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2M Americans Lost Power After 'Bomb Cyclone' (apnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:
Tens of thousands of utility workers in the Northeast raced to restore power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses just days after a powerful nor'easter caused flooding and wind damage from Virginia to Maine... Flood waters had receded in most areas, but Friday's storm had taken huge chunks out of the coastline in Massachusetts and other states... Residents in other areas, meanwhile, bailed out basements and surveyed the damage while waiting for power to be restored, a process that power companies warned could take days in some areas.
Power outages on the East Coast dipped by about 500,000 from a peak of 2 million earlier Saturday, but officials said lingering wind gusts were slowing repair efforts. The storm's aftermath also was still affecting travel, with airports from Washington, D.C. to Boston reporting dozens of delays and cancellations, while service was slowly returning to normal on rail systems throughout the region... The death toll from the storm increased by four, with authorities saying at least nine people had lost their lives.
Airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights, according to the Associated Press, while Amtrak suspended service along the northeast corridor (though it's saying they should all return to service on Sunday).
CNN reported roughly 1 in 4 Americans were in the storm's path, facing winds as high as 50 mph, while the Associated Press reports gusts up to 90 mph on Cape Cod.
Power outages on the East Coast dipped by about 500,000 from a peak of 2 million earlier Saturday, but officials said lingering wind gusts were slowing repair efforts. The storm's aftermath also was still affecting travel, with airports from Washington, D.C. to Boston reporting dozens of delays and cancellations, while service was slowly returning to normal on rail systems throughout the region... The death toll from the storm increased by four, with authorities saying at least nine people had lost their lives.
Airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights, according to the Associated Press, while Amtrak suspended service along the northeast corridor (though it's saying they should all return to service on Sunday).
CNN reported roughly 1 in 4 Americans were in the storm's path, facing winds as high as 50 mph, while the Associated Press reports gusts up to 90 mph on Cape Cod.
start digging down your powerlines like the rest of us. I live in a area with insane ammounts of snow and cold and i think the last poweroutage was... actually i cant remember one that was ever over 30min.. and im 40+y old.
maybe in my childhood once actually. was half a day or so.
This just shows the differences in levels of preparedness for certain weather conditions of different airports. It takes some serious weather to bring down air infrastructure in North America.
In Europe on the other hand, temperature is below 0deg, there's this very subtle white powder falling from the sky, CLOSE EVERYTHING!
Facetiousness aside as climate change is expected to bring about more extreme weather conditions it's time the European airports looked across the ocean for tips on how to cope with a little bit of snow. Buying more than a handful of de-icing machines would be a start.
At least I was only delayed for 3h Friday and not cancelled.
I was having withdrawals from my lack of daily pro-Trump, racist and GNAA posts.
It seems more and more like a third world country from my perspective.
Crazy cops that shoot each and every one once the words 'Shots fired!' are heard. People 'living' in plastic tents in the outskirts; people running around without healthcare and then – the fucking cables hanging around everywhere. Once this goes wrong, they simply put up new cables in the same spot, so that people can enjoy the next outage...
This 'driving against the wall' mentality has degraded large portions of the states into third world countries. There are even states where the schools open only four days a week, because the teachers need second/third jobs to make it. Insane - all this, while spending everything on weapons systems nobody needs!
SpaceX are scheduled to launch a rocket on Tuesday, 05:33 UTC. Weather should be fine for the launch by then, but the sea states off shore are another matter.
They were going to recover the first stage on a floating platform, but the ships that would have taken it out should have left are still in port, with only 43 hours left to go - they'd take 42 hours flat out to even get there.
The reason for this seems smple - 14 foot seas. Even a 100 meter long platform isn't going to stay still enough in that. So it seems that this rocket will be expended instead.
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Everyone is talking about it but if you call a relative that lives in the path of that alleged storm you will find out that there is no storm. Everybody assumes it's happening somewhere else.
This is just Trumpsters creating fake news to make people talk about something else than his Russian mole son in law. Pathetic.
Bomb cyclone? Nor'easter?
Now's the time to finally put the power lines, along with everything else, underground. Looks better and in the long run it will cost less. Germany does it right.
Just getting in before the Conseratards do.
Twitler and the party formerly known as the Republican Party, that distinguished party that gave us Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and the 1/4 mulatto Eisenhower, would like to remind you that ACC – a.k.a. Climate Change,, or as the Dumbass in Chief likes to call it, Global Warming – is only a theory.
That was not a Bomb Cyclone at all. Nope. Never. Nor was it a Nor'easter. Everyone knows that a Nor'easter in March dumps tons of snow. Was there any snow? Nope, none whatsoever.
