NY winter storm
Feb 9, 2013, 2:08 pm
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The snow stopped a couple of hours ago here and the sun came out!
Our final snowfall was 28", but we had huge drifts in places. The wind was so strong that it blew the snow off the roof so we don't even need to clear it ahead of the rain expected on Monday.
Roads are now plowed down to bare pavement, our driveway is cleared, we didn't lose power, phone or internet, so we have come through this one unscathed.
Our snow was light fluffy powder but in SE MA the snow was the heavy wet stuff that sticks to trees and power lines and brings them down. They are having a tougher time.
One thing that made me chuckle in all of this. The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station shut down automatically when it lost power. Who knew that the generation of power at the nuclear plant was dependent on one lousy wire from Mass Electric???
Our final snowfall was 28", but we had huge drifts in places. The wind was so strong that it blew the snow off the roof so we don't even need to clear it ahead of the rain expected on Monday.
Roads are now plowed down to bare pavement, our driveway is cleared, we didn't lose power, phone or internet, so we have come through this one unscathed.
Our snow was light fluffy powder but in SE MA the snow was the heavy wet stuff that sticks to trees and power lines and brings them down. They are having a tougher time.
One thing that made me chuckle in all of this. The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station shut down automatically when it lost power. Who knew that the generation of power at the nuclear plant was dependent on one lousy wire from Mass Electric???
Feb 9, 2013, 2:31 pm
#47
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Halfcape my folks in Falmouth had a tree down outside their house overnight effectively cutting them off from road access until town can get out there. Some local stress there for mum.
/trying to bring back off OT/ this is what makes tier point runs so tricky to plan in winter if it involves and east coast connection, eh?
/trying to bring back off OT/ this is what makes tier point runs so tricky to plan in winter if it involves and east coast connection, eh?
Feb 9, 2013, 2:31 pm
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The snow stopped a couple of hours ago here and the sun came out!
Our final snowfall was 28", but we had huge drifts in places. The wind was so strong that it blew the snow off the roof so we don't even need to clear it ahead of the rain expected on Monday.
Roads are now plowed down to bare pavement, our driveway is cleared, we didn't lose power, phone or internet, so we have come through this one unscathed.
Our snow was light fluffy powder but in SE MA the snow was the heavy wet stuff that sticks to trees and power lines and brings them down. They are having a tougher time.
One thing that made me chuckle in all of this. The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station shut down automatically when it lost power. Who knew that the generation of power at the nuclear plant was dependent on one lousy wire from Mass Electric???
Our final snowfall was 28", but we had huge drifts in places. The wind was so strong that it blew the snow off the roof so we don't even need to clear it ahead of the rain expected on Monday.
Roads are now plowed down to bare pavement, our driveway is cleared, we didn't lose power, phone or internet, so we have come through this one unscathed.
Our snow was light fluffy powder but in SE MA the snow was the heavy wet stuff that sticks to trees and power lines and brings them down. They are having a tougher time.
One thing that made me chuckle in all of this. The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station shut down automatically when it lost power. Who knew that the generation of power at the nuclear plant was dependent on one lousy wire from Mass Electric???
Hope your snow doesn't drift again because of any wind. It happened once to me in the UK we were driving down a ploughed road when the snow just blew across the road again. We were forced to spend the night at some nearby friends.
Feb 9, 2013, 2:33 pm
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Feb 9, 2013, 5:16 pm
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Jolly good, I'm flying into BOS on Sunday, driving through central and western mas and into souther NH...lets hope they have ploughed by then!
Feb 9, 2013, 6:19 pm
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Can't speak for MA, but southern NH is mostly cleaned up at this time. The snow is still blowing about, so roads may not stay entirely clear, but the worst is over. Also, I live under one of the approaches for MHT, and they seem to have most of their normal Saturday evening traffic taking off and landing, so air traffic should be pretty well back to normal for Sunday in BOS (which has more snow removal equipment than MHT).
Feb 9, 2013, 6:49 pm
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Feb 10, 2013, 2:11 am
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My buddy south of BOS has been evacuated to local high school, having lost power and heating at home. Large tree came down but fortunately missed both nearby houses. Best to all up there, and hoping for a speedy clean-up.
