Ralph Berg said:That usually turns into a Catch-22. Nobody else will do anything until the power company makes it safe. So the power company usually ends up clearing the roads, so they can get in and get the lines safe. Been there and done that a couple hundred times........;)Shawn said:If you can't get out, the power crews probably can't get in :O Ralph
Im stuck home. All roads impasable. Cant get out
Shawn said:Hope you have a generator....................or a car charger for the phone ;) Ralph
It just gets worst. Found out our substation is underwater. It will take weeks for them to fix. Power co. is going to try and bring power lines from nearby towns but will take sometime. Grrrrr.
No gen but car is charging phone now. Tree just came down next door. Roads and bridges washed out all over county. This wind wont stop. Over 50 mph gusts still. Bad part about living in mountains.
Shawn said:What a mess!!! Praying that you and your family get some relief............soon.
No gen but car is charging phone now. Tree just came down next door. Roads and bridges washed out all over county. This wind wont stop. Over 50 mph gusts still. Bad part about living in mountains.
Doc TomShawn said:We once had 100mph winds after an ice storm. I lost about 50 trees and had no power for a week. Good thing I had a wood stove at the time. I should probably get another ;) Ralph
Bad part about living in mountains.
Sounds like you caught the brunt of it Shawn. Hope it eases up soon for you and the family.
Sounds like all are well so far…we got pretty heavy winds last night with some downed trees and lines (which was surprising as it wasn’t really predicted here)
We r getting reports from the catskill in ny 1.5 hours to my north is a mess. Town was completly wiped out. Inland areas from me north got it worst then ny city. Trees still comming down on lines and still no power. Ugh
The news reports from Eastern NC & Virginia are not too encouraging.
A lot of flood damage. The Outer Banks in NC were breached in 5 places.
The new cuts may very well be permanent. They still have many homes from the last hurricane that had to be abandoned,
as the sea was now under the homes. Looks like many more homes will be in the same predicament.
Ralph
It’s very odd. 2 houses down from me the roads are full of debris, but almost none in front of my house and the next-door neighbor’s. Wind started kicking up again about 6PM - Getting worse gusts now than we did on the front side. Hopefully all my trees stay put.
We went out for a drive to check on my work. The river is up to within an inch of the bridge. Couldn’t get there the normal way as roads were all flooded. Went around the back way and they closed the bridge just after we crossed. I had to ask the fire department to let me back across. Lots of trees and wires down all over town. Listening to the local fire dept. radio they are still busy with wires down calls.
The basement somehow stayed dry and we have power for now. It will all be over soon, I hope.
HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING???
After watching the news last night and watching Shawns video I hope and pray that all you “Eastern” guys are OK.
Chuck
We did fine here. Only lost power for about an hour and a half (local power company FTW!). Lots of branches, and one tree down. Some towns around here got it a LOT worse. Many wont have power for a week or more.
I’ve done great…so far over $7000 of work from downed trees and no real property damage. Customers were lucky this time. My RR on the other hand needs some serious cleaning of leaves and small debris.
It only took a couple of hours with the leaf blower and the lawn tractor mower/bagger to make most of the mess go away. RR is almost back in shape. Putting the lawn furniture back out - having guests this weekend.
We weren’t so lucky at work. The river flooded, but didn’t get high enough to reach the shop. It had receded by this morning, but yesterday evening a big tree went down and took out the primary power lines. Several manufacturing plants including our shop are closed down putting several hundred out of work from this one tree. The power company says expect at least 3 days without power but probably more. It was nice to have today off, but it will hurt next Friday when I don’t get paid.
One of the places without power is the regional bakery for Dunkin Donuts. Too bad the local cops don’t fix power lines - this would be a top priority 
Well i still dont have power and now power co. Saying maybe the weekend. A friend let me use his generator. It powers the entire house. A shower never felt so good. I have been running my battery train and live steam. Just use my car to charge the batteries. Internet and cable still down as well. But i can get to stores and restraunts.
Shawn,
Good to see things are improving for you.
I’ve been watching the flood videos on Youtube.
Awesome and scary at the same time 
Ralph
Hang in there Shawn…at least you can run a train and the BBQ for cooking a chicken or two.
Shawn said:Situated where you are in a remote area, a generator would be a good investment. A good one that would keep the fridge and well running is probably around $400-500(not to mention the sump pump in the basement if you have water problems) Of course, right now, generators are scarce in most of the stores on the east coast.
Well i still dont have power and now power co. Saying maybe the weekend. A friend let me use his generator. It powers the entire house. A shower never felt so good. I have been running my battery train and live steam. Just use my car to charge the batteries. Internet and cable still down as well. But i can get to stores and restraunts.
Ken Brunt said:Thanks ken. I think a generator will be a wise invesment. With two little ones its good to have one. We have a wood stove for heat in winter. A gen we would be set. As soon as they restock im getting one. As of this morning still no power. Ugh schools might not open until after next weekShawn said:Situated where you are in a remote area, a generator would be a good investment. A good one that would keep the fridge and well running is probably around $400-500(not to mention the sump pump in the basement if you have water problems) Of course, right now, generators are scarce in most of the stores on the east coast.
Well i still dont have power and now power co. Saying maybe the weekend. A friend let me use his generator. It powers the entire house. A shower never felt so good. I have been running my battery train and live steam. Just use my car to charge the batteries. Internet and cable still down as well. But i can get to stores and restraunts.
I don’t remember which storm it was, but a number of years ago I bought a 5500 Watt generator. I think it was around $600 then. At the time we had a freezer full of meat and decided that we either lost over $500 in food or paid for a generator. I think it ran for about 3 days that time.
I don’t have a transfer switch set up, I just run extension cords from the Gen to the freezer and fridge. If cable is up I can also run the TV and computer from it. The last few storms I have just about got it set up when the power came back on 
What ever you do DO NOT make up a cable to feed your whole house without having a transfer switch installed. You can kill electrical linemen from the back-feed into their system.
This time our preparations included loading water into the RV and making sure the propane was full. With the generator and the RV I could be very comfortable for a week or more without commercial power. My only worry was that the RV would blow over in the storm, but it didn’t.
Hang in there Shawn - it’s getting better every day. I’m finally back to work after two days unpaid vacation thanks to Irene.