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5 p.m., still blogging

Posted on January 28, 2010.

I just took a stroll around outside. The sleet is piling up, perhaps an inch or snow, and the ice accumulations on the branches are a quarter-inch, maybe slightly more.
At the moment most of the precip is light sleet but the National Weather Service radar shows two more heavy bands getting ready to roll in. They may miss Moore and Norman slightly to the south and east and bring more trouble to Purcell and then out toward Tecumseh and Shawnee.

Some good news, and we haven’t had a lot today. It looks as if the precipitation may be ending in the next two to three hours, perhaps a little earlier than was being talked about earlier today.

Cleveland County at this moment is clear on the OG&E outage map, although nearly 2,000 customers in Purcell are down. The areas further west I mentioned earlier now have nearly half of their 21,000 customers down, including nearly all of them in Comanche, Caddo and Grady counties, affecting the area on the I-44 corridor between Lawton and Chickasha.
The road is slippery but still not impassable, although it figures to get worse as the evening goes on and then again tomorrow when snow is supposed to roll in.
The next question will be how much snow we may get. None of the forecasts are calling for anything near the 14 inches Oklahoma City received on Christmas Eve. Reports generally are around two or three inches, but one station is reporting perhaps as much as eight.
No power flashes here yet, I’ll keep updating as long as I can.

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