Memphis and North Mississippi, get ready for power outages

[Dirtshooter]

Hey all you guys and gals in West Tn. and N. Mississippi, the freezing rain will make travel pretty dangerous and power outages are expected to be 100,000 or more and the outages could last for a week or more. Prepare now if it hasn't hit in your yard yet!! Prayers for everyone.

[Garufa]

Any Memphis reports?

I know there’s nearly 140K without power right now and trees are dropping everywhere.  It’s going to be a long night as things really start freezing.

Edited February 3, 2022 by Garufa

[Ski]

The local utility outage map looks really bad for Memphis and Bartlett.  The eastern and northern edges of the county are better.  I have power, but my parents (in Memphis) do not.

 

[derf]

I’m in Collierville also. We lost power for about 30 minutes. Crossing my fingers and praying for everyone. 

[gregintenn]

Freezing rain sucks. Good luck with it, guys!

[wttam]

I’m in East Memphis and we’ve been without power for about 10 hours. Hopefully it will come back soon. Big thanks to the utility crews working around the clock to keep us warm.

[TennesseeCamper]

Both my brothers had tree limbs down, power was out for the one in Germantown for a while and then back on. My brother in Bartlett had power flicker on and off.

[bobsguns]

Saw on the news 100K people have no power in Shelby Co. That would suck for people with c-pap & ventilator machines. 

[Capbyrd]

12 hours ago, bobsguns said:

Saw on the news 100K people have no power in Shelby Co. That would suck for people with c-pap & ventilator machines. 

I wasn't able to sleep last night. My power finally gave up (it had flickered all day long) at 8:45 last night for good.  It went off for a few hours at 3:40 but came back on for an hour or so before going back out.  We've been without since.  Dealing with the cold isn't terrible.  The inability to sleep is. 


To be honest though, I'd rather they get power back on to everyone that really needs it though before they deal with my sleeping machine. 

[krunchnik]

Here in Lakeland the power went out yesterday Thursday at about 8:30 AM-stayed out till around 9:00 Pm-then again went out at 4:00 AM and came on about an hour later-

I have a Generac 3500-Watt generator that got a good workout last night-

We bought a B&D 15,000 BTU AC/Heat combo-it kept a good part of our little house at about 63 Degrees-

We purchased all of the backup equipment a little over 2 years ago-we got to try it out the last couple of day's-

[wttam]

We just reached the 24 hour mark. It's pretty cold in our house. I plan on spending as much time as possible shopping or eating out so I'm not sitting in a cold house. 

[deerslayer]

No power at the house for almost 24 hours.  Tis cold.  Trees down everywhere.  Wife is pissed…because she can’t dry her hair
 

Saw this on the way to work:

 

[bobsguns]

2 minutes ago, deerslayer said:

Saw this on the way to work:

Wow, that would totally suck! 

I'm both surprised/not surprised how people allow trees to droop over their homes like that. Not just ice storms, but strong winds will also drop those limbs faster than Biden's approval ratings. 

I hope no one was injured in the pic.

[deerslayer]

38 minutes ago, bobsguns said:

Wow, that would totally suck! 

I'm both surprised/not surprised how people allow trees to droop over their homes like that. Not just ice storms, but strong winds will also drop those limbs faster than Biden's approval ratings. 

I hope no one was injured in the pic.

I don’t think this was a drooping limb issue…

[Capbyrd]

7 minutes ago, deerslayer said:

I don’t think this was a drooping limb issue…

Nope, that's a whole tree.  Rough.

[Snaveba]

I hope that was just a carport and storage area. 

[deerslayer]

I turned around and talked to a guy there.  He said nobody was hurt.  

[No_0ne]

Spent the night in a hotel in Jackson.  Just got home (Weakley Co.) and my power is finally back on after being out for 24 hours.

[Links2k]

I’m in S.E Shelby.  No power loss at my home.  My daughter lives in a downtown apartment. She lost power last night. My sister in law lives in midtown and has been without power since the ice started. I feel bad for my brother. He works for MLGW, and I don’t think he’s gotten much sleep the last two days. It’s long past due the power lines be buried in the ground.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Links2k

[bobsguns]

3 hours ago, Links2k said:

It’s long past due the power lines be buried in the ground.

I've been saying this for decades now.

[Ski]

My parents' electricity came back on this afternoon, but there are still almost 100,000 customers affected in the MLGW service area.

[Capbyrd]

I was without for about 24 hours and came back online this evening.  I was lucky.  
 

MLGW had to wait for the work crews to clear damaged trees before they could get started.  Now that they have, the numbers have been dropping all afternoon.  I think it peaked around 136k out and it’s currently around 96k.  

[The Legion]

We lost power around 9:00am on Thursday and power came back on around 21:30 Friday night.  One of our large trees in the back of the house lost several branches, but we did not have any property damage.  The house two doors down from us had several large limbs come through their roof.

Edited February 7, 2022 by The Legion

[tnhawk]

While much of Shelby County lost power I was fortunate that I didn't.  After my son lost power in Memphis he and my grandson stayed at my home for a few days until his power was restored.  I had several bottles of propane refilled for my generators but didn't use them.  Another relative lost power and borrowed a generator.  The power company has done an excellent job restoring power across the city and county.

Edited February 6, 2022 by tnhawk

[bobsguns]

Glad to hear everyone came through with no major issues. 

The skeptic in me wonders if commercial burglaries went up in the areas where the power went out? Alarms not working, that sort of thing?