Miscellaneous > The Sallyport

Power outages on the east coast

(1/3) > >>

Sir Edward:
For those not keeping up with the news, the thunderstorms on Friday night knocked out power to millions of people in the DC area, from Baltimore MD down to Richmond VA, and from WV through to the coast. They're saying it might have been a "derecho", which is a straight-line wind system with rapidly moving thunderstorms, with tornado-like forces. It hits without warning.

It's been completely patchy, with areas of downed power and other areas that are fine, all along the same roads. Your power might be down, and your neighbor 2 blocks away is fine.

Anyway, my house has been without power since Friday night, and the phone service is still down as well. Verizon Wireless was broken until Saturday afternoon, and even now cellular service is mostly OK but somewhat spotty for all of the carriers.

At my job, they emailed out an announcement last night that only one of their buildings had power in the WV location (out of a dozen or more).

We've slowly watched power get restored to areas around here. Each half-day or so, more traffic lights and businesses are getting powered up around here. But lots of residential areas are still out. The local grocery store is still on generator.

Anyway, I'll only be here on the forum occasionally until things get fixed, and this is my first time back on since Friday. My dad's place (15 minutes from my home) is powered on, and that's about the best I can get right now, other than using my cell-phone.

I hope everyone else is doing well during this mess. :)

Sir Wolf:
yup we have power but not mom.

i was camping during that storm. green sky's and huge wind storm!!! i swear a tornado hit near us. a tree just missed 2 camp sites and a willys jeep. lightning hit and went vertical on the mt sides. it was wild sitting in a GP Medium tent holding the side poles!!!!!

Sir Edward:
I saw Joe Metz post on facebook that he was without power until mid-day yesterday too. He's pretty far from here. I forget where exactly.. Indiana or somewhere over there.

The storm was pretty widespread.

Thorsteinn:
No rain here. :)

In fact no rain for... more than a month I think, but my family out east has been nailed by this but they're fine.

Sir Edward:

We got power, phone, and internet back today, after about 3 days of outage. There are plenty of areas that are still dark, however, and I'm suspecting it will take all week for the rest of it.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page