by kilroy
It reminds me of the record setting floods we had experienced in the early 1900sDamn Ale, I'm impressed your mind is still that sharp at 120!
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It reminds me of the record setting floods we had experienced in the early 1900sDamn Ale, I'm impressed your mind is still that sharp at 120!
kilroy wrote:And Kilroy wins with that hahaha.It reminds me of the record setting floods we had experienced in the early 1900sDamn Ale, I'm impressed your mind is still that sharp at 120!
Ken W2KB wrote:25Hz - only 2 days before your power was restored, you were fortunate. Mine in NW Hunterdon County was out for about 12 days, but didn't miss it since I have a small (3-1/2 kW) generator to supply the well pump, oil heat, refrigerator and lights in some rooms including the Dishnet receiver and TV and computer. That said, other than 9 or so hours at home each day, for 14 or 15 days the rest of the time I was driving to/from the Central Division and on "lookup" going to specific addresses with outage reports and calling in the exact nature of the electric infrastructure damage so the proper line crews and equipment could be dispatched. Was in a number of municipalities inUnion, Somerset, Morris and Middlesex Counties. Managed to get some incidental railfanning in when sent to near the ex=CNJ E'Port Station and had lunch that same day in the CNJ Elizabeth Station restaurant which was excellent. I had my camera with me but didn't have time to take any photos of the damage, priority was getting the customers restored. By the time all customers were restored and I was back in my regular job in the office in Newark, the Raritan Valley Line was back in service so never had a commute issue. The company had gasoline available for everyone in the storm response so didn't have to deal with that either. Having seen the damage in many locations, and knowing what happened with respect to unexpected and unprecedented flooding in the switching stations and subs, I can at least in part, understand why NJT did not evacuate much of its equipment. I, too, noticed that Dunkin' Donuts seemed to be the first businesses back in operation, that helped.If it had made landfall a bit more to the north, or had been a lil bit stronger, things would have been way worse, at least thats the sense i got after seeing firsthand damage and all the data maps. Glad you had backup power. Ours goes out so infrequently that we have never even considered getting a generator, that and it could get stolen while we were sleeping. It was a bit chilly not having the heat, so some power to run at least the burner and blower fan would have been nice, as would not having to toss everything in the fridge.
If correct, it would contradict computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming. The news comes several years after predictions that the arctic would be ice-free by 2013.Guess we should be ready for future storms, but not worry too much.
Despite the original forecasts, major climate research centres now accept that there has been a “pause” in global warming since 1997.
The original predictions led to billions being invested in green measures to combat the effects of climate change.
morris&essex4ever wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/enviro ... tists.htmlI dunno bout you but from my earliest memories till now up till the last 5-6 years every season was pretty predictable on when it would end temperature/weather wise, now we get 80 in january and 40 in august, everything is getting more severe too... storms that are mild and weak tend to be very much fewer........ i mean let me remind you all of that absolutely nutso light show we had here for 3-4 hours back in the summer... it was lighting up the entire sky like daytime........ very freaky and i have never seen such a thing in my life and i follow weather and do storm spotting... Just one extreme after another... dought, nearly flooding rains, snowmageddon 3 weeks in a row, then no snow at all then this past winter seemed like it snowed several times a week even if it was just a few minutes of furies.... and who remebers that snow we had that had that ice crust on the top? never seen that before either........If correct, it would contradict computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming. The news comes several years after predictions that the arctic would be ice-free by 2013.Guess we should be ready for future storms, but not worry too much.
Despite the original forecasts, major climate research centres now accept that there has been a “pause” in global warming since 1997.
The original predictions led to billions being invested in green measures to combat the effects of climate change.
25Hz wrote:Edit: One thing to note, that despite all the storm damage here, which was all from wind, we never lost cell service, and i honestly think that is really amazing and i couldn't imagine not having that on top of no internet or tv or electric to stay connected and informed.Cell service may not have been completely knocked out, but it was hard to get service (I had to press my phone against the living room window when I usually have service all around the house). I believe the number of functioning cell towers decreased for a short while after the storm.
25Hz wrote:This describes normal weather patterns for the most part. Not every snow event is a blizzard. Not every storm is severe. We do have meteor showers from time to time. And there are days in winter when it feels like summer and vice versa.morris&essex4ever wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/enviro ... tists.htmlI dunno bout you but from my earliest memories till now up till the last 5-6 years every season was pretty predictable on when it would end temperature/weather wise, now we get 80 in january and 40 in august, everything is getting more severe too... storms that are mild and weak tend to be very much fewer........ i mean let me remind you all of that absolutely nutso light show we had here for 3-4 hours back in the summer... it was lighting up the entire sky like daytime........ very freaky and i have never seen such a thing in my life and i follow weather and do storm spotting... Just one extreme after another... dought, nearly flooding rains, snowmageddon 3 weeks in a row, then no snow at all then this past winter seemed like it snowed several times a week even if it was just a few minutes of furies.... and who remebers that snow we had that had that ice crust on the top? never seen that before either........If correct, it would contradict computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming. The news comes several years after predictions that the arctic would be ice-free by 2013.Guess we should be ready for future storms, but not worry too much.
Despite the original forecasts, major climate research centres now accept that there has been a “pause” in global warming since 1997.
The original predictions led to billions being invested in green measures to combat the effects of climate change.