{"id":30,"date":"2013-12-29T16:20:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2013-12-29T16:21:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T16:21:33","slug":"a-winter-mess-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Mess Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t been living in Maine or paying attention to Maine news over the past week, let me give you a little summary: It&#8217;s been very wintery. First, we had an ice storm last week that lasted two days.\u00a0 Over 100K people lost power. There are still a few thousand that still do not have power. Power crews are working around the clock to restore electricity to about a thousand people who are still out. It&#8217;s taking a long time because so many trees were knocked down that some line workers have said it looks like a war zone. They need to use bulldozers and other heavy equipment to clear the debris.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Maine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Maine<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/winter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#winter<\/a> = <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cbta2wU9uT\">https:\/\/t.co\/cbta2wU9uT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stu Mahan (@s2bass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s2bass\/status\/417023092079476736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s a Vine from my brother&#8217;s twitter account.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s very cold. Last week we saw temps dip below freezing, so the ice is not melting. Also, it&#8217;s snowed on top of the ice adding to the weight on the trees, and making it difficult to drive and\/or fix the power lines.<\/p>\n<p>That was last week. Today we are expecting (depending on where you are) between 1 &#8211; 10&#8243;.\u00a0 I live on the coast, and it seems to me they aren&#8217;t really sure how much we are going to get. One map says 1-3&#8243; and the other 3-6&#8243;. That&#8217;s a big difference. All the maps agree that the middle of the state is going to get walloped. Good for skiers, bad for people without power.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service is mentally preparing us for another storm that could hit on Friday. Keith Carson, formerly of <a href=\"http:\/\/wcsh6.com\">WCSH<\/a>, now of <a href=\"www.weather.com\">The Weather Channel,<\/a> used the word &#8216;dump&#8217; in reference to predicted amount.<\/p>\n<p>No, you whippersnappers, us olds aren&#8217;t exaggerating when we say &#8216;I haven&#8217;t seen this much snow in a long time.&#8217; This morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/news\/Two_more_winter_storms_on_the_horizon_.html\">Portland Press Herald<\/a>reports, &#8216;As of Sunday morning, Portland had received 25.4 inches of snow, 13.4 inches above normal&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of power outages, I&#8217;m not minding this winter. It&#8217;s what Maine winters are all about. Sledding ,snow shoeing, skiing, 15 pairs of wet mittens crowded around the wood stove. Love it. Plus, it&#8217;s good for the economy, right? All those plow truck drivers are making a ton of dough.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to follow on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mainethings\">www.facebook.com\/mainethings<\/a>, where I post more updates and quick news bursts. Also, I&#8217;m on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mommyk8\">@mommyk8<\/a>, it&#8217;s not all Maine stuff, and sometimes I swear.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t been living in Maine or paying attention to Maine news over the past week, let me give you a little summary: It&#8217;s been very wintery. First, we had an ice storm last week that lasted two days.\u00a0 Over 100K people lost power. There are still a few thousand that still do not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/?p=30\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Winter Mess Summary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,12,11],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maine","tag-snow","tag-winter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainethings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}