I know a lot of you don't want to read all this, so I'm starting a separate thread to continue a post in a different thread.
Background: winter storm Fern hit north Ms and mid Tn, beginning Sat, Jan 24. A band of ice from freezing rain caused lots of power outage starting late Sat night/early Sun morning, cascading into some loss of water supply.
Thur 2/5 (day 12) Drove from Jackson, Tn to Oxford, Ms via Tn18/Ms7, ~100 mi. I started seeing damage just north of the state line, worsening southward. South of Holly Springs, traffic was stopped about 15 minutes for crew working on a line crossing the highway. Then there several crews working along the road and a steady stream of grapple trucks pulling trailers, turning into a vacant field next to a Dollar General (of course).
When i got to my place, the first problem is Katy Kubota is boxed in. My primary drive is the powerline ROW and trees have the line down. The temptation is strong to clear that, the line is obviously dead, the wire's on the ground. But 7200 v, wrath of poco, common sense prevail so I'll clear an alternate trail.
Here's what I had
After an hour or so with the chainsaw, I had a path pushed through to get Katy out. My sister had a fair size cedar and another tree across their primary drive, so I started cutting the cedar. I thought they were thawed out, but as I cut I finally figured that the ice that brought the cedar down was now a low mound of ice, glueing the tree top to the ground. It's supposed to be warmer the rest of the week, so it should thaw out.
My sister has been hauling towels and blankets from the pound to our two dryers. Animal control is still running on generator; they can wash but don't have enough power to run dryers so they called for volunteers.
Background: winter storm Fern hit north Ms and mid Tn, beginning Sat, Jan 24. A band of ice from freezing rain caused lots of power outage starting late Sat night/early Sun morning, cascading into some loss of water supply.
Thur 2/5 (day 12) Drove from Jackson, Tn to Oxford, Ms via Tn18/Ms7, ~100 mi. I started seeing damage just north of the state line, worsening southward. South of Holly Springs, traffic was stopped about 15 minutes for crew working on a line crossing the highway. Then there several crews working along the road and a steady stream of grapple trucks pulling trailers, turning into a vacant field next to a Dollar General (of course).
When i got to my place, the first problem is Katy Kubota is boxed in. My primary drive is the powerline ROW and trees have the line down. The temptation is strong to clear that, the line is obviously dead, the wire's on the ground. But 7200 v, wrath of poco, common sense prevail so I'll clear an alternate trail.
Here's what I had
After an hour or so with the chainsaw, I had a path pushed through to get Katy out. My sister had a fair size cedar and another tree across their primary drive, so I started cutting the cedar. I thought they were thawed out, but as I cut I finally figured that the ice that brought the cedar down was now a low mound of ice, glueing the tree top to the ground. It's supposed to be warmer the rest of the week, so it should thaw out.
My sister has been hauling towels and blankets from the pound to our two dryers. Animal control is still running on generator; they can wash but don't have enough power to run dryers so they called for volunteers.
