Snow Conn Power Outages

[AndyMA]

Wide Spread Outages

 

[Torvy]

Yikes! Have a cousin in Western CT. I'll have to send her a text and see if they are OK.

Thanks for posting this.

 

[stevem5215]

Storm blew through Pittsburgh Pa and blew the top off one of our trees here. About a 20ft section of dead pine. Power was out the whole day and came on just as sun set at 5pm. Whew. Dodged that one as it's currently -3.8 outside. Inside house temps were down to 64 degrees.

 

[Torvy]

Storm blew through Pittsburgh Pa and blew the top off one of our trees here. About a 20ft section of dead pine. Power was out the whole day and came on just as sun set at 5pm. Whew. Dodged that one as it's currently -3.8 outside. Inside house temps were down to 64 degrees.

haha....my wife keeps our house at 64 in the winter anyway. Got to boost it up to 68 this week to help in case pipes froze. 20 years ago, it was me trying to save money and keep the thermostat low! It is even worse, since the way our thermostat is set up, the majority of the house is a good 3-5 degrees colder most of the time.

 

[5030]

Not an issue here as we have a diesel powered standby. 45 seconds and it assumes the entire load. Something I'm never concerned about.

 

[WranglerX]

Gee Now you know what California goes through all the time.....

 

[Richard001]

What was the cause of the outage ?

 

[Thomas]

Old man winter gave lot of us 1-2 punch.

 

[Richard001]

OK I understand that you got snow an some wind. Did that take down the power lines or was the system overloaded caused blackouts ?

 

[Yander]

We got a notification from AEP Ohio to reduce power usage and that load shedding may need to occur to protect the grid. My niece lives in a little town in Logan county and half the town is out because of load management. Bad time to be without power.

I would never trust just electric for heat. Never. Always have a non electric backup that could sustain you at least a week. Even better a month.