I was reliably informed that folks in some parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut

[malaise]

still have no electricity, no cell service and clearly no internet. A relative in Connecticut says this was way worse for them than Sandy. Many have generators. Many are still cleaning up from fallen trees.

[Zoonart]

1. Hi Mal...

I'm still out. Mayor of New Rochelle, NY says they will not be back fully until Tues.

Juicing up cell phone in the car.

[malaise]

4. Glad you can still charge the phone

Word is that internet service is available three miles from my folks.

I wonder how DUer CTYankee is doing?

[Squinch]

14. A friend in Mt. Kisco says they're out till Tuesday too. Sister in lower CT also out.

Here a bit west of you half of my town has power. (I got lucky this time!) No estimates on when it will be back.

[Andy823]

2. And fearless leader

in Ohio making numerous stops to spew his BS, then his going to his golf course. How can he take so much "work"!

[malaise]

6. All Democratic Governors

No surprise - he has to go

[malaise]

3. More here - including State of Emergency news

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/weather-news/cleanup-begins-after-isaias-kills-1-knocks-out-power-to-nearly-700000-people-in-conn/2313844/

<snip>
What to Know
More than 660,000 customers remain without power late Wednesday nightacross Connecticut after damage from Tropical Storm Isaias. Governor Lamont said he wants power back on for most residents by the end of the week and has called for an investigation by PURA.
Eversource is currently reporting more than 570,000 customers without power and asks if you are experiencing an outage to call them 800-286-2000, text 'OUT' to 23129, or report it at http://Eversource.com. People can also report outages via social media direct message.
United Illuminating is reporting more than 80,000 outages. Customers can report outages online at https://www.uinet.com/. Neither utility has given estimated restoration times.
Cleanup continues after Tropical Storm Isaias left widespread damage in Connecticut, killed at least one person and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people in the state on Tuesday.

The governor has also asked President Donald Trump and the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a Presidential Emergency Declaration to help with the cleanup and recovery.

[ananda]

39. If you're not FL or TX you're probably out of luck.

Those are Trump’s states now.

[LAS14]

5. A big oak tree fell on my brother-in-law's house. Destroyed the

porch, the LR and DR. The road out of town was blocked off (the ONLY road out of town). No electricity, no water. He calls us from his truck so he can charge his cell phone. We worry about dehydration.

[malaise]

7. Where is he?

Those states aren't ready for Tropical Storms or hurricanes and this one had a lot of wind.

[LAS14]

10. Connecticut, on a steep sided like, which is why there's only one road out of town. nt

[Mossfern]

8. My son's in Connecticut

He has a generator, but no internet service.
I feel bad for his kids 7 and 9 ... no friends because of covid and now no entertainment either.

We lost power for 8 hours in NJ - it felt like an eternity.
Other parts of town are still out. The town water tank was damaged and a large water main broke so we've been asked to conserve water - no laundry etc.

[malaise]

11. Geez - that's rough

Tell them to play scrabble and cards

[democrattotheend]

9. I can confirm

I live on Long Island and we were lucky enough to get power back after 10 hours on Tuesday, but some of my coworkers still have no electricity. PSEG is saying some of them won't be restored until tomorrow or Saturday. I don't know why it's taking them so long, since the damage doesn't seem to be nearly as bad as Sandy.

[malaise]

20. I guess Sandy was mild in Connecticut

Glad you're OK

[unblock]

25. Sandy was not mild in Connecticut!

Until this storm, it was the second worst power outage of the last 10-15 years. The only worse event was that time we had a major snowstorm in October.

[malaise]

38. Wow!

Did not know that - my folks must have been lucky that time.

[CentralMass]

12. I have family in MA that has some considerable damage from falling trees.

A tree landed on my sisters car and took their power line down. The car was towed today, it is probably totaled, and they probably wont have their power line reconnected until Saturday

[malaise]

40. Glad it hit the car and not the house

We all take power for granted until the storms come. Can you imagine how hot it is inside?

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. I drove up I95 from Jacksonville to Fayetteville NC this morning...

And saw several dozen utility bucket trucks headed north, so I can say...

HELP IS ON THE WAY!!

[malaise]

17. Amazing how little coverage this is getting

Damn

[3Hotdogs]

15. Neighboring towns and counties are out. Some won't be up 'till Sunday... northern N.J.

L.B.I. is 40% back online.


I saw Ohio repair crews on our highway.

[secondwind]

16. K&R for visibility

[malaise]

18. My folks are just glad that I gave them advanced notice

so they bought lots of non-perishable stuff, water and gas for the generators

[sir pball]

19. From NW CT, still have lots of friends in the area - it's really bad.

Power outages aside there's still road blockages and assorted other damage all over. My hometown is opening an emergency shower/electronics charging/potable water facility (a lot of people up there have well water, no power = no pump) in the HS gym; I'm hearing estimates of up to two weeks in some of the more rural places like Canaan/Salisbury area.

[malaise]

21. That's what I'm hearing

I didn't even know there's a State of Emergency in CT

[malaise]

22. Please insist on masks

You don't need this now

[sir pball]

23. I'm in NYC, masks are de rigueur here

The town is absolutely requiring masks for the emergency facility though, I haven't seen any complaining in the comments (it was announced on FB)

[malaise]

24. Good news

[NNadir]

26. We ran the internet with an old fashioned jet pack.

We tried to cancel it several times but realized we'd been mislead into a contract.

