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The October snowstorm last night (in the northeastern U.S.)
Recorded non-trace (i.e. accumulating) snowfall in the Hartford, Connecticut area (i.e. central CT):
October 30, 1925: 0.1 inches
October 19, 1972: 0.4 inches
October 10, 1979: 1.7 inches
October 29-30, 2011: about 12 inches
Yesterday afternoon's and last night's winter storm has left so far about 800,000 people (and counting) without electricity in the state of Connecticut. The irony is that the outage map is almost inverted compared to the map from Irene: the northwestern half of the state got hit hardest, as opposed to southeastern half of the state. We here got really, really lucky, as I live in the northernmost purple town. We got 76% power outage, even worse than with Irene. And we were lucky compared to neighboring towns, which all got over 90% (and many 100%) power outage. We're surrounded by a sea of black on that map. (I know black is 81 to 100% but if you mouse over the towns you can see the percentages.) And our house still has electricity. And internet. And I'm still able to use my cell phone. I feel really damn lucky now. Especially since we didn't even prepare for this.
One big issue is that it's...basically still fall. Most of the leaves haven't fallen off trees yet. Pile on a foot of snow, and you have bent, downed, and totally snapped branches, and even whole limbs and whole trees, all over the freaking place. This is contributing a damn lot to all the outages--and now you even get secondary outages as the snow melts (it's in the 40s here and the snow is rapidly melting, though there's still a lot of accumulation, about 7 or 8 inches left) because tree limbs are rebounding back up and hitting more power lines.
Anyone wanna bet whether we'll have a White Halloween?
P.S.: This time, Forzare might be okay, but Evergreen might not. I wonder how both of them are doing, in any case. As well as Hatter.
October 30, 1925: 0.1 inches
October 19, 1972: 0.4 inches
October 10, 1979: 1.7 inches
October 29-30, 2011: about 12 inches
Yesterday afternoon's and last night's winter storm has left so far about 800,000 people (and counting) without electricity in the state of Connecticut. The irony is that the outage map is almost inverted compared to the map from Irene: the northwestern half of the state got hit hardest, as opposed to southeastern half of the state. We here got really, really lucky, as I live in the northernmost purple town. We got 76% power outage, even worse than with Irene. And we were lucky compared to neighboring towns, which all got over 90% (and many 100%) power outage. We're surrounded by a sea of black on that map. (I know black is 81 to 100% but if you mouse over the towns you can see the percentages.) And our house still has electricity. And internet. And I'm still able to use my cell phone. I feel really damn lucky now. Especially since we didn't even prepare for this.
One big issue is that it's...basically still fall. Most of the leaves haven't fallen off trees yet. Pile on a foot of snow, and you have bent, downed, and totally snapped branches, and even whole limbs and whole trees, all over the freaking place. This is contributing a damn lot to all the outages--and now you even get secondary outages as the snow melts (it's in the 40s here and the snow is rapidly melting, though there's still a lot of accumulation, about 7 or 8 inches left) because tree limbs are rebounding back up and hitting more power lines.
Anyone wanna bet whether we'll have a White Halloween?
P.S.: This time, Forzare might be okay, but Evergreen might not. I wonder how both of them are doing, in any case. As well as Hatter.
Comments
High Temperatures in Denver, CO:
* Monday, October 24: 80 degrees F.
* Wednesday, October 26: 32 degrees F.
My parents' trees lost half their branches, and a similar storm is expected next week. Unless the trees loose their leaves soon, there won't be any left.
I used to like snow.
All we got was RIDICULOUS wind.
Not the people losing power/are seriously being inconvenienced, I'm not calling you lucky. XD
I just love snow so much, and preschools are always the first to close when even a little falls. :>
There has been talk here that we might have the third hard winter in a row, but so far it's been a mild autumn.
Needless to say, our definition of a hard winter is set a lot lower than that parts of the US. If you got 12 inches of snow in Southern England, even in the depths of winter, you would never hear the end of it - it would be treated like the Apocalypse. The Scots are a bit more used to heavy snow, I think.
Good luck to everyone affected!
@Malkavian: Ah. Unfortunately the first thing I think of when I think of the Catskills is to ask you whether you prefer Scott Murphy or Chris Gibson.
Yeah, my power is out, and it might stay that way for a while.
This is worse than Irene >:l
We won't freeze to death, though, since we do have a propane heater we can use.
Sorry about that.
We're gonna have a white Halloween. With sub-freezing temperatures by nighttime.
(I like the house gimmick, leave me alone.)
My grandma still has power though, so I'm here.
I fixed the thread title to reflect this.
On one hand, I started sorting out things that run continuously (such as fridge and hazard detectors), things that run on-demand regularly (such as climate control, modem, and stove), and things that are "discretionary" (such as computer, lights depending mainly on choice of bedtime, and TV).
But most importantly, I got a taste of the uncertainty--the uncertainty of not knowing when your electricity comes back on, and thus having to plan one's activities around this uncertainty. I made calls to the power company, to the town's library, and to the nearest Barnes & Nobles. And to top that all off, my cell phone was low on battery so I had to keep it off most of the day.