Tracking Nemo

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so, Here I am waiting to see how Storm Nemo will turn out

http://www.weather.com/

Governor Cuomo has been working on LIPA and their incompetent managers, so another company (National Grid) is handling the emergency - if any for this storm.

I saw various guys in cranes doing Something to the transformers around here - including the transformer across the street from me. It obviously wasn't non-functioning - as near as I could tell - my power never went out this week so I assume they are doing Something to prepare for the storm.

Or I could be out of my mind :D


I'm just starting this thread in case Nemo turns out to be a giant mess - and if I lose power you guys have a place to talk about it, etc. My brother came home early.

Boston is getting a ton of snow now. NY has been getting some rain/sleet so far and I expect the blizzard to hit 9PM my time.

I figure the worse will happen over night.
 
Ya, let's compare photos! Let's see how a horrible Boston storm compares to a typical Winnipeg winter!
 
I so wish we were getting the 30" of snow. We have a measly 12-15" predicted for Sun-Mon. It'll be exciting as out biggest storm of the season. But not 30" exciting.
 
no blizzard yet

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ok, so, I'm alive, no loss of power and everything is clam out now.

according to the LIPA site there's 451 outages affecting 10,358 customers all across Long Island.

and I just heard the Nassau country executive something or other say he was quite happy with how National Grid is handling this.

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there's drifts but I think I got a foot to a 18 inches


It's 7:40AM here and the roads were being cleared all night as far as I can tell:

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drift by the door
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it was blowing last night

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Looks like a good snow, but was it really historic? The news was saying it would rival the blizzard of 1977.

Nice pics btw.
 
I have an app on my phone that lets me take 3D panoramic pics and tried my 1st one here
 
redrumloa said:
Looks like a good snow, but was it really historic? The news was saying it would rival the blizzard of 1977.

Nice pics btw.
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thanks

I suspect it is worse in Connecticut and Boston. They were getting more snow then in NY and LI all yesterday.

The wind was blowing but this wasn't as bad as a couple of years ago when I could only get out of the house by crawling out of the basement window. It IS a lot of snow here, however. IT's just that National Grid isn't run by morons (like LIPA was).

I'm still having breakfast so I have more investigating to do to figure out exactly how Historic Nero really is. I know flooding has been reported Somewhere, so things are not great for everyone.
 
Here's one I took back in January.

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And just now:
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So, yesterday (Saturday) friends and i were planing on attending a Train Show (my personal favorite is N scale, but they have all of them). Because of Nemo they delayed opening it from 10AM to instead about 1PM. But we went out anyway. Driving was ok, actually. Especially since I wasn't doing the driving :D

I could have done it, most roads were reasonably cleared, actually.

here's my Train Show Album - there's one video of an unusual layout with a train getting juice from an overhead wire.

anyway, as we were traveling back to my friend's house I got a call from my friend at home. at around 3PM the power went out at my place. I have no idea what that was about but by 4:30PM I got a call letting me know the power had come back. National Grid had promised to return customers to power within 24 hours so my hour without power sure was ok by me.

looking at the LIPA outage map there are still 407 outages and I can't even say how accurate that is. But compared to Sandy this is just mildly annoying rarer than f'ed up.
 
a friend is in Rochester NY to speak at a conference and took this picture:

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