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Snow plastering everything, decent number of small and medium trees down in the neighborhood Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Pretty quickly (10 mins) went from nothing to snowing pretty good in Southern RI. If it keeps this up, seems like we should do well enough Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

I know there was a partial burial of some folks yesterday who had no gear, training, etc, but I haven't seen any news elsewhere of a slide/death today. That would be tragic, especially if it was a rescuer... Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Wind was much less than the last one in S. RI. Some light roaring, but all my wreaths are still on the windows. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Thats a nice wave maker. Nice xmas south swell. Beauty of skiing and surfing, make lemonade out of grinches. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Drought in the summer, rain in the winter. Might as well jump in the bay now. Lock in the weenie shrinking... Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Congrats picnic tables... Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Looks prime for the Narragansett Bay snow hole. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Block buoy up to 22ft. Should be some good swells tomorrow. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Power out in Jamestown Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Southeast light on Block gusting 66 mph. Edit. Looks like 75 mph now...

I will give a shameless plug of my friends local surf forecasting app. Ww3 data, gfs wind, local cams, and very good spectral analysis from the local buoys. RI specific, but worth checking out: called "HopeWaves" . Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Paging McGulps! Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Our town was on a full outside watering ban for most of the summer. Not supposed to water garden or anything. Many did not adhere to it, but the town threatened to cut off service to offenders. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Friends house in Charlestown, RI just took a big gust. Brought a big pine into his deck. Edit: N grid also showing our neighborhood without power. Thankfully we do have lower though. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Yeah, I saw this pic from down the road in Green hill. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

I heard the beavertail lighthouse lost a section of roof... Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

10+ big trees down in my 5 mile commute. Lots of wind and little power on south shore RI. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Power out in Narragansett RI and Charlestown. Super windy down here. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

1. ( to the post you are relying to) Energy losses at transmission voltages are not a huge driver for decentralization. The largest benefits are usually sub station upgrade deferrals and other capex/ demand (kW) driven reasons 2. The full life emmisions impacts of solar, wind, BESS are substantially lower than fossil fuel plants... . For example, solar is around 40 g/kWh( ~4x worse than wind but small scale wind has crap capacity factors so not applicable for a homeowner) over the life of a system and batteries are probably 100,000 g/kwh capacity. If you have a 10 kWh battery and use it every day for 10 years, that's around another 25 g/kWh. Thia puts you around 65 total g/kWh which compares favorably to ~400 for nat gas and ~ 800 plus for coal. These are pretty conservative estimates, but does compare favorably to the grid in most places (maybe not wind rich places). There are some concerns like cobalt mining practices for lithium ion batteries, however those are already being designed around... Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Just slant sticked my way to 2.5 inches of cake batter in the front yard in Narragansett. Long way to go to reel in the 10-18 forecasted. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Disappointingly only 2 inches or so in the backyard here in Narragansett. Wind is whipping though and raining down ice chunks from the trees. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk