The absence of heat is not cold! Warming takes many forms!
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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“So they leave the trees, and hang the lines...”
Many of the trees are trimmed around the wires where I am. They end up looking like this: Y
All those states where they voted for Obama to shut down the power plants can freeze to death in the dark for all I care.
You have to remember that the latest lib scam bizzaro world talking point now is that global cooling is caused by global warming.
That video is great! What a cool dog.
I’m confused: Why didn’t Obama stop this?
Boston only got a lot of rain and wind without the ice.
Guess we will have to fill in til all our North Easterners Freepers are back online and with us here, until then ..sending warm thoughts there way... Having lived in the Northeast for 20 years, I know it is tough going tonight for them.
Interesting thought. Electrical power doled out only those regions of the country that support the leftist DemonRATS in maintaining their power. Those regions that oppose them will be punished with blackouts. Sounds like a formula for civil war or secession to me.
We were very lucky.
I live in an area where all of the power lines, phone lines (they still exist) fiber etc. are buried. No ugly telephone poles to look at. The transformers/power distribution boxes are above ground but for the most part no one notices them. Only those big pylons with the high power lines are around. I don't know why these power companies don't start burying the power lines. I guess it makes too much sense to do so.
Exactly. Now apply that thought to the oil industry, water treatment, home heating... you could keep yourself up nights imagining the misery that could be inflicted upon us.
Isn’t that what portable generators are for?
That would be me. I’m sitting in a 45 degree house and reading FR on my IPhone while listening to the Celtics on the radio. Durham, NH here.
Awesome video.
Thanks for sharing.
bump
My freezer isn't that cold..wow
Keep that wood stove pumped up.
Sounds like more of that awful global warming. Better send AlGore some of more taxpayer money to give to “scientists” doing studies to “prove” the connection.....
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