On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 21:43:09 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

A day of heavy, wet snow up here took down tree limbs causing the first
power outage we've had in about three years. Even last
winter with 5 blizzard type storms in 7 weeks and over 100" of snow
didn't cause any outages.

The crap today wasn't typical snow. It was more like 8-9 inches of
white slush. When I plowed it created rolls of water.

Fortunately, the outage wasn't too long. About 3 hours. I took a
ride around town and saw three trees that had been set ablaze by
having their limbs droop down on the high voltage lines. 13,500 volts
tends to do that.


We were supposed to get three inches or so. Yesterday morning a few flakes fell. The
wind came up, the sun came out, and the rest of the day was beautiful.

Sorry it hit so hard up there.
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