Author Topic: I love New England... (Read 1684 times)

alaricljs · « **on:** Sun, 30 October 2011, 09:34:14 »

Another power outage... wonder how many days this one is going to be.

Time to ponder draining the pipes.

Pretendo · « **Reply #1 on:** Sun, 30 October 2011, 23:51:01 »

How many inches of snow you get? We didn't lose power, but lost about half of our trees :/

fossala · « **Reply #2 on:** Mon, 31 October 2011, 04:10:22 »

"old" England never gets snow

Ekaros · « **Reply #3 on:** Mon, 31 October 2011, 04:21:06 »

I hope we don't get snow untill next year here in Finland. Not that it causes much of real trouble...

jpc · « **Reply #4 on:** Mon, 31 October 2011, 06:23:02 »

I've lived in the same house since 2003 and never lost power for more than a few minutes. Until yesterday. We were out for 12 hours yesterday. The sump pump quit and the basement got wet. I don't remember any other October when the water table was so high.

alaricljs · « **Reply #5 on:** Mon, 31 October 2011, 10:09:26 »

We've been in this house for 8 years and this year is the first time we've had an outage more than a couple hours (and even those were quite rare). We got about 6-8inches of snowfall that quickly compressed down to 3-4" max and only 1" of slush in many places. My snow-thrower was more of a water pump at times.

The outage from the hurricane was about 3.5 days, so I'm not too hopeful for this outage being that even more CL&P customers have no power this time. The part that really gets me is that we had power through the whole storm, then just randomly mid-morning the next day it dropped out.

alaricljs · « **Reply #6 on:** Mon, 31 October 2011, 10:35:33 »

The other possibility in this state is UI. I have no idea of the history as to why they exist at all. They control a very tiny pocket of the state. On the other hand if I had UI then I would have a much bigger chance of having power or never having lost it... only 2.75% of their customers don't have power.

Pretendo · « **Reply #7 on:** Mon, 31 October 2011, 21:41:43 »

Technically from New York, not NE, but where I live we got over a foot of snow. We didn't personally lose power, but most places around us did, and many are still out. I was forced to drive in the brunt of the storm, and about half of the traffic lights on the road were non-functional. A gas station lost power just as I drove by, and there were about 6 wrecks along the road.

Between hurricanes, earthquakes, random blizzards, and golf ball sized hail (over the summer,) I'd say this is the worst weather our area has ever seen in any year on record.

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Author Topic: I love New England... (Read 1684 times)

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