Posted on 12/12/2008 2:57:05 PM PST by dragnet2
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire declared states of emergency Friday after high winds, rain and snow swept through the Northeast, leaving at least a million homes and businesses without power.
In Massachusetts, work crews struggled to clear the debris, left roads and bridges covered in ice.
Gov. Deval Patrick told WCVB-TV in Boston it would be optimistic to think power would be restored by Monday.
"This is not going to be a couple of hours," Patrick said. "It's likely to be several days."
Patrick mobilized 500 National Guardsmen to help clear roads, WCVB-TV reported. Utility company National Grid reported that nearly 300,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts were without power.
Ice knocks out power to thousands
In New Hampshire, more than 300,000 residents had no electricity, citing reports from four of the state's utility companies.
The station reported that fire departments across the state were scrambling to respond to reports of transformer explosions, downed power lines and utility poles, as well as burning and felled trees.
Gov. John Lynch declared a state of emergency
Amtrak train service between Albany, New York, and New York City was suspended Friday morning, as was service between Portland, Maine, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Central Maine Power had 220,000 homes and businesses without electricity,
In upstate New York, two utility companies reported that more than 200,000 customers were without power
More than 50,000 Central Hudson Gas & Electric customers in the Hudson River Valley were without power early Friday afternoon.
National Grid in New York reported more than 185,000 customers lost power in 23 counties. The company also had 22,000 customers in New Hampshire and 6,000 in Rhode Island without power.
Residents also were having to contend with floods caused by excessive rainfall and blocked storm drains.
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This all must have happened in some other part of Massachusetts.
Interesting that I learned about this emergency while surfing FR.com.
“”Ice and snow are great to look at when they are on postcards””
Google Wisconsin Winter Wonderland and get another man’s opinion of snow! It’s a hoot!
I went to Diamond Lake, Oregon snowmobiling for 5 days last year. Then I came back to Florida.
Lousy day today, about 70 degrees, gusty winds, and I was disappointed to see way to many clouds in the sky.
Went sailing.
Looked at the web cam in Diamond Lake and it is snowing. Real nice to look at.
You probably live in the tropical part of Massachusetts.
Libs ought to be happy they are not polluting with greenhouse gases
This has been the coldest December I can remember.
Must be Global Warming.
lET tHEM fREEZE iN tHE dARK~1
This is just a taste of what would happen if the muslim terrorists take out a major power grid
Wonder if the lib voters in the affected states ever gave that much thought
Global Warming ‘Alert’!
Ouch. It’s going down to zero her in Vermont tonight and tomorrow night, and it isn’t supposed to get over 9 degrees tomorrow. Not a good time to be without power.
I’ve got my wood stove and pellet fireplace insert hard at work, but the pellet stove won’t run without power, unfortunately.
Could be a lot of burst water pipes where the power is out.
When the government nationalizes the power industry in a couple of years this will become a daily occurence. Only it won’t take a storm to knock out the power, just a bunch of dumb bureaucrats.
65 Deg. F. and cloudy here in Mesa, AZ. High was 70. Looking out at a Ruby Throated Hummingbird at my feeder and my tomatos.
[snark]
Power came back on around 1 PM, people in NH are still without power. During the big icestorm of 1998 we were out 9 days.
Seems the Northeastern states could learn to bury power lines so iced up trees wouldn't knock them down.
HELLO!
Let’s make sure they have lots and lots of solar power panels up there....
Under the ice that caused he blackouts in the first place.
Birth surge next August-September. A whole bunch of new little socialists.
My daughter walked out of the house to go to work this morning and found an ice-laden limb through the roof and window of her new car. They are without power and are being told it may be out for 4 days.
No, we learned about that after hurricane Ike here in Houston. People fight buried lines tooth and nail because they have to remove a lot of trees in order to do it. So they leave the trees, and hang the lines, and then the trees fall over and kill the power lines. For weeks. But they can’t bury the lines because of the trees.
ping
How did you make out with this storm? You’re south of me and north of my daughter.
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