What's your worst weather experience?

[jigbuilder]

Aside from the usual tornados/floods/drought that we go through here in the southern plains, the worst for me is ice storms. Our last biggest one took down trees of all sizes/cross country steel high line towers/rural lines and feeders. I have 40 acres and ice on my fences averaged 1" to 1 1/4" diameter. I have a gen set so we had electricity for the 13 days till my electric coop got the poles and lines back up and electric back on. We also had lots of company. What makes a ice storm so bad in usually after the storm leaves our temps may go to zero at nite and 10 above during the day. Ice gets tight at those temps.

That time ice was so thick on the ground even road graders and my 80 hp blue tractor wasn't heavy enough to break the ice for the tires to engage the road surface or in my pastures. Those big tires just sat and spun 'round and 'round. The county had a huge hinged in the middle front loader that was heavy enough to engage the road surface and with two graders started openning up our roads in hilly areas.

Ice storms are miserable.

 

[adan]

Those big tires just sat and spun 'round and 'round. The county had a huge hinged in the middle front loader that was heavy enough to engage the road surface and with two graders started openning up our roads in hilly areas.

Wow! I try to visualize this with thick mud on tropical ground. But even so, at some depth underneath the wheels would take hold. Thick ice on the ground is much worse. But as it is, you withstood all these and moved on.

On the positive side of all these, the strength of the human spirit is definitely stronger than any storm.