January 2009 - Trees breaking after Northwest Arkansas ice storm

Just a 60-second taste of the devastation experienced by Northwest Arkansas residents as freezing rain and sleet coated trees and power lines, damaging property and plunging thousands into cold and darkness.

[@Psiikix]

reminds me of the oklahoma ice storm. it was always eerily silent outside. only thing you heard was cars or trees breaking and falling. and the occasional power line snapping lmao

[@ovenheating9482]

Looking back on old videos thanks to the current ice storm. Nothing like 2009 but thats one sound ill never forget. Standing on the front porch listening to the trees just crumble around you. Glad this was caught on video because thats really what it was like over the entire city i lived in. Thankfully this storm is nothing like 2009 and dont think we will see another 200 for a good whils.

[@etherraichu]

Same thing happened in northern Kentucky that year. We heard trees collapsing all night. They were easy to hear because they took out the power too. It took five days to get it restored.

[@Beast9894]

i live in fayettville, we got out of school for a week. it was like the apocalypse for trees

[@basicbrewing]

Thanks. Yeah, it was pretty messed up. One of the power company guys from Texas told a friend of mine that the damage around here was similar in some ways to hurricane Ike down there.

[@1998232v6]

We got an inch of ice in 2007 and we had two white pines that were about 3 stories tall each. They both pancaked on themselves and only the center of the trees were left. It was a mess and it took days to clean up because there was 8 inches of snow on top of the ice.

[@PlanktoniusRex]

Hate to see and hear the destruction of those old trees. I am in Tulsa just down the road from you and we get the same weather systems you do. In 2007 we had the worst ice storm in a very long time. Power was out for 10 days here in my neighborhood and lots of trees got destroyed. Trees that seem to do well in ice are pines and oaks. The ones that fall apart immediately are Bradford Pears and poplars. I had a 60' white pine that was so ice coated it laid its crown all the way to the ground and after the thaw it was just fine.

[@tomwhelan8586]

Haven’t seen ice like that since 94 up here in Pa.

[@basicbrewing]

Thanks. I know what you mean. We're still cleaning up damaged trees here. Amazing.

[@keithevans8155]

Great coverage! Natural pruning at its finest

[@jeffb6348]

Sitting here in the dark right now because the same ugly, destructive weather. This video looks almost as bad as our '94 storm. Love this footage-i was wondering if maybe you caught Big Foot on video🤣Love the AR Ozarks-stay safe my friends...

[@melissarose8585]

I live in jonesboro, and I didn't sleep in my bedroom for a week because of our huge oak tree out back! Thankfully it stayed up, but we lost many others.

[@Snotslinginretard]

Goshen area here. Lost power early Monday eve. Came back up and then went back out until late Saturday. Still have at least one outage a day. Hope you faired the storm ok.

[@bd9712]

Great frickin video !!! I always have loved extreme weather. What a cool video

[@kylemoray6060]

Can I just say props to the camera guy?

[@Matyme]

Dude you are very quick with that camera.

[@RichardCockerill]

you said dude hehe :]

[@prankcallcity]

That would freak me up having trees falling all around you! I live in north east texas we got some of this but not near at bad

[@calebcarpenter421]

Trees cracking during a whip-panning storm.

[@ash81818]

I’m in texas and the trees have been frozen for like 3 days

[@mothfeather9217]

and the snow is covered in a layer of ice

[@phazecrow]

my power was out for 3 weeks....

[@GregorioXII]

I may have been without power for almost a month... But it sure was pretty.

[@hotrodprepper656]

how often does the Mountain Home area get ice storms like this?

[@basicbrewing]

@kgreene863 Thanks for coming down to help!

[@debbiepregi1114]

Omg how scary. Be safe! Prayers!

[@Michael_Beanflip]

Be safe wear a mask

[@lschi001]

I heard trees all around breaking and they sounded like gunshots.

[@rapidrailgarbagetrucks]

That's going on for us here in Texas right now

[@ItzPalmer2009]

i was a few weeks old when this happned

[@raisedonAMradio]

Amazing that this was caught on camera!

[@everythingfootball9002]

I live in Springdale and barely remember it because I was 4 but what I do remember is that it was terrible

[@Techsan75]

I hate seeing that happen. Hopefully you guys are all right.

[@thepilotboy]

true dat. same here.

[@bernier1608]

good camera work!

[@DaggsTheCurious]

Jesus christ wow! So loud! Gtf out of there lol! Imagine walking through a forest with that going on around you

[@CUBNUTIC]

I'm so glad we don't get this in the UK.

[@leaf2180]

tom paris you're missing out on something truly beautiful. I've only seen this once in my life. but I'd love to see it again.

[@SuperNinjaBurger]

1 person got smashed by the tree

[@PatrynXX]

Had an ice storm in late 2007 I think in Iowa. but not like this. Had a boss force me in. Which I did make it in, but almost couldn't make it out of the parking lot. Really don't wanna drive in that again..

[@unionpacificrailfan783]

Looks like West Fork back in 2007 I think

[@basicbrewing]

This was Prairie Grove in 2009. We bought a generator after this, and it hasn’t iced since. :-)

[@thepilotboy]

8 hours??? lucky. my power went out monday nite and still hasnt come backk on lol. i live in springdale

[@bitoverrate2753]

Its as if theyd been dipped in liquid nitrogen and shatter with the slightest touch.

[@DavidMonge]

2023 Ice storm nothing compared to the 2009 winter.

[@1incher...]

There were a lot of car crashes in oregon lately because of this

[@blakespower]

I hear a generator I guess the electricity was knocked out too

[@walkinaxyl]

Save on tree trimmers

[@pauliewalnuts1024]

make beer with some of those

[@k2mesee]

@hackerz12

[@catalickconverta6823]

Nature is scary