Europe is MUCH more dense than most places in America. I don't think many have a grip on just how massive this country is, and how spread out people are. Burying lines in NH is just untenable. My full-time residence is on Long Island, which is subject to hurricanes, and even though the population is VERY dense (almost 8 million) the cost here to bury lines is *still* prohibitive.

Overhead power lines run around $100K per mile, but burying them can cost ten times that. With NH's already crazy energy prices, I think most people will deal with getting a generator for the occasional outage vs. stomaching a dramatic increase in rates.

I would imagine Vehicle-to-Home will become more and more popular in rural areas, where you can get solar and if you have a storm, just use your solar and car to power your house and say "eff you" to Eversource.

Heavy and wet in Plaistow earlier this morning. It's looking more like normal snow now.

about 6" of heavy wet stuff in Lee. The wind is starting to pick up and and blowing the snow stuck on the trees. I expect power to go out sometime this afternoon with the wind and heavy snow.

What do you want to power company to do?

Are you suggesting they have the ability to power EVERY house from multiple directions?

The cost to do that in rural areas is prohibitive.

If you have an issue with outages, get solar, get wind, get a propane or natural gas powered generator. Chances are it's cheaper than the grid power anyway. Heck, a decent gas generator might be close to reasonable with the electric prices right now.

I drive Uber a couple times a week... and before the last storm picked up three guys at walmart and brought them to a hotel. while chatting, they said they were line workers flown in from Utah in preparation for power outages. They had already been there a couple of days and it was a couple of days until the storm was supposed to hit.
As I dropped them off, I told them that I hope they didn't have anything to do until they left. they laughed.

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There’s a quote from George’s Washington’s visit to NH. It’s something like ‘their corn crop is ok. The apples are nothing to write home about, but my god the stone walls are beautiful and bountiful!’

NH seems to be getting the kind of wet, heavy snow/mix that we used to get on Long Island 20 years ago. Now we just get rain. So another 20 years and you might not have to worry much about this. :D

I remember years of light, fluffy snow that "crunched" underfoot lasting for weeks when I was a kid. Guess those days are over.

Why do you think Verizon ditched NH in the middle of the Fiber Upgrade?

Underground wasn't feasible and above ground has issues with the trees.

We’ve got about a foot already and I just walked to the store for heavy cream to make an alfredo sauce. No cream. The 1.5 mile walk felt like 6 miles. Epic workout

>Using a model that’s been called “transformative” for the energy market, the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire announced this week its initial electricity rate will be 15.8 cents per kilowatt-hour, representing a 20 to 40 percent savings compared to the state’s utility companies.

It's unfortunate that the rate is on the high side, but it's probably just from bad luck with the timing of when they negotiated the contracts. The power market has been extremely volatile lately.

There's no mention of how long the rate is locked in for, but 15.8 cents per kWh is higher than the lowest rates offered by some competitive suppliers.

https://www.energy.nh.gov/engyapps/ceps/ResidentialCompare.aspx?choice=Eversource

One plus going with community power is that you don't need to be as vigilant about monitoring contract renewal terms compared to signing up with a for-profit competitive supplier. If you go with a for-profit provider, you're likely to get slammed into a super expensive month to month rate if you forget to renegotiate your plan when it expires. You won't have to worry that if you sign up for a community power rate.

Its called the granite state for a reason.

Plus buried lines means Jim Bob deciding to put in a fence, pond, or just dig for the hell of it, results in power outages and possible dead people.

Buried lines ARE NOT the answer for a state as rural as NH.

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The answer is home owners allowing the utility to trim and remove trees that will cause issues with the lines. Most outages are caused by preventable tree limb damage. If the utility was allowed to go after home owners that declined to have the trimming done, it would get better fast.

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Roughly 9-10", 1200 ft, New Durham

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Cheers, I'll hit you up in a 2 years. Best of luck, you'll need it

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~4 inches of cement in Tamworth so far. Some trees are really loaded.

Seconded. Their tonkatsu is also amazing.

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I was in the military. My Brother did 24 years in the military. My Sister was in the military. My Father was in the military, my Father in Law retired after 23 years in the military...

Are you saying that you moving is a result of being in the military (which would be the first mention of such) or are you simply deflecting the conversation from being about your own selfishness?

Let me guess:

You got a boyfriend in college, got him to marry you when he graduated with that sweet degree that would afford YOU that 1.1 million dollar house, had 1, then 2, then 3, then FOUR kids keeping yourself from having to go find a job, and then you home school them so that you can stay home and not have to get a job, and THEN keep making all of these people move at your whim and whimsey.

I'm sure that it's all quite rationalized in your head and you are the fierce momma bear that only has the best interest of everyone involved, but I present a different take, that absolutely may not be true, but:

Your husband knows that he can never win with you, as you hammer and hammer away until you get your way; his happiness and comfort are a far second to yours. He's resigned to the blithe and insulting "happy wife, happy life" which can also be translated as "there is no taming the shrew".

There some optimism now with new legislation last year and pending legislation this year. The state is seeking to add funding to InvestNH and a few other incentives for developers and communities to welcome workforce housing. Also, the Randolphs' project in Dover is a model for how workforce housing can be generated without state/federal dollars. It's a tough nut to crack, but - like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark - we have TOP people working on it.

For those curious why the power outage numbers are skyrocketing across the southern Monadnock Region, consider:

1. This part of the state has a high number & density of conifers (evergreens)
2. 5-15" of snow have already fallen across this area, with more on the way through late tonight. The majority of this snow (as expected) is heavy and wet, as evident from low observed SLRs & wet bulb temperatures near 32°F
3. Conifer trees provide a larger surface area for wet snow to clump and quickly aggregate, which is exacerbated by a lack of unloading under relatively calm winds

We have less than a dusting in Meredith. We've had mostly flurries off and on.