Anyone heard from Hindoo?

tango14
Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:08:10 +0000

I’m glad you are doing well, Hindoo. We just returned from a trip to Paducah this afternoon. I have never seen anything like this. We used to live in Missouri and now live in southern IL, so I’ve seen numerous ice storms, but nothing like this. For more than 30 miles, almost every tree was damaged. Easily 90% of them, anywhere from split down the middle to broken branches to the top having broken off. We had 3 big ice storms last year, but most of those trees were uprooted and some split, but no where near the quantity of damaged trees. It appeared that there was just more ice and the sheer weight broke things off. In many places, branches were simply piled under the tree where they fell (out in the country where no one had been cleaning things up). I saw several instances were a tree had 2 or 3 more or less equal branches, and the tree just split down the middle in halves or thirds from the almost equal weight.

A year later, we were just getting to the point were you really had to know where to look to see damage from last year. This is absolutely incredible. In Paducah we also saw 2 stoplights out, even though there was power, so I assume that was from the storm, too.

Good luck to all those who were directly impacted by this terrible storm.