Freezing rain began at 4am on Thursday morning. We sat in the RV and watched the ice build for a while. Small trees and branches started going down and we moved our vehicles to the picnic shelter.
Then across the street, our neighbors took direct hits from big limbs, and whole medium-sized trees started breaking off. That's when we decided to jack down, unhook, and pull out into the street. This Mom and I did in driving rain and sleet.
The huge old bur oak trees, some 40 inches + in diameter started coming down. At 3pm we lost power for 24 hours. We had propand to run the fridge, hot water, stove and furnace. And we kept the RV batteries charged by runing the truck. We could not plug anything into a socket and we had no TV. We kept the water thawed. Others in the whole area of Oklahoma were not so lucky.
Then across the street, our neighbors took direct hits from big limbs, and whole medium-sized trees started breaking off. That's when we decided to jack down, unhook, and pull out into the street. This Mom and I did in driving rain and sleet.
The huge old bur oak trees, some 40 inches + in diameter started coming down. At 3pm we lost power for 24 hours. We had propand to run the fridge, hot water, stove and furnace. And we kept the RV batteries charged by runing the truck. We could not plug anything into a socket and we had no TV. We kept the water thawed. Others in the whole area of Oklahoma were not so lucky.
There is about one inch of ice on everything, and more on powerlines. When the power came on Friday afternoon, we were able to rig cords back to the power box and turn on the TV and Dish.
Mom says that everything looks worse that when the tornado went through our forest at the farm. Gabi stays comfortable wrapped up in blankets.
It's Sunday the 31st, cloudy and still way below freezing. Livi in Tulsa has had sunshine since Friday morning--but not us. There are still 4 counties and about 100,000 homes without power. We are having a great adventure, but are more than ready to see a little warm weather (what we thought we would get when we left Utah).
