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State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« on: December 10, 2009, 02:36:40 PM »
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The first major winter snowstorm of the season made life miserable throughout much of the Upper Midwest and the governor of Wisconsin has already declared a state of emergency.

Five deaths are reported and hundreds of flights canceled, as the same storm that clobbered us is now moving north and towards the East Coast.

Problems were mounting at the airports in Chicago. Weather on the East Coast and de-icing of planes have caused more than 200 cancellations at O'Hare International Airport and delays of more than 45 minutes on average for all flights as of 10:30 a.m., according to the city Department of Aviation. At Midway Airport, there have been no significant delays, but more than 25 flights have been canceled.

But in Wisconsin, the situation was far worse. The snow slammed the state so severely that Gov. Jim Doyle declared a preemptive state of emergency.
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Hope our Wisconsin peeps are all OK.
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2009, 02:43:40 PM »
Just finished up about 36 hours without power.  And it hit 16 below with the wind chill last night.  I woke up with a cat socketed into each of my armpits and the silly dog laying over my legs. :D
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2009, 02:45:53 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on December 10, 2009, 02:43:40 PM
Just finished up about 36 hours without power.  And it hit 16 below with the wind chill last night.  I woke up with a cat socketed into each of my armpits and the silly dog laying over my legs. :D

Who was keeping who warm?
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2009, 02:46:53 PM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on December 10, 2009, 02:43:40 PM
Just finished up about 36 hours without power.  And it hit 16 below with the wind chill last night.  I woke up with a cat socketed into each of my armpits and the silly dog laying over my legs. :D
Glad to hear you're OK, sounds rough though.
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2009, 02:51:13 PM »
GEEZUS!  Are your pipes ok? 

(the ones in the house)
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2009, 02:55:26 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on December 10, 2009, 02:51:13 PM
GEEZUS!  Are your pipes ok? 

(the ones in the house)

What other kinda pipes are there?  :whistling:   
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2009, 03:08:10 PM »
Are there massive cries of "we need FEMA" or "government help now!!!1111eleventy!!11"?  Nope.  Like typical Midwesterners, we just deal with it.
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2009, 04:34:57 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on December 10, 2009, 02:55:26 PM
What other kinda pipes are there?  :whistling:   

Dude.  I swear.  If I hadn't clarified, I woulda gotten it for sure.  I have learned to make sure that my posts are chaste, and free of any assumed innuendos, more so than my standard grammar and spelling checks.   :-)
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2009, 05:46:56 PM »
Son got lucky.  Didn't loose power where they live, had 9 or 10 inches of snow, temps 8-10 degrees, tonight.  Luckily he went back on days today.
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2009, 09:52:46 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on December 10, 2009, 04:34:57 PM
Dude.  I swear.  If I hadn't clarified, I woulda gotten it for sure.  I have learned to make sure that my posts are chaste, and free of any assumed innuendos, more so than my standard grammar and spelling checks.   :-)

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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2009, 11:20:24 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on December 10, 2009, 02:51:13 PM
GEEZUS!  Are your pipes ok? 

(the ones in the house)

Both sets are alive and well, unfrozen and functional. :-)
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2009, 11:27:24 PM »
It wasn't so much the power just going off here... The outage was preceded by three or four WICKED power surges. I have the desktop PC hooked to an emergency power source that has a bitching good surge protection system. I managed to get the two laptops unplugged before the final spike and 'poof'. It killed the range hood microwave and blew up one lamp bulb.  Never seen anything like it.  I had to reset 8 breakers and every single GFI outlet in the house when they got the juice back on.  Oddly enough i was able to plug the cable and the wireless router into the UPS backup and we still had internet when everything else was FUBAR'd.
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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2009, 11:47:38 PM »
Sounds like you had a higher voltage (transmission or sub-trans) line drop onto your distribution line.  Case in point--a lot of areas will have several different voltages on the same pole--the higher up the pole, the higher the voltage.

You'd think the "rich" neighborhoods would have better quality service, but that just ain't always the case.  Malibu was a classic example of shitty obsolete 4KV, but the luddites didn't want SCE to pull out all the service transformers in order to go to 12 or 16KV.

Oh, and here's hoping I don't have to deal with THIS anytime soon (like last year):

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http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=200812icestorm

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Re: State Of Emergency In Wisconsin
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2009, 12:50:48 PM »
Caught Rush on way back from Rochester...

He said that the new "green" traffic lights are freezing over and useless because they can't generate enough heat to melt the snow...  :rotf:
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