RIGHT ON!!

i figure i could live for at least two weeks "off the grid" if need be

 

We have a warzone in our neighbor hood. Tree limbs all over the place, no power and everything is just covered in ice. Woke up around 2:30 to the sound of tree falling nearby. From then on out, every time we drifted back off to sleep, another tree limb cracking and crashing. It was kinda eerie when you just lay there hearing "crack" "snap" "crash" nearby and off in the distance.

Thankfully, our cars are all tucked away in the garage and our house was spared. Nieghbor next door was very, very lucky as a gigantic willow pretty much desintegrated in the night coming with inches of their front wrap-around porch.

We've got powerlines strooned across the roads everywhere, gonna take a while before we get power back.

 

Lost power last night, still no power. Lots of flooding. The Blackstone River looked extremely high. The walking trails were overtaken by the river.

146N was flooded right by the Pike. 3 mile+ backip. I was able to bypass most of it. One lane was getting by very slowly.

Once I got on the Pike I got into work easily.

 

winter storms do not phase me nor do i feel unprepared, i have been planning on getting a wood, pelette or gas stove. for heat when something like this happens, more so to suplement my electric heat.

but i cannot decide on which one to go with.

wood is nice and cheap, if you own land with lots of trees or like scrounging for wood and working hard ( which i dont have lots of land and i am semi lazy)

pelettes are a good route cause they are still pretty cheap, cleaner, easier but you need to store 2-3 ton palettes of them somewhere dry, i do not have a garage and not much room in the basement. also to get the pellet stove to work in a power outage it needs to be rigged to a battery or something

gas is nice but it is still a petroleam product and i would have to have an external tank installed somewhere and has the highest upfront cost to me but it is easy and super clean.

so i duno.

sorry for the offtopic rant

 

you'll need a genset for a pellet stove and they are very $$$ compaired to wood

 

[QUOTE=Bass,Dec 12 2008, 09:15 AM] Wow you guys are really are not very well prepared huh..

 

I really want to make a Dunkins run this morning but then again I don't want to be that guy who didn't ask any of my co-workers if they wanted anything. I also don't want to have to go there with an order for a dozen things. Ugh.

 

So I left the house ( Lucky ... ) 1/2 mile either way out of my driveway they have yellow police tape across the road and a officer . I was able to sneak through some small developments and cut through some yard to make my way around . On my road alone I must have driven over 15 lines crossing the road in different areas . At the end of the rd there is a telephone pole snapped in half with the street light and transformer hanging from it in the middle of the street . They are saying it could be days before we see power , over a 1/4 million people without power . Elliot Hospital in Manchester is also without power and is running on generators . I took some phone pics , I will see if I can upload some . It looks like when the tornado hit this summer ... we just got channel 9 back, if you want to see watch WMUR ..

 

you got it worst tham me, hope the power comes back for you soon. do you have a generator in the shop?

 

Had a nice brown out here at work, wreaked havok with our network and phone system.

I arrived an hour later due to 2 traffic lights out and police redirecting traffic for right turn only at one intersection. Had to do a uturn at next light and wait 5 cycles.
When going back the line was backed up to the light that was out.