Winter storms -- Neighbors looking out for one another

[jp1]

How much snow did you get? We got 4.7 inches of rain from that storm and they are saying that the one coming Wednesday is going to be quite a bit more.

[Teacher Terry]

JP, I live right in town and got 6 inches. People that were higher up got a foot and more. I looked at my electrical panel and can’t turn off my stove without turning off the refrigerator so just have to hope that when the power comes on it doesn’t ruin the chip in my fairly new stove. Every day they promise us power the next day and keep pushing it out. It happened Saturday afternoon. So living in my bedroom with the space heater.

[iris lilies]

Ya’ll are getting our midwest snowstorms. We got less than an inch with the last winter storm although the cold was extreme for around these parts.

[Teacher Terry]

Finally got power at 11 am. Funny how a wealthy subdivision got there’s back in 7 hours. I know facilities have priority, etc but interesting that they didn’t restore people that had been out the longest first. My neighborhood is mixed with some very expensive homes, condos that are average and then some fairly crappy apartments. It’s an older neighborhood so really a mixture.

[jp1]

Does your utility have a posted plan for if they need to do rolling blackouts to prevent grid failure? Ours does. So anyone can look up any address to see if ‘critical infrastructure’ is on their chink of the grid. Apparently our house is in one of those sections (probably because of the fire station 1.5 miles from us) so we would likely be among the first restored if we ever have an outage.

[Teacher Terry]

JP, I don’t know the answer. I do know Reno hasn’t needed to do rolling blackouts.

[ThetisIslander]

We got about 18 inches in two days around Christmas. Had to postpone travel (the hermit and me viewed it as a Christmas present). Snow is gone and the rain is here now. Expecting a wind storm tonight.