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I dont understand, why does -5 to -15 destroy new hampshire infrastructure?? It's bloody -35 in calgary right now. (and around -5 on the northwest coast) I wo

by elai 18y ago

I dont understand, why does -5 to -15 destroy new hampshire infrastructure?? It's bloody -35 in calgary right now. (and around -5 on the northwest coast) I wonder why it's so cold this winter.

raamdev 18y ago
It wasn't the temperature, it was the combination of 4 inches of rain on Friday + just-below-freezing temperatures and wind. That combination caused crap-loads of ice to form on trees, wires, and even telephone poles (some poles fell over from the weight of the ice). There were seemingly healthy 18" trees that just fell over from the weight of all the ice, blocking roads and pulling down power lines with them. My parents live in NH, at the end of a dead-end dirt road and they're probably going to be without power until Wednesday. I spent most of the weekend trying to keep their generator working for them (my hands still smell of gas). All the Home Depot's in the area are price gouging, selling the generators as they come off the truck for $200 more than they're normally priced (and only allowing one per-customer). I even heard that people were driving truck-loads of generators up from further South and selling them off the back of their trucks. (I attempted to write something creative about all this on my blog if you're bored at work: http://tinyurl.com/5uyu6n http://tinyurl.com/5uyu6n)
- helveticaman 18y ago
  >All the Home Depot's in the area are price gouging, selling the generators as they come off the truck for $200 more than they're normally priced (and only allowing one per-customer). I even heard that people were driving truck-loads of generators up from further South and selling them off the back of their trucks. I know this sucks for people in New Hampshire, but if Home Depot weren't allowed to raise prices you would not have people driving truckloads of generators in to meet demand. Plentiful and expensive generators are better than fairly priced generators that have completely run out. It's the beauty of the market. Having said that, yes, it does suck that people in New Hampshire are being charged extra for generators, and I'd probably be pissed too.
  - iigs 18y ago
    If this follows the pattern of the Snow/Wind storm that hit Seattle over the winter of 2006-2007, about one month after the power comes back on people will be selling their generators for half price on Craigslist. I would expect gouging to exacerbate this -- people will want to recover some of the money they spent too much of.
RobertL 18y ago
AP says this is just more evidence of Human Caused Global Warming. Just more reason to increase the price of those carbon offsets.
- gibsonf1 18y ago
  At least there is one thing we can count on, no matter what the climate news, it is always evidence of Global Warming.
  - Prrometheus 18y ago
    It is almost as if it is a non-falsifiable truth.

by elai 18y ago

I dont understand, why does -5 to -15 destroy new hampshire infrastructure?? It's bloody -35 in calgary right now. (and around -5 on the northwest coast) I wonder why it's so cold this winter.

raamdev 18y ago

It wasn't the temperature, it was the combination of 4 inches of rain on Friday + just-below-freezing temperatures and wind. That combination caused crap-loads of ice to form on trees, wires, and even telephone poles (some poles fell over from the weight of the ice). There were seemingly healthy 18" trees that just fell over from the weight of all the ice, blocking roads and pulling down power lines with them. My parents live in NH, at the end of a dead-end dirt road and they're probably going to be without power until Wednesday. I spent most of the weekend trying to keep their generator working for them (my hands still smell of gas). All the Home Depot's in the area are price gouging, selling the generators as they come off the truck for $200 more than they're normally priced (and only allowing one per-customer). I even heard that people were driving truck-loads of generators up from further South and selling them off the back of their trucks. (I attempted to write something creative about all this on my blog if you're bored at work: http://tinyurl.com/5uyu6n http://tinyurl.com/5uyu6n)

helveticaman 18y ago
>All the Home Depot's in the area are price gouging, selling the generators as they come off the truck for $200 more than they're normally priced (and only allowing one per-customer). I even heard that people were driving truck-loads of generators up from further South and selling them off the back of their trucks. I know this sucks for people in New Hampshire, but if Home Depot weren't allowed to raise prices you would not have people driving truckloads of generators in to meet demand. Plentiful and expensive generators are better than fairly priced generators that have completely run out. It's the beauty of the market. Having said that, yes, it does suck that people in New Hampshire are being charged extra for generators, and I'd probably be pissed too.
- iigs 18y ago
  If this follows the pattern of the Snow/Wind storm that hit Seattle over the winter of 2006-2007, about one month after the power comes back on people will be selling their generators for half price on Craigslist. I would expect gouging to exacerbate this -- people will want to recover some of the money they spent too much of.

RobertL 18y ago

AP says this is just more evidence of Human Caused Global Warming. Just more reason to increase the price of those carbon offsets.

gibsonf1 18y ago
At least there is one thing we can count on, no matter what the climate news, it is always evidence of Global Warming.
- Prrometheus 18y ago
  It is almost as if it is a non-falsifiable truth.