Just got power back after the first outage of this storm. Winter power outages make me unreasonably angry. I think this partly because I lived the first 20-some years of my life somewhere that winter brought a lot more snow and ice than we get here, and it wasn’t just taken for granted that any storm would result in power… Read more →
Tag: storm
Special Effects courtesy of “physics”.
..and here, ladies and gentlemen, you see the sky over Sayre‘s “lightning farm” as Orannis the Destroyer is freed from his bindings. OK, maybe not, although that’s pretty much exactly how I pictured that in my head. What you’re actually looking at there is the sky over the Chaiten Volcano in Chile. No photoshoppery, the image is directly from the… Read more →
Update
We did in fact lose power at around 3AM (or 2AM, depending when I was supposed to set my clock back, I guess.) It was still off when I woke up, which made packing for Boston a pain in the ass. The power company was claiming that it would be back by 6PM on Monday, and the news that it… Read more →
“The illest weatherman in the biz”
Well, we did the whole checklist of simple preparations today, so hopefully the Umbrella Theory will kick in and the storm won’t cause any serious effects. Although I will honestly be severely shocked if we don’t lose power–even though the storm appears to have shifted slightly westward, meaning we might only get 100km/h winds (what the locals would refer to… Read more →
Bah. The Last Thing I Need.
I have been in a very black mood since midday Friday, and this is the last thing I need: Since Nova Scotia Power is so incompetentThis is the short version of “behaves as a economically rational actor in a profit-based system which does not assign any intrinsic value to providing an essential public service, where a monopoly is held”. Essential… Read more →
