"This tree behind me was whipping around like a bush in the wind. South of the state line in DeSoto County, the Northcentral Electric Power Association, which serves the eastern portion of the county, reported more than 7,800 members — about 26 percent of the association's membership — lost power about midnight, primarily north of Highway 302 and east of Hacks Cross Road.The outages were attributed to TVA transmission infrastructure in West Tennessee.By 1:30 p.m. Sunday, power had been restored to all but about 700 members.
A drive through Germantown showed small limbs scattered on lawns and in neighborhood streets. Since it is a state road, county crews would work on that problem, Atkinson said. Just over dont quote me on this, bit the ice storm ur talking about i think was in 1974. i was 11 then. i think we got some snow on top of that ice too.My family has referred to the the winter of 1951 my whole life. The full brunt of the ice storm is felt.
MLGW President Jerry Collins couldn't be as optimistic on the timetable for utility repairs. No injuries or deaths were reported, but the storm system that crept out of Arkansas and gained intensity as it crossed the Mississippi ripped trees from the ground with 80 mile per hour winds, blocking roads and doing a number on utility lines that will have crews working around the clock for days. In February of 1994, Memphis was struck by a major ice storm that caused significant damage to trees and power lines, leaving more than 300,000 people without electricity for days and, in some cases, more than two weeks. "North Lakeland got hit pretty hard," Atkinson said, noting three trees down on Salem and another on Palomino Road. Track storms, and stay in-the-know and prepared for what's coming. There. "Overall, we got lucky," Germantown City Administrator Patrick Lawton said.Bartlett police reported debris across the city, but no major problems. Damage in some areas eclipses that from the 1994 ice storm. I was a little nervous it might come down, so I went back inside the house and probably two or three minutes later we heard the fall. On Harbert, a huge true was uprooted and fell across the street about 10 p.m. Saturday, narrowly missing the house across the street.It was a neighborhood spectacle Sunday afternoon, as neighbors pitched in with chainsaws to begin clearing debris while others stood and watched. A partly cloudy Sunday afternoon belied a tumultuous night before that left about 150,000 Memphis-area utility customers without power thanks to a storm system reminiscent of 2003's Hurricane Elvis and the ice storm of 1994.By just before midnight Sunday, the number of reported outages was about 125,000, down from nearly 190,000 at its peak in the early hours after the storm and the 150,000 reported later Sunday.From Midtown and other areas inside the Interstate 240 loop to hard-hit suburban areas such as Bartlett and Cordova, waylaid residents and businesses spent their Memorial Day weekend strategizing on how to survive for perhaps more than a week without lighting and air conditioning. She said customers can recharge their devices at an AT&T store.Strickland said 10 crews were working to clear more than 100 trees in streets throughout the city and expected to have all roads open within a day or two. remeber it pretty well. ""This storm, fortunately, was not quite as physically large," Woodall said. Memphis police responded to more than 100 crashes. "Be patient," Mayor Jim Strickland pleaded during an afternoon update on storm damage at the Shelby County Office of Preparedness Emergency Operations Center. Northern Idaho ice storm of January 1–3, 1961. Despite fewer customers left without power and less damage than Hurricane Elvis, the 1994 restoration took longer — the utility was not able to restore power to the last customer until about 17 days later.A 2013 study by the utility company, 10 years after Hurricane Elvis, states officials learned from the disaster and are better prepared for such outages.Ronnie McCarty with the Riverfront Development Corporation cuts up a downed a tree in Fourth Bluff Park on Front Street after a severe thunderstorm knocked down trees and knocked out power to most of Memphis Saturday nightWilliam Echols describes standing in his front door praying that the enormous tree swaying in his front yard would not fall on his Frayser home and kill him during a severe thunderstorm Saturday night that knocked out power to most of Memphis.Dianna Jones surveyÕs the damage to the sun room of her historic home on Kensington near Vollintine, after a severe thunderstorm knocked out power to most of Memphis Saturday night.
Freezers are the first to go and people were cooking on top of gas grills pizza's. "Strickland also encouraged everyone to pull together, reminding them the area has been through similar events. Easy to use weather radar at your fingertips! There were some downed trees leaning on power lines.Lakeland City Manager Jim Atkinson said in a tweet that city crews began working at 2:30 a.m. to clear trees and debris from the road in that suburb. "Midtown received some particularly severe damage and disruption from felled trees.