What a fucking disaster. Lost power midnight last night due to high winds. It felt like a tornado. Still no power. Oh. I hate weather geek @CBG . I asked no snow he sent me Hurricane winds. http://newjersey.news12.com/story/4...n-place-for-madison-all-public-schools-closed
Talk about FAKE NEWS,,,I did not order you any wind Brook but your snow is on back order,,,,,,I hope you get power back soon but look at the bright side ( unless you are going to this game ) with any luck your power stays out until after the Jet game so you do not have to watch this disaster ! PS I hope your power is now back up and running
LMAO.... going to a hotel because you lost power for the night?!?! Geeezus....... Americans are soft.........
Kurdish people are softer apparently. Lol. Kidding aside it will be 35 this morning and no reason to sleep home. We got a nice hotel with pool. I rather enjoy pool with my boys and a good shower over cold
Doesn't Madison have a municipal power company, and not JCP&L or PSE&G? That always struck me as strange. I always wondered why Madison does that.
Yes sir. Madison doesn’t use PSEG or JCPL. We have our own company. We got power by the way. This is a legendary response. Lol
Grandpa. That's the way to go. But this current house we live in isn't enough for us anymore and we are looking for a new one. Once we get the new house that's one of the things I will do. A generator hooked to natural gas and also a grill hooked to natural gas. We don't lose power to often but when we do I still want the luxuries I am used to. But good thing is, last night we discovered that there is an awesome hotel very close to our hotel with the best sports bar ever. Vanderbilt's Sports Bar. Irony is this hotel is right accross Jets training facility. I wonder if Jet players hit this bar after practice or something.
The National Weather Service (Mt. Holly) has concluded the investigation into the storm that impacted Madison on Friday, November 1, 2019. They have determined that Madison was impacted by an Enhanced Fujita 1 tornado with max wind speeds of 100 miles per hour. The tornado had a width of 150 yards and length of 4.9 miles. The estimated time of the tornado was 12:23 until 12:28am. A full report can be viewed here: https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?p...YjAu_-c51Y9NZe_44LaZgYL20xmYrBMNCQW607dyQKp3g
Time to bury the lines nationwide. California is burning and the Northeast loses power every time a storm comes through. That's the two biggest economic regions of the country and 95% of the area is still living with lines strung on poles for some godforsaken reason.
but then if there's an outage what do they do?? start digging up our cities to find and repair it every time?
Lines are buried everywhere in the western world. Lines are buried in NYC and Boston and Philly. Why are they not buried elsewhere in the northeast? Because the utilities leverage them for a lot of additional charges despite the fact that most of the overhead grids have long since depreciated off their books via aging, mergers, etc. The utilities won't make heavy new investments in construction to bury the lines and government is not interested in that type of infrastructure project at the moment. Nobody wants to pay for the cost and the vested interests are already getting a regular return on the lines that are installed. The biggest reason is that the costs of not burying the lines are only beginning to really mount over the last decade for the regional utilities. Most of Connecticut's power is now provided by a Texas energy corp because NELP was doing just fine until the run of storms in the early 10's forced them out of the business. Eversource has the resources to weather a few outright catastrophes before the problem becomes overwhelming for them also. Then we'll likely see the grids nationalized by whatever populist is currently in power and demanding that the citizen's right to reasonably uninterrupted power is paramount.
you didn't answer my question lol when hurricane sandy hit, there were faults above ground AND underground. so it appears putting them underground won't protect them from everything .So if everything was strung underground what do we do when there is an outage? start digging everywhere?
They have tech in place that tells them where an outage likely occurred, not to mention redundancy built-in to prevent single or even double points of failure at any given location. Like the big cities, when a line goes underground they have to dig it up and patch/replace. However the points of failure are less numerous in a buried line. In the northeast it would be frost heaves, which can be accounted for beforehand by proper engineering and flex in the system, sinkholes which are unpredictable but rare in the region, floods (ditto) and misguided utility workers and homeowners abusing backhoes and the like. Unlike the big cities there is not a lot of other infrastructure (steam lines, subways, water tunnels, etc.) that can burst/break and take down the utility lines also. There will be far fewer workers doing other stuff that accidentally break something else as well.
cool. id totally be down for not having to see those ugly wires everywhere anyway. Adam Gase I think grew up under them, which explains a lot
