Ice Storm

jwbassman · #1 12-12-2008, 10:04 AM

Any other New Englanders buried under ice?

http://www.wmur.com/news/18262304/detail.html

I live in Manchester, but I lucked out and still have power, most people that lost it won't have it for about 3 days.

Trees down everywhere.

Let's hear from you if you have power and internet.

the ombudsman · #2 12-12-2008, 10:06 AM

We've had some of that crap this morning, but it's turned to snow now, so it was not enough to cause much trouble.

1998 was another story, though...

jwbassman · #3 12-12-2008, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by the ombudsman

We've had some of that crap this morning, but it's turned to snow now, so it was not enough to cause much trouble.

1998 was another story, though...

I remember that one. This one is worse for our area. '98 was bad, but this will make it seem not so bad once the extent of the damage is fully realized.

the ombudsman · #4 12-12-2008, 10:10 AM

Yeah, from the article you linked, it seems pretty bad.

Hope things get better down there.

jwbassman · #5 12-12-2008, 10:11 AM

Here's slide show of some of the pics from the storm.

http://www.wmur.com/weather/18255928...widgetId=55963

MJ5150 · #6 12-12-2008, 10:58 AM

Well, isn't this great? I am coming to your corner of the country this Sunday. You guys better get that all cleaned up, get the ice off the roads, and turn up the temps by about 70 degrees before I get there.

-Mike

DudeistMonk · #7 12-12-2008, 11:31 AM

I thought maybe you where talking about this Ice Storm....

American beauty except it has Christina Richi in it, which makes it 30 times creepier by default.

jwbassman · #8 12-15-2008, 09:30 AM

The pictures look cool, but man there has been a lot of damage.

hover · #9 12-15-2008, 09:35 AM

Most of my friends have been without power for days now. I was spared in my town, only taking on some water in the basement. So many surrounding towns got handed their ass tho. Worcester especially, where many many trees already had to contend with the asian longhorn bettle infestation, thus weakenning them. It really really sucks, but in spite of that, they're for the most part in good spirits, and everyone is safe, so for that I am grateful.

My Sister lives in North Brookfield, and we tried to find a generator as she actually has downed lines along her road, and owns an apartment building with no heat...finally found on in Lisbon, CT, and we wired the furnace into that, and NO FREAKING SOONER as we wired it up, the power came back on. Hours of driving and 650 dollars later, all practically for naught.

The Golden Boy · #10 12-15-2008, 09:37 AM

When I was a kid, there was the Ice Storm of 76. Maybe just because I was like 7 years old that it was such a big deal- but I remember HUGE trees falling over, I remember tons of power outages and I remember everything being closed for the longest time.

jwbassman · #11 12-15-2008, 10:02 AM

Yeah I'm lucky I got spared. We never lost power, but most of the city did. I think there were around 11,000 people without power in Manchester. But there was over 300,000 through out NH with out power. There was a crazy run on generators. I think the local Home Depot got a shipment in on Sat morning and sold all 1,600 almost immediately. I know that my Dad was looking for one, but didn't have any luck. He has a gas stove so at least he has heat, but no power or water. He came up with my step mother the last couple of days to take showers and do some laundry. We had a few other friends come over to take showers. They're saying that some people probably won't have power back for another week. Crazy.

coreyfyfe · #12 12-15-2008, 11:52 AM

Yeah some of my friends outside of the 95 area got hit pretty hard. I haven't heard from one of them in a few days since their power has been out and they haven't been able to charge their phones etc. Hopefully NH is cleaned up by this weekend, I'm planning on visiting some family this sunday.

WickedPissah · #13 12-15-2008, 02:04 PM

We took in some relatives who lost power/heat for the weekend. Things in Worcester look a little better so they're heading back out soon.

muzikman7 · #14 12-15-2008, 03:20 PM

I had no power from 4 am Fri. to 7 pm Sat. then took us offline Sun. from 3:30 to 8:00 I have a huge mess to clean up. I hate winter.

iamlowsound · #15 12-15-2008, 07:12 PM

That looks bad, but still nothing like what Quebec got hit with in '98.

lowsound

stratovani · #16 12-15-2008, 07:33 PM

The damndest thing is, half the town of Spencer (MA) lost power, some areas for several days, and in some areas of town no one lost power. We never lost power where we are, but in Leicester, which is between us and Worcester, they got hammered by ice. We did lose our internet for a couple of days, due to Charter's servers being in the north of Worcester, but that's all. We definitely lucked out. My wife works at the Walmart Superstore in Leicester, and she hasn't worked since last Thursday. I work in North Oxford, but since they didn't lose power I didn't miss any work.

jwbassman · #17 12-15-2008, 09:05 PM

There is still over 140,000 without power in NH. The news says another week for most people and up two weeks for some.

crimson_basser · #18 12-15-2008, 09:11 PM

the ice storm of 98 was incredible
i was relatively lucky compared to most people, we got our power back within 2 weeks

its too bad it causes so much damage, cause it looks so beautiful

jwbassman · #19 12-15-2008, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by iamlowsound

That looks bad, but still nothing like what Quebec got hit with in '98.

lowsound

Yeah the '98 storm was bad enough around here, but you guys got hit real bad in Canada.

Scarlet Fire · #20 12-15-2008, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by crimson_basser

the ice storm of 98 was incredible
i was relatively lucky compared to most people, we got our power back within 2 weeks

its too bad it causes so much damage, cause it looks so beautiful

Yeah, we got hit pretty hard by that one in Maine, too. Took us a little over a week to get power back. We also had a portion of our roof and some wall knocked out by a tree, and all we had to cover it with was some tarp. Nobody could get out to the house to cut the tree away that did the damage for a couple of days.