4th worse Pwr outage in NH history! 200,000 homes in NH - no power! See this Turkey Barbacue Grill!

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Don2222

Don2222

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Feb 1, 2010
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T-day was at my brother's house down the street. His electric generator wasn't going to be able to run the electric oven to cook the bird. My oven is propane, so we cooked the bird at my house (propane generator too) and ferried all the food to his house. All good fun.

Here's a picture of his garden. I think he's done for the year! LOL

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Wow
Good to have a little propane!
 
Don2222 said:
Wow
Good to have a little propane!
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Aye. And if it's good to have a little, it's good to have a lot. I buried my own submarine (1000 gallon tank) in the ground. We didn't have power for 24 hours. You go through some propane even with a modest sized generator.
 
I'm surprised this storm is the 4th worst for outages in NH. Seems like there's been a lot more severe storms that have had power out for many more. Last Christmas the snow storm we had had somewhere around 300K people without power and a bunch of them were out for over a week.
 
Chimney Smoke said:
I'm surprised this storm is the 4th worst for outages in NH. Seems like there's been a lot more severe storms that have had power out for many more. Last Christmas the snow storm we had had somewhere around 300K people without power and a bunch of them were out for over a week.
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Maybe that was the 3rd worse?
 
I am so -fing sick of the power outages in NH over the last 6-8 years. I grew up in the late 80 and early-mid 90's and I don't remember the power going out all the time like it does now. I've had 3 outages in the last two months. I'm sick of the f-ing excuses about the weather too. What, it never snowed in NH before 2008? The PUC doesn't give a damn either. They pretty much bend over backward to aid these poorly mismanaged and incompetent companies like PSNH and Fairpoint.
 
Dana B said:
I am so -fing sick of the power outages in NH over the last 6-8 years. I grew up in the late 80 and early-mid 90's and I don't remember the power going out all the time like it does now. I've had 3 outages in the last two months. I'm sick of the f-ing excuses about the weather too. What, it never snowed in NH before 2008? The PUC doesn't give a damn either. They pretty much bend over backward to aid these poorly mismanaged and incompetent companies like PSNH and Fairpoint.
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I don't necessarily disagree that PSNH, etc. are perfectly managed, but I do disagree with your assessment of the weather--we've had crazy trends this last decade. Ice storm of '08 had a situation where it was colder on the ground than in the sky, so rain froze--literally almost never happens. For a couple years we had snow in October--we didn't have that for my 30 prior years. The last couple major outages included heavy snow (not quite cold enough to be fluffy, but cold enough to snow) on trees still with leaves. Again, never happened in my 30 years.

Take a look at pictures from that last snowstorm--how could PSNH, other than spending MILLIONS to bury power lines, have prevented trees from taking down poles and wires?
 
thinkxingu said:
I don't necessarily disagree that PSNH, etc. are perfectly managed, but I do disagree with your assessment of the weather--we've had crazy trends this last decade. Ice storm of '08 had a situation where it was colder on the ground than in the sky, so rain froze--literally almost never happens. For a couple years we had snow in October--we didn't have that for my 30 prior years. The last couple major outages included heavy snow (not quite cold enough to be fluffy, but cold enough to snow) on trees still with leaves. Again, never happened in my 30 years.

Take a look at pictures from that last snowstorm--how could PSNH, other than spending MILLIONS to bury power lines, have prevented trees from taking down poles and wires?
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As much as I can't stand Central Maine Power.... they do seem to do few things better than PSNH...

the first being that I have noticed that PSNH's tree crews seem to be held to a much lower standard than CMP, leaving much more overhanging growth over the lines to fall... either that or the time between trips is much longer.

and the second is that a lot of PSNH's line routings are just *lazy*... like on a curvy road... just bouncing the line back and forth across the road like a yo-yo... makes it more likely that something that falls on either side of the road can take out a line.

the third thing that comes to mind is that particularly in PSNH's Northern division... pole tops and line intersections look like they were made up by monkeys with a f*** it, it'll work kind of attitude. I did a bunch of work up in Madison one winter... spent most of the time running on a generator, because the power was never truly reliable..

My Wife's family lives about 20 miles northwest of Concord... and every time a fly farts... they're out of power for days... For where we are in Maine it is rare to go even 24 hours without power (we have a similar population density)... usually it's back on within 4-6 hours. This is excepting tropical weather, of course.
 
R U Ready for another round of power outages?

Winds getting strong with rain, sleet and snow can be trouble!

Power companies prepared for upcoming storm
Crews on standby, ready to respond

See video
http://www.wmur.com/news/power-companies-prepared-for-upcoming-storm/30126458

CONCORD, N.H. —Just a week ago we were emerging from the fouth-largest electrical outage in state history. Now utilities are preparing for another storm that could bring with it more power problems.


UTILITY CREWS PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE OUTAGES AS STORM MOVES IN


A wintry mix moving into the state is expected to bring some heavy, wet snow that could cause power outages for some.

In Allenstown, memories of a Thanksgiving holiday in the dark are still fresh.

"We had two days without lights and heat," Julie Giannini, of Allenstown, said.

"It was freezing last time and I really need a generator, Allison Bourget, of Allenstown, said.

They said "last time" because next time could be tomorrow. Scenes might be repeated in parts of New Hampshire that get the right mix of snow, ice and wind.

"This is a very unusual storm, there's a lot of moving parts to it, so we're going to have to watch it very carefully," Unitil Media Relations Manager Alec O'Meara said.

Unitil says its Concord service area could see trouble when the snow transitions to rain.

"It will be how quickly it will change over to rain and how quickly it will stick at the freezing level. We may see a small amount of icing in the Concord area during that change-over. Also we want to see us get out of the wet, sticky snow band and get into rain, which would really have no impact," O'Meara said.

Concord City Manager Tom Aspell is concerned about the potential for street flooding because this year's early snow suspended leaf collection efforts.

"If you get the snow and the leaves combined together, particularly on top of the catch-basins, it clogs up the catch-basins, the water can't get down into the system, and it overflows onto the streets," Aspell said.

There is still visible tree damage from the last storm in central and southern New Hampshire. PSNH says this time it's more worried about customers up north.

"We are expecting to get some ice in the North Country, it does take quite a bit of ice to cause outages, especially large-scale outages, so we're just keeping an eye on the forecast to see how that develops," PSNH spokesperson Lauren Collins said.

PSNH has 180 line workers on standby with three days worth of supplies, with the same number of tree crews. Unitil tells News 9 it also has extra manpower at the ready, just in case

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Time to stock up on beer, batteries and bleach? ;) :)
 
Think they're over playing it a bit on this one. It's wmur, no one covers NH like they do, thank god for that! ;lol

Wood box is full, stove is running, genny has plenty of fuel and fresh oil, job site is once again tarped and making me no money. :mad:
 
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