<p>My daughter had to navigate stairs in her dorm with a suitcase and backpack this morning in complete darkness. She then walked up the middle of the road to the Peter Pan bus stop and was happy that there were 4 other people there including one guy dressed as a convict in a prision stripe outfit. I think they got about 12-15 inches in Western MA, and they are not expecting power back on campus till Wed or Thurs. The bus was an hour late with an 1 1/2 hour delay in Springfield, so she ended up doing an O.J. through Logan but barely made her flight. The worst part is that she couldn’t shower this morning and she has fake blood from her Halloween costume all over her including red hands. That should make for a good impression on her student host for the interview she has in Chicago tomorrow. Oh well, just another adventure I guess.</p>
<p>Oh man–H’s school district is closing because some of the town doens’t have power. So jealous (LOL)! My school is opening as usual. (PS–his first response–“I’ll have more time to plan classes, and I’ll have to sneak into school, set up labs, and water the plants”).</p>
<p>There were downed wires all over our neighborhood, but it looked like there were no massive electricity losses. Lots of branches down, our hedges and lilacs are doubled over and part of our (very ugly) fence got squashed. A lot of damage for only 3 or 4 inches. My brother got 19 inches in southern NH!</p>
<p>We ventured the 15 miles down to S’s school (to drop off his boots 
). We attempted that trip last night and ended up turning around. You wouldn’t believe the damage. It’s like a war zone. Trees snapped, some uprooted. Many laying on wires. We drove around trees probably 4 or 5 times and were detoured twice. Decided to take the highway home even though it meant driving through the “not so great” part of Hartford. At least we found a Dunkin donuts that was open.</p>
<p>Still no power or eta on when it’ll come back. I didn’t see any work crews. Limbs & wires that we saw down across main roads last night are still down now.</p>
<p>To S: you’re welcome!</p>
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<p>mathmom, now you have a great excuse to replace ugly fence. Wish something had fallen on mine. </p>
<p>GA, you’re daughter is lucky she was able to get out. I wonder what security at the airport thought when they saw her!</p>
<p>We lost power at 1:30 AM, and it came back on in the early afternoon. It took a few more hours for the internet to come back. Happy to say that our big old 1913 house with high ceilings and big windows only lost 2 degrees of heat in over 12 hours! Apparently the $$ we spent on new storm windows, foaming the sill, and extra insulation blown in under the attic floorboards was well spent. (Actually, we knew that already, since our fuel usage was down 30%, but still.) My mother in Wilton still doesn’t have power, and her house was already down to 50 degrees. I’m hoping the heat comes back on before she loses all her house plants and has to hire someone to bleed the pipes… Luckily, she agreed to go stay with one of my nieces. Puts my mind at rest, anyway.</p>
<p>We only had about 4-5", but some of the large lilacs were destroyed. :(</p>
<p>We’ve had no power since around 2pm yesterday. Fortunately the generator I had to beg my husband to buy right before hurricane Irene has come in handy again. The fridge and freezer are running, and we are huddled in a small room with a space heater. But most importantly, we got the cable/internet up because D still has 1 more application to submit by Nov 1st for early action. I kept telling her not to wait until the last minute.</p>
<p>++++ all of you who don’t have power get it back soon. </p>
<p>My DS just texted. Half his school is without power but luckily for him not his half. </p>
<p>We’ve been talking about getting a generator for 20 years but still haven’t bitten the bullet. I want the completely installed type and DH is of a slightly different mindset so we are still at an impasse.</p>
<p>jsjs2 - we have a great generator but lost cable also so I called around asking friends if they had electricity and internet until I found one. Spent some time there completing the application, mostly uploading and such, but it wouldn’t keep some of the info. I wound up calling the school on the off chance someone might be in admissions since Tuesday is the deadline and it turns out the head of admissions was there!!! I explained the whole thing to him and he said to just send it and if there were things missing because of the Common App they would contact us. I gave him the home number because we had no internet and no cell reception in our house.</p>
<p>Got home and got internet shortly after but now for some reason no phone service! I’m not happy since we can’t get cell reception. The only thing I can think of is that something has happened to Verizon wires. Having no phone service makes me a bit uncomfortable but at least there’s internet so I’ll email all those who might call and worry.</p>
<p>School is definitely on even though there is very little electricity working in our town, wonder what they’ll do? Oh well, it’s Halloween, maybe they’ll just celebrate! (Halloween is a very big holiday in our town.)</p>
<p>Spent last night at a hotel in an area hit very badly, in conjunction with visit to see D1 at college. over a foot of heavy, wet snow on trees with many (some still green) leaves). Power outages, snapped trees, no cable or internet, not phone service. We got up early and most of the highways were clear, so we escaped home to better climes!!</p>
<p>Yesterday afternoon, D played soccer in 4 inches of snow as it snowed- it was ridiculous!
