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Wow big fat flakes outside! Wish the temp was a little lower and the ground wasn’t so wet, otherwise this would be some great accumulating snow.

Rain/snow mix Milford CT. We seem so close to flipping to all snow.

Complete dud here, but I’m good with that. We have had enough wind storms. Looks like MA got rocked though.

Holy throwback almost forgot about that one. Someone has to still have that photo lol

Denver going from 91 on Tuesday to 37 and snow on Wednesday is wild. Need to experience that one day.

80/70. Bleh yesterday was much nicer.

84/59 . Wish every summer day was like this.

Looks like I just missed it too. Crazy dark clouds to my west though.

15 cold rainstorms sounds more like spring to me then fall. This last spring was brutal in that department lol. See your point about NNE vs SNE though.

Surprised by those that would skip fall. Nice crisp air, leaves changing colors, perfect sleeping weather and no swamp azz. Great running weather too. Only downside really is it getting darker earlier and earlier.

Tornado warning up in that NH storm.

Don’t say this often but I would gladly take a cloudy cool day. Makes doing yard work much easier.

Pretty cool line of storms moving ever so slowly north in the Long Island sound. Praying it reaches the shore as we could use the rain.

That Derecho is crazy! I wonder if anyone chased it lol

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.

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%

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.

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

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.

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?

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