Sucks, sorry to hear it. Hate being out of power even if I'm all set, hard for me to settle down to get anything done.
Blizzard 2026 - How's things in your area?
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Sucks, sorry to hear it. Hate being out of power even if I'm all set, hard for me to settle down to get anything done.
Richard Lathrop
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19” of snow in coastal Delaware. 58mph wind gusts reported. Lost power on Sunday night, restored around 3pm on Monday. Plows have not come through yet. Trees are down all over so clearing downed trees is slowing plows coming through. Have several trees down on my property so yard cleanup is on agenda.
Rick
Rick
Huntindave McCann
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They sure don't like having snow touch their private places, while trying to do their business.
At least Beaver's happy.
Oh yeah, and if this keeps up your retirement will be here before the snow melts. No more pesky students.
They sure don't like having snow touch their private places, while trying to do their business.
Me neither.
Troy Fields
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That's a tough hit Jode. Always thankful for generators, but I never miss the hum when power comes back.
Huntindave McCann
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I've never had the need to find out!
Michael McCord1
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I saw snow yesterday- does that count?
Jay K
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I've seen 10-12'. It still haunts me to this day. 24' seas are deadly for almost all vessels besides the ultra large. Couple that with whiteout conditions, no good.
Jay K
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Hope they get you back online soon, Jode. I didn't realize it was that bad down your way.
We survived too. I got in the 16" range, difficult to measure with the blowing of the snow. Thankfully we didn't lose power, but I was prepared with the generator ready to "roll" out. I was able to snow blow the 200' driveway and make it to work by 10am, to then in turn sit around all day. Too dangerous to send us out, but not too dangerous for us to drive into work. 
I didn't want to waste a vacation day, I wanted to prove a point, which no one noticed, to NO suprise to me.
I didn't want to waste a vacation day, I wanted to prove a point, which no one noticed, to NO suprise to me.
jode hillman
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Yeah, there's trees and powerlines down everywhere.
Thank goodness the power came back on early morning.
But there's still some neighbors without it
Vince Pagliaroli
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Jode,
Good to read that ya got power back. Hopefully your neighbors will also soon. Trees and power poles down will mean fire wood and other uses for some folks long after the storm. A bit of a positive from a negative situation some of us have experienced at one time or another.
Best regards
Vince
Richard Lathrop
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Vince,
In walking neighborhood most of what fell where loblolly pines,holly trees and landscaping type trees.
Rick
roy brewington
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We got 14" here in snow hill md. Never lost power totaly but still don't have Comcast which our TV ,home phone and internet are thru.didn,t get cell service back thru Verizon till Tues. Afternoon. I have a mess. 6 very large Leyland cypress down as well as top from a big red cedar came out. Spent all day Monday and tues cutting up trees and of course shoveling. Found a contractor to haul them off. Forunately nothing note worthy was hit by trees. As of yesterday some were still without power that were on choptank electricity.
I grew up in a town that was a rocky peninsula sticking out of the Maine coast, fully exposed with good fetch from any direction from NE to WSW. My neighborhood was a point off the end of the peninsula with along rocky ledge ~25-30' above the high tide line that just got hammered. I remember two winter storms where the combination of storm tides and big waves put breakers over the top, with enough force to remove all the woody vegetation. Each time it took about a decade for the rosa rugosa and bayberry to reclaim the top of the ledge. Those storms both saw sustained winds near hurricane strength. Between them, a millionaire bought the point and proposed a big fancy McMansion on top of the ledge. Folks in the neighborhood organized against it, many of them with photos from the first storm--the infamous Blizzard of '78. They were arguing to the zoning officials that that was an unprecedented event and would never happen again when the second storm did the same thing. A few years later the local land trust quietly acquired the parcel and retired the development rights; it's now one of the best shore access spots for stripers in the area.
Vince Pagliaroli
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Rick,
Cobb Island decoys. "Geese and Brant, too, received their own special attention as many of the heads and necks were fashioned from curved holly branches. Each natural branch needed only minimal finishing to yield a sturdy unbreakable, head that impressionistically embodied the movements of live waterfowl." DECOYS A NORTH AMERICAN DURVEY - Gene and Linda Kangas
One man's trash is another man's treasure...
Vince
Jay K
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The waves I spoke of, we were on the water. We were running a 30' Albemarle with twin diesels at the time. It was the September before hurricane Sandy. We were 80 miles offshore at the Toms Canyon out of NJ. The weather forecast looked great. We overnighted which was beautiful. The next morning a backdoor cold front rolled through which we call a "Nor'Wester." We already had a 5-6' ground swell from the SE without wind. Next thing we know, it got cloudy, drizzled, the sun came back out and the wind just started ripping from the NW. We had about a 30-40 kt NW wind against the ground swell.
We could do no more than 7kts for 5 hours with the props still coming out of the water. We would make it over one wave, barely, only to be coming down the back of it right into the face of another. We had green water on the windshield, the water coming off the tower and hardtop looked like the backside of a waterfall, and at one point I looked back to see 6"-12" of water in the cockpit. Estimates that day were 8-10' waves with the occasional 12'+ wave coming through. Finally, we got inside of the 20 fathom line and it toned down to 5-6' waves which still were no picnic, but nothing like we saw farther offshore.
The idea of braving bigger waves than that, in a blizzard, is terrifying. Mother nature plays for keeps.
This memorial is on another, less exposed, rocky point in my town. Christmas Eve blizzard, 1886, sunk the Annie C. Maguire.
A cargo ship piled onto Trundy Ledge, that I described earlier, a few years before we moved to town. The rocky beach behind the point was littered with rubber rings of some sort--maybe bearings?--about the size of a fist. Thousands of them up and down the shore, for years after the wreck.
And in another storm two years ago this fishing vessel lost power and ended up on Trundy Point.
www.newscentermaine.com
Winter is a hard time to be on the water.
A cargo ship piled onto Trundy Ledge, that I described earlier, a few years before we moved to town. The rocky beach behind the point was littered with rubber rings of some sort--maybe bearings?--about the size of a fist. Thousands of them up and down the shore, for years after the wreck.
And in another storm two years ago this fishing vessel lost power and ended up on Trundy Point.
Trawler that crashed on rocks off of Maine coast during weekend storm will be demolished
The fishing vessel was heading to Portland Harbor to avoid a coastal storm when it came too close to shore and crashed onto the rocks.
www.newscentermaine.com
Winter is a hard time to be on the water.