I work for the gas and water company (City of Hamilton). We lost gas to about 1000 homes a few years ago due to contractor error and it took about 3.5-4 days to get everyone back in service.
One of the things you have to do before you turn on and relight anyones gas is make sure everyone is turned off first. That way if someone is not home and the gas main is restored their is no chance that gas can entered thier home/building. Then you go one by one to every home & business and turn them on & re-light. We worked from 7am to around 1am or so all 3 or 4 days.
It's a long process, but best to play it safe.
Ugh
More photos from Muao Dib of the damage:
http://www.superficial.org/~michelle/
http://www.superficial.org/~michelle/
Yikes! Chicago gets some rough weather (last night we had winds ripping the roofing off of a few buildings, and they weren't particularly strong by our standards) But luckily we don't get the 'inch of ice on everything'! I got my first taste of it comming back to school in Champaign-Urbana the day after tweaking the hell out of my knee skiing. Shuffle, shuffle, slip, twist knee, writhe in pain on the ice sheet, get up, repeat.Artsay wrote:More photos from Muao Dib of the damage:
http://www.superficial.org/~michelle/
For what it's worth to everyone who lost power, the power lines in most ice prone areas are carefully designed to carry the ice load. (But the trees aren't) It could be worse - in '98 there was a hyper ice storm in Quebec that took out miles and miles of the main transmission system. It took down the grid in the area (including parts of Ontario) for weeks and took months to fully repair. The aerial photos showing miles of big transmission towers flopped over were amazing. So it could be worse, but it still sucks to loose power.
By the way, the Chicago news is showing possible tornado damage in "Eastern Kentucky" - anywhere near the Red?
Yep, south of the Gorge on the Lee / Breathit County line. Isolated damage, basically the thing dropped out of the sky on one little holler and messed up six or so trailer homes and killed a couple of people.
Its been a heavy week here in KY.
Its been a heavy week here in KY.
I see they are still lopping off mountains in Eastern Kentucky. Electricity isn't cheap.