<p>No relatives, only friends out East. All w/o power. Stay safe. I hope this is not a sign of a long, bad winter.</p>
<p>this is getting ridiculous. Seems like we were just bailing out from the hurricane!</p>
<p>The sun is shining and the snow is clean and bright. It is quite pretty except for our poor magnolia trees that really got beat up. And the fig trees are leaning over double. Poor, poor trees . . .</p>
<p>I hope folks get power soon. </p>
<p>I don’t want a penny of my taxes going toward anything but fixing the grid . . . it is disgraceful.</p>
<p>Our town is the only town in the area where < 60% don’t have power, every other town is 100% without power.</p>
<p>Still no power. Went out to look for gas and no gas around for 12 mikes except for two stations with impossibly long lines. I have shoveled the driveway and am clearing off a roof. Just heard from a neighbor about a big accident near where I was earlier this morning. About 90% of the traffic signals are out and that city did not have police doing traffic duty. That is also where one of the working gas stations is.</p>
<p>I only saw one utility truck while I was out so it appears that our power company is not doing a particularly good job but they have had that problem for several years.</p>
<p>One tree down and lots of branch but no visible property damage in the neighborhood.</p>
<p>The strangest thing is that we got a call from the apple store telling me that my computer is ready to be picked up.</p>
<p>Yep our town is 100% without power as is every surrounding town. No coffee to be had anywhere. CL&P says 800k+ outages in CT. </p>
<p>In our neighborhood almost everyone has a Bradford pear in their yard, almost every one is kaput.</p>
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<p>I feel badly for you guys. I lost power for over a week for Irene, but the temperature was not a problem then so you guys have it much worse. Good luck.</p>
<p>BC-
Did you really need to go out and use up gas looking for gas? When the weather is bad, the roads are challenging, power is out affecting traffic lights, perhaps its better to have a cup of tea, read the paper or post on CC.</p>
<p>D just texted (from Boston area), “Snow is fine! Last night was really gross, but now it’s actually sunny!”</p>
<p>Bradford pear is such unfortunate hybrid. They break at slightest wind. My neighbor had one in front yard, about a foot in diameter. Its trunk snapped yesterday. Absurd tree. Sorry I know there are many people who love this tree. Just tell me any other tree that breaks that easily.</p>
<p>report from my parents in NE CT. No power, no idea of when it will come back but they were plowed out this morning and drinking cold coffee made yesterday. Mom said she was bundled up and watching the sun melt the snow. Could be at least a week without power, which they went through during the hurricane. Tough old New Englanders though and taking it in stride. They have a landline so we can check in which is nice :)</p>
<p>Re: the pretty bradford
Pears, I’ll be replacing mine with something more hardy, I think. I can also tell the difference in the maple varieties. Sugar maples, slow growers, doing fine. My red maple which got huge quickly…not so fine. :(</p>
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<p>I feel so bad for all the shrubs & trees- & so early in the season!
:(</p>
<p>My neighbors pear also snapped. </p>
<p>I ended up with 1" but still lots of power outages in my town. We were de-energized (that is a real term btw) for about an hour this morning so the linemen wouldn’t get electrocuted working on some downed wires which were sparking.</p>
<p>So don’t be surprised if you didn’t lose power and then suddenly lose it later today/tonight/tomorrow.</p>
<p>The weather and roads were fine here this morning. Everything was bare pavement. I went to buy gas last night but forgot my wallet so I borrowed twenty from my son but I should have asked for more. We are going down to his apartment and I will leave my wife down there until we get our power back. I called the police station and it appears that there are outages but a lot of places have power. That includes gas stations. I also called the pizza place across the street and they have power. And I checked his university’s website for the building next door and it was up.</p>
<p>Shoveled about 2.5 tons of snow (including the roof) and it was a piece of cake. I guess all of the weight-training and running are useful for the winter.</p>
<p>Was on the phone with National Grid and PSNH - they were both fairly useless for information. PSNH is going to need a day just to evaluate the damage and then make a plan to fix it. That is why I do not see any utility Trucks fixing things. National Grid was even worse - there is no way to get outage information from them on Sundays.</p>
<p>A friend that I emailed just called to tellmethatseveral gas stations are open now so I Will check them out on the way to the apartment.</p>
<p>Friend was in Boston yesterday afternoon and said it was just rain there and got worse as he drove back to New Hampshire. Nothing that we have not dealt with driving-wise before.</p>
<p>BC, you can get outage info from N’Grid on their site. Here is a link for you. </p>
<p>[National</a> Grid](<a href=“http://www1.nationalgridus.com/niagaramohawk/stormcenter/]National”>http://www1.nationalgridus.com/niagaramohawk/stormcenter/)</p>
<p>Oh, I feel so bad for the people and their trees! EK, remember the freezing rain storm that hit us a few years ago? It was painful to hear my neighbor’s evergreen magnolia trees snap and break. :(</p>
<p>We got 15" overall, lost about 1/2 of 4 pear trees (yes, maybe not a great strong tree but they are beautiful) and 1/2 of a plum. Neighborhood looks like hurricane came through, there are trees down everywhere. Luckily our power is on (underground wires) in this neighborhood but down over much of town.</p>
<p>I used to want to live like this.
I imagined bundling up by a roaring fire, reading books by (strong, I guess) candlelight, using the fireplace to roast all that food I’d stored over late summer. Nice image. A bit Plimoth Plantation. </p>
<p>The coastal areas are doing much better than inland. We have Occupy folks in my city and I wonder how they fared. Last night, they were posting all sorts of Boy Scout survival info on their FB - and making a few Valley Forge comments.</p>