Jan 28 - Ice Storm

Well , the weathermen were right… kind of. The freezing rain didn’t start until 10pm when they said it would start at 6pm. We could hear it pelting against the apartment building and we knew it would be a task to scrap our cars off in the morning, and it was. There was about and inch and a half to two inches of ice on the cars this morning underneath a few inches of snow. They’re saying it was one of the worst storms of the decade.

There are about 75,000 Vectren customers out of service, about 50,000 of them in Evansville. Thankfully, we aren’t one of them and haven’t lost our power except for a brief flicker. To put it in perspective, there are about 130,000 people in Evansville, so over half are out of power.

I had scheduled a vacation day today, so I didn’t even try to go into the office. The Otters called and Kenton didn’t have to go in either. It was a fun day to spend inside. Eventually, later that evening we ventured out for a quick trip to the grocery store and it was deserted. There were very few people out on the road. It was a little tricky getting out of the unplowed complex, but after that, it was pretty smooth.


A truck trying to get out of the complex, having some trouble, spewing up snow


An inch of solid ice underneath five or six inches of snow


My license plate covered by icicles!

A SUV run up on the median on the Lloyd Expressway - this car had to do a 180 turn and go up on the median

Tree limbs were all over the campus, including at Neu Chapel

A power line weighed down to the ground by a broken tree

A tree absolutely weighed down by snow and mostly ice