A+

Same thing in Houston. The national news networks were just talking about the most damaged parts of Houston. The local networks were telling us about all the different areas and keeping us updated when things changed (like when they released the reservoirs).

<Slowly walks away>

I'm in western Broward county in Florida (Plantation) and still have no power. It went out about 11:30 am on Sunday. I'm staying with family that does have power so for that I'm thankful. Can't imagine if I didn't have any family in the area and was just sitting in the dark after 72+ hours. The temperature in my apartment is currently about 100 degrees.

of course there are no meaningful trends. 50 years of weather data is quite literally just a blip on the radar. that sample is so tiny compared to the history of earth's climate that its completely meaningless

Do you say the same regarding temperature?

I was going to post earlier that it wasn't too bad here the last couple nights but tonight is brutal. 90 percent of our complex has power. I'm in the 10 percent. Duke isn't even acknowledging that it is out. We aren't showing up on the outage map. When we call to report, the message says "you are the first to report an outage in that area." I was handling this pretty well until I saw everyone around me get power. I can't reach anyone at Duke. I honestly don't even think they know it is out.

https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEA...ntent55-07.png

So that's not a meaningful trend?

All that graph shows is that there's not been a correlation between rising sea temps over past 50 years and the amount of hurricanes.

Looks like we've been running +EV.

Apparently, Duke's online reporting system is not working. Neither is their outage map. Their entire everything is ****ed.

I honestly think they have no clue who has power and who doesn't.

They take up a huge amount of space and make everything look ugly. They make sense in places like Europe, Canada, and Massachusetts that are full of smug *******s that like driving in circles.

You are probably screwed for a while. They need to focus on areas with large numbers of outages.

This dude has issues.

They don't take up much space at all here, but I guess when you have 4x 8 lane carriageways coming to a head they would start getting pretty big.

Except for a few rural Amish areas, carriages were phased out in the US a few years back.

Whoops, my bad. Forgot that you have your own version of the English language.

Trucks came again this morning. GF went to thank them. While she was talking to one guy, another turned around and left. She asked the guy she was talking to when they thought they would finish. He said they were and all power was restored. Only it wasn't. They have no clue. He assured her he would go back and get us up and running. I can't check until tonight.

Climate change does happen but it's cyclical - it's not caused by us, contrary to what some others want everyone to believe.

If it was caused by us, why are other planets in our solar system also heating up?

https://www.livescience.com/1349-sun...th-worlds.html

ffs, there is an entire god damn thread in the politics forum for you guys to spew your climate idiocy in.

Hang in there man. I'm at 96+ hrs of no power

Oh that's good - maybe you will get lucky if crews are still in the area.

What happened to me one time after a major ice storm is the local crews came through and got the power back up for just about everyone, then they were sent south to help with the areas of major devastation.

Meanwhile, my power was only back up for about an hour (after being out for 3 days) when the transistor at the top of my street blew. This only affected about 20 houses so they came right out and told us we were screwed for a while because they couldn't justify pulling crews back to the area for only 20 houses. (Understandable but frustrating.) We ended up with no power for an additional 7 days. And it got really cold - like lows of about 10 degree F.

Ugh.

Still no power. I'm unsure if they stayed or left.

They told my brother they estimate 9/22 for his.

Irmaids (and Harvaids) victims should go here asap

https://www.disasterassistance.gov/

Put in your address to see if your county is eligible for disaster relief (yours is BB and loldolphins). There is no sense in leaving that money on the table.

Power in my hood was restored yesterday for approx. 2 hours, then it went off again and has been off since.