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Post by papaof2 on May 20, 2024 18:08:28 GMT -6
You don't need bad weather to be in the dark. Georgia Power currently has these outages:
Estimated Restoration Time (ERT): Assessing Condition Customers Affected: 181 Outage Details: An outage has been reported in your area. We are working to determine a restoration time.
Estimated Restoration Time (ERT): May 20, 2024, 9:30 PM Customers Affected: 166 Outage Details: A vehicle accident has caused an outage in your area. Most customers will be restored by the ERT shown.
Our power co-op has one meter out. The other power co-op in the county has ten meters out.
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Post by feralferret on May 20, 2024 20:30:22 GMT -6
Still recovering from the massive wind storms across Kansas and Missouri yesterday evening. At one point Evergy had 106,000 customers without power.
Current status: Active Outages: 671 Total Customers Out: 10,366 Total Customers Served: 1,666,098
Statement from Evergy:
Power has been restored to over 90% of the 106,000 customers affected by severe storms in Kansas and Missouri. More than 1,600 personnel are working on power restoration. Evergy crews, contractors, and Liberty Utilities are assisting with the work. Extensive tree damage is being cleared by 175 vegetation crews.
For customers who are still without power, most communities will be fully restored by Tuesday evening. In communities where storms caused the most damage -- Hutchinson, Newton, areas of Johnson County (Prairie Village, Shawnee, Overland Park), and North Kansas City (Parkville, Weatherby Lake, Gladstone, Riverside) – some customers may be without power until Wednesday evening. Crews will continue to work until everyone’s power is back on.
Our lights blinked twice, neither time long enough to reset the clock on the microwave. We are on the edge of the area that may not get power until Wednesday evening, so we were very blessed.
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 10, 2024 1:20:18 GMT -6
The hourly forecast has had a "There is a marginal risk of severe weather" banner since at least 8AM Saturday. We saw and heard nothing during the day Saturday or Sunday. At 2:30AM Monday we got thunder and some heavy rain, which weatherchannel.com has listed as 88% or greater chance of precip until 3AM. A brick house with double pane windows blocks a lot of the outside sounds but the rain - often heard on the metal chimney caps - was also audible hitting the sidewalk about 15 feet from where I'm sitting. I would check for how much rain we got in the quarter hour starting at 2:30AM. Actually, that would be a check of the general aviation airport about 5 miles south of us - but w1.waeather.gov is down (checked by plugging the URL into www.isitdownrightnow.com/). I'll have instant access to that bit of weather info when my back allows me to go up an 8 foot ladder to re-battery the weather station's remote sender (that's mostly out of the weather under an eave, with the new wind speed & direction and rainfall sensors mounted above the roof thanks to a much younger neighbor). The re-battery will be replacing the AA cells (which last something over a year) with AA NiMH cells and a solar charger (which should last much longer ;-) The rain moved over us quickly so there is some speed associated with this storm cell. No power flickers for us and our power co-op has zero outages. The other power co-op in the county has 1 outage of fewer than 5 meters. Georgia power has sevral outages from this storm, with the largest being 208 meters along I-85 near the GA-SC state line. Those outages will likely increase as the front of the storm has just crossed into that area and the storm is about 40 miles long. Nice to have done the regular 10% discharge test of the battery backup system around noon Sunday and it's well on its way to being fully recharged as I type this. My remote access to the laptop which monitors that system is via the free UltraViewer and the remote display of that computer shows that the charge controller switched from "bulk" to "float" about 1:45AM. Obviously not solar charging at this hour ;-) I have a 40 watt DC power supply serving as the "solar power" until I'm able to get out and clean off solar panels during pollen season and the like... The spine surgeon isn't optimistic about me having any improvement but I'm not yet ready to curl up and die.
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Post by gipsy on Jun 10, 2024 7:03:16 GMT -6
Keep on keepin on
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 12, 2024 21:55:49 GMT -6
Regardless of the date, it's summer: we have a string of 13 days with highs from 90 to 95. All partly cloudy or mostly sunny except the last two which have PM thunderstorms and scattered thunderstorms, respectively.
Highs of 90 and 91 on the days with thunderstorms do offer the power of a very warm day to potentially provide some powerful thunderstorms.
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Post by gipsy on Jun 13, 2024 7:11:38 GMT -6
We have sky noise this morning
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Post by feralferret on Jun 13, 2024 22:21:56 GMT -6
We have sky noise this morning Sure it's not just you're snoring?
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 14, 2024 4:37:59 GMT -6
It's summer - regardless of the calendar:
Plentiful sunshine. Near record high temperatures. High near 95F.
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 16, 2024 18:46:49 GMT -6
Today's high was 97.
