RE: gEDA-user: DJ's back

["David Kerber" <dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here in RI, many areas had around 5" of rain, and some of the offshore
islands had winds up to 70 mph.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DJ Delorie
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:13 PM
> To: geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: gEDA-user: DJ's back
> 
> 
> > Is the site down? I can't seem to connect...
> 
> Major storm hit NH, taking out power, phones, internet, 
> roads, a few houses, and at least one truck.  We're OK 
> though, but at the peak there were close to 200,000 people 
> without power in the area, mostly due to trees falling on 
> power lines.  We were without power for 51 hours, and without 
> phone/internet for a little less than that.
> 
> Fortunately, this happens regularly to us (it's a spring 
> thing), so we had backup power, alternate heat sources, and 
> even battery powered internet (VERY slow).  However, our road 
> was washed out just north of us and just south of us, so the 
> only way to get anywhere was to take back roads around one of 
> the washouts, then loop around town to get to the main road.  
> The phone company's CO got flooded this time too, so phone 
> service is still limited and spotty, and the cell system is 
> overloaded.
> 
> These were some back roads just up the street from me:
> http://cmonitor.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?userphoto=
> 1&image=59033&thispage=1
> http://cmonitor.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?userphoto=
> 1&image=59032&thispage=1
> 
> More news and photos at www.cmonitor.com and www.unionleader.com.
> 
> For those who don't know what a "nor'easter" is, here's a 
> little weather lesson.  The jet stream crosses the USA from 
> West to East, and ends up here (East coast).  As it turns up 
> the coast, you get the typical cyclone system (think "weak 
> hurricane") with one side (the south east part) over the gulf 
> stream in the Atlantic, and the other side (the north west 
> part) over us.  North of us is the cold air mass from 
> Northern Canada.  So, this weather system picks up warm humid 
> air from the ocean, and dumps it on us as rain or snow.  The 
> prevailing winds are from the North East, hence "nor'easter". 
>  Nor'easters can dump a LOT of rain or snow (we got 3" of 
> rain) and create very high winds (up to 45 MPH here).
> 
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