• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

December 9-11 Midwest Ice Storm Study/Discussion

Jeff Miller

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This thread is to discuss the unusual dynamics meteorologically that led to one of the worst ice storms to strike the midwest in recent times.

With that some opening questions:

1. How did this Ice Storm rank scientifically?
2. How did it rank personally to you?

Also a great thread to discuss and study the overall meteorological dynamics of this incredible ice storm event that has caused over 600,000 to lose power, and caused damage of a disaster level across the plains, and archive plots/surface obs/etc.
 
I will go with ? number 2. Personally, where i am at right now (Fairfield), we got SUPER lucky. As far as Damages go (trees, powerlines), we faired pretty dang good, gonna say about a 10, dont think we even *had* any damage. (10 being best). Streets...eh, not so good, a 5 to about a 7.

Now, Going with what pictures i have seen, Norman and KC (among others) got hosed. Dont think the scale goes low enough to actually give it a rating.
 
I think this storm could have been a lot worse, in Norman, if there was wind, any what so ever, and/or if the soil temps were cooler, during the storm they were about 41F. But I have never been through an ice storm before.

Personal: 1
Meteorological: 3

(based on the rating system already established, 1(worst)-10(best))
 
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