A little windy out there too, huh? (click here for UNISYS 12 hour loop)
Just as a reminder, the weather in Ketchikan, Alaska (now 34 F - click here) where Ted Stevens wanted to build a road to nowhere, is warmer than some of the northern tier of the USA.
January 27, 2009
St. Francis, Arkansas
January 27, 2009
Piggott, Arkansas
January 27, 2009
Rector, Arkansas
January 28, 2009
Piggott, Arizona - elevation 301 feet above sea level (not thousands, okay - click here)
Photographer states :: These photos were taken in the Piggott, AR area which has been featured nationally on some networks as a disaster area. We are running on generator power, somehow our phone service is intact, and internet service was restored today. The photos are taken at various times through the storm, which lasted a solid 36 hours. More info on this storm in my blog.
By BRUCE SCHREINER
The Associated Press
Friday, January 30, 2009; 8:59 PM
MARION, Ky. -- In some parts of rural Kentucky, they're getting water the old-fashioned way _ with pails from a creek. There's not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow.
At least 42 people have died, including 11 in Kentucky, and conditions are worsening in many places days after an ice storm knocked out power to 1.3 million customers from the Plains to the East Coast. About a million people were still without electric Friday, and with no hope that the lights will come back on soon, small communities are frantically struggling to help their residents.
One county put it bluntly: It can't.
"We're asking people to pack a suitcase and head south and find a motel if they have the means, because we can't service everybody in our shelter," said Crittenden County Judge-Executive Fred Brown, who oversees about 9,000 people, many of whom are sleeping in the town's elementary school.
Local officials were growing angry with what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In Grayson County, about 80 miles southwest of Louisville, Emergency Management Director Randell Smith said the 25 National Guardsmen who have responded have no chain saws to clear fallen trees....
January 28, 2009
Parkersbury, West Virginia
January 27, 2009
St. Francis, Arkansas
January 27, 2009
Piggott, Arkansas
January 27, 2009
Rector, Arkansas
January 28, 2009
Piggott, Arizona - elevation 301 feet above sea level (not thousands, okay - click here)
Photographer states :: These photos were taken in the Piggott, AR area which has been featured nationally on some networks as a disaster area. We are running on generator power, somehow our phone service is intact, and internet service was restored today. The photos are taken at various times through the storm, which lasted a solid 36 hours. More info on this storm in my blog.
By BRUCE SCHREINER
The Associated Press
Friday, January 30, 2009; 8:59 PM
MARION, Ky. -- In some parts of rural Kentucky, they're getting water the old-fashioned way _ with pails from a creek. There's not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their toilets with melted snow.
At least 42 people have died, including 11 in Kentucky, and conditions are worsening in many places days after an ice storm knocked out power to 1.3 million customers from the Plains to the East Coast. About a million people were still without electric Friday, and with no hope that the lights will come back on soon, small communities are frantically struggling to help their residents.
One county put it bluntly: It can't.
"We're asking people to pack a suitcase and head south and find a motel if they have the means, because we can't service everybody in our shelter," said Crittenden County Judge-Executive Fred Brown, who oversees about 9,000 people, many of whom are sleeping in the town's elementary school.
Local officials were growing angry with what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In Grayson County, about 80 miles southwest of Louisville, Emergency Management Director Randell Smith said the 25 National Guardsmen who have responded have no chain saws to clear fallen trees....
January 28, 2009
Parkersbury, West Virginia
