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Ice Storm Of 2000
Posted on 12/26/19 at 8:14 pm
Posted on 12/26/19 at 8:14 pm
Mainly focused on Arkansas but it did affect/effect other states. We were without power for almost 3 weeks 
Never played so many games of checkers before
Let's go back to December 2000.
The month had two major winter storms. On Dec. 12th, a half inch of ice and 2 inches of snow blanketing most of the state. The more damaging storm happened at Christmas.
The Christmas Day ice storm froze the Ouachitas and River Valley with 3 inches of ice.
Power was knocked out Christmas night.
By Dec. 27th, nearly 600,000 Arkansans were without power.
Besides having no heat, phone and cable lines froze and water lines burst.
The storm ravaged other states but Arkansas and Oklahoma were hit the hardest.
The Oklahoma Governor declared the state a disaster area and Arkansas’ state government was totally shut down. The Arkansas Governor had to communicate via HAM radio in some parts of the state because of the down lines.
Most city residents went without power for two weeks, for folks in the county it was longer.
Hackett outskirts didn’t get power until over three weeks later.
It was the worst ice storm since 1819 according to the National Weather Service. The 2009 ice storm ranks in the top three.
The culprit was the warm, moist air from the southwest coming over a thin layer of cold air near the ground. Any snow quickly turned to ice.
FEMA was delayed due to Little Rock’s airport being closed.
FEMA Director James Lee Witt’s farm in Arkansas lost power too.
Luckily, warnings came soon enough to let Arkansans prepare as much as possible. Regardless, the storm was overwhelmingly devastating.
Never played so many games of checkers before
Let's go back to December 2000.
The month had two major winter storms. On Dec. 12th, a half inch of ice and 2 inches of snow blanketing most of the state. The more damaging storm happened at Christmas.
The Christmas Day ice storm froze the Ouachitas and River Valley with 3 inches of ice.
Power was knocked out Christmas night.
By Dec. 27th, nearly 600,000 Arkansans were without power.
Besides having no heat, phone and cable lines froze and water lines burst.
The storm ravaged other states but Arkansas and Oklahoma were hit the hardest.
The Oklahoma Governor declared the state a disaster area and Arkansas’ state government was totally shut down. The Arkansas Governor had to communicate via HAM radio in some parts of the state because of the down lines.
Most city residents went without power for two weeks, for folks in the county it was longer.
Hackett outskirts didn’t get power until over three weeks later.
It was the worst ice storm since 1819 according to the National Weather Service. The 2009 ice storm ranks in the top three.
The culprit was the warm, moist air from the southwest coming over a thin layer of cold air near the ground. Any snow quickly turned to ice.
FEMA was delayed due to Little Rock’s airport being closed.
FEMA Director James Lee Witt’s farm in Arkansas lost power too.
Luckily, warnings came soon enough to let Arkansans prepare as much as possible. Regardless, the storm was overwhelmingly devastating.
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Posted on 12/26/19 at 10:30 pm to pioneerbasketball
How old were you
Posted on 12/27/19 at 12:16 am to PhilipMarlowe
I remember this one in central Arkansas . Power was out for 6 days and water for 3. Could hear trees snapping all around from the ice. Wild storm
Posted on 12/27/19 at 6:44 am to pioneerbasketball
Had one in SC a few yrs ago. Jim Cantore showed up in Augusta, GA (10 minutes across the SC/GA border from where I live) and I knew we were fricked.
The pine trees snapping all hours of the day and night sounded like shotguns going off. No electricity for 2 weeks. Ppl came from out of state selling generators and water on the sides of the road for ungodly amounts of $$. Had all kinds of damage to my house and property from where trees fell from the weight of the ice.
It was a fricking nightmare.
The pine trees snapping all hours of the day and night sounded like shotguns going off. No electricity for 2 weeks. Ppl came from out of state selling generators and water on the sides of the road for ungodly amounts of $$. Had all kinds of damage to my house and property from where trees fell from the weight of the ice.
It was a fricking nightmare.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 7:40 am to Carolina_Girl
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It was a fricking nightmare.
I rode out the 2000 storm just fine, I happened to be visiting my folks and where they lived just got a buttload of snow.
