North eastern Ice storm!!

[jasonL78]

Man thank god for generator's! We are not going to have power until Wednesday. Let's just say I have never seen so much Ice and I have lived in NY all my life. We lost power early Friday morning 12:30 am I think. It sounded like someone shooting a gun outside my house. This was the tree's breaking from the Ice load. So Friday morning I go to use my generator that I bought in March of 2008 so it is 9 month's old and only has 3 hours on it. Well it doesn't work. So I spent most of the day taking it apart and found a bad capacitor on a circuit board. I call the company and the circuit board will be here next Thursday. So I got up this morning at 5:00 am with my house at 45 degree's and went to the Home Depot to wait in line for a generator. I was able to get three for family member's. I spent all day hooking up every one's generators. So now I am going to just relax with a couple of Beer's. I will take pictures tomorrow. You guy's will be amazed!

Jason

[x Baldwin Motion]

Glad you are OK !! Your Ice was our rain!

[budnate]

glad your up and running sitting around with no power for a solid day sucks when it is cold ...we lost power yesterday in a big wind storm and I had 3 gensets going as well at diff houses...then the power came on and the next door neighbors had a stove malfunction and the house torched big time.


I back feed a honda 6500kw into the house and keep all systems online, is running the christmas lights also to much?

[Salvatore]

Good thing you are a Sparky Jason! Comes in real handy. I bet your friends and neighbors thought you were a real surgeon doin what you were doin! Keep the family warm!!!

[shor]

<font color="blue"> I spent all day hooking up every one's generators. So now I am going to just relax with a couple of Beer's. </font>

glad you did it in that order

[CamarosRus]

Electrician damm good trade to have..........one they cant outsource to China

YEARS ago I was a Pipefitter at Lockheed Shipbuilding in Seattle, building Coast Guard and Navy Ships........

Never was a real residential plumber, but I know poop runs downhill and paydays on Friday........

[Tarrytown SS427s]

I went to Maine last Friday on rt 7 through Troy over to rt 9 and rt 101 through southern VT and NH. Troy had no power and therefore no traffic lights which was a real mess! further east was ever more of a mess, it looked like a bomb went off, with trees draped over the roads and lines down everywhere. Coming home last night on 87 I passed 4 fleets of electrical service vehicles. A state of emergency was declared and they have crews coming in from as far away as Ohio. Power isn't expected to be back to everybody in NH until Thursday or Friday. It really goes to show how brittle our power systems can be, as it doesn't take much to cause big problems!
Steve