Oh fun, another Doomsday Prepper snuff film: American Blackout

[NutmegYankee]

10. Given the mass forest cover of Conn, we'd not get power for months with an Andrew like event.

The state is roughly 70% covered in trees. Luckily, despite the long outages (2+ weeks for some) associated with the Oct 29, 2011 Nor'easter (which dropped 2 feet of snow on trees that hadn't dropped their leaves yet), there were not many fires or CO events. Even Sandy was handled pretty well around me. The gas stations all were still operating because they had installed generators after Irene. It was NY,NJ that suffered the gas shortages because Irene had hardly impacted them, so they still had that feeling of invincibility.

We did have some fun during the Irene outage though. At about day 5 a neighbors meat freezer thawed and had to be cooked or tossed. So there was a huge "Block Party" and all of the meat (roughly 30 chicken breasts, 6 steaks, 11 sausages, etc) was grilled and served. And with no internet, we partied into the night drinking slightly warm beer and eating vodka filled watermelon. It was that outage that made me invest in a generator.