Feb 10, 2013, 5:05 am
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One thing always comes to mind (since being stuck with no power in Chicagoland in Jan 2011, 21" overnight).... Why are all the suburban power lines overhead in areas that get heavy snow ?
It might be cheaper in the short term, but surely the investment to bury them would be recouped by not having to repair them after each heavy storm, tree fall, fat bird etc.
Power outages seem to happen a lot during/after bad weather, which after all is not totally unexpected....
-yes I know we Brits run around like headless chickens after an inch of snow, we are NEVER ready for it - especially LHR ET al !
I don't think (ready to be corrected
) the UK has proportionately the amount of weather related outages that the US has.
It might be cheaper in the short term, but surely the investment to bury them would be recouped by not having to repair them after each heavy storm, tree fall, fat bird etc.
Power outages seem to happen a lot during/after bad weather, which after all is not totally unexpected....
-yes I know we Brits run around like headless chickens after an inch of snow, we are NEVER ready for it - especially LHR ET al !
I don't think (ready to be corrected
) the UK has proportionately the amount of weather related outages that the US has.
Feb 10, 2013, 7:46 am
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Feb 10, 2013, 8:24 am
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One thing always comes to mind (since being stuck with no power in Chicagoland in Jan 2011, 21" overnight).... Why are all the suburban power lines overhead in areas that get heavy snow ?
It might be cheaper in the short term, but surely the investment to bury them would be recouped by not having to repair them after each heavy storm, tree fall, fat bird etc.
Power outages seem to happen a lot during/after bad weather, which after all is not totally unexpected....
-yes I know we Brits run around like headless chickens after an inch of snow, we are NEVER ready for it - especially LHR ET al !
I don't think (ready to be corrected) the UK has proportionately the amount of weather related outages that the US has.
It might be cheaper in the short term, but surely the investment to bury them would be recouped by not having to repair them after each heavy storm, tree fall, fat bird etc.
Power outages seem to happen a lot during/after bad weather, which after all is not totally unexpected....
-yes I know we Brits run around like headless chickens after an inch of snow, we are NEVER ready for it - especially LHR ET al !
I don't think (ready to be corrected
) the UK has proportionately the amount of weather related outages that the US has.
Feb 10, 2013, 11:20 am
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Apparently it would be prohibitively expensive to bury them now. As for the historic reasons for putting them above ground, who knows? Maybe the inability to access them in the winter months? It is only comparitively recently that we have had the wherewithal to bury our dead during the winter. Bodies used to be stored (and I think still are in some jurisdictions) in town crypts until the spring.
Feb 10, 2013, 4:12 pm
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I can testify to the cost. When we built our house, we brought our electricity overhead from a dirt road behind our house. There are only four houses on the road. Every single bloody storm that we lost power, we were at the bottom of the list of the electric company. Then we spent $$$ to bring our electric into our house underground from a subdivision that we our driveway connects to. It cost a lot of money, but is worth it, especially when we have power and those on that dirt road don't!
Feb 11, 2013, 1:25 am
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This becomes a big topic of conversation after every storm that causes power outages. Everyone wants underground utilities and the electric companies say it is very expensive and consumers will not pay.
I can testify to the cost. When we built our house, we brought our electricity overhead from a dirt road behind our house. There are only four houses on the road. Every single bloody storm that we lost power, we were at the bottom of the list of the electric company. Then we spent $$$ to bring our electric into our house underground from a subdivision that we our driveway connects to. It cost a lot of money, but is worth it, especially when we have power and those on that dirt road don't!
I can testify to the cost. When we built our house, we brought our electricity overhead from a dirt road behind our house. There are only four houses on the road. Every single bloody storm that we lost power, we were at the bottom of the list of the electric company. Then we spent $$$ to bring our electric into our house underground from a subdivision that we our driveway connects to. It cost a lot of money, but is worth it, especially when we have power and those on that dirt road don't!
How are things down on the Cape now? For us the contrast between Friday / Saturday and Sunday could not have been greater. It went down to 4F (-15C) during Saturday night but it bounced back up to 38F (4C) during Sunday, with a cloudless bright blue sky and brilliant sunshine. Drove a 90 mile round trip with no problems whatsoever.