Comments on: Ice Storm in Kentucky

By: Ashley Todd

Ashley Todd — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:57:55 +0000

I understand what you guys are talking about. I’m from the Hopkins county area and we were hit worse than anybody. We were under a state of emergency for at least 2 weeks. It was horrible down here. We was without power for 17 days and we had no water, only kind of heat we had was kereosene heater and at the time the price of kereosene had jumped to be $6 a gallon. I’d say we spent about $1,000 during the strom. And what made it worse was I had a 1 year old and a 10 month old and no way to help keep them warm. But God got us through it and we are still here and trying to do anything and everything to help prepare us if it happens again.

By: tina

tina — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:01:37 +0000

we were one of those lucky ones too. we have a fireplace also and propane stove. Our neighbor cuts wood and sells it, so we had a big supply of wood too. We had no power for 10 days but we did have water and we could heat it up for bathing. we lost many trees on our property and some house plants because we only had heat in one room. that is where the kids and my mother in-law slept. As for my husband and I we slept in our room freezing at temps between 34-43 the last two days we lost our water because the pipes froze. it kept getting harder and harder. then yeah the electricity came back on but not before a transformer blew and burnt down a friends garage. But all the while the kids thought it was great playing games with the whole family and no school. they missed two weeks.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:06:07 +0000

I have tons of pictures from the January storm that I’d upload here if I could. I am in Richmond where we were hit pretty hard. I count my blessings everyday because I was one of the fortunate ones that have a fireplace. A lot of people that I know went through a hard few weeks with no power. We opened our home for those in need. In deed the state looked to be a war zone. People I talked to from the next county over never got snow, they said it was weird driving from their home where it looked like spring, then crossing the county line it looked like a blizzard.

By: Peter Geiger

Peter Geiger — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:03:28 +0000

It is not unusual after a major winter or particularly bad storm, such as experienced in Kentucky in January for rumors to start flowing that there will be another one and that it will be worse than the first. I presume you are talking about the Kentucky area. If you to go to our website, http://www.farmersalmanac.com and click on weather and then the zone of the country you live, you will see exactly what we are saying. While we talk about snow and rain, we talk about warmer weather. It is very unlikely, and certainly not predicted by the Farmers’ Almanac, that you’ll get a storm like the one in January. The temperatures just won’t allow it.

By: LAURA dIETRICH

LAURA dIETRICH — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:34:18 +0000

Everyone is saying there is another ice storm coming predicted thru this almanac webite the end of march is this true and when? and how long will it last they are saying it will be worse then the last one.