Just got power back after the first outage of this storm.
Winter power outages make me unreasonably angry. I think this partly because I lived the first 20-some years of my life somewhere that winter brought a lot more snow and ice than we get here, and it wasn’t just taken for granted that any storm [...]
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I’m glad I wasn’t trying to drive home last week. Especially since my normal routing takes me through the Cobequid Pass at night. On the up side, I missed the normal post-snow power outage (which the girl apparently weathered with no trouble), which means I also skipped the several hours of impotent rage and ranting [...]
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In theory I’m driving down to Boston tomorrow.
My route will look something like this:
The tiny eight ball there indicates roughly where I expect to be at around 2PM local time. Why 2PM? Hold that thought.
Normally I take the southern route, going through Saint John, and crossing into Maine much closer to the ocean, but for [...]
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We did in fact lose power at around 3AM (or 2AM, depending when I was supposed to set my clock back, I guess.)
It was still off when I woke up, which made packing for Boston a pain in the ass. The power company was claiming that it would be back by 6PM on Monday, and [...]
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Well, we did the whole checklist of simple preparations today, so hopefully the Umbrella Theory will kick in and the storm won’t cause any serious effects. Although I will honestly be severely shocked if we don’t lose power–even though the storm appears to have shifted slightly westward, meaning we might only get 100km/h winds (what [...]
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