Jay481985 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Everyone alright? My power was restored 4 hours ago (about 24 hours) after seeing what a tree limb touches a 69000 volt high voltage wire. Oh Happy 4th of July came early or late this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 We lost power Saturday around 2 pm and got it back around 3am Sunday. I drank wine and tended a fire, we got about 5 inches of very heavy snow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted October 30, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 30, 2011 The news said 2.5 Million out of power and some could be days without it. It's seems a little early for this I would think, don't really know about the white stuff ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay481985 Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 The news said 2.5 Million out of power and some could be days without it. It's seems a little early for this I would think, don't really know about the white stuff ? I heard 4 million or so. Last time Hurricane Irene came by it took a week for some people to get power. I was lucky to get power because the subtransmission line that got fried is only 1000 feet away. It supplied the other town as well so they had to restore that first. I swear when we saw the thing spark up it switched red white blue for 3-4 minutes. The other time it just sparked the whole town up brighter than lightning. We had what should have been 24-36 inches of the white stuff but the problem was it was slushy and wet/compacted. So we had about 12 inches of compacted wet snow which bent trees, Our neighbor's 70 foot oak tree is now half gone because it still had 3/4 of the leaves (It didn't even change colors yet) A brand new mercedes roof was smashed when the limb fell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LarryC Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Our neighbor's 70 foot oak tree is now half gone because it still had 3/4 of the leaves (It didn't even change colors yet) LIke someone said, we had to break out the snow shovels before the rakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jsaint Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Lost power for 24hrs that day. But consider myself very lucky. This tree missed everything, wellpoint, powerlines my home and driveway. late post I know but still interesting. https://picasaweb.google.com/JasonPCtech/HurricaneIrene?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMygqIPmraK7Lw&feat=directlink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 JJK once said, "losing power will temporarily put you back 150 years in time and if the power never returns you can't come back". Nobody listened. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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