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Just now, DavisStraight said:

Pretty good light show right now to my north. 

Looks like it’s right over you

8 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

ORH with 1.63” and pouring again.  Probably finish the day near 2”.

Dropping down now to your summer place

Reminds of the training event earlier in the summer that flooded Norwood and Northbridge 

35 minutes ago, bobbutts said:

Andrew prompted building codes that seem to help too.  When repairing the damage after Charley I had to get multiple inspections.  They do actually care about enforcement.

 

Correct, codes changed in 2006 and you can buy “Dade Rated” (Dade County) windows, Doors, and Garage doors

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

We had a hurricane simulation drill when I was employed by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. They brought in experts from the Met community and insurance risk people. A 38 hurricane would be a 3 month outage with massive disruption to the economic flow of goods and services.  Many of the recommendations like mandatory generators at gas stations and extensive utility infrastructure upgrades were never put in place. 

After the Hurricanes in 2005 I believe FL mandated that all new gas stations must have fixed generators and after Irma all long term facilities and nursing homes must have Generators.

The state of FL promotes having a Hurricane/Disaster plan and kit ready and does a tax free week just before Hurricane season to buy Hurricane related supplies tax free. 
 

Many people bust on FL for different things and rightly slow but the have their shite together regarding storm prep and response 

5 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

What is the cost for a pole?

No idea

Below are examples of some of the improvements Florida Power and Light has done down here in S FL; changing out many wooden poles for cement to help harden the grid.

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

We power,in time for the retorch. Looks chilly next weekend 

Lack of rain and tree damage bring on an increased summer brush fire threat

19 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

We tried to tell them. We need to trade ambience for reality.  Forests are in great shape according to Ct forestry report just issued. Trim the hell out of the trees,  take um down.

After this you may have an appetite for that

26 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

All they had to do initially is put one crew in each town to respond to hot spots. I saw pics of melted Asphalt from down wires, fires burning up to hours. That stuff is easily fixed. Utility Emergency preparations should expect the worst and scale back, not scale up. EM 101. We know power goes out,, it happens.  But at least give it your best. The tree trimming which we are charged for is an absolute joke and that includes towns. Tree huggers need to step to the back row. The forests are extremely healthy as shown in the recent released CT forestry report even with gypsies and borders, the biomass has grown. They don't trim opposite sides of streets despite the fact south side trees fall more readily.  I really hope they step it up. 

Here is were I will disagree a little; first New England and the Northeast are extremely susceptible to extensive tree damage from events like this and will be going forward. You can trim around power lines all you will always of trees further away that can hit the lines. The storm winds ended at dark and the surveying of the damage really only took place in Yesterday. Today out of state crews will start to come in today (Florida Power & Light sending crews to Jersey yesterday) and set up staging and work. With the amount of damage a downtime of 3-4 days is not unreasonable. 
 

I believe pre staging crews in this situation would be difficult due to damage up the NE Coast. What Eversource should be doing and FP& L has been doing for the past five years is swapping out a lot of the wooden poles for Cement poles, including high tension.

I have been involved in many restorations from IRene, Sandy, Matthew,Irma, and Michael and they all present different challenges.

7 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

I was saying the same thing them Bam! sideways rain then when the sun came out the wind was pretty good. My yard is a mess with branches, no trees down yet.

Your area got pretty hard, listening to Webster/Dudley now on the scanner and they are busy

4 minutes ago, JC-CT said:

Similar to Sandy? But duration not anywhere close.

And again, only a Tropical storm. Imagine when New England gets hit again from a Cat 1 or Greater

Co worker in CT driving in Tolland says Old Post Rd littered with branches

2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Near 50 now gusts whole trees bent over. Big bang but still power

Lots of FD calls coming around you

Tree and wire calls coming in for SE CT

Does much really get East if the CT River? I see some cells near 84/Union but nothing really SE from there.

A lot of convection with that trailing band south of LI; Does that band hit W RI E CT? 

Could be wrong but radar trend appear more NE than North; any chance this slides East over Western LI into CT?

Is OTS still a possibility? I would have it would have been tracking over land by now

9 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

I don't recall the named storm but it was a good 5-7 years ago now that brought some solid winds to SE MA.  Brought down some tress in the neighborhood.  This looks nothing like that threat.

TS Irene

Looks like eye trying to close as Isaias goes over the Gulf Stream make pass close to or over the coast in Martin. Gulf Stream from Palm Beach inlet is 1-2 miles and 6 here from Martin County. 

Martin County EOC has these weather sites to observe

http://martin.weatherstem.com

7 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Presidential?

Lol. Fixed

Center looks like it’s trying to reform under the convection  to its NE, only moving at 9mph

Nice feeder band coming through right now

It looks like maybe Josephine not too far behind Isaias for the NE?