Ice storm hits New England

Subject: Ice storm hits New England Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:22 pm

An Ice storm came through last night and did a lot of damage! there is a total of 205,000 people with out power here in maine and 400,000 people in New Hampshire.

I work for Whole Foods Market in Portland and my store will be with out power untill sometime saturday. I was one of 3 people in my department that came in to help out close the store down. I estimate about 1 mil dollars worth of product loss store wide.

The Govener issued a state of emergency @ 7 this morning. There are power crews comming as far away as S. Carolina, New Brunswick Canada and Michigan.

Temps for tomorrow will be 17-25 degrees so everything that melted today will freez tonight.

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:47 pm

Sounds bad, hope everyone is OK. We had a bad ice storm here in Canada in the province of Quebec several years ago and it took a long time to get everything up and running. Did you loose power where you live, or did you get lucky?

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:39 pm

I got lucky. The area I live in has power but I can drive down the street and there are houses with out power. The last major Ice storm was in 98' where it took about a month to get power back to the entire state. I was out of school for 3 weeks.

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:09 pm

haha you guys got it easy, us here in WA are preparing for whats suppose to be the worst storm since the 50s

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:11 pm

Well hopefully things get better. Those deep freezes can be a little scary. Fairly mild winter out here in Colorado, I am waiting for that eight foot storm over night I know it is still to come.

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:25 pm

Mostlycichlids wrote:: Well hopefully things get better. Those deep freezes can be a little scary. Fairly mild winter out here in Colorado, I am waiting for that eight foot storm over night I know it is still to come.

ya i know what your talking about, i used to live in montana and we would get over a foot in a night no problem

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:08 am

I heard about that big storm. The news just briefly touched on it. What are your weather reports like?

Its been awhile since we have had a good storm.

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While I'd like some snow. I don't think I want that much snow. That's nuts. Hopefully you keep your power.

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:34 am

I got my fingers crossed

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:37 am

We laugh about anything less than a foot here. In the city (Denver) they freak out about a few inches....guess you have to live in the mountains for a while you get used to it.

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:37 pm

Mostlycichlids wrote:: We laugh about anything less than a foot here. In the city (Denver) they freak out about a few inches....guess you have to live in the mountains for a while you get used to it.

yup lol, we get a inch here in WA and people start tripping, even canceling schools lol, in Montana there was no such thing as a snow day, city people are wimps when it comes down to it

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:13 pm

Any updated on the weather Mike...hope everything is well.

Subject: Re: Ice storm hits New England Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:18 am

All is good now. Still alot of people with out power tho. its going to warm up over the next 3 days and the electric company is worried about the ice melting and snapping the limbs back up and and knocking the power out again.

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