Guy's Dropper
Enlightened
I'd rather have tornadoes, hurricanes and ice storms than wildfires and earthquakes. Everyone in CA better be ready for the next San Andreas movement. It's going to be a real doozey.
Everyone in CA better be ready for the next San Andreas movement. It's going to be a real doozey.
An ice storm is a prolonged period of freezing rain, often with significant aggregation (sticking to surfaces). The precipitation falls as rain which is actually below freezing (super-cooled). This "rain" than contacts a surface and sticks on it. Over time the ice begins to weigh down branches and powerlines... Freezing rain is formed when the precipitation falls through a shallow layer of warm air within a few thousand feet of the surface. The air right at the surface is below freezing, however, it is not thick enough to refreeze the raindrops which instead super-cool. If the cool layer is just a little thicker you get the much less dangerous yet infinitely hard to shovel sleet
Have to love being a Meteorology Major
To make matters worse, tonight it's supposed to get down to 14 degrees (it's 19 now) Farenheit.....
Is the rain really below freezing? I don't see how rain drops can be below freezing without being ice. I understood freezing rain to just be rain (the rain drops are probably near freezing) that lands on frozen surfaces. Power lines, trees, sidewalks, etc, that are below freezing which causes the near freezing rain drops to freeze on contact. Temperatures near the surface that remain below freezing will keep all surfaces below freezing.
It's like spraying water dropplets into your freezer.
So the dangers of freezing rain over prolonged periods of time is you can get thick accumulations of ice, sometimes several inces, that will bring down tree branches, power lines, etc. I'll take snow over freezing rain any day.
In all seriousness, this is one of several reasons why I plan to buy some solar panels and a generator.
The New England Ice Storm of 2008
Right now we're reeling from the aftermath of a massive ice storm that plowed through the New England area on 12/11/08, Maine has been hit especially hard, over 220,000 homes are without power, mine included, York County, where I live has been absolutely slammed, estimates are 75,000 homes without power . . .
+1 An outstanding plan ... one that certainly makes good sense nowadays.
-Clive
Good grief!
Tornados, ice storms, snow, sleet, hurricanes - North American weather is scary. Below freezing weather is literally beyond my imagination.
I talked with a "supervisor" at CMP and she basically admitted that they don't deal with the "fiddly onsie-twosie situations until the end of the outage", basically admitting that our road, which has about 30 houses on it, is being ignored!
I don't think that will work, I believe that such users have to register with the utility beforehand, but I don't know for sure.Jrmc has a good point, you should call and say that the old woman down your block hasnt been able to take her nebulizer treatments all week and that you are worried for her safety, they will certianly be quicker to get power on because they dont want any blood on their hands. This may be a dirty trick to play but it is effective
I can think of a few legitimate reasons where your power would still be off and the neighboring roads would be online. If those lines feed to a fire station, police station, Hospital, ect; they would be online to serve the. Also there are people that have priority to be reconnected, these people need electricty for medical devices. It is also a possiblity that your situation is being overlooked due to the large scale of the disaster, and calling in will not help too much. I understand that you are upset I would be upset as well in your situation as it seems that it may be a simple reset that needs done.