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Yesterday morning I noted that we had two power outages - one before I woke up, the other as elwing was getting ready for work. The power was out for almost 12 hours. There seems to have been no particular reason for the outage - no high winds, no ice, or anything of the sort. At least it wasn't cold/icy. I couldn't help but think of those in my home state (and elsewhere) who are still without power.

And they're going to get hit again tomorrow.

Bob Juch wrote:And they're going to get hit again tomorrow.

Only if SC's "white-hot glare of righteousness" doesn't take effect.

Looks like we have 10 inches of snow on the ground right now.

Sting says we should be opened up by noon and maybe I can leave the hill by 2:00ish.

peacock2121 wrote:Looks like we have 10 inches of snow on the ground right now.

Sting says we should be opened up by noon and maybe I can leave the hill by 2:00ish.

Is 10" normal snowfall for this time of year? We get so little in our area that it would be nice to have a good snowfall once in a while.

earendel wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:Looks like we have 10 inches of snow on the ground right now.

Sting says we should be opened up by noon and maybe I can leave the hill by 2:00ish.

Is 10" normal snowfall for this time of year? We get so little in our area that it would be nice to have a good snowfall once in a while.

10" is a record for Boston in December, so the radio news said this AM, as is the current total for the month of 11.6". We had about 6" north and west of the city. At least it was the light, fluffy stuff, not too bad to shovel.

The roads were a mess, though. The plows couldn't or didn't try to get through the commuters, many of whom were let out of work early. Some Boston schoolkids spent over five hours on the bus trying to get home. My sympathies go out mainly to the drivers ("I hafta go to the bathroom!").

Sunday Night Football is going to be interesting. I suspect it will be known as The Snow Bowl.

gsabc wrote: The roads were a mess, though. The plows couldn't or didn't try to get through the commuters, many of whom were let out of work early. Some Boston schoolkids spent over five hours on the bus trying to get home. My sympathies go out mainly to the drivers ("I hafta go to the bathroom!").

Yeesh! So the school administrators didn't declare a snow day or dismiss them early on the basis of the predictions, as they did around here? They looked pretty foolish cancelling classes when nothing had started yet, but it was better to be safe than deal with sending kids home in the height of a storm.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

gsabc wrote: The roads were a mess, though. The plows couldn't or didn't try to get through the commuters, many of whom were let out of work early. Some Boston schoolkids spent over five hours on the bus trying to get home. My sympathies go out mainly to the drivers ("I hafta go to the bathroom!").

Yeesh! So the school administrators didn't declare a snow day or dismiss them early on the basis of the predictions, as they did around here? They looked pretty foolish cancelling classes when nothing had started yet, but it was better to be safe than deal with sending kids home in the height of a storm.

Exactly. The school superintendent has already apologized. Usually the plows are able to get ahead of storms like this, but there was too little on the roads to plow at 1:00 PM, then companies started letting workers out early, who drove slowly because of the snow on the road, and then the plows were stuck in the traffic along with everyone else, and it just cascaded, much like this sentence. The storm's timing was the worst possible relative to regular school dismissals and commutes.

earendel wrote:Yesterday morning I noted that we had two power outages - one before I woke up, the other as elwing was getting ready for work. The power was out for almost 12 hours. There seems to have been no particular reason for the outage - no high winds, no ice, or anything of the sort. At least it wasn't cold/icy. I couldn't help but think of those in my home state (and elsewhere) who are still without power.

After the wind storms in October, we lost power several times. The electric company had to turn off our power so that they can fix the damage caused by the storm.