Once again, an "unexpected" storm has played havic on the East Coast. 16 inches of snow, and lots of downed trees and limbs. We've been without power since early (1 am) Sunday morning. Making this the 3rd time in 2 months we are without power for multiple days up in northern NJ's Sussex County. Best estimate is they hope to have 95% restored by Thursday evening :banghead:
Figures...we just went to the butcher and restocked the freezer after the last time when we lost most of the contents of the freezer and fridge. This is getting expensive !
How did everyone else make out? I hear CT got hit just as bad as NJ.
We got about 7 inches in northern Lebanon County. Southern parts of the county had 10-11 inches. Lots of downed trees and power outages through the area. We were lucky because our power flickered but didn't go out and the tree damage on our property wasn't too bad -- just enough limbs to restock some camping firewood for next season.
John
You know you lose power too often when your 2 year old has "generator" in his limited vocabulary.....the generator ran out of gas and Nathan ran too the sliding doors to the deck where the generator was and started saying "eneato....eneato"
I didn't measure the snow in Downingtown PA but we lost power for 27 hours.
Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer. Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.
I live in southern Maryland on the Potomac River, and Saturday's wind was really howling. Spent Friday cooking/cleaning and prepping for a possible power outage, but got lucky, so spent most of Saturday snuggled in the bed with a few good books - got up several times to take some awesome pictures of the clouds of river mist as they hit the shore and came over the cliff.
I feel for those who did lose power and hope they are warm and safe and feel the pain for the kids who couldn't trick or treat due to downed power lines/trees.
We were in Salem, Ma for the Halloween weekend. Decided to stay once the forecast turned bad.
Mostly rain and a bit of snow in Salem by sunday morning. Packed up and went home to
Connecticut, no cell service on I-84 from outside Worcester, Ma to Manchester , CT. A bad omen for a road that always has cell service.
Saw many yards with trees down. The trees looked liked they exploded all over the place. No power anywhere.
Had to move branches out of the driveway and get the snowblower out to clean off the snow.
Then backed in the trailer, set it up and hooked up the Yamaha genset. DD and DDBF came over to stay with us since their apartment was 40 degrees.
They just left this morning as power was restored to their apartment. We are still without power in the house.
I hooked up water yesterday for showers in the HTT. So far even with temps into the low 20's we have been fine and no frozen pipes.
Hope they get power to us soon, but are telling us we'll be out for up to 7 days...
This storm was 5 times worse than the damage done from Irene a little while ago....
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