We then decided to keep it thinking my son would need to work on the train.

Tuesday night we decided to drive up to my son's place near his university to charge up everything - he had power - and my wife was thinking of going back the next night so she could work; in Covid days she's working from home but absolutely needs to be there because she needs to cover for all the people furloughed.

The power marvelously came on yesterday afternoon. It wasn't expected from the information we had, but it happened.

[malaise]

28. Isn't it delightful when power returns

I remember hurricane Ivan - neighbors gathered and made a huge pot of jerk chicken and corn soup, grilled BBQ and jerk chicken. As soon as we were ready to serve, the lights returned after 48 hours. We did laugh.

Glad you're back to normal

[NNadir]

32. Yeah, I described it in the lounge, describing a documentary on literal powerlessness around..

...the world that my family recently bought for me as a gift.

Our power is on again.

I'll never forget the outage after Sandy though. We were out well over a week.

My son dug a huge hole in the backyard into which we composted the entire contents of our refrigerator. It was pretty bad smelling stuff.

We were out only about 24 hours this time. Not too bad...many people are doing worse, and one feels for them.

The documentary described - in Puerto Rico - people without power for years after Hurricane Maria.

This of course is only one of Trump's many crimes. That sucker needs to die in prison.

[malaise]

34. A week?

After Gilbert we had no power for close to three months but we sure built community

That's a lovely post in the lounge.

[NNadir]

41. Well, like Ingemar says in "My Life as a Dog," "You have to compare."

Three months is fairly intense, but watching that video, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, I understood how awful it is for many people around the world, who have endured unreliable (or no) power for year after year after year.

Puerto Rico of course, involves American citizens, but man, electricity does explain the world. You know this better than I, I'd guess, it's wonderful you found the good in what must have been very stressful situation, no power for months. Hopefully the sense of community persisted after the lights came on.

We miss many things we take for granted when they are gone.

I never appreciated government, of course, until we didn't have one, so there's a lot of things like this.

I do think however that the world should work to make electricity a basic human right, and in this sense, this little reminder this week helped to reinforce that view.

Thank you for your kind words about my little post. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[malaise]

42. You raise a very good point

We have reliable power in Jamaica but back in 1988 our grid was destroyed by Gilbert. Collective memory had faded and maintenance was poor.

[unblock]

27. We are in southwest Connecticut, still running on portable generator power.

During the storm, a tornado was close enough for us to hear it!

[malaise]

29. Damn!

Lucky you

[unblock]

30. Check out this house:

https://06880danwoog.com/2020/08/05/marpe-the-latest-connecticuts-4th-worst-storm-eve/

[malaise]

35. Wow!

That's the thing - building codes cover what is expected and who expects Tropical Storms in Connecticut

[unblock]

45. We get them often enough that building codes should handle them

The eye of the storm rarely gets this far north but these systems can have a massive wingspan. We definitely are vulnerable to high wind, especially because there are a ton of tall trees here in residential areas.

Most of the power outages are due to wind knocking down trees which then take out the above-ground power lines.

[AmyStrange]

31. I just texted my sister. She lives is NE Connecticut.

-

My sister in RI is ok. She sent me a text earlier in the day.

I was there for Sandy, and it was pretty bad, but when the eye passed over us, we all fell asleep for an hour.

That was sooo weird!

Just got a text back from my sister. Reporting 700,000 homes still without power in CT.

Her power is back on. 18 hours w/o.
===========

[malaise]

36. The CNN Report shows lots of power cuts

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/isaias-storm-08-04-2020/index.html

[mcar]

33. We have family in S Jersey

Haven't had power for more than 48 hours.

[malaise]

37. Some folks won't have power before Sunday

Crazy

[unblock]

46. The biggest pisser is that we are in the middle of installing a home backup generator

Power goes out, it switches to propane generator automatically in a few seconds.

Just waiting on the propane tanks, but of course we have to have a major outage right before we can get it operational....

[malaise]

47. That must hurt

Damn

[unblock]

48. Well we were expecting it.

Sod's law, Murphy's law, whatever you want to call it....

The whole thing is clearly my fault lol

[musette_sf]

43. you are correct

I follow a guy from New Jersey on Facebook, who plays organ at Yankee Stadium (in regular times). He's been posting a song-a-day from home over the past few months. No power for the past two days, so he's been playing piano instead of organ on his recent posts.

[malaise]

44. That's very cool

a song a day - not the storm

[Golden Raisin]

49. In my immediate neighborhood (Westside of Manhattan)

we lucked out without power outages --- just a few trees, some quite large, uprooted because of the wind. During the worst of it we basically had no rain, which was kind of weird, just intense winds and the duration of the storm here was quite brief. That said, other areas of NYC (Staten Island, Queens) had much more serious damage and power outages, as did many in the suburbs of New Jersey, Westchester, Connecticut and Long Island. I look out over the Hudson River and the force of the wind and ocean were creating choppy white caps on the river and visibly pushing the current Northwards!