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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Cripple is a good term. Houston, 1997. We luckily had power through most of it. (Pic is from Google - It may not be Houston as it was a big regional storm but there were plenty of scenes like the pic)



It's just lots of fluffy light density snow here in North Canton. Nothing close to blustering.

Yep, I was here then and had been for a year or two living in an apt. We didn't have any issues, and I didn't watch the news and the Internet wasn't what it is now. I saw ¼" - ½" of ice coating everything that had been exposed, trees, pine needles, chain-link fences, etc.... It was something that I'd never seen like that before (or since). I do remember that everything was shutdown. I don't think it's something that it's possible to prepare for. You can't prepare to have every tree coated in thousands of pounds of ice. If there are trees over/near power lines, you can't spend 24-48 hours cutting them down. By then it's too late.