And in this case, two pictures show just what power crews in Maine are coping with today as they try to restore power to more than a 130,000 customers without power in the Pine Tree State.
First, there are the thousands of people who like their counterparts to the south are delaing with the aftereffects of last night’s stunning wind. Central Maine Power crews snapped a couple of photos on Brighton Ave., in Portland.
But in the interior – they’re facing issues caused by heavy wet snow, like the outage caused by a tree in Farmington that you can see in the bottom photo.
The bottom line? In both of these cases, it’s going to take a while to undo Mother Nature’s damage. So if you can see this on your home computer – count yourself among the lucky ones with power.
Matt is running around like a chicken with his head cut off pulling together all the reports of high winds Thursday night, with multiple 70 mph gusts reported from Cape Ann to Eastport, and unconfirmed reports even higher.
And if you missed it, Joe was out in the heart of the storm on the New Hampshire and Maine seacoast overnight – watching him get blown around is great video – but it’s his statement that it;s the worst weather he’s personally experienced that tells you just how nasty things got. The cleanup from this storm will take days, and no doubt, so will the analysis of this powerful blast.
We are getting lots of great pictures from you during this winter storm… and will keep adding to this slideshow as the weekend goes on.
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And send your best pics to weather@necn.com and we’ll try to add them.
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Editor’s Note: NECN’s R.D. Sahl is often in the mix as an anchor for storm coverage. He’s a little under the weather instead of out in it, but still took a little time to share some thoughts from home, and a couple of memories. Love the socks story. We need to make him tell the whole thing.
Sunday morning. Watching the snow fly. Itching to be outside. Eager to be back at work after recuperating from some surgery.
There’s a brilliant scarlet cardinal at the bird feeder on the back porch. Caught a couple of nice close ups before it flew off.
The dogs had a ball in the snow this morning. Casey, the six month old pup, tearing through the powder having what my wife and I call a “nutty.” Dear old Callie, her coat powdered with white, sniffing the air.
It brings back memories of snowstorms past:
The clink of tire chains on snow packed roads.
Cross country skiing out the back door when my Dad was stationed in Norway.
The D.C. snowstorm when my car was towed on Massachusetts Avenue. It took two days to find it. A hundred bucks to get it back. And the battery was dead.
The Blizzard of ‘78. I gave the late Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso a pair of dry socks. She returned them laundered and neatly wrapped with a nice note several days later.
The snow and ice in northwestern Connecticut when Lin and I were married 35 years ago this month.
Snow can be a bother, to be sure, but on balance the good memories outweigh the bad.
Maybe, if I promise to take it very slowly, I can convince my wife to let me take a short walk in the woods this afternoon.
But this could be it…
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testing testing testing…
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While the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy dominates the headlines, an important weather potential looms for this weekend.
The National Hurricane Center has now named Tropical Storm Danny, and put it on a course to pass over Cape Cod and the Islands as a Category 1 hurricane.
It’s not confirmed, but the New York Times is usually pretty good with these things.
Michael Schmidt of the Times reports that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were among the 100 or so players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in the 2003 season. Schmidt says he got the information from lawyers and others connected with litigation related to the 2003 positive tests.
He also notes that the lawyers did not say what substance the two players might have received positive tests for.
We’ll be following the story today - but in the meantime, you can find Schmidt’s piece here.
