Thursday (01.29.09) I traveled up I-55 through Arkansas and Missouri on the heels of a rather nasty winter storm. From just north of Blytheville, AR to a bit north of Charleston, MO the storm dropped an unbelievable amount of ice. The results were devastating. Thousands of people without power and significant damage to homes, trees and power lines.Being the shutterbug that I am, I grabbed my digital camera to get images for my blog. But the batteries were dead. And since no one had power and all the stores were closed, I could not get any batteries. So, I was reduced to walking around in the cold snapping low-resolution pics in bad light with my cell phone. Most of them came out too crappy to use here, but I've managed to salvage a few. Most of these were shot at or near the Pilot Travel Center in Hayti, MO. A few others were shot north of Hayti after I hit the road again.
Trees along I-55 just smashed to bits by the ice
Look at this tiny twig encased in so much ice...
Uh oh! Better call GEICO
Another crappy image (crappy cell camera)This was at the exit of the Pilot Travel Center
(Above & Below) Decorative trees at the Pilot ruined by the ice
One of hundreds of power poles snapped by the ice
No power = no gas.While at the Pilot, I was approached by dozens of motorists looking for
ANY PLACE they could find some gas.
Also an elderly fellow whose generator had run out of fuel.
(Above and Below)
There is a tree under all that ice.
Really. No foolin'
See ya'll on the road.
--Alan
