Ice storm

Jimmie in Ky · February 28, 2009, 06:16:00 PM

Trying this for the first time so here goes

HaMeR · February 28, 2009, 06:29:33 PM

DAYUMMMM!!! :shck:

msmith · February 28, 2009, 06:33:48 PM

You most certainly had quite a bit of damage there.

pitw · February 28, 2009, 06:50:12 PM

Wow thanks for the pics. Thats some serious weight on everything to do that kinda damage.

alscalls · February 28, 2009, 07:06:42 PM

I feel for yuns Jimmie, we had this happen here several years ago.....

It will get better with time, even though you all got it worse than we did then.......hang in there.

Jimmie in Ky · March 01, 2009, 12:11:08 AM

I just about have the yard cleaned up. I have to wait a while longer on th brush piles so they will burn. It is still dangerous to get in the woods with all the widow makers still hanging up there.

The south half of the LBL is open below highway 80 which includes Wranglers campground, although all the trails are still closed. I am waiting on the OK to travel in the north half. Will try and shoot some common areas known to many of the fellows that atend the LBL hunt. Jimmie

FinsnFur · March 01, 2009, 12:20:12 AM

Wow, it's like a serious blanket over everything!
Awesome pics Jimmie.

There's is a small silver lining though. Once things dry out there's gonna be plenty of firewood to cut up.

Thanks for sharing the pics.

KySongDog · March 01, 2009, 05:54:37 AM

Oh yeah, there's PLENTY of firewood.

Those pics look like you took 'em in my back yard, Jimmie.

coyotehunter_1 · March 01, 2009, 10:50:04 AM

It just sickens me to see all the timber damaged like that. Suffering through drought conditions for the past few years, most of our southern forests were already in distress, now this. Although damaged and broken, if we have a good season this year, hopefully the majority of the big timber there will survive. It will be many years before what once was, is again.

Frogman · March 01, 2009, 10:54:27 AM

WOW!!

What a mess. That sad faced wooden guys kind of says it all!!

Jim

Hidehunter · March 01, 2009, 12:05:37 PM

Wow!! Good Pics/Horrible mess.

Jimmie in Ky · March 01, 2009, 06:46:09 PM

Pic #10 the tree centered in the pic is a black cherry. That first big limb on the side was the first limb from the ground on that tree. She is about 24 inches at the butt and aproximately 24 feet of straight log there.. I would say it's done for. I have numerous trees on the ground including another cherry and several oaks in that size range. All with at least a sixteen foot log in them. Aftrer working in the custom bussiness last fall I have a really good idea of what those trees would be worth. And that old wood spirit quite says it all.

And if I can get all this firewood packed out this summer I may make a small fortune in the firewood bussiness next fall. But what scares me the most is all the limbs hanging up there. Another dropped today on my wood pile. Every timre the winds get above 20 mph more come down. I am getting jumpy about being in the woods even. If the winds are above 15 I don't leave the yards , there is still plenty to do there anyway. Jimmie

Frogman · March 01, 2009, 07:05:21 PM

Jimmie,
Has anyone been over to LBL to see what the damage is like over there or is the Northern end still closed??

Jim

Jimmie in Ky · March 01, 2009, 11:43:23 PM

Still closed as far as I know. We get info in the paper every so often about it. Jimmie

vvarmitr · March 03, 2009, 08:45:39 AM

That is something else there.

It would be interesting to see how the earth will respond to this on it's own?

I'd like to check an untouched section of forest a couple times a year to see what becomes of it.