Frankenstorm in Connecticut
Oct. 29th, 2012 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutLimited access state highways in Connecticut are closed to trucks as of 11 a.m. if I understand things correctly, and will close to all "non-essential" vehicles at 1 p.m. The concerns appear to be two-fold (at least): things like the Merritt have trees along each side, quite close to the road compared to what I was accustomed to in Washington State. They could easily block the roadway at any time (possibly hitting vehicles on the way down); wind gusts can topple vehicles, especially ones like trucks which present a broad, flat expanse.
When I first moved out to New Hampshire to live with my now-husband, I took I-80 for part of the route, thus drove through Nebraska. It was just after Thanksgiving, IIRC, and I vividly remember seeing a car-hauler -- a big one, not a flat bed with a few but large tractor with layers of cars on the trailer -- _on its side_ next to I-80. Scared the bejeepers out of me.
It's incredibly boring staying home when there's really no reason to do so and there are errands to be run and fun to, hypothetically, be had. But there's just no point going out, because everything has closed anyway and who knows might happen out there in the next few hours. The advice to people in non-evacuated areas is probably sensible: don't go find trouble. Stay home.
We did have a fairly substantial set of power flickers, but none after; we suspect that some other part of the grid went down and what we saw was a load rebalance.
When I first moved out to New Hampshire to live with my now-husband, I took I-80 for part of the route, thus drove through Nebraska. It was just after Thanksgiving, IIRC, and I vividly remember seeing a car-hauler -- a big one, not a flat bed with a few but large tractor with layers of cars on the trailer -- _on its side_ next to I-80. Scared the bejeepers out of me.
It's incredibly boring staying home when there's really no reason to do so and there are errands to be run and fun to, hypothetically, be had. But there's just no point going out, because everything has closed anyway and who knows might happen out there in the next few hours. The advice to people in non-evacuated areas is probably sensible: don't go find trouble. Stay home.
We did have a fairly substantial set of power flickers, but none after; we suspect that some other part of the grid went down and what we saw was a load rebalance.