Posted on 10/27/2021 7:41:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
More than 470,000 people are without power in Massachusetts Wednesday morning as a nor’easter pounded the region with fierce winds and heavy flooding.
The state’s outage map shows a whopping 473,200 people without power as of 8:20 a.m.
Wind gusts reached 97 mph at the height of the storm — and although the wind is expected to die down as the morning progresses, gusts still reached around 70 mph on the outer Cape early Wednesday, NBC 10 Boston reported.
About half of the town of Chatham was left without power Wednesday morning as the storm tore down trees and branches, according to the report.
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“They should have a surplus of power. Haven’t they got any windmills?”
Sure they do and they aren’t worth a sh*t as far as producing enough electricity to even recapture the cost to produce them.
I lived on Cape Cod for yrs (retired there) and went there on vacations for decades before that. One of the first things I did when building our retirement home is have a natural gas generator as a must and it was the best purchase I ever made.
Globe warmer!
Martha’s Vineyard, too. Obama will be SO happy!
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