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7 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Hats off to cmp for getting power restored, at least in our hood very quickly. First outage was 3.5hr and 2nd was 2hrs. Ordinarily, we'd be powerless much longer. Probably had to do with all the out of state line workers that were still here from last weekend

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Very surprised how quick that happened.  We were onlu out for about 17-18 hours total.

WellI didn't kill anyone by not driving a grounding rod 8' down so I'll take it.  Ideally powers back on before xmas.

1 hour ago, QCD17 said:

I have that same setup, and my electrician didn't say anything about needing to ground the genny, and he's very "by the book" with stuff.  The genny does have a ground wire that connects the engine block to the frame, I believe.  But per the Generac site..."When connecting to an electrical panel (building electrical system, manual transfer switch, RV, etc.) you need to connect your generator to a ground rod. Ground rods must be pounded into the earth, then connected to the ground lug on the generator via a ground cable. The rod must be at least 8ft into the earth."

This the first I've heard of this.  Not sure how the hell to get a 8' rod into the ground in New England.  Good luck finding a clear 8' shot without hitting a rock.

Thanks.  And likewise.   Only reason I questioned it was in reading the manual last night it mentioned grounding it with a rod 8' deep. 

I already shut off power to my house. 

I figured it's a given that we'll lose power tomorrow, and the family needs to toughen up, settle in for the long haul.

Pan-fried hot dogs and cold tubs tonight, kids!

I have a portable generator that I inherited brand new.  House has one of these exterior outlets to plug it into.  Breaker inside has one of those safety interlocks on it so you can't accidentally send feedback into the main line and kill a lineman.  

My question is:  Should my portable generator be grounded with a rod, or is the ground "covered" by plugging into my breaker panel via external outlet?  No clear answer via googles.

41 minutes ago, NW_of_GYX said:

For mby verbatim 18z nam. This is likely overdone but there’s been a persistent signal for 3+” for my area. Not that anyone cares except for me and the guy who’s lawn sucks


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This coast-dwelling flatlander is on high alert, but for a different reason.

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

65-70 for Dover?

oh real original.  you suck at your job!  Congrats on being wrong ALL the time.

how'd I do?

4.0" here, 1.91"LE, plus another 0.08" of rain before the flip.  

32.5°F and some flurries.

4 minutes ago, NW_of_GYX said:

Seems like widespread power outages. CMP website is crashed. Power is out even in downtown area where we live. First time in the 4 years we’ve lived in this house. Woodstove and propane range for the w

35K without, most in Oxford.

https://www.cmpco.com/wps/portal/cmp/outages/reportorviewoutage/viewoutagelist/

Just now, dendrite said:

4.3”/0.37” in the latest core. That’s a total of 9.4” so far.

It’s a good thing I took a look at the run because the snow was clinging to the strands of the hawk netting and eventually closed off the 1”x1” squares. It was like a solid roof of 4-5” of snow and was stretching to the ground about as far as it could go. I was able to shake it from every fence side to get the snow to fall through. It probably would’ve snapped by morning. 
 

Anyway…32.5° and -SN/SN. 

This stuff cakes up fast and heavy.  Coop saved.

Throwing some straw and scratch in the run tomorrow afternoon.

2.3" (0.74" LE) new since 7PM, 3.3" (1.69" LE) on the day.  

32.2°F and SN

6 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

You have family in Henniker? My family had a place at Rock n' Birch Campground for years.

Yep, inlaws.  Is that down by the river?

Got married there.  Took my post-Thanksgiving dump in the cow pasture tree grove after that 2014 storm knocked out power (most importantly, bathroom fan).  Special place for sure.

1 minute ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Looks like areas just to the W and SW of MHT have been getting hit hard . Even at like 400’ or so 

Any power outages in S NH?

Yeah, reports from family in Henniker, Dunbarton, Deering - all out

I don't think that's bright banding either.   Finally getting some respectable growth.

You need a fish emoji right under that yellow blob coming onshore

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Now from the other side on GYX. You can see the echoes starting to converge over NH.

6 minutes ago, dryslot said:

When that slug of heavy moisture SE of PWM with the CF finally gets south of here, Its going to be here quite  a few hours.

Bring it.  

1.0".  0.95" LE 

46 minutes ago, PWMan said:

We glop.

It's been solid rain here since about noon. Plow just deposited a pile of slush at the bottom of my driveway.

45 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Snowing here all day and I have maybe a half inch of glop. 

Yeah since 9AM here, just flipped to white rain.  Glop city.  

0.8" on 0.39LE

lol how is that even possible. 

Poundtown incoming

7 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

weird, still rn over here at riverside

33 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Mainly for the coast, Just keep an eye on whats going on downstream from here and it looks like from what i briefly am seeing there's some positive bust so that bodes well up here if true.

Flipped to snow here at 9 under the heavier echoes.  Coastal front setting up right over me, might be in for a surprise inch or two here.

32.9°F SN-

lol put your phone down and drive, stupid.

3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

How is our Papal friend in Dover NH doing?

12 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

lol that has me edging out dryslot. hilarious.

13 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Hope its right

Me too as that keeps the line to my south by a pope's pube.