The last remnants of 3 feet of snow from the last storm had almost disappeared due to warm weather when a smaller snow storm was forecast for this past weekend. A light snow, followed by rain was forecast. The light snow started to fall late Sunday evening as I settled in to watch some football games on TV. The first hint of storm problems occurred around 9:30PM our electrical power flickered off/on twice. It looked like the electrical problem was over until 9:45PM when the power went off and didn't come back on. After a few minutes of waiting for the power to return we called the power company to report the outage. By 10:30PM the power was still off so I put some more wood in the stove and headed for bed thinking the problem would be fixed before morning.
By the next morning the power was still off and it was apparent that the forecasted rain had arrived as 6 to 8 inches of heavy/wet snow. Our electrical company had over 1,700 households without power. I spent most of the morning plowing the wet snow and around noon I fired up our generator to power the house. By 5:00PM I checked the power outage map for our area, 1,300 households were still without power. Around 8:00PM we started to see trucks from the power company parked in front of our house as workers with flashlights checked the power lines behind our house. Around 8:45PM our power was back online. A check of the power outage map this morning showed more than 300 households were still without power.
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