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12-15-2008, 06:26 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Hampshire
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| PHEW... NH still a mess! Hi all, Not sure if you heard the news here in Southern New Hampshire, northern Mass. We got hit with an ice storm last thursday. I had no idea how bad it actually was, I saw it raining all night thurs night. I still had electricity so I didn't think much of it. My boyfriend lost his and told me to turn on the news friday morning, he also told me he couldn't get anywhere, so many roads were closed with downed trees and power lines. It was like mass devastation when I turned on the news. I went all the way to work and work had no power. It was a scary ride with trees leaning precariously over the highway weighed down with tons of ice. I went home at 1130am and the sun was shining, the trees were melting and even more were falling (all the pine trees in my complex lost their bottom row of branches, all you could hear all night was trees cracking and falling down). In total over 350,000 people/businesses/schools were with no electricity, no heat or water (and cable, but thats not a big thing haha). As of today, there are still over 200,000 without those things. Most of my friends and family here still do not have electricity. People are staying with their relatives who do have it at this point. Generators are nowhere to be found, all sold out. We are still in a state of emergency and most NH schools are still closed. On the news this morning they said that they are hoping to get everyone back up by Christmas. That is 10 more days! These poor people! I feel so awful. Luckily there is no more crazy weather in the forecast for a few days so maybe that will help get people back up quicker. Whats so surreal about it is that its bright and sunny and dry and the roads were never bad and there is no snow, so you couldn't believe the damage done when you look around and it looks so 'normal' out.
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12-15-2008, 07:51 AM | #2 |
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| I was in Maine for the ice storm of 1998. I never lost power, but just about everyone I knew did. Some were without power for 2 weeks. It was in January, and luckily, it was unseasonably warm. Hang in there, and think of it as an adventure! |
12-15-2008, 09:52 AM | #3 |
Donating YT Addict | I'm here in York county Maine and I still have no power. It went out thursday night/fri am and hasn't come back on since. Thank God we have a generator, so many folks are in shelters. They're saying that the power should be back on by Wed at midnight. Man on man the weather is just freaky!
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12-15-2008, 10:00 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Hampshire
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| aww I feel for you! almost a week without power, I dont know if I could do it. The pooches and I would have to find somewhere to go that was warm/dry and had lights and hot water. KISS108 radio this morning had tons of people calling in who had no power still. I felt so bad listening to those stories. I guess this is winter in New England but even at that, the electric company can't remember a time of a worse power outage.
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12-15-2008, 10:38 AM | #5 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | this is horrible news with the little 8 inches of snow we got in louisiana some ppl still dont have power either... but we're not used to that kind of weather either. all of these stories almost sound like the ones we have from hurricanes, which is weird in a way. i hope everyone stays safe and has a merry christmas
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12-15-2008, 11:16 AM | #6 |
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| Sounds like you are living in a movie! I hope the power comes on soon. I will say a prayer for everyone!
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12-15-2008, 12:05 PM | #8 |
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| sorry to hear this... stay safe! Ice for sure is way worse than snow..we had a bad day last week the roads were slick ...tonight here we suppose to get hit with some snow, its raining now.. suppose to turn over to snow around midnight ... I hope it dont get to bad tonight... my boy has a basketball game away...hopefully everything will turn out okay |
12-15-2008, 12:17 PM | #9 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Hampshire
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| Its so surreal, because its bright and sunny here, the weather has been nice, just looking out your door you'd never know the devastation around you.
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12-15-2008, 07:09 PM | #10 |
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| I'm sure that was scary and messy Hang in there girl
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12-15-2008, 08:38 PM | #11 |
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| So sorry, glad that you are ok.
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