Mother nature is pissed

[Crowz]

Battening down the hatches and charging everything full power.

Ive been watching the power outages as it rolls across.

I'm the gold star in the last pic.

 

[Brucey]

Battening down the hatches and charging everything full power.

Ive been watching the power outages as it rolls across.

I'm the gold star in the last pic.


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Fingers crossed for you buddy. If you need a safe space for any of those 250/100s....

 

[Crowz]

The big red wall passed over. High winds and some power blinking but things turned out ok.

Another weaker storm line will be coming thru in a few minutes.

 

[fatjay]

It's a good time to be battery powered. Stay safe.

 

[Crowz]

About another hour and it should of all passed thru.

It was nice knowing I had 20 hours worth of battery power and 2 weeks worth of generator power if needed

 

[Brucey]

About another hour and it should of all passed thru.

It was nice knowing I had 20 hours worth of battery power and 2 weeks worth of generator power if needed

I charged the delta 2 max from the grid just in case. My 25kWh bank is down to almost nothing after i got lazy and failed to clean the panels off yesterday. Hoping for some potential rain to do that for me before it goes back to ice and snow.

 

[TM48]

It woke me at 2 am....rolled over and went back to sleep.

 

[timselectric]

Stormed all night. And then dumped 2" of snow this morning.

 

[ScrodusGargleRotten]

I'm the gold star in the last pic.

Good luck! We got 11 inches of snow in the last 48 hours.

 

[42OhmsPA]

Waiting for the rain to finish clearing the roof arrays.


Some wicked winds are in the forecast through tomorrow, single digit temps are coming back and a potential storm Wed / Thurs.

Is she pissed or just doing some early spring cleaning

 

[kromc5]

After going out yesterday, I was shocked by the amount of trees down. Foodlion is dumping food into huge green containers. The high school, Lowes, and Walmart were staging grounds for Asplundh trucks. Many people around us have had no power for 3 days.

 

[v_green57]

Your last image reminded me of the "Good Old Days" of when I had Starband internet...

Every now and then, it would be offline for no good reason. Clear skies at my location of 37N, 112W.
SB CPE reported good signal from Galaxy 5, but no data. WTF?

When connectivity returned, I could backtrack the NOAA Doppler and see that a ginormous thunderstorm had recently rolled through Marietta, where SB's earth station uplink was...

 

[SparkyJJO]

Stormed all night. And then dumped 2" of snow this morning.

No storms here, just rain rain rain then a couple inches (so far) of heavy wet snow. *edit* 3 inches now, mostly stopped at this point.

 

[daklein]

Funny my utility uses the same outage map s/w as you show. It doesn't have a weather overlay though. They should because that's what they blame everything on, weather.


Hope you and everyone stays safe and as comfortable as possible during storms and outages. I was charging from grid yesterday since batteries low, off-peak weekend, and was supposed to be higher winds with snowstorm. It doesn't seem to have materialized though.

 

[Q-Dog]

I slept through it. Got 1" of rain and the front porch is soaked all the way to the front door so I know it must have been blowing at some point.

 

[timselectric]

I didn't do anything for preparing. I'm just letting whatever happens, happen.

 

[Brucey]

Panels had a crust of ice over about 3" powder snow could be pushed off easily in big slabs with squeegee.

Before and after production and potato early forecast due to not clearing panels at all yesterday.

 

[timselectric]

Snow is finishing up for today.
I might go out and clear some panels. (If I find the motivation)

 

[SparkyJJO]

Snow is finishing up for today.
I might go out and clear some panels. (If I find the motivation)

Mine are just gonna have to wait. 2nd story roof mounted sucks sometimes.

 

[timselectric]

Mine are just gonna have to wait. 2nd story roof mounted sucks sometimes.

I'm not touching the two story side. But maybe the single story side.

 

[ScrodusGargleRotten]

Cant we just back feed some volts to the panels and melt that horror show of snow?
Kinda almost kindding, maybe.

I know, terrible idea since even 3 inches of snow will still be around 70% of voltage.

 

[wiseacre]

Aw, my poor liddle panels have snow on them

I'm expecting nearly 2 ft of snow by tomorrow morning adding on top of the nearly 2 ft already on the ground
I'm going to be pretty miffed in a couple weeks when I have to trudge thru it all to tap my maple trees and then haul out the sap in 5 gal buckets

 

[SparkyJJO]

Cant we just back feed some volts to the panels and melt that horror show of snow?
Kinda almost kindding, maybe.

I know, terrible idea since even 3 inches of snow will still be around 70% of voltage.

People have tried that, doesn't seem to work wonderfully well.
Maybe if you did that right before it started snowing to preheat the panels, so it melts on contact and doesn't build up.

 

[Steve_S]

hahaha... got 95cm (37") in the past 3 days and another 30cm (12") arriving now and this will not end till Wed/Thurs - possibly later albeit that will be lighter stuff after today. ATM visibility is <5' and that goes down to 0' in bursts. 3 weeks ago snow was pretty much all melted away and we were in the +'s above freezing with rain storms... Algonquin Park Area, NE Ontario Canada.... Its all so messed up

 

[T-Rex]

All that weather is a pain in the posterior now, but sounds like your reservoirs should be in good shape for the summer.
Glad everyone appears to be OK.