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Sunday, October 28. 2012

Don't be surprised if Maggie's is down for a day or more this week

We tend to lose power and all other utilities with storms. If this is like the past, it could take days to restore utilities. I just heard on the radio that utility bucket truck convoys are already heading east from Iowa. Thanks, Iowa.

This storm is huge - only Cat 1 but possibly the largest storm, in area affected, ever seen in the North Atlantic. I'd get out of low-lying coastal areas about now, from the south coast of Cape Cod through Jersey due to the predicted storm surges. I'd get out of river flood plains too. This storm will plow well inland after it goes feet dry.

Too bad I never bought that generator I wanted.

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Generators are handy for keeping the sump pump running, and the refrigerator and the computer for so long as the internet service lasts.

The telephone substations tend to run out of gas too and they're not refilled, and there goes the internet.

#1 rhhardin (Link) on 2012-10-28 17:21 (Reply)

No. The problem isn't just the electric. It's the cable lines on poles.

#1.1 Bird Dog on 2012-10-28 17:30 (Reply)

You stupid Jerk ! --- no DANG Generator? Living where you do? Boy, if I was MSSSus BD I would be PISSEd !

Good Luck (sincerely) ;-)

#2 apple pie on 2012-10-28 17:22 (Reply)

Keep safe and vote early.

#3 BrianInWisconsin on 2012-10-28 17:57 (Reply)

To all Maggies Farm contributors and readers......STAY SAFE!!

#4 debbie on 2012-10-28 18:28 (Reply)

You know, if you folks would cut down all the brush and trees you've let overrun the place and get back to farming and dairy, you wouldn't have so much trouble keeping the power up.

I'd guess this storm is going to be worse for flooding than wind.

#5 chuck on 2012-10-28 19:03 (Reply)

spam filter grrr

#6 John the River (Link) on 2012-10-28 19:26 (Reply)

Can I sneak it in as a reply
No. damn spam filter No links I took out punctuation
but I can not post my innocuous comment

#6.1 John the River (Link) on 2012-10-28 19:34 (Reply)

Stay safe, warm, and dry!

#7 Charles on 2012-10-28 19:39 (Reply)

In pieces

The substations will be fine ,unless flooded, the old phone company perfected power backup decades ago. Says the old phone guy.

#8 John the River (Link) on 2012-10-28 19:41 (Reply)

I imagine my site, remote hosted somewhere in the world ,but where I have no idea, will stay up.
Located near a electric substation with a underground cable the house should be good, unless something takes out a nearby pole.

#8.1 John the River (Link) on 2012-10-28 19:44 (Reply)

So I'll do my best to keep reminding people why this election is so important.

#8.1.1 John the River (Link) on 2012-10-28 19:49 (Reply)

(omitted)
I wonder how someone who voted early before this broke is feeling right now.
Since the MSM is still running silent on everything within 50 degrees of Libya we all have a mission.

#8.1.1.1 John the River (Link) on 2012-10-28 19:53 (Reply)

I left out one sentence about how a certain president had given us a issue and the date of the election. The spam filter was choking on that.

#8.1.1.1.1 John the River (Link) on 2012-10-28 19:58 (Reply)

If you are sick of comments about him just say so.

#8.1.1.1.1.1 John the River (Link) on 2012-10-28 20:00 (Reply)

In the old Bell System maybe, but standards have changed, or perhaps never existed outside it.

Anyway my landline goes dead in an extended outage, surviving some period beyond the electricity but not a week.

#8.2 rhhardin (Link) on 2012-10-28 21:00 (Reply)

We should be okay for the storm, we have made some improvements from previous years.

#9 Chris on 2012-10-28 20:47 (Reply)

At the North point of the Chesapeake... all the outside stuff is weighted down, live on a declining slope, and stoked up on LED lights, batteries, non-frige food, and wine. Spam is good in these cases...

Now, I gotta remember where I put that Cheddar wheel...

#10 Fred Zeppelin on 2012-10-29 07:03 (Reply)

Y'all be careful out theah, heah. (I'm so far away from theah.)

#11 Sam L. on 2012-10-29 09:25 (Reply)

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