[STORMREPORTS] One Month Later, NC Still Cleaning Up From Icestorm (WeatherMatrix Storm Reports)

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[STORMREPORTS] One Month Later, NC Still Cleaning Up From Icestorm

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 10:05:41 EST

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FULL STORY:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20030110/ts_usatoday/4769716

QUOTES:

"CHARLOTTE -- One month and five days after an ice storm paralyzed this
city and much of the Carolinas, a cleanup crew finally made it to Danny
Moore's street Thursday.

Moore, 38, grinned like a lottery winner as he watched a boom operator pick
up large piles of tree limbs and other debris, swing around and dump them
into an open 18-wheeler. ''If I'd had any money, I would have tipped him,''
Moore says.

He says about 300 people, including out-of-town contractors, and 140 trucks
are working seven days a week to finish the job. They have completed about
two-thirds of the debris cleanup.

Crago expects to meet a Jan. 16 deadline for finishing the first sweep
through Charlotte's neighborhoods. A second sweep will be completed by Jan.
29, giving residents a chance to finish cleaning their backyards. The job,
Crago says, is no small task.

Last month's ice storm generated 650,000 cubic yards of debris -- compared
with Hugo's 2 million cubic yards. It translates into about 35,000
truckloads of limbs, branches, twigs and leaves.

The storm damaged oaks, pines, Bartlett pears and other trees but left most
of them standing.

Officials say the cost of the cleanup and emergency response immediately
after the storm will total about $97 million statewide. For Charlotte and
other Mecklenburg County cities, the cost will be more than $17 million. "

Officials estimate that local governments have spent $22.5 million
responding to the storm. In addition, the state Department of
Transportation spent $50 million clearing roads and limbs right after the
storm, and local electric cooperatives spent $18.4 million.

The storm brought ice, snow and freezing rain to portions of central North
Carolina. It was particularly devastating for North Carolina's trees, says
Jeff Dressler, a city construction inspector supervising cleanup crews.
Those trees already had been stressed by Hugo, several years of drought and
last year's saturating rains, Dressler says.

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