No hunt today!

Jeff Reardon

Jeff Reardon

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I was supposed to head out with Hutch around noon, but Mother Nature had other plans. We've been without power all day (out at McDonalds now to send a couple of critical work emails and warm up).

What happened, you ask? A picture tells a thousand words. My friend Nick seems to have dropped a glove on my driveway when we got home on Saturday:

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May have some more photos tomorrow.

Not the worst ice storm I've ever seen. '98 and one when I was a kid on Connecticut (74?) were both worse. We spent a week living in a shelter during the storm when I was a kid.

But this is pretty bad.

I'm hoping power comes back on tomorrow so I can travel for the holiday.

And I'm really hoping the large oak on my neighbor's woodlot doesn't come down on my living room.
 
That looks like a glacial artifact! Imagine some learned head two hundred years from now pontificating on the find...
 
Good luck Jeff. Even though a distant memory, 98' was awful. Was without power for 13 days. Hope you get it back soon.
 
We just got our power back after about 55 hours without. We have neither a generator nor a woodstove at the house, so we were keeping things from freezing with an ancient kerosene heater and a small propane stove.

It got close to zero last night, and we woke up with 2 cold corners of the house that were down to near 40.

We went out this afternoon to take a shower at a friend's house and deliver a new bike to my niece, and were talking about how her reaction made our Christmas as we turned the corner and saw lights on at our house.

Merry Christmas to all the line workers and tree crews working overtime on the holiday to get our power restored, and especially to the large number of folks still sitting n the cold.

Next project--suggestions on a small home generator? I don't want to go through this again without a better backup plan than a smoky old kerosene burner.
 
Glad you got your power back!
My buddy has a Honda and loves it. What ever you get, get alittle more power than you think you need. Better yet, get propane powered so you don't have to worry about storing gasoline.
 
Hey Jeff, I bought mine from Northern Tools. Order it online, free delivery to my work. I ordered a Generac 7500w to run my house (if need be) but I also have a well so needed something big enough to handle the water pump while other things were on. It's been great. Just my two cents. most 3500-4000w would handle most needs though. Glad you are back on the grid.
 
If you do get a generator, make sure you shut your main off so you don't back charge the line . I traveled around the north country in 98 with my chain saw ,generator and beer.
This time we were lucky the temp went above 32 sunday night and we lost our ice. My camp is inaccessible right now the birches closed the road to it down in the St Lawerence valley. I hope it gets better.
 
We have a small house, and can avoid running big appliances during an outage. But I am on a well. At minimum, I need a generator to handle my water pump, keep the boiler on line, and power the fridge and lights.

This storm was strange. I'm not sure what knocked out all the power, as there just isn't that much tree damage. Driving around, there are a lot of bent birches, but compared to 98 or the storm I remember from the 70's, not a ton of broken trees. Our road (~3 miles long) had just one large tree come down across the road.

But my area just got hammered. Many of the towns around here had 100% of the houses without power; almost all of them had more than half the houses go down. They're saying it will be late tomorrow before everyone's back on line, and into the weekend for folks a little farther north and east.

For future reference, with a 2 burner propane stove, you can melt enough snow and ice to keep up with two people's toilet flushing, but you'll go through a lot of small propane canisters to do it.
 
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