We've certainly been having some wild weather as of late.

Just teasing!

Boiling the blood of the tree with its own body in the fire, I see. Well played you lunatic!

The only way you are preventing this is to cut down every tree within 100 ft of the power lines. It's literally the only way. And eversource doesn't own the trees. Landowners do.

I would really appreciate it if we could have a "sunny and 75" forecast. I'm rejecting this forecast. Thank you in advance.

I reject this forecast and substitute sunny and 70 degrees. All in favor?

Take my upvote

What is cisgender?

Appreciate the explanation. Wild times we are living in for sure.

I'm not at all being a poop stirrer. This is a serious question. If boys that identified as girls could use the girls' room, none of this would be happening? Or girls who identified as boys could use the boys' restroom? I honestly haven't paid enough attention to what has caused this issue. I'm just trying to understand what led to this. Not sarcastic or trying to offend.

Manchester has really become a dump. When I was a kid I never felt like it was as dangerous as it is today. Maybe I'm just getting old.

No that isn't how the grid works. Our energy, for the entire northeast, is essentially like a pool. And we draw from it what we need, where we need it. Transmission lines don't end at state or town lines.

Remember when they wanted to bring clean, cheap hydroelectric power from Canada to New England and NH residents shut it down? Man, we sure could use that now.

We put our food outside in Nature's refrigerator if the generator is down.

Wish I could say the same! I hate it!

Why do we live here?

The power company doesn't own the trees. They need permission to trim. If someone doesn't let them trim the tree they can't. The tree on your property is yours. So, When your power is out, blame your neighbor who's tree fell on the line. The only way to eliminate it would be to cut down every tree within 100' of a powerline. And that isn't going to happen with the environmentalist.

As far as the underground thing goes, it's the granite state. It would be so ridiculously expensive to put everything underground that it isn't going to happen. Also, when underground does go bad, and believe me, it does, finding and fixing the problem is its own special nightmare

That snow, combined with tonight's mess is going to create problems with power outages I'm afraid.

The problem is the cost of natural gas. The New England grid relies on power produced by natural gas, and the cost of that has skyrocketed. You probably aren't using an obscene amount of electricity, it's just that electricity costs an obscene amount here in New England.

Everyone is blaming the utility companies, but in actuality, it is the natural gas suppliers that are raping and pillaging our wallets. It's no different than what went on with gas prices post covid. Supply and demand.

This is why electric cars are receiving the pushback that they are. First off, the power plants will generate more emissions than a gas car does in order for you to charge it. Secondly, you will still be at the mercy of a supplier regarding the cost of operation, and thirdly our infrastructure is not capable right now of handling the demand if we were all plugging in our cars everyday.

It's a wild time to be alive. We have put the cart before the horse in our attempts to "fix" these problems.

Appreciate you.

I'm just messing with you!

Not the case for me. Never had a student loan.

Nice try, pal. You're one of them. I click that link, and I'm on every list known to man!

I'm in my early 40's and was getting blown up about Medicare. 🤷‍♂️

I accidentally answered one because I routinely get calls from numbers I don't recognize for work. That probably did it. So frustrating.