You see them when the road salt and melting snow meet up with them and go boom.
Northeast Frankenstorm, hurricane Sandy.
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You see them when the road salt and melting snow meet up with them and go boom.
Buried power lines are great at home because your power almost never goes out. Of course of a great big storm comes along and knocks out the transmission line somewhere along the way before it gets to your house, you're just as screwed.
From a work standpoint, the less stuff that's buried, the happier I am as the engineer trying to do a project there.
From a work standpoint, the less stuff that's buried, the happier I am as the engineer trying to do a project there.
From the looks of things, New Jersey will get it the worst and all we'll get here is a bad storm. Of course, you never know what will actually happen-- with Irene, my windows rattled for a while, but I had friends up in New Hampshire and upstate New York who were without power for days.
Good luck to everyone in the path of the storm-- I hope it turns out to be no big deal.
Good luck to everyone in the path of the storm-- I hope it turns out to be no big deal.
I am totally disillusioned. I pictured people in colder, snowier environs as always calm and prepared for anything at any time. Seriously. Well, mostly.
I spent eight years living in Dubuque, Iowa. Despite being right on the Mississippi and getting dick-smacked with snow and ice storms every single year, people out there freak out over every little thing -- I'm not exaggerating when I say that people start putting chains on their tires and raiding Hy-Vee for bottled water when there's even a hint of snow in the forecast.
Good times.
I could use a good ice storm. We didn't get any last year, and winter just didn't feel the same.
I hate ice storms. Being without power for weeks is not my idea of "fun."
I hope I don't lose power like I did with the derecho this summer. Five days without power really sucked.
I was in Boston and planning to fly back tonight. I moved my flight up so I wasn't stranded up there. However, this could get ugly. We lost power earlier when we didn't have anything near this bad, so I expect to be powerless (I guess that would mean no classes). Although it looks like things are going to be worse further north. I think they're evacuating the Delmarva coast. New York is closing their subway, starting at 7 tonight.
But I do hope it passes quickly. It'll be miserable, at the least.
But I do hope it passes quickly. It'll be miserable, at the least.
I hope everyone in the path of the storm stays safe and isn't too badly inconvenienced. Be sure to check in at the first opportunity and let us know you're okay. Good luck, everyone. 
NWS issued a blizzard/snow warning for the backside of the storm. Specifically WV, western MD and VA, and eastern KT.
Yeah, it's weird.
DC's metro is now closed for tomorrow.
DC's metro is now closed for tomorrow.
Large portions of the city have above ground power lines
As are non-emergency federal offices.
...yes, and large portions also have them buried. I was addressing the fact that MLB didn't know power lines could be buried. Was that not clear?
I'm on Long Island. It's been cloudy all day with some wind but over the past two to three hours the wind has really been picking up.
^Same here in Brooklyn. And closing the MTA definitely made people around here pay attention! -- Or maybe everyone here is just a procrastinator.
However, I am still expected to show up to my internship tomorrow. This could be scary.
They're giving advisories for KT now? (Or did you mean eastern Kentucky [KY]?)
KY, my bad.
Same here in northern Queens. I'm in the vicinity of Little Neck Bay but I should be far enough inland to avoid the storm surge. The big thing for my neighborhood, which has lots of trees, will be the sustained winds and the damages that causes. We had a number of trees down during Irene - but that storm didn't really last very long.
