The top section of the state was 100% without power (there might have been more. That was just the area that I had first hand experience with). The green section is our power company's area of coverage. 100% of the substations were not receiving power. So they couldn't even start restoring power to customers until they got the main feeds to the substations connected back up to the grid.
I know some of you have seen hurricane damage and are like "Dude, whatever". Much like you getting an ice storm, we don't normally have to deal with wide spread massive damage like this! Ice storms are not uncommon, and keep the weak trees culled. So ice storms are normally something that cancels school for the day with some minor localized damage, but other than that, it makes for nice pictures. This was a category 5 ice storm (I made that up) that wiped out the electrical infrastructure of an area larger than the state of Massachusetts (or maybe Connecticut). I wonder how much property damage there was. In all of my travels, I didn't see any trees on homes or cars. Some VERY close calls, and some minor damage to like the side of a roof or something. But no major losses. 2 years ago, we had 9 trees removed from around our house. BIG trees. Two were over 60 feet tall. I'm glad they weren't there. High probability we would have had major roof damage from one of them.
Also, the bridge was closed due to falling ice.
Crazy stuff. Have to buy my first chainsaw! The drill was too slow. Still have some clean up to do.
Hurricane's a-comin'
Hurricane's a-comin'
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Hurricane's a-comin'
I've heard SyFy is already working on optioning the rights.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Hurricane's a-comin'
Whoa, that's crazy. And, of course, you would live near Gaylord. Wait, maybe they just meant you, not a town?
It's not me, it's someone else.
Hurricane's a-comin'
It is a town up there. But I guess I can't say for sure they didn't mean me.