Still no power
Dec. 12th, 2008 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanI heard the UPS give up the ghost around 4:30 am and woke several times after that, confirmed there was still no power, and went back to sleep. After something like a total of 7-8 hours had passed, I got up to survey the damage and figure out my next steps.
Wales is encased in ice, though it was warm enough that the roads were just damp and not slippery by the time I was on them. The sun came out, ice was raining down from the trees, and I expect the beauty of the whole thing to have passed by the time I return home. I snapped a few pictures; I'll upload them to my computer later and post any that are worth looking at.
The whole town of Wales is without power, and five National Grid trucks are reported to be working in the area. I heard one report that service is expected to be restored this afternoon. Hope so! My primary concern is getting heat back in time to prevent pipes from freezing. This afternoon is fine; the weather report for tonight and tomorrow? Not so much.
I'm down at the Panera in Manchester, researching generators and such. My compliments and thanks to the anonymous poster, presumably from Main Power Connect, for the truly useful links in reply to my first post about the power being out.
Home phone service was working with pulse dial this morning, but then vanished just before I headed south out of the ice. I figure I'll wait until power is restored and report the outage then I'm still without a dial tone.
As I was about to head out of Wales, I called![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
debgeisler who then took a look at Boston.com and told me Wales has plenty of company -- some 350,00 Massachusetts residents are without power, and the numbers quickly climb to 1 million when we add in the rest of New England. From the looks of things, Toad Woods got off easy.
Wales is encased in ice, though it was warm enough that the roads were just damp and not slippery by the time I was on them. The sun came out, ice was raining down from the trees, and I expect the beauty of the whole thing to have passed by the time I return home. I snapped a few pictures; I'll upload them to my computer later and post any that are worth looking at.
The whole town of Wales is without power, and five National Grid trucks are reported to be working in the area. I heard one report that service is expected to be restored this afternoon. Hope so! My primary concern is getting heat back in time to prevent pipes from freezing. This afternoon is fine; the weather report for tonight and tomorrow? Not so much.
I'm down at the Panera in Manchester, researching generators and such. My compliments and thanks to the anonymous poster, presumably from Main Power Connect, for the truly useful links in reply to my first post about the power being out.
Home phone service was working with pulse dial this morning, but then vanished just before I headed south out of the ice. I figure I'll wait until power is restored and report the outage then I'm still without a dial tone.
As I was about to head out of Wales, I called
debgeisler who then took a look at Boston.com and told me Wales has plenty of company -- some 350,00 Massachusetts residents are without power, and the numbers quickly climb to 1 million when we add in the rest of New England. From the looks of things, Toad Woods got off easy.
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Date: 2008-12-12 07:20 pm (UTC)It occurs to me I have no idea if NSP has any sort of useful online site with outage info. (Yes, I do remember that NSP is using the name "Xcel" this week; so what?)
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Date: 2008-12-12 10:22 pm (UTC)The file folder I keep the billing statements in still says "Massachusetts Electric," which was the name of the electric company when I moved here.
I'm with you on the whole NSP thing. Minnegasco, too.