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Post by gipsy on Jun 21, 2024 7:31:00 GMT -6
We have sky noise this morning Sure it's not just you're snoring? You are so not nice
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 27, 2024 10:35:51 GMT -6
The thunderstorms in today's forecast are already active in the southern third of the state. Georgia Power has 1500+ meters out in two outages from the currently active front passing over the area and the lightning map at boone.weatherstem.com/modules/zapmap/zapmap.html?lat=39.9819965429&lon=-86.3172542221&icon=/user_generated/img/map_icons/boone/zionsvillenw.png&token=QqoIReCwwmz14SNdfnvh shows continuous lightning activity in that area. It runs down into Florida at least as far as Jacksonville. Not an area where you would want to be outside for the next few hours :-( Similar thunderstorm activity in the eastern third of North Carolina. There is also thunderstorm activity over parts of the Gulf of Mexico so probably not a good place to be out in a boat. Our chance of precip is now 42% for showers but my body is reacting in its usual negative manner to the changes in atmospheric pressure :-(
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 27, 2024 13:40:35 GMT -6
Outage marker has 261 meters.
First outage: Estimated Restoration Time (ERT): Jun 27, 2024, 4:00 PM Customers Affected: 164 Outage Details: A vehicle accident has caused an outage in your area. Most customers will be restored by the ERT shown.
Second outage (which overlaps 10% of the first one): Estimated Restoration Time (ERT): Jun 27, 2024, 4:00 PM Customers Affected: 97 Outage Details: Emergency repairs required an outage. We are working to restore power as quickly as possible.
Other definitely weather-related outages - rainfall overlay in yellow or pink:
Estimated Restoration Time (ERT): Jun 27, 2024, 6:15 PM Customers Affected: 330 Outage Details: An outage has been reported in your area. We are working to determine a restoration time.
Estimated Restoration Time (ERT): Jun 27, 2024, 6:15 PM Customers Affected: 175 Outage Details: An outage has been reported in your area. We are working to determine a restoration time.
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Post by papaof2 on Jul 19, 2024 9:04:40 GMT -6
15 July 2024
42% chance of thunderstorms in the 4PM hour and we're about 45 minutes into that hour's ongoing thunderstorm. We've had one very brief hit on the power - about the time 34 meters were taken out by lightning a half mile from us - and all we got was the ancient VCR restarting. I haven't checked the nearest general aviation airport for how much rain they got but there has been quite a bit. (About an inch in 3 hours.)
16 July 2024
Awakened by my body and the heavy rain. You can usually hear the rain on the roof in the upstairs bedrooms but rarely on the main level. A check out a back window shows the entire width of the back driveway is a running stream, not just the usual puddles which are, at most, half that width. The 15 - 20 minutes of rain had to be at the "inches per hour" rate. I heard one UPS beep after I was awake.
Twenty minutes later, we have light rain and distant thunder. Nearest general aviation airport recorded almost a half inch of rain in that hour.
19 July
Need to get back to the big pure sine wave UPS which is waiting for the new LiFePO4 cells to be welded together and balanced... Maybe when my body stops complaining about yesterday's PT and today's rain? And we have thunderstorms in the forecast for the next 24 hours plus the entire week following that... but I have checked all the flashlights ;-)
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Post by gipsy on Jul 19, 2024 9:57:11 GMT -6
I check them every time I walk by them
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Post by papaof2 on Aug 17, 2024 18:11:22 GMT -6
Our county and 38 others are under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 10pm. Two counties south of us are under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the next hour. We've not yet had any rain but we had a wind gust strong enough to turn over the wheeled recycle bin, roar loudly across the chimney and whistle between the insulated double doors that open to the screened porch. From the sound of it, I'd guess the wind speed was well over 30mph. I think their "Severe Thunderstorm" forecast might be correct.
We're now hearing thunder so we may yet get precip and some thunder flickers. The weather radar is showing the storm to still be 100 miles deep into Alabama so lots of time for there to be bad weather over us and opportunities for some of it making it to the ground. Some of the distant thunder is of the long and rolling variety which tells me there is some serious lightning associated with the storm.
Our power co-op has multiple outages affecting 165 meters, all west of us. The other power co-op in the county has 85 outages with 7,892 meters out, all of it north of us. Georgia Power has 454 outages affecting 30,659 meters so the line of storms is doing damage wherever it hits the ground. About a thousand of those outages are in a circle around us - once again, we seem to be in a somewhat protected "pocket". We do have some rain now, as a camera shows the reflection of a streetlight on the pavement and we have a least another hour until the line of storms will have passed over us.
Stay safe and dry :-)
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