Her college has been able to keep power, thank goodness.</p>
<p>Thoughts, prayers and hopes for all you and loved ones with troubles from this surprising freak of a storm. Tough to live through.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen thumper1 on line. I hope she gets her power and internet back soon.</p>
<p>No one paid that much attention to this storm, and it hit hard. There was so much press on Irene, and it didn’t do much.</p>
<p>oldfort,
Below freezing temps even up in Maine are rare at this time of year!
This is like the 3rd time there has been snow at this time in the NY area in 135 years.
And they WAAAY underestimated the quantity of snow, for sure.</p>
<p>I would like some meteorological explanation for a Nor’easter two plus months early!!!</p>
<p>We are getting freaky stuff all over the place: earthquakes, tornadoes, snow storms, hurricanes, at the wrong times and in the wrong places… Too many surprises.</p>
<p>“No one paid that much attention to this storm, and it hit hard. There was so much press on Irene, and it didn’t do much.”</p>
<p>Not here - they both have done a lot of damage. The main difference is there was a lot of flooding with Irene.</p>
<p>“I would like some meteorological explanation for a Nor’easter two plus months early!!!”
Its called global climate change. The more the ice caps melt, the more water there is to evaporate and produce rain, bigger, stronger hurricanes, more snow earlier, etc, etc. More H2O vapor in the air= more H2O falling to earth [in all of its configurations].</p>
<p>Thumper’s about a half hour from where I am. Like most towns in the area CL&P lists her town as 100% out of power. Hopefully she’s bundled up!</p>
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<p>Oldfort–unfortunately, Irene did major amounts of damage, particularly in North and West NJ, and much of New England!</p>
<p>It feels like that just happened; too early for snow!</p>
<p>We waited in a gas line for 40 minutes but got our fillup and went to the apartment … which didn’t have power. Family elected to go back home because we have a stove at home and can cook hot food. The apartment is electric - not sure about the water heater.</p>
<p>We stopped at the mall where I picked up my MacBook Pro and went to my office where we are now. We’re recharging my laptop and iPad 3G and listening to the BeeGees. The office got power at 4:30 (not sure if it was AM or PM) and got network a few minutes ago. Apparently many employees and their families took showers in the office earlier. We have a monstrous backup generator but I don’t think that it powers everything in the building.</p>
<p>I offered to put everyone up in a hotel but we’re just going to spend the night at home in the cold weather and bundle up. I’m hoping that power comes back eventually - fortunately it will be relatively warm tomorrow.</p>
<p>I had problems with the National Grid website earlier today. It hadn’t been updated overnight - perhaps things are better now - and I can check it with real broadband. AT&T’s Edge Network is okay but that’s about it.</p>
<p>We saw many more damaged trees on the way to the apartment and one crew working on a tree that was completely uprooted that knocked down a power line.</p>
<p>I had a look at National Grid’s map and they showed localized outages but the granularity on Bing is pretty bad so we couldn’t tell the exact addresses. Also looked up our home at PSNH’s site - their granularity is a city or town. Our town has 98% without power. My office’s city is at 78% without power.</p>
<p>Justamom5465: Where in CT are you located?</p>
<p>BCE,
Can you reveal in any more specificity where in NH you are in? I have not gotten any responses of any kind from D2 at school there. Thanks!!
p.s hope you even get this- you may not. Praying you get power, warmth and hot water very soon.</p>
<p>Still in the office which has food, drink, hot water, power and internet access. But we’ll be leaving shortly for home - the coldest time is around 7-8 AM when it will be 22 degrees.</p>
<p>I’m in Nashua right now. Where is your daughter located?</p>