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so this ice storm hit the massachusetts area on thursday night and knocked out power and a ridiculous amount of trees all over. i just got power back but towns around me are expected to get theres back by thursday or friday. i just wanted to tell someone haha. heres a story about it
MasterP said:
This is why you let the power company trim your trees.nah *edited* that….. its destroys the tress natural beauty and makes the lopsided
MajorMajorMajor said:
nah *edited* that….. its destroys the tress natural beauty and makes the lopsidedIf they are allowed to cut freely there wouldn’t be nearly as many outages. When I worked for Duke Energy I tagged trees to cut a few times a week. It’s not something we like to do but it’s much better than answering the phone when you call about a power outage. Then again, we’ve automated that
MasterP said:
If they are allowed to cut freely there wouldn’t be nearly as many outages. When I worked for Duke Energy I tagged trees to cut a few times a week. It’s not something we like to do but it’s much better than answering the phone when you call about a power outage. Then again, we’ve automated that
lol i was being the voice of Connecticut there…. we have power outages CONSTANT from September to March because of trees falling everywhere
MajorMajorMajor said:
lol i was being the voice of Connecticut there…. we have power outages CONSTANT from September to March because of trees falling everywhereI know. You yankees are the only ones who care enough about it to actually sue over it.
Duke had lots of problems with Ohio until that wind storm a few months back pretty much took down every tree Duke had previously tagged but couldn’t touch. Interesting how that sort of thing works out in the end. (lol)
BunnyTaliBAN said:
so this ice storm hit the massachusetts area on thursday night and knocked out power and a ridiculous amount of trees all over. i just got power back but towns around me are expected to get theres back by thursday or friday. i just wanted to tell someone haha. heres a story about itI hear about this all the time. Herbal’s in NH, but he’s like right on the MA/NH border and he’s had no power for the last few days. Well, actually they have a generator, but it’s being used for the fridge, heat, and I think only the living room tv. He’s been visiting friends and staying over cuz he’s so bored at home.
there was snow in Baton Rouge Louisiana too, seriously, Louisiana, the hottest and most humid state in the country.
Rydell382 said:
there was snow in Baton Rouge Louisiana too, seriously, Louisiana, the hottest and most humid state in the country.i blame global warming
Rocket Rob said:
fixedYou find a way to pay for it without raising rates and they’d be more than happy to.
MajorMajorMajor said:
i blame global warmingnah man, it’s always been that hot, I have family down there so I visit a lot.
MasterP said:
You find a way to pay for it without raising rates and they’d be more than happy to.It would pay for itself after a few storms
Rydell382 said:
nah man, it’s always been that hot, I have family down there so I visit a lot.He’s not saying that it’s hot in LA or TX because of global warming. He’s blaming the erratic weather, like snow in places that are normally hot, on global warming.
I’ve been telling people the same thing. I also blame global warming.
Rocket Rob said:
It would pay for itself after a few stormsYou’ve never seen a power company’s maintenance and emergency repair budget
But when you figure in secondary costs such as tearing down and disposing of power poles, tearing up people’s driveways, getting permits of city limits work, buying digging equipment, buying new line, replacing the entire service fleet. It’s really not worth the added cost.
torankusu said:
He’s blaming the erratic weather, like snow in places that are normally hot, on global warming.I’ve been telling people the same thing. I also blame global warming.
Is it really that uncommon to have snow in the northeast in December? Come on quit being retarded.
Global warming was invented to make Al Gore rich. His movie is so inaccurate that the Brits won’t even allow it to be showed in their schools. The sooner people quit listening to him, the better off we’ll all be.
MasterP said:
Is it really that uncommon to have snow in the northeast in December? Come on quit being retarded.Actually, if you read the previous comments by those in Texas and Louisiana (or even mine; it’s the part you deleted), you’ll see we were talking about the south.
Don’t call me retarded, plzkthx.
By the way, in NJ, it’s very spring-like. Today was probably around 60ºF. I walked around in a light hoodie, jeans, and flip-flops.
haha i missed school for a week and i saw 3 armored national guard trucks today in my little town. it was sweeeeeet
torankusu said:
Actually, if you read the previous comments by those in Texas and Louisiana (or even mine; it’s the part you deleted), you’ll see we were talking about the south.Don’t call me retarded, plzkthx.
By the way, in NJ, it’s very spring-like. Today was probably around 60ºF. I walked around in a light hoodie, jeans, and flip-flops.
My comment was directed at your belief in something they have yet to come close to proving.
As to temperature shifting and weirdness, it’s nothing that hasn’t happened before. All throughout the 20th century the kook media shifted between global warming and global cooling to try to push whatever agenda suited them at the time. If you’ll go back and look you’ll actually be surprised at how often this stuff seems to repeat itself.
Even now FDR’s New Deal is about to be reborn.
MasterP said:
My comment was directed at your belief in something they have yet to come close to proving.o rly? It looks like you asked if it was uncommon for it to snow in the northeast in December and then called me retarded, when I didn’t even say anything about the northeast. What I was saying was that for it to snow in places like Texas and Louisiana, it is uncommon (and a friend in Las Vegas just told me it’s been snowing and raining all day and there’s ice all over the place).
As for global warming, I do believe that the world IS warming up. The cause of it — I’m still kinda iffy about.
MasterP said:
You’ve never seen a power company’s maintenance and emergency repair budget
But when you figure in secondary costs such as tearing down and disposing of power poles, tearing up people’s driveways, getting permits of city limits work, buying digging equipment, buying new line, replacing the entire service fleet. It’s really not worth the added cost.
how much money do they lose when Harris and Galveston county are without power for a month. Thats a lot of homes without the meter wheel turning…
Rocket Rob said:
how much money do they lose when Harris and Galveston county are without power for a month. Thats a lot of homes without the meter wheel turning…A month? Not likely.
Anyways, less than 30% of their profits come from residential areas.
MasterP said:
A month? Not likely.Anyways, less than 30% of their profits come from residential areas.
There are places in Galveston that still dont have power from Ike. That was in Spetember.
Rocket Rob said:
There are places in Galveston that still dont have power from Ike. That was in Spetember.Is that from infrastructure or generation? I know Texas has focused their generation towards renewables and they take much longer to bring back up than traditional coal and nuclear. Nuclear plants are practically indestructable.
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