The 2009 one on the other hand was a fricking nightmare. It didn't have much warning so when it hit you were pretty well stuck with what you had on hand. Which, for me, meant that while I had a nice amount of money in the bank I got to live for 4 days on the two dollars I had in my pocket.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 9:13 am to pioneerbasketball
Funny how you remember so much despite being one year old 
Posted on 12/27/19 at 10:18 am to Carolina_Girl
I remember that one in Aiken. I was working at ARMC and ended up staying there for 6 days on a closed wing beccause I didn't have power and other employees couldn't get to work.
Posted on 12/27/19 at 3:45 pm to pioneerbasketball
I was pretty lucky. I was living in Hot Springs. I just slept at my office for a couple of days until the roads were passible and then drove home. My power was back on when I got there.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 6:16 pm to pioneerbasketball
I remember watching the carnage of car crashes out our dorm window in Yocum. Very entertaining.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 7:05 pm to wmr
It was bad.
We saw a semi truck and trailor on exit 62 try to pass into a parking lot under power lines that were hanging too low because of the ice. Bad decision. The truck pulled the lines so hard it brought down a utility poll, and the truck driver had to stay in his truck until the fire dept showed. If he had jumped down to the ground with those lines on the ground, he could have been electrocuted.
We saw a semi truck and trailor on exit 62 try to pass into a parking lot under power lines that were hanging too low because of the ice. Bad decision. The truck pulled the lines so hard it brought down a utility poll, and the truck driver had to stay in his truck until the fire dept showed. If he had jumped down to the ground with those lines on the ground, he could have been electrocuted.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 7:33 pm to pioneerbasketball
We had one on 2003, February 15th to be exact. I remember it because my company at the time laid off a bunch of us on Valentine's Day. Then the next day I lost power for 2 weeks.
Posted on 12/30/19 at 10:44 pm to Arksulli
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The 2009 one on the other hand was a fricking nightmare. I
Pio fricked this thread up, as per usual. He's describing the 2009 ice storm. Not the 2000 ice storm. 2009 was the year we got the half inch of ice that gridlocked the entire state for weeks and then got another one shortly on its heels.
It was terrible. Think the folks in Kentucky got hit pretty hard with that one as well.
It was a "category 5" ice storm.
This post was edited on 12/30/19 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 12/30/19 at 10:49 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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It was bad.
There was some weird shite that was going on with all of that.
Anyone here that was in Fayetteville when that 2009 storm hit? It was fricking crazy. The trees were exploding! Not just falling, but actually exploding. It sounded like cannon blasts all over town and you'd see these trees that looked like they had been blown apart at the trunk of the tree.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 7:44 am to BoarEd
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Pio fricked this thread up,
Expected. Didn't remember a 2000 ice storm
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He's describing the 2009 ice storm
Yes, I remember that one too. we lost power only for a day where I live. The one in 2003 was worse for us.
Posted on 12/31/19 at 8:06 pm to BoarEd
The one in 2009 didn’t hit the entire state.
The motherfricker in 2000, however, did.
The motherfricker in 2000, however, did.
Posted on 1/1/20 at 4:03 pm to pioneerbasketball
That was a cool read. Thanks for posting.
South La is hot as balls in the summer, but at least we never have anything like this.
South La is hot as balls in the summer, but at least we never have anything like this.
Posted on 1/2/20 at 11:31 pm to BoarEd
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He's describing the 2009 ice storm. Not the 2000 ice storm. 2009 was the year we got the half inch of ice that gridlocked the entire state for weeks and then got another one shortly on its heels.
wrong
Posted on 1/3/20 at 10:13 am to kywildcatfanone
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We had one on 2003, February 15th to be exact. I remember it because my company at the time laid off a bunch of us on Valentine's Day. Then the next day I lost power for 2 weeks.
I think we can proclaim that, safely, as a shitty two day stretch.
Posted on 1/3/20 at 5:40 pm to pioneerbasketball
Hell yes it affected Georgia. My yard looked like someone had fought a war while a tornado was going on. I spent weeks sawing and chopping to clean that mess up. I could definitely live without another one of those but I did get lucky as far as power goes, ours was only out just short of two days.
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