[TheForge] OT - Snow in NJ

[Andrew Vida]

South Jersey?  Is Seeley-Cohansey rd. on your beat?

John Allen wrote:
> I'm in south jersey and I do all the welding for the Salem county road dept
> and we have about 6 inches plus drifts. Lucky it is all powder. The winds
> down here are horrible since we are 75% farm fields. Just getting to the
> county road dept in just 6 miles, I passed 4 cars stranded. I wish I could
> have helped them but just meeting to work and helping getting the salt
> trucks back on the road is better.
> On Dec 27, 2010 2:48 AM, "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>>> Well we didn't have a white Christmas, but the day after Christmas is
>>> white enough! It started snowing at maybe 10 AM, and hasn't stopped.
>>> I think we've got about 18" now...
>>>
>>> How's by the rest of youse guys?
>> Well, your storm got here to SW Nova Scotia sometime after dark. Now,
>> in the wee hours, there's about 4" of very wet, clingy stuff down
>> and it's turned to steady, drizzly rain.
>>
>> One brief power outage already because a decade or so ago the newly
>> privatized powerco decided it was more profitable to fire all the
>> crews that went around in daytime good weather trimming or removing
>> trees that grew up into or over the power lines and rely on emergency
>> repair crews that have to go out in nasty weather, night or day, to
>> repair the lines when ice- or snow-laden trees and wind combine to
>> knock them down.. I guess it's good for the economy because
>> everybody, especially those who have freezers full of stored food or
>> no backup heat source have to buy and maintain a generator.
>>
>> Looks like the snow is going to be rained off by next nightfall or at
>> least reduced to a little slush.
>>
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>> --
>> Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
>> /V\
>> mspencer at tallships.ca /( )\
>> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
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