Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Snoctober 2011


We were woken up on Sunday morning at 12:01 am to tremendous flashes of blue light and the always horrifying sound of a massive electrical short circuit. I have heard that sound many times (on a smaller scale) in our power engineering labs in college. I personally cannot hear it without a grip of terror...always wondering if someone was between it and ground. In this case, no unfortunate persons were involved.

This is the power line right up the street from us and where the zapping took place.




Alan made the best of things, hooking up the generator to our house and also the neighbors-in-law next door. We had all the necessities especially the internet! Everyone was wired so we all were able to communicate with each other via email throughout the various rooms in our home. This helped to minimize the family time around the wood stove that most other families in the Merrimack Valley had to endure. We probably had ten extension cords woven throughout the house with numerous hubs of outlets; wires of all various lengths, thicknesses , and colors haphazardly snaking across the floors.




I think I took a screen shot at least every hour from my iPod of the National Grid Outage Map. Here was a good one which showed lots of yellow! We were inside the yellow area for 52.5 hours. We truly had no reason to complain. Our generator has now found a new home over at my parents' house, and hopefully will have a good rest after this is all said and done.


My family and friends are going to hate me, but the GFS 12Z futures map shows another storm heading our way around the 15th.
thus voiced Mrs A @ 4:37 PM
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