Had an ice storm...in Texas. Had to photograph this event!

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c122/Bimmerpride04/Picture537.jpg

Poor, poor car.

Poor, poor car.
She was not pleased with me. Unfortunately, I was not expecting the entire car to be frozen over, I knew of possible sleet conditions...but for the love of God. This is Texas, an Ice storm? lol. Nevertheless took 10 minutes to unfreeze my door handle.

wtf? ive never seen that and i live in new york:confused

wtf? ive never seen that and i live in new york:confused
Well it was raining all night, then it slowly got to the thresh-hold level of 32 degrees. So the rain slowly built up.

Poor, poor car.

+1.

Yes I know I've been un-fair to her

Yes I know I've been un-fair to her

hahaha....shoulda seen this coming bro!:lol3

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn thats nuts. Did you say texas or alaska? We have blizzards in NY and its never been that bad. Poor poor car. Dont you have a garage?(guess not)

Was at a family members house in a different city staying the night. Wasn't expecting that, I mean come on, I live in Texas!

Had an ice storm...in Texas. Had to photograph this event!

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c122/Bimmerpride04/Picture537.jpg
Wipe her nose she has snot!! And her "eyes" are glazed over, yep, she's sick..!!:stickoutt :D

Can't beat West Texas weather. During your ice storm we had a freezing temp of about 53 that day.:D Man I love El Paso in the winter!!

ha. my truck has to sit outside (b/c well, we all know im not putting the m outside) and this exact same thing happened to her last wednesday night and im in atlanta. didnt think to take pic, then again it was cold as hell (weird expression) and 5 am.

Thats cool.

wtf? ive never seen that and i live in new york:confused


:confused :confused You need to get out of the city.... Heck last week there was a BAD ice storm and I only live 25mile north of you. I saw 25+ cars wrecked on 684.... The worst I have seen it here was several years ago where we had over 1 inch of ice on the driveway. Took us a week to leave the house:help

:confused :confused You need to get out of the city.... Heck last week there was a BAD ice storm and I only live 25mile north of you. I saw 25+ cars wrecked on 684.... The worst I have seen it here was several years ago where we had over 1 inch of ice on the driveway. Took us a week to leave the house:help
1 inch of ice..laying on the ground?! Oh my word.:eek:

1 inch of ice..laying on the ground?! Oh my word.:eek:


Yes that was bad. Especially when you take into consideration that our driveway is a 40% slope with a 90 deg. left hand bend that if you don't make you will fall off a cliff. HAHA!:lol

I think I would have been using a few flex/vacation days from work...yikes!

Well, as far as paint protection you can't get better than that :)

I saw a weather show on this storm in Ohio I think. It was a special kind of ice that stuck to what ever it fell on (it fell as liquid - even though the temp was below 32) and was hard as concrete.

That was a bad storm.

Well, as far as paint protection you can't get better than that :)

I saw a weather show on this storm in Ohio I think. It was a special kind of ice that stuck to what ever it fell on (it fell as liquid - even though the temp was below 32) and was hard as concrete.

That was a bad storm.
I've heard about that, but always considered it a myth?

(myth being if your caught out in that type of ice storm you could become frozen in place if you didn't move enough)

I did some searching and the phenomenom is referred to as "supercooled water":

Here is an excerpt from a source online (for some reason I don't have permission to post URLs?)


"You might have learned in school that water "freezes" at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius). But, that's not true. It's correct that ice begins melting at 32 degrees, but water can be as cold as minus 40 and still liquid — it's supercooled and it freezes on contact with anything, such as your airplane's wings. Supercooled water causes airframe icing and "ice storms" that coat trees and power lines with ice."



Knowledge is power :buttrock

I did some searching and the phenomenom is referred to as "supercooled water":

Here is an excerpt from a source online (for some reason I don't have permission to post URLs?)


"You might have learned in school that water "freezes" at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius). But, that's not true. It's correct that ice begins melting at 32 degrees, but water can be as cold as minus 40 and still liquid — it's supercooled and it freezes on contact with anything, such as your airplane's wings. Supercooled water causes airframe icing and "ice storms" that coat trees and power lines with ice."



Knowledge is power :buttrock



Good info! :thumbup:

This results from a temperature inversion. Normally as you go up in altitude the temperature drops about 4.4 degrees F per 1,000 ft. In an inversion the temperature actually increases as you go up. When the temperature is below freezing on the ground rain falls from above and instantly freezes when it hits a cold surface, putting a big sheet of ice on your car. Annoying in a car, deadly in a plane.

I did some searching and the phenomenom is referred to as "supercooled water":

Here is an excerpt from a source online (for some reason I don't have permission to post URLs?)


"You might have learned in school that water "freezes" at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius). But, that's not true. It's correct that ice begins melting at 32 degrees, but water can be as cold as minus 40 and still liquid — it's supercooled and it freezes on contact with anything, such as your airplane's wings. Supercooled water causes airframe icing and "ice storms" that coat trees and power lines with ice."



Knowledge is power :buttrock