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17 minutes ago, BrianW said:

Wesport definitely has the most damage I have seen so far in my travels. Its a disaster there. Eversource is reporting 97% of the town has no power with 12,257 outages. 

It looks like weeks worth of work to cleanup all the trees and down wires. 

Does anyone know who is responsible when  huge tree on a homeowners property falls across the road? Seems they are everywhere and nothing is being done. 

Was it ever determined if there was a tornado there? They by far have the worst damage and there was a tornado warning for Westport at one point.

12 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Lol dude they estimated 15 to 20 % outage and got 75%. Epic fail

UI prepared for a stage 3, which is up to 50% of UI customers. Not sure about ES but that’s definitely a bad projection on their end if it was only 15-20%

2 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I might not have refreshed the page but from what I'm now seeing there are 679,407 without power. When I had made the post it was just under 700K...but I might not have refreshed. Anyways...I don't know the exact number at peak but thought it was around 730K? Anyways when you look at what NY and NJ have been able to do that's pathetic...and this isn't the first time something like this happened either. I forget which one of Oct Snow/Sandy/Irene but the difference between power restoration along the CT/MA border was laughable. But anyways...NJ was hit way harder than CT...they had 1.3 or 1.4 million without power I think...outages are down to 688K

Where are you seeing these numbers by chance? Just curious. Particularly the NJ numbers, that’s impressive if they have made that much progress already.

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I can almost promise that internally they were made aware of the potential that existed and were given enough guidance to be prepared for the worst. When NJ restores nearly 800K within a day and we can barely restore 50K...that's an issue. Even on Long Island they restored quite a bit. 

UI already restored 40k today. Where is the 50k number from?

27 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Eversource should be called out...they are nothing but money seeking frauds. They're already being investigated for the debacle about the significant increase in people's bills last month. There are people who opened their bills only to find it HUNDREDS of dollars higher than previous months...HUNDREDS. A friend of mine knows someone who's bill is usually around $200/month (they have a heated pool and hot tub)...their bill last month was $600. POS money scamming dirtbags 

Well I know one part of why the rates increased which is as follows:  

The state (Lamont administration) has an aggressive carbon emission goal, and the states only nuclear plant (which is considered clean energy) Millstone which provides power to 50% of the state population was threatening to close as they stated that they were at risk to cease operations because of low market prices.  Long story short Lamont offered them a new 10 year contract and required the state utilities to buy half of millstones power output through a power purchase agreement that was rather costly.  Also there were tons of questions as to whether Dominion (who owns millstone) was even in financial trouble, they were reluctant to hand over the books and PURA said they were viable through at least 2022

Anyways not sure what else is going on with ES but this certainly is a driver, though it should be no means increase a bill by hundred(a) of dollars lol. 

10 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Well I guess the question to that is...did they prepare for this? The big killer in Oct of 2011 was they virtually disregarded the forecasts given to them. So far there are just under 700K w/o power. NJ for comparison, which had over 1.4 million without power is down to 744,000 outages. They've restored more customers since this storm ended than CT has power outages. 

ES reporting system going down again is a big issue which needs to be addressed. Besides that power is just getting restored now because cleanups took a day to complete. Significant progress can and hopefully will be made the next few days, but anyone expecting a one to two days turnaround on a storm that knocks power out to half a million people is out of there mind. 
 

People want better infrastructure and utilities are incentivized to do so, but that comes at a cost to ratepayers which no one wants to pay. So therefore the utilities are limited with what they can do, and this is what you get.  You then hear “bury the lines!” But no one understands how ridiculously expensive and time consuming that would be .

Lamont calling on PURA to investigate the response by the states utilities already. Seems incredibly premature to call out the utilities one day in when we were just hit by the largest storm since Irene. This should end well..

Saw this down the road from me. It looks like the shed blew threw the fence. Pretty crazy. 

Finally seems to have quieted down. Down the road a shed blew threw a fence and is in the middle of the road. I have a pic of it but I can’t seem to upload.  Shame.  Overall a crazy storm wind wise.

Saw on news 12 there is extensive damage in Westport and a citizen they interview they thought it was a tornado. I remember there was a tornado warning at one point there too. Was there anything confirmed or was it just strong winds? 

15 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

quickly clearing in Branford 

It cleared out here, but suddenly it clouded up and now it’s gusting like hell again. I thought we were done with this.

Intense out there, just heard a transformer pop. Hope this doesn’t last too long..

Well this sucks. Wind threat looks legit. Would rather have the rain.

2 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

It was the worst summer of my lifetime. Simply because of the misery mornings filled with clouds, fog, and drizzle followed by like two hours of lunchtime sun before the afternoon/evening rains. For two months it was practically monsoon season. Every day I left work, it poured. Not severe storms either just training type tropical rains. You litterly couldn’t do anything outside after work all week. The weekends were washouts too. You’d have to get things done around lunctime in that small window of some sunny dews. Ya know, like chopping down all the tropical weeds, vegetation, and spraying and chizzling away at mold growing around the house. I had a 8ft weed next to my mailbox where I had to use a chainsaw to cut down. It was a disgustingly depressing summer. Never again. 

Yep the vegetation that grew in my neighbors yard, but on my property line, grew into something you would see in the Amazon. I had to train for a half marathon that year too. Simply dreadful.

18 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Reminds me a lot of the huge heat and dews 78-80 we all had a couple summers ago. 2018 maybe 

That summer was just awful. I think we doubled the record for amount of days with dews over 70, or something like that.

10 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

 

Similar down this way. My wife works for a real estate company and out of state buyers are purchasing stuff sight unseen, cash, within hours of some homes being listed. Ever since I've been here its normally a really slow market with most stuff being listed for many months and even on and off for years.

Just today someone from NY called looking for a rental during the school year to send their kid to one of the schools here, budget was 10k month for the rental.

Yep. My uncle is a mortgage rep In Westport ct and he had a client who was trying to purchase a $2.8M  house cash, but got outbid by multiple other cash offers. Lots of people fleeing the city at the moment.

8 minutes ago, Hoth said:

We had nor'easters this winter?

Of the rain variety lol. 

Pretty sure we had nor’easters this past winter that were way worse than this.

Well at least one town in CT escaped the drought. 

10 out of 10 day out today at least. A beaut.

Congrats Boston on the 06z GFS.

35 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Lol. He’s actually pretty hilarious. It’s gotta be an act. 

Never cared for him until Kev posted his ramblings every day, but now it’s just funny reading his posts. I wish someone would call him out on it but I have a feeling he is the type who just deletes the post and then blocks that individual. 

Dude just refuses to admit that he was wrong lol

2 hours ago, Hoth said:

Man, where has this video been hiding? This has to be one of the best tornadoes I've seen.

 

Ya I’ve always liked this one . Vortexva has a bunch of really good videos on his channel. Fritch Texas is a classic. 

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Euro is dry and sunny all next week. Leaf outs?

Hard to totally buy into it yet but that certainly would get spring rolling were it to verify.