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The January 2009 North American ice storm was a major ice storm that impacted parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The storm produced widespread power outages for over 2 million people due to heavy ice accumulation. The hardest-hit areas were in Kentucky with over ...
Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry declared a state of emergency for the entire state due to the ice storm. [5] U.S. President George W. Bush later declared Oklahoma a federal disaster area. [6] In Oklahoma, in addition to major tree damage, about 40,000 customers lost power after the first wave of freezing rain on January 12.
A four-day ice storm from November 26-29, 1921 battered central Massachusetts. [1] ... Ice Storm of 1994 [6] Considered one of the worst ice storms in US History.
The storm left up to 2 inches of ice over the affected regions on the evening of January 30. Affected infrastructure initially held, but began to crumble as the night wore on. Electric transformers were prone to explosion and in some cases created small fires, and trees shattered under the weight of hundreds of pounds of ice.
The storm caused the largest power outage in Oklahoma history, where more than 600,000 homes and businesses, accounting for approximately 40% of the population, lost power during the peak of the storm; [13] 350,000 customers were without power in other states, [14] including 100,000 in Missouri, 17,000 in Iowa, 25,000 in Kansas, [15] with ...
Long grass bears the weight of snow in this Jan. 8, 2024, photo taken in Emporia. The blizzard of early January closed roads and brought life-threatening cold to the state.
The storm will produce heavy snow and disruptive ice for tens of millions of people across ... Six to 10 inches of snow is expected from eastern Oklahoma through the Mid-South and the southern ...
In Texas, at least 350,000 people were left without power as a result of the storm due to tree limbs and power lines being brought down to ice. Of those 350,000 people, 160,000 were in Austin. [29] This can be contrasted with Winter Storm Uri, wherein 4.5 million people were left without power due to, among other things, demand exceeding supply ...