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An ice storm grounded airline flights and knocked out power to thousands of customers from Oklahoma to Illinois on Sunday.

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  • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)jaern
    jaern
    Dec. 10, 2007, 9:39 p.m.

    80% of my morning calls started out: I fell on the ice and I think I broke...

    • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)Cityslicker
      Cityslicker
      Dec. 11, 2007, 8:30 a.m.

      Global Warming !

      • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)richwklein
        richwklein
        Dec. 11, 2007, 11:46 a.m.

        I live about 12 miles south of Des Moines Iowa and we have a pretty solid sheet of ice on everything. I've post some pictures of it on my blog. http://richwklein.com/2007/12/11/ice-storm/

        • Avg rating: (+0/-0 0)shazaam
          shazaam
          Dec. 11, 2007, 2:55 p.m.

          Hmmm, half a million without power in Oklahoma City and the feds send 50 generators and 3 truck loads of drinking water. Sounds like FEMA is hard at it.

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