Posted on 12/15/2022 10:56:10 AM PST by marktwain
Power outages across Wisconsin affect thousands of residents after heavy snowfall
Tens of thousands of residents in northern Wisconsin were without power Thursday morning after a winter storm dropped more than a foot of heavy, wet snow in some areas.
Xcel Energy reported more than 30,000 customers were without power in northwestern Wisconsin as of 8 a.m.
Xcell spokesperson Chris Oullette said the snow caused extensive damage to trees, poles and power lines — with the biggest outages near Rice Lake and Hayward. The company is sending caravans of plows and utility trucks to remote areas and workers on the ground said outages could stretch into Friday.
Wisconsin Public Service reported more than 9,000 customers without power in northern Wisconsin as of 10 a.m.
We Energies also reported around 1,000 customers without power this morning in areas near Milwaukee, Green Bay and far northeastern Wisconsin.
I have relatives in the area. They confirm 9.5 inches of heavy, wet snow has caused numerous tree branches to break and impact power lines. They are out of power, and expect crews to take at least a day to restore power.
How do they buy things with Biden’s new digital dollars ?
They should charge up their cars and drive to someplace that does have electricity.
Tey voted for Biden’s insane energy policies. I wish those who voted for Trump would get cheap heat, but they would only use that to make sure that Trump voters freeze to death.
It all depends where on the circuit one is for the power to come back on.
It’s a Green New Deal Simulation.
Call your Congress Critters to object if your experience is unacceptable.
All they need are more windmills and solar farms
Break out the solar panels. Lots of sun during a snow storm in northern Wisconsin. Then fire up the heater in your EV to get warm and charge up the cell phone.
Then send a thank you card to biden.
It is going to take a couple of days to clear the snow from all of those solar panels!
Talk about shovel ready jobs!
Keep in mind that I would expect NORTHERN WISCONSIN, like most other RURAL areas probably voted for Trump/Republicans.
However, they get outvoted by all the people in Milwaukee & Madison.
Here is a link to the EXCEL ENERGY OUTAGE MAP: https://www.outagemap-xcelenergy.com/outagemap/
So this is climate change and it’s really summer right??
Probably because Wisconsin has been electing too many Prog Liberal Democrats.
I bought a portable Mr. Buddy propane heater for cold weather camping. But now I have an adapter to attach it to a standard 20 gallon propane canister (the kind you use for your gas grill) and always have 3 20 gallon canisters on hand. That’s good for a couple of weeks. Just enough time to chop a bunch of wood.
Heavy wet snow is amazingly difficult to shovel. Wait till it freezes! Nightmare!
Snow is white, so this might be terrorism.
Heavy and wet will do that.
Trees can only take so much weight.
Or charge their car building back better in action.
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