A lot of the area around Peterborough and Hillsborough don't have power. The area around Milford and Wilton seems to. It's really damn heavy, and it's super slushy to walk on. There's pools of water forming in dips and potholes in the roads, hiding underneath the snow.

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Or sees those beautiful stone walls randomly in the woods! I always feel so sorry for those farmers.

Here on top of Pat's Peak in Henniker, I've got about 10" on the ground and can barely see my shed it's coming down so heavy.

Without knowing exactly where you work, I think Milford might be a good town to check out. There's a lot there, with Amherst and Nashua close by. Or there are quite a few nice small towns surrounding it, like Mont Vernon and Wilton.

Yeah, anyone who’s dropped a shovel In the ground here knows digging ain’t easy

It might be less money to put a human on Mars, than to trench the granite state.

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It seems very reasonable that each house will have its own relationship with the reliability of the electrical grid. Many of us live on towns with one feed, on 50 year old side streets with grand arching limbs as a deep forest canopy, a chain made entirely of weak links. Others live in multiple dwelling units 1400 feet from aggregate supply lines under the street. Any two random people from this fine state can have completely opposite experiences during a heavy winter storm like this, alas.

Not to derail the topic, but do you remember where in Boston you had them? I'd love to try authentic ones, and I'm taking a trip there soon.

Merrimack heavy wet snow :(

If you're in the Nashua-Merrimack-Bedford-Amherst area, then rent is pretty expensive for starting salaries. One example would be Slate apartments off Exit 10 on the turnpike in Merrimack at about $2,300 - $2,400 for a one-bedroom. The places are brand new.

If you could narrow down your area, then we could make more targeted recommendations.

Any reports from Hanover / Lebanon ?

This entire winter has been above average temperature so almost every snow storm has delivered heavy ass wet snow that piles up on trees and lines. This isn’t typical.

I've been thinking of getting DSL as a backup. We have had no problems with Comcast and power in Merrimack. We have another house in Boston if it were a problem and I think that they're getting much less snow.

I can always go to the Nashua or Merrimack YMCA for internet access - I do see people working there for a couple of hours from time to time. The Nashua YMCA has a nice room with desks and chairs outside the swimming pool which makes for a nice place to work. There's no privacy of course.

Portsmouth/Dover

Yeah the $2m/mi figure is an average, and I suspect it would be more in many parts of NH due to difficult terrain and the prevalence of rock.

This is the only year I remember where EVERY snow storm has been heavy wet snow. No powder whatsoever. Heavy wet snow and wind are perfect for outages

I was as well. I was going to go to the gym this morning and there was 3 inches on the ground so I cleared it. I'm going out to clear more and then go to the gym.

There are a lot of pieces to the grid and weakness in any of them can cause a power outage to your house. We have not had an outage of over two seconds since 2011 at our place. You can tell that there's a short outage when some appliances stay on and some don't. We have undeground wiring and the line in is on a main street. The power company does a great job keeping branches trimmed and adding support poles when needed.

So it could be a local issue or even an issue on your property. Or it could be an issue on your street or elsewhere.

Manchester it Portsmouth.

If I was younger, I’d pick Portsmouth.

My wife makes them a couple of times a year. She's in Singapore right now taking cooking lessons. We haven't had these at a restaurant in a long time, probably in Boston.

it’s not manchester but dovers hong noodles have delicious xiao long bao

As someone who works in the industry, it gets old hearing that we should just bury the lines. This works in dense areas, but for rural areas (like the vast majority of NH) it is extremely cost prohibitive. Installing buried conduit, manholes, transformer foundations, etc. is often upwards of $200-$300 per FOOT of buried conduit. Even more expensive if it has to be concrete-encased, or God forbid there is ledge (rock) in the way that needs to be hammered out (btw this is New Hampshire, the Granite State, there is ledge absolutely EVERYWHERE). And that doesn't even include the cost of installing (pulling, splicing) the actual cables and transformers themselves.

You're making a lot of assumptions.