have MS-Word on your computer but if you do, and you want to convert something from all caps, it's easy. You just paste the text in there, select all of it and then hit shift-F3.

And... if you don't have Office and could use the functionality, check out openoffice.org, which is free open-source shareware.

[stannate.livejournal.com]

Last year's ice storm in Saint Louis was not fun at all. If you get anything that's half as bad, it's going to suck. Stay safe!

[divalibby76.livejournal.com]

ok, are we upset about this??

we will have pretty trees in the morning!!!

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Um, no. If I were, I would have said I was upset about this. I was letting people know.

[blistermoth.livejournal.com]

No work for me today! Yippee!

[dust-wind-dude.livejournal.com]

so much for that. All it got out my was wetter. And slightly icier, but that's just become slush now.

Thanks alot, winter! Stupid winter.

[tanyad.livejournal.com]

So glad I missed this storm!

I miss you and have a little something for you :)