Twitler's crack squad of climate deniers, led by none other than that crack whore Kellyanne Conway (well, she looks like a crack whore anyway) will be shouting down the "libtards" any minute now, just you wait and see. And if that doesn't works they'll fire up the "Scott Pruitt flying first class because the passengers in coach "were mean to him." distraction engine.
Yeah, go head, mod me down. See if I care.
The United States spent 20 percent of the federal budget on defense.. more than it spent on Medicare.
Note how they are comparing the entire "federal budget on defense" to a fraction of the budget spend on healthcare (Medicare); conveniently ignoring Medicaid and the huge tax collected in the form of Obamacare premiums.
So that's what you mean by "distributed denial of service". A packet flood, but without the packets.
Losing lives is not like loosing keys. They died, not lost their lives. Write 'died'. Give their loved ones some dignity. They are not lost sheep. They are humans never to be among us again. You don't loose your life. You die.
Strange that the press needs to shield us by euphonious phrases.
Trump didn't get to the latest school shooting and confront the shooter because it was over before he could get on AF One, but surely he could have faced this storm off.
Not one mention about the weight of the snow. We barely had any wind, but the heavy snow was snapping lines and trees all over the place. Typical snow to water ratio is 25:1, this storm was closer to 5:1.
Winds of 50MPH with gusts of up to 90MPH and you have 2 million power outages? Here in the UK we spend a great amount of winter having those kinds of wind speeds as we get hit with several winter storms with those and everything just carries on as normal with the only real issue being certain bridges and high elevation roads being closed to high sided trucks.
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The reason for this seems smple - 14 foot seas. Even a 100 meter long platform isn't going to stay still enough in that.
That's because they're doing it wrong. If they want stability, they have to go semi-submersible.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Title says 2M and CNN says 1 in 4 Americans. Wikipedia says that the census bureau says there are around 327 million folks living here in the US. Something doesn't add up. Assuming that 2M means 2 Million, one in four would mean that there are only 8 million Americans? No CNN, I don't think that is right. 25% of 327 is about 82 - if that number was the actual impact of the storm, "82 million impacted" would be a much more interesting headline.
I'm in Florida and since we do get hurricanes frequently I have to say that ninety mph winds are hardly a breeze to us. The idea that 90 mph winds would cause much loss of power to our homes would invoke hostility from the public. The idea that a home would come apart in 120 mph winds is absurd. Apparently the construction requirements for these northern states is set way too low.
Note that you need to take the advertised imperial spending amount and double it. Hundreds of billions of money spent on imperialism is counted separately, and dishonestly in other parts of the budget. Like the Department of Energy managing nuclear weapons, interest on past imperial debt, the GI Bill, the VA, etc etc.
I've seen the power company restore the same lines at least five times over the years. When does it become more economical
How are you going to keep so many union line workers employed unless you deploy a lot of infrastructure you know will need regular work?
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I am trying to figure out exactly what a "bomb cyclone" is. I guess it is supposed to be extra scary or something?
....was due to both their personal unpreparedness and a continuingly decaying infrastructure, especially up in the upper Midwest and NE regions of the country.
They gotta start burying that stuff too; that would help a ton.
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that comes out of this story are the silly ass names they come up with for these storms.
You can't just call it a Winter Storm. . . . oh no, that's too boring. Not American enough. :|
We have to go and name it a " BOMB CYCLONE ".
I swear, our entire culture absolutely glorifies War, Death, Demise and Doom.
And folks wonder why some people are goin all crazy anymore.
Yes. I half expect them to do that at some stage. But a fitted out barge is a much simpler thing to start out with.
You know, they are currently working on a new droneship, quixotically named "A Shortfall of Gravitas". It will probably be just another Marmac 300 series barge with thrusters, but we'll have to see. This is SpaceX, who put spider arms on a ship a few months ago; they could do anything.
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I hear this was supposed to be the heaviest payload to GTO with first stage recovery to date, and successful landing was a bit iffy anyway. Combine that with 14' seas and the calculus comes back as let's not break the drone ship twice in a row, I suppose. Perhaps they use it to just try a hot and fast water landing to test landing with less fuel. And perhaps they need a ship uncomfortably bobbing about nearby to gather the last few moments of telemetry and get some video footage.
Just a speculative bystander
So, umm, how many Puerto Rican's lost power, how long ago, and how many are still waiting for power to be restored?
They are also citizens of the USA, you know.
And yet a quick scan shows no comments obviously comparing continental USA with island USA?
Interesting.
So, how is Puerto Rico going, US friends?