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Damage In Tolland

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I'm always surprised it seems Tolland takes its sweet time for everything.

But heavy heavy winds,

Well it's just rural enough that we're not high on the priority list. Jen teaches in Ashford which is truly the boonies. They are still 100% w/o power. These NE hill towns always rake in SE wind events.

Got the call 10 mins ago..Day 3 of no school.

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Well it's just rural enough that we're not high on the priority list. Jen teaches in Ashford which is truly the boonies. They are still 100% w/o power. These NE hill towns always rake in SE wind events.

Got the call 10 mins ago..Day 3 of no school.

I got lucky - never lost power. It flashed about a dozen times. My niece is in Ashford - she's using my generator.

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I remember another crew from NC that was here last year after the October snowbliz. Yellow trucks..I think it was Pike Electric. They actually were the ones that restored power to my hood after 8 days out

Those guys are great! They are from all over NC. I talked to someone I know at Pike a minute ago. They said the crews are in Ct. now

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Boston seems to have been spared too. Commute this morning was a breeze. NOBODY on 93 at 8:30AM. It was like Sunday morning traffic.

Hope everyone is doing okay and is safe at least.

Ya we were pretty much spared. No damage around my neighborhood barring some small twigs and branches. I was really hoping we could get some hurricane force gusts in here, but it was still a pretty fun day. Not even close to some of my top/favorite weather events here though. After seeing the stunning pictures and video out of New York I guess we should be grateful.

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Ya we were pretty much spared. No damage around my neighborhood barring some small twigs and branches. I was really hoping we could get some hurricane force gusts in here, but it was still a pretty fun day. Not even close to some of my top/favorite weather events here though. After seeing the stunning pictures and video out of New York I guess we should be grateful.

I know, it was rocking for a while, but we've had way worse. I will say the steady groan of the winds actually impressed me. It wasn't just all in gusts like many of our wind events are....just a constant howl.

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I know, it was rocking for a while, but we've had way worse. I will say the steady groan of the winds actually impressed me. It wasn't just all in gusts like many of our wind events are....just a constant howl.

Yep, still looking to add to my list of top weather events here. Between the October snowstorm last year in the interior and now this storm, I feel like we have sort of missed out on some crazy weather events. Really hoping we get an Eastern New England special this winter.

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Yep, still looking to add to my list of top weather events here. Between the October snowstorm last year in the interior and now this storm, I feel like we have sort of missed out on some crazy weather events. Really hoping we get an Eastern New England special this winter.

I wasn't here, but this area and especially south did well in Irene all things considered. We've had a ton of events to live through, I'm happy to have been through them where other areas may not have had the ferocity. The NYC areas has been the weather capitol the last few years. Floods, wind, tornadoes, blizzards.

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Ponder this, think of how extremely rare both 10/29/11 was and 10/29/12 was. To have such rare storms on the same day.

I basically said the same to you this morning...

Here is a pic my aunt from Jamestoen, RI sent me. This is the same stretch of "road" that the bus with children tried to cross in 1938

Some people never learn

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Well it's just rural enough that we're not high on the priority list. Jen teaches in Ashford which is truly the boonies. They are still 100% w/o power. These NE hill towns always rake in SE wind events.

Got the call 10 mins ago..Day 3 of no school.

I taught today. My kids will be so much smarter...

(actually, my own kids and wife had no school today...wimps)

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the snow pics from tn, nc, va, wv, md, pa are very cool to see guys. it's amazing how the s. apps can snow hard with a well time'd cane hybrid rips lol

a blog from mt. leconte tn show'd some awesome pics , there is a inn at the top 6400' damnnn that's some elevation bout 20 inches there and bombing away on upslope

Mt. Leconte Lodge is up to 3 feet of snow now... still dumping on radar. Look at the topographic map of that place... the TN/NC border is a freakin' 6,000ft spine. I think the northern Greens are set up good for orographic precipitation, this place is nuts. From elevations below 1,000ft into a spine that's over a mile high (the entire state border is way, way up there). Northwest flow just killing these spots.

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You are alive!!! (miss ya man)

stupid work has cut into a lot of my internet time.....alas i should not complain i know.

tbh, the bigger issue is that the place where i live is on a shared router for the building (internet is included in rent) and my laptop always logs me off Americanwx between browsing sessions.....it sounds like a minor annoyance, but it is extremely annoying. i am not sure if i don't have the proper settings, or if its the shared router thing....i dont know.

anyways, i am lurking, waiting for winter and the bruins, ill be here with you guys. otherwise it is wait, wait wait.

red sox season wasnt worth loggin in for, nor will it be until the Big Oaf is gone.

anyways, impressive storm, glad to hear most of you made it through for the most part.

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Driving around Greenfield today I saw no damage and only a few small branches down.

The rain bands just never made it this far west so none of the higher winds mixed down outside of a few gusts. I think our sustained was maybe 15 - 20mph gusts to 30?

My heart goes out to those to the south, in a few days we'll all understand just how bad the damage was in NYC and NJ. More and more pictures and stories coming out. Mind boggling damgae in some areas. Price tag is going to way up there. Katrina numbers? Maybe.

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Driving around Greenfield today I saw no damage and only a few small branches down.

The rain bands just never made it this far west so none of the higher winds mixed down outside of a few gusts. I think our sustained was maybe 15 - 20mph gusts to 30?

My heart goes out to those to the south, in a few days we'll all understand just how bad the damage was in NYC and NJ. More and more pictures and stories coming out. Mind boggling damgae in some areas. Price tag is going to way up there. Katrina numbers? Maybe.

It will be far,far worse than Katrina was

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I think its pretty cool how many interesting parts this storm had. The fact that its been snowing for like 36 hours now in the central and southern Appalachians with temperatures in the mountains of TN/NC/WV in the 20s. Meanwhile, many many miles northward, here in northern VT the temperatures at 4,000ft have been hovering around 50F for the past few days.

Amazing to see a storm advect +10C air at H85 over us here in the north, while advecting sub 0C air at H85 down into the southeastern U.S.

It was colder today in Charlotte, NC than it was at the summit of Mount Mansfield at 4K in northern VT.

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