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Anyone else in New England dug out of this mess yet? Recordbreaker!

xanatosxanatos Posts: 1,120
edited 2011-10-31 16:04 in General Discussion
Just got the solar panels cleared off - running on generators and solar. No cable, but DSL is working. Anyone else here in New England dealing with this recordbreaking October storm? 16 inches in my town, trees down EVERYWHERE (because so many still had leaves on them to hold the heavy wet stuff). I heard this was the earliest storm of this size since they began keeping records 104 years ago. If you are not in New England, you have something to be thankful this morning! They area saying we may be without power for days. Gas stations and grocery stores all closed, ATMs down (not that there is any place to spend anything), restaurants closed. A lot of people in my town can't cook without power, and there are no restaurants open for many many miles, and many of those folks couldn't get out of their roads anyway (trees down)... Emergency services are taxed to the limit and beyond... and this is just October!!!

Someone is warm, dry areas, please send us some of that! :-)

Dave

Comments

  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-10-30 13:02
    I feel your pain. After hurricane Irene in August we were without power for 4 days. Just feel lucky you have internet access. Keep oil in your generator so it won't burn up.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-10-30 13:36
    xanatos wrote: »

    Someone is warm, dry areas, please send us some of that! :-)

    Dave

    Warmth & sunniness sent from Los Angeles
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2011-10-30 13:44
    Lots of trees lost limbs around here, including one in our yard. The total was about two inches, but with the warming weather it is melting fast. I am sitting in front of the fire with my dog and surfing the web on the Android tablet. This weekend's chore list is half done, but many are outdoor chores, so the snow put the kibosh on them. I might work on TankBot's edge sensors later, but I get my best work done when everyone else is asleep.
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2011-10-30 14:55
    We had a pretty serious storm back in February, if I remember correctly, but we're just getting rain here in southern Wisconsin right now. I feel your pain, but no "warm, dry" to send right now. I hope everyone is okay out there.
  • ratronicratronic Posts: 1,451
    edited 2011-10-30 15:22
    I am a bit north of erco and my a/c (set to 77) just turned on.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-10-30 15:42
    'Still whining about drizzle here in the Gray Pacific Northwet. Drizzle and whining are nearly perpetual here from October through June-uary. But when I look at what other parts of the country suffer: snow, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, dust storms, drought, bitter cold, withering heat, fire ants, Lyme disease -- every torment and plague lately but locusts, it seems -- the rain doesn't feel so bad. (Well, okay there is more lutefisk here than most other parts of the country have to endure -- excepting maybe Minnesota.)

    'Hope you Nor'easterners get dug out and powered up again soon!

    -Phil
  • RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
    edited 2011-10-30 18:52
    Yeah, we got more than a foot here where i am... We dug out pretty easy and the snow should melt off in the next few days. It did knock power out and make for a scary drive home last night though:(
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-10-31 00:48
    Argh... Part of the reason I left the midwest (Indiana) was those god-awful winter storms. I got snowed in at work (away from my hometown) for a week and had to live in a motel. Bleah!
    My sympathy and wishes for warmer times headed your way!

    Amanda (Went for a picnic in the Marin headlands today!)
  • frank freedmanfrank freedman Posts: 1,983
    edited 2011-10-31 01:06
    Guess there advantages to living 2' North of hell 6 months of the year. We hit 95f today.... I tried to ship some concentrated sunshine back east, but FedEx refused to handle it and UPS blew me in to DHS!! Guess we keep our sunshine for now.

    Stay warm y'all,

    Frank
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-10-31 01:53
    ajward wrote:
    Part of the reason I left the midwest (Indiana) was those god-awful winter storms.
    Ditto: same state, same reason. Plus, it's just too dang flat.

    -Phil
  • RiJoRiRiJoRi Posts: 157
    edited 2011-10-31 07:29
    xanatos wrote: »
    ...
    Someone is warm, dry areas, please send us some of that! :-)
    Dave

    Just go due south, over the LI Sound, to Long Island. I thought the weather reporters in NYC were crazy, talking about snow when there was NOTHING coming from the sky here -- 25 mi. east of NYC. Admittedly, we did have snow flurries Sat. A.M., but it was gone by mid-afternoon.

    --Rich
  • norris56norris56 Posts: 69
    edited 2011-10-31 07:36
    We only got an inch of slushy snow here in the immediate Boston area. No power issues, thankfully.
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-10-31 16:04
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Ditto: same state, same reason. Plus, it's just too dang flat.

    -Phil

    'Twas hecka flat where I lived (Can you say "I can see for miles and miles"?). Part of the reason those storms caused such huge drifts. Southern half of the state wasn't so bad, plus the autumns were fabulous.

    Amanda
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