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Northeastern Wind Aftermath Work

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Utility crews working nighttime storm restoration in Falmouth, Massachusetts. There was significant damage from last week’s nor’easter due to hurricane-force winds impacting trees.

As we say in New England, this is a “wicked bad” combination with many outages in a relatively small region.

Restoration efforts continue into the weekend assisting utility restoration managers, utility line crews, tree crews, and line contractors from all over the Northeast.

 

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Matt Chester on Nov 1, 2021

What's the preparations look like in the days ahead knowing a storm like this is coming? 

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Mojgan Masuomi on Nov 3, 2021

Mr. Chester,

Thank you for your question. 

The storm work planning is mostly done by the utility expecting to be affected by the weather event. Even in this modern age, weather forecasting can be imperfect in both severity and location.  

In the case of this October northeaster, we had conversations with utility planners prior to the storm arrival about staging areas, available resources, and impact locations days ahead. This has been a busy year. Our response workers know that they may be out away from home for some time, so they carry clothes and supplies to cover longer durations.  

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Jim Stack on Nov 3, 2021

Underground cables look expensive until you have a storm. With the improved horizonal drilling equipment the underground transmission line should be very cost effective.  Where is Nickola Tesla with his wireless power connections when we need them? I think there is a lot of new technology to help make the power lines more resistant to high winds. 

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