A big ice storm for some, nothing for others
Posted Feb13, 2007 at 11:46 PM
If you live high on the Blue Ridge in Floyd County tonight, this definitely lived up to its billing as a major ice storm. If you live in downtown Roanoke in the shadow of concrete, it was just a long, cold rain.
For most of the rest of us, it was somewhere in between. I live about 6 miles south of downtown Roanoke, in south Roanoke County, and I've got about 1/8 inch of ice covering all the trees and the cars and anything metal. The roads and sidewalks here are not in bad shape. Some other places, they're slick and hazardous. In less than half an hour, I could drive to ice 1/4 or more thick, or to places where there is no ice at all.
By area coverage, more areas got ice than did not. By population, the margin between haves and have-nots would be closer, since ice is spotty across the Roanoke metro area this evening.
When you wake up Wednesday morning, you may have a shimmering, silver landscape outside, or just gray, dead winter trees. The wind will whip through them later in the day, and a new round of Arctic air will gush in. Whether this was your storm or not, winter blows on, and I'm sure there will be another maybe, maybe-not, borderline snow-ice-rain encounter not very many days out.
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[February 14, 2007 7:54 AM]
kristin