canderson Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 A whopping 370,161 PPL customers have or had lost power at some point during the storm. Said it's their biggest outage in two decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattinpa Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Just got power back. Took pics. down at the Perk. Creek in Graterford 2nd highest crest ever!...................................Speechless. Hope to have them uploaded soon. Total rain here: 6.64" I was lucky enough not to lose power. It's a good thing those 9 inch totals didn't come - that creek is so high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 I was lucky enough not to lose power. It's a good thing those 9 inch totals didn't come - that creek is so high. It was astounding. The park I take my daughter to is submerged. Water up near the top of the slides on the playground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCT777 Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 I got power back a little before 4 PM after a 6 hour outage. Took some pics of the Perkiomen Creek flooding at the Spring Mount bridge and on Park Avenue near Route 29/73 in Schwenksville this afternoon. Will upload a few to the media thread this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SP Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Things in Southern Monmouth have taken a turn for the worse. Winds started cranking up and the scanner began humming with calls for down trees and poles. Power problems are increasing quickly. While typing this the lights have flickered 3 times. Not sure what the winds during the last hours have been but they are enough to create more of a problem. Word is power could take 3-5 days..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainshadow Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 what about 1944?? I'm not that old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbs Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Power back on at 4 after 16 hour outage. Comcast back at 6. Rainfall total 6.03. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Had big winds down here after the sun came out about 2 hours ago, took out a lot more trees, and traffic lights on the Black Horse Pike. 16 seperate calls since 6am this morning. I'm guessing the strong winds mixed down when the sun came out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMolineuxLM1 Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Is there going to be some sort of lock back on how the forecasts came about for the storm and what was missed or overlooked on it, i guess they call it a re-analysis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptb127 Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Total rainfall - 3.27" ... gusts to 62mph.. Some power outages across Hazleton Area.. not for me thank god. I already posted a pic of the tree that came down during the strongest gust QPF wise better forecasted by GFS.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violentweatherfan Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Is there going to be some sort of lock back on how the forecasts came about for the storm and what was missed or overlooked on it, i guess they call it a re-analysis? I think that would be a great topic, im kinda curious how the dry mass near the dep south was missed or not factored in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVblizzard Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Power was out for 3 hours here from 3:30-6:30. Not too bad considering the length some other places had or are having. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rib Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 I just want to thank Glenn Schwartz for mentioning us on NBC10 as many times as he did last night and this morning. You stayed up all night on the news keeping us informed and I think everyone in the area wants to thank you for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 I just want to thank Glenn Schwartz for mentioning us on NBC10 as many times as he did last night and this morning. You stayed up all night on the news keeping us informed and I think everyone in the area wants to thank you for that. what was he saying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rib Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 He kept name dropping us and talking about our reports and reports from NYC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Storm total rainfall through 8PM: PHL 5.70 VAY 6.02 ILG 6.94 PTW 5.95 DYL 6.35 WRI 5.94 TTN 5.74 MIV 6.31 ACY 5.87 NEL 5.22 MJX 5.83 RDG 3.04 DOV 7.83 ABE 5.01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Peak gusts through 8PM: PHL 45kts/52 mph PNE 39kts/45 mph LOM 31kts/36 mph VAY 41kts/47 mph ILG 49kts/56 mph PTW 38kts/44 mph DYL 33kts/38 mph MQS 40kts/46 mph WRI 44kts/50 mph TTN 45kts/52 mph MIV 43kts/49 mph UKT 34kts/39 mph ACY 50kts/58 mph NEL 48kts/55 mph XLL 38kts/44 mph MJX 41kts/47 mph RDG 42kts/48 mph DOV 45kts/52 mph ABE 46kts/53 mph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quakertown needs snow Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 Glad everyone is safe. Yeah it was great seeing Glenn mentioned us . Thanks to everyone with their OBS and to the local and distant mets for all their input . Its dry out time..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Glad everyone is safe. Yeah it was great seeing Glenn mentioned us . Thanks to everyone with their OBS and to the local and distant mets for all their input . Its dry out time..... 100% agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Di Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Just got power about an hour ago, however my parents in Kennett Square are still out. We just shut their generator off so they could try and get some sleep in peace. Will check on them again in the am before heading to work. I think all of the mets and weather folks I read on this board did a great job. I tried to remain calm last night while knowing the bands coming in with some lightning were the friction between the water and land as explained as plainly as can be to a commoner like me, and although I kept telling myself it would be unlikely that a tornado touch down anywhere near my location, I still slept downstairs. What a night. Also, rainfall amounts were not off that much at all Thank you all for the valid information. I'll take a winter storm anytime over this. Good night Irene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovintheWhiteFluff Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Garden State Parkway closed both ways between exits 91 and 98. Originally it was due to flooding but now the southbound side of parkway collapsed around mile marker 96 due to erosion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds~69 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Closing in on 24hrs without power in Horsham, PA. PECO said "they're working on it". Took a drive around..pockets of outages in Warminster PA as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Spent the whole day and night removing the wet contents of my basement flood. Two concrete blocks cracked due to water pressure shooting water in like a garden hose. Sump pump failed to turn back on after a brief power loss around 5 am. Got it working again at about 6am, but damage was done and the whole thing trashed under seven inches of water. My base never seeped of flooded in the 6 years I've been here. Also lost several large tree limbs and lost power again at 5pm todAy. It's back On now. But my 2500 person office in Princeton is close indefanately - no power, so no work tomorrow. A good deal of my town, Freehold was flooded with many houses under several feet of water, one vintage home was split in two by a 100 year old maple tree. Rt 9 still closed in many spots. I've never seen anything come close to this kind of flooding we had here today. Simply unreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Final storm total 5.43" back home in Ewing in the 4-incher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Finally got power back after an eight and a half hour outage. Drove through my neighborhood earlier in the afternoon, lots of trees and branches down. One somewhat busy road in my neighborhood was closed because a ginormous tree fell across the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phlwx Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Some parts of suburban South Jersey were rumored to not get power back until Labor Day weekend. Still 200k without power in the PECO footprint alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslotted Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Great job in this thread over the last few days, guys (and girls?). I found this to be a WAY more valuable resource than the main threads and that speaks to the great contributors we are lucky to have in our area. Glenn is just the icing on the cake... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quakertown needs snow Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 Power outage thing sucks for many reasons, sump pump, septic, well, frig. etc. Been there many times for extend period of time. Got very lucky this time. Hope everyone gets back power soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Great job in this thread over the last few days, guys (and girls?). I found this to be a WAY more valuable resource than the main threads and that speaks to the great contributors we are lucky to have in our area. Glenn is just the icing on the cake... Agreed. I think our forum region is underrated. We really don't have many problems wishcasters or mongerers and the red-taggers who chime in are top notch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximum lawman Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 6.37 in the bucket. 31 hours without power. Frantic trench digging in the dark in the heaviest rain I've ever seen (about 10:45 PM). Great storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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