Posted on 08/29/2011 5:48:49 PM PDT by matt04
Edited on 08/29/2011 5:53:11 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The number of power outages in Connecticut keeps climbing, affecting more than 700,000 utility customers.
Connecticut Light & Power, a unit of Northeast Utilities System and the state's largest utility, says Tropical Storm Irene knocked out power to about 621,000 customers as of 3:30 p.m. Sunday. That's about half of its customers.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
My niece in NJ lost power the first night...they say it won’t be restored until next Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of trees down in NY, NJ, PA and New England. Billions in damages to properties and in business losses.
The videos on You-Tube from places like Brattleboro, VT. and Amsterdam, NY are astounding.
No doubt about it, FRiends...this was a huge storm.
Fortunately, unlike Katrina, it took place in states where people know how to take care of themselves, or the results would be much worse.
I have heard of no incidents of looting, either.
People are helping one another and Emergency responders are doing an outstanding job.
don’t you people know that nothing too bad happened to Washington DC or NYcity and nobody else matters....its “over hyped”..../sarcasm/
I’m hearing the same from relatives in Hershey and Palmyra. PP&L is usually on the ball in these situations. Road inaccessibility is one of the big problems due to the record number of downed trees.
“keeps climbing”
I would lay cash money on a jobs bill that concentrates on our electrical grid, complete with 1) minority preference, 2) Chinese materials, 3) green tech, and 4) the Google-bama NWO ‘chip’ as part of the smart grid. We may even see new thermometers distributed and installed by former census-now EPA personnel.
go eat some cardboard MRE’s you dolt.....people are suffering and all you can do is talk like such a big man....
This ain’t nothing. Wait until Barry shuts down all the power plants and we’re all without electricity. I guess we can do a flash mob at one of those “wind farms” and all blow on those windmills.
> If you don’t prepare for emergency situations then it is on
> you. Everybody should have atleast a dozen cases of water
> and non-perishables tucked away somewhere.
We have nine kids at home and a herd of sheep and goats, as well as a passel of chickens. I don’t think bottled water would work for us.
We have a propane generator to pump the water, but it’s only good until the propane runs out. If the roads are closed or washed out, and fuel is scarce, as it is after 3 or 4 days without power, then we have to start hauling water from the creek and boiling it.
In the winter, that’s double hard because of the snow and ice.
We did catch a lot of rain water by funneling our downspouts into trash cans, so we could’ve used that if we needed it, but our power has been restored. I’m thinking of making that solution more permanent with a cement block cistern and a hand pump.
However, there are still almost 60,000 households without power in little New Hampshire. I hear it’s worse in Vermont and Maine.
Roads have been washed out, homes destroyed, bridges closed, and a lot of folks are isolated by the flooding.
But, as you say, we should be prepared, so it’s our own fault, so we shouldn’t expect any concern or prayers from you.
https://www.firstenergycorp.com/outages/outages.do?state_code=PA
of course you are right....chain saws were running within hours of the storm passing areas.....
**I tried the deep-well hand pump, but you had to pump 15 or 20 times before you got any water.***
How about a 4 inch wide, two feet long well bucket designed for drilled wells. My grandma in Tenn used one for years and they became popular again just before Y2K.
Get used to it. If the eco-freaks and the EPA get their way, you’ll be sitting in the dark all the time ... and your electric car won’t run either!
Hours? Who waits for hours?
Headed out Sunday morning with chainsaw, bar oil, gas can, and spare chain and needed it (just the saw, not the others) within 1/2 mile. Why bother the road crew when you can do it yourself.
If there had been an ice storm couldn’t she have just put the stuff outside to keep it cool?
I’m not being snarky, I’m a Floridian and have no experience with ice storms :-)
I’ve had experience with winter and summer power outages and each has its challenges.
In winter you get free refrigeration but the challenge is heating safely so that pipes don’t freeze. In summer the challenge is cooling —thankfully not a problem this time as the circulation from the remnants of Irene is pulling in Canadian air/
“I still say this CT in the black outcome is a result of towns and cities regulating the cutting down or prohibiting the removing of ones own trees. Permits need to be applied for to cut foliage on property you own. Utilities need to get written and possibly notarized permission from property owners to trim and remove trees that threaten the overhead lines.”
That explains the orange X and sign I saw on a tree recently - Notice - This tree will be cut down on xx/yy - The Tree Warden
I live up here in MA. We have a good ceramic hand filter for emergencies and a gallon of bleach. If it happens here, we won’t be able to bathe, but we will find a way to have water to drink if we run out of bottled water.
Need to do better on food, though.
No laughing matter up in Vermont. I poked fun at New York for closing all the Starbucks, but up there in VT those folks are undergoing a real trial.
> How about a 4 inch wide, two feet long well bucket designed > for drilled wells.
Yes, we bought one of those from Lehman’s, but it has some serious limitations when your static level is 70’.
:)
lights out in cheshire?
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