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2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Non-Minnesotans arguing about the weather...

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LynahFan said:
They like that sweet, sweet smell of diesel exhaust. It's a nice complement to the paste they eat...
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I wouldn't think they'd have diesel generators, but gasoline exhaust can be almost as sweet!

Stupid, stupid people.
 
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Hopkinja said:
Now down to about 1000 people without power here in Allentown area.

Unfortunately, I've heard of a couple instances of carbon monoxide poisoning fatalaties caused by running generators indoors.
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Why wouldn't these people crack some windows and run an exhaust hose from the generator to the window? It should really be rule #1 in survival - don't kill yourself.
 
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DrDemento said:
Thankfully we have a landline phone and this episode taught me to never give that up. It was the only thing working.
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Our technology consultant commented in a meeting that landline phones have to be designed for 100% utilization capacity. Cell systems are designed for no more that 25% capacity. So when something really bad happens, everyone tries to call at once on their cell and everything goes down and no one gets through.
 
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Still no power for me on Long Island. Made it to work on the train the past 2 days. 51 degrees in the house this morning with 30s outside. Bracing for tomorrow's Nor'Easter which is supposed to bring 50 to 60 mph winds, rain and more coastal flooding. :(
 
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du78 said:
Still no power for me on Long Island. Made it to work on the train the past 2 days. 51 degrees in the house this morning with 30s outside. Bracing for tomorrow's Nor'Easter which is supposed to bring 50 to 60 mph winds, rain and more coastal flooding. :(
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Sorry to hear that. My fiancee's mom in Merrick still doesn't have hers but her sister in North Merrick got hers back over the weekend. LIPA is not endearing itself to its customers over this past week.
 
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jmh said:
Sorry to hear that. My fiancee's mom in Merrick still doesn't have hers but her sister in North Merrick got hers back over the weekend. LIPA is not endearing itself to its customers over this past week.
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And they got rid of LILCO because???
 
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jmh said:
Sorry to hear that. My fiancee's mom in Merrick still doesn't have hers but her sister in North Merrick got hers back over the weekend. LIPA is not endearing itself to its customers over this past week.
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I posted this tidbit over on All Things DU

LIPA = FAIL

Everyday I have been passing a school that has had out of town utility trucks in it. I said to my wife those trucks haven't moved. My son's restaurant is not far from there and someone went down and asked them what was going on. They are crews from Michigan and have been waiting for days for LIPA to assign them some work. They have been here for at least 4 to 5 days now and have done nothing. Pardon the French but !@#$ LIPA. I called my State Senator and let his office know. We will see if anything happens.
 
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Thick, wet, heavy snow falling in Manhattan circa 11:30 AM Wednesday. I sure hope it doesn't accumulate on tree branches! :eek:
 
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FreshFish said:
Thick, wet, heavy snow falling in Manhattan circa 11:30 AM Wednesday. I sure hope it doesn't accumulate on tree branches! :eek:
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Blowing and raining down here in south NJ. Power flickering a few times already. Supposed to get gusts over 60mph later and a change over to snow with some accumulation. Costa Rica starting to look a whole lot better for us right now!
 
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We got 5-6 inches of white stuff from this one-along with gusts to about 55mph. Lost power briefly 3 times last night but this was a cupcake compared to Sandy. The area around us did suffer some more damage as trees are down from the weight of the wet snow. Power outages, which had been greatly resolved, have again spiked. This is starting out to be one heck of a winter (and winter is still 6 weeks away!). I think we may be better off moving up into the Adirondacks where we would get a much less severe winter.:rolleyes:
 
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Typical winter storm. 5" of snow or so. Nothing unusual. Will all be melted by tomorrow afternoon.
 
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Day 10 without power, 42 degrees in my house this a.m. About 7 inches of snow fell in my area on Wed/Thurs bringing down more branches and more outages. At least the temps are supposed to rise over the next few days into the 60's. Not one LIPA or any other utility truck has been sited in my neighborhood. Frustration is not the word I have for LIPA.
 
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du78 said:
Day 10 without power, 42 degrees in my house this a.m. About 7 inches of snow fell in my area on Wed/Thurs bringing down more branches and more outages. At least the temps are supposed to rise over the next few days into the 60's. Not one LIPA or any other utility truck has been sited in my neighborhood. Frustration is not the word I have for LIPA.
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We feel for you-we were totally out for 8 days and we are all electric here. Temp dropped to 52 at the lowest in here. But we have a fireplace. Only problem was no one had any wood. We tried everywhere-then one morning at 6AM a truck pulled into the Hoome Dept about 6 miles from here and I saw one big pallet of wood on there. I asked when we could purchase any and the store manager said as soon as he could unload and open the store. We bought everything that would fit into the car. Burned about 40 logs in the next couple days-temp got up to 65-68 in the house and Jenny cooked using the fireplace and some old enamel pots we saved from the old days. At least we had some warm food and some heat again. Hope they get you back up soon.
 
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DrDemento said:
We feel for you-we were totally out for 8 days and we are all electric here. Temp dropped to 52 at the lowest in here. But we have a fireplace. Only problem was no one had any wood. We tried everywhere-then one morning at 6AM a truck pulled into the Hoome Dept about 6 miles from here and I saw one big pallet of wood on there. I asked when we could purchase any and the store manager said as soon as he could unload and open the store. We bought everything that would fit into the car. Burned about 40 logs in the next couple days-temp got up to 65-68 in the house and Jenny cooked using the fireplace and some old enamel pots we saved from the old days. At least we had some warm food and some heat again. Hope they get you back up soon.
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I have no fireplace and my heat and hot water is oil fired. Without electric or a whole house generator not much I can do about heat. Thanks to DG, I have a small generator that is giving us lights, phone charging, etc. when we are there. The problem with generators of any size right now is getting the gas for them. We started odd/even license plate gas rationing today. Luckily one of my neighbors got gas yesterday and took my two tanks with him and got them filled. Have been a gypsy crashing at relatives' houses the past few nights. Glad you are back up and running.
 
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du78 said:
I have no fireplace and my heat and hot water is oil fired. Without electric or a whole house generator not much I can do about heat. Thanks to DG, I have a small generator that is giving us lights, phone charging, etc. when we are there. The problem with generators of any size right now is getting the gas for them. We started odd/even license plate gas rationing today. Luckily one of my neighbors got gas yesterday and took my two tanks with him and got them filled. Have been a gypsy crashing at relatives' houses the past few nights. Glad you are back up and running.
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During the height of this trouble down here, my daughter idled on line with her car for 4+ hours to get gas. When she finally got to the pump she was simply told she was limited to $20 which was 5 gallons total. (I suspect she burned almost that much in line). Things have improved rapidly here in the last 36 hours.

We have had this kind of thing happen to us twice before, but both times in Florida-1992 and 2004. We thought we had left this all behind us down there and were more or less immune from it happening up here.
 
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For those of you up there is LIPA better than LILCO?
 
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