power blackout status

Any significant parts of the US and Canada still without power, heat, food, ploughed roads etc?

The storm is to hit here in eastern Iowa this evening.

Everyone has power now.

Could be a ice snow mix, so we will see tonite.

Gary

A swath in Kentucky from Land between the Lakes up through and beyond Lexington was reported on news this morning to still have a lot of people without power.

I am about 35 miles directly east of Lexigton and no power issues or ice.

Some areas around me are still out but are supposed to come on today (Otsego County, NY). Most were energized yesterday after being out three days.

Helicopters have been flying over my property and the area in general all day - I assume they trying to inspect big power transmission lines that run through my land. I walked up into my woods this morning saws three trees that are still on some 4800 volt lines. Those will probably get done last since they are "walk in" only with no boom-truck access.

We never lost power in N Arkansas but the roads are as slick as I've ever seen with about 2-3" of ice. It is getting better today.

Following last weeks ice storm 80,000 still with out power in Northern MA and Southern VT and NH. Down from 500,000 last week. 6-12" snow predicted for tomorrow night so the crews are scrambling in today's 40 degree weather.

Yep.

Like Cue P said, Central Mass north of Worcester, the Berkshire highlands in Massachuetts, and southern New Hampshire.

The big Worcester AM radio station has suspended it's normal talk shows since last Thursday and is still doing back-and-forth information with the municipalities, utilities, and residents. They didn't have phone service until Tuesday -- the worked through the weekend with a cell phone and text messages. Click the link if you'd like to listen over the internet.

Food is there, sounds like the roads are cleared as of yesterday, but the 1500 National Guard troops they were going to dismiss have been kept on active duty since another storm is expected Friday and another on Sunday.

Fitchburg, a city of 80,000, still has streets where the primaries haven't been repaired.

For folks in isolated rural areas, some are being told after Christmas before they have power.

Lots of stuff you usually don't hear about. Unitil lost power to 13 out of 16(?) substations in the Fitchburg/Leominister area. Numerous other towns likewise were dark until Monday or Tuesday due to damage that had their substations w/o power. A lot of people (including my sister for a day and a half) had "half power" due losing only one leg of the 220v feed to the house. You never usually here about stuff like that.

Most of the schools closed since last Friday, many just gave up and closed through the Christmas Vacation, see you on January 5th. A bunch more probably will do that with bad snow storm predicted for tomorrow, and possibly Sunday.
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JD
Did you know they made a off road bucket truck. I didn't untill I seen one coming down my rd this year to do some work. Of course if your land gets like some of mine even a tracted one isn't guna make it out there.

Wheeeeeeewwww...

The utilities are asking the crews to work a 24 hour shift through tonite due to a snow storm coming in tomorrow that's looking at 8-12"(they've been doing 16-18 hours).

One of the municipal electric utilities has said they have the need and money for 25 more line crews, and just can't find them right now.

And I was typing, one of the other municipal plant managers called in and said they were officially 100% back...and their crews and the mutual aid crews they had were already headed towards that town that was looking for 25 more crews.

(Central Massachusetts has a pocket of about eight or ten towns that run their own electric systems)

Mid west braceing for large snow up to 12 inches with rain and ice more later.

For the ones who still work two nights ago it took over 3 hours from down town Chicago to O'Hare usually a 30 minute drive. Now this is express way driving 6 lanes. I got about 6 inches of fluffy snow.

Yeah, they've had them on my land several times over the years. One was on tracks. Another was a John Deere 540 wheel skidder -with bear-paw chains on all four wheels and a large boom and bucket.
Those things work OK in the large right-aways - but they'd never get one into parts of my woods unless they cut down a lot of trees first -and I won't let them.

In IL south of I-80 the weather service says perhaps a devastating ice storm overnight. In the morning it is supposed to warm up we may be able to at least get the ice off of the power lines and out of the trees and that alone would be a big help. It has started to rain here and it is 21 degrees.
bill