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10-31-2008 08:26 PM #1
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Ken, was it under state of emergency? our local radio news station didn't say, and we could only run the fridge or the TV on the generator ( 2,500 watt, didn't want to push it ) so we didn't watch a lot of TV, and when we did, it wasn't the news..You don't know what you've got til it's gone
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11-01-2008 05:49 AM #2
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Matt - both NYSEG and National Grid kept reporting that they had a few thousand without power but it would be back on by "tonight" for most and "tomorrow" for the rest. They did that for 3-4 days
but never reported it as an emergency that I ever heard. I was in your area before it started so only got wet. We, in Southern Saratoga County only had and inch or so of sloppy snow so had no problems
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11-01-2008 06:18 AM #3
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We've had 5-6 day long power outages from snow twice in the past 6 years at the Wa. place. Sucks big time. Biggest problem with even having a portable generator is how far you have to go to find a station that has power to refill your fuel cans. Fixed that problem a while back and put in a natural gas fueled backup generator. Of course now that I've gone through all that we'll probably never have another long term failure...........
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11-01-2008 06:38 AM #4
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Yea, we were the 1st to report an outage in our area.. power was supposto be restored weds morning.. then weds at noon.. kept pushing it back, until the last time it said friday by 6.00 pm, and it came on at 5.00... really the bad part was we were not prepared at all.. the snow blower is still down from last year with 2 broken belts ( not that it would have done much good in that snow ).. and the truck has goodyear rain tires on it... I got 4 General Grabber AT2's from tire rack, but can't have them mounted until the 5th..
Originally Posted by IC2
Matt - both NYSEG and National Grid kept reporting that they had a few thousand without power but it would be back on by "tonight" for most and "tomorrow" for the rest. They did that for 3-4 days but never reported it as an emergency that I ever heard. I was in your area before it started so only got wet. We, in Southern Saratoga County only had and inch or so of sloppy snow so had no problems
and our highway dept lost power, so they had to hand crank the diesel pumps, and road conditions were not good because of there delays
as far as outages.. it was just over 4,000 for NYSEG and 2,300 for Central Hudson, not sure on National Grid's count.Last edited by Matt167; 11-01-2008 at 06:40 AM.
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