Nearly 1 million remain without power after ice storm

oh wow

If they raise the tolls no one will go help them next time this happens!

Maybe we should have paid off Mother Nature and this wouldn't have happened. That's the way everything else gets done in this state.

Brrrr...

wish you were in sd stefon and dizzie!!!!!!!

Boylston is dark

PRAISE JESUS

Global warming?

The warmest year was 10 years ago, but our "leaders" ignore that and will follow through with more and more stupid global warming legislation which will only cost us all money and ruin businesses. What happened to separation of church and state? I do not wish to worship at the church of global warming. My eyes are not wild enough.

The town of Harvard was really hard hit. Almost impossible to get out of town, since almost all roads are covered with debris. No power, either. Will take a long time to recover...

God bless the intrepid men & women of our public works forces..........

Mother Nature hasnt like the implications of Al Bore that she has been having hot flashes due to men - so she is showing her true COLD wrath!
On a serious note, I cannot believe that crook Gore who has made millions off of people's fears that he instilled in them, can still go around screaming the planet it heating up....just unreal.

Matt Cassel is better than Tom Brady.

I'm ok in FL

Parts of Norton, Rehoboth and Seekonk are dark. Branches and small trees are all over the back roads and several streams are flooded. Only one road that I went down this morning was impassable due to flooding.

I had a table on my deck blow off the deck (over the rail and down an 8 foot drop) and fly halfway across my yard. Luckily my backyard was so wet that it cushioned the blow and the table survived intact!

remembered last year's (dec. 10th) snow storm..

My daughter is stuck with no heat or power in W Boyleston with a newborn baby (11 days old). She needs to get out of there but hasn't figured out how. I hear that a lot of roads are impassable. Son in Holden can't get his cars out. One has a tree on it and the other is covered with large branches. Also has damage to his house. His street is impassable too. He says trees are down everywhere.

Eli Manning is better than Matt Cassel.

Wow, are there really that many global climate change deniers posting here? Really? Ignoring the fact that they still call it "global warming" which is both outdated and misleading, are we seriously doubting that the polar ice caps are melting and CO2 levels in the atmosphere are beyond what they've been in 650,000 years? I am all for a healthy level of skepticism, but denial? Really?

I am in Rochester, NH which was hit pretty hard. I have power & net but I think my neighborhood is the only one. I went out for a bit today & the parts of the city I saw were all out of power. All we hear are sirens. It is kinda scary. We are okay here as we haven't lost anything other than several limbs coming down in our yard...but I have family members in neighboring towns that are without power, water, everything.

Global Warming??? We just had 1.5 inches of snow in New Orleans and 8 inches in Amete...perhaps Gore needs to check the weather reports or the Farmer's Almanaic.

My mom called from Holden and said a tree fell on their house and that their street looks like a bulldozer came by and knocked all the trees down. It's completely impassable. To make matters worse, they've had no power since midnight so they're basically stuck in their house with no electricity, no water, and no flushing toilets (we have a well pump).

I think it would be time to get the community together as a whole to try & assist emergency workers in cleaning up some of the "smaller" debris. At least that way, you wont be stranded as long! Good Luck!

While the lights are off and the roads are icy, let's sort some stuff out.
It's not about global warming, it's climate change. It's about extreme weather patterns and events increasing in frequency and intensity – not just heating and cooling.
In today's news from Canada, scientists report that the Canadian Arctic will be "seasonally ice free in six years". That's 85 years ahead of the last projects by the UN. Realize that the poles act on the planet like the defroster on your fridge freezer -- once they melt, don't think the rest of the fridge won't be affected.
Thanks for your time.

One thing I don't miss from my undergrad days...

For the uneducated posters about global warming: Global warming is not supposed to suddenly turn the planet into a spa. A change of even a few degrees over the average temperature of the planet will instead cause very wide fluctuations in local weather, including more severe winter and summer storms and more frequent flooding and droughts. While this particular storm is damaging, it is also not unusual, and therefor cannot be contributed to global warming one way or the other. It is only in the overall trend of the planet that we will see more frequent weather disasters.

Underground wiring has been around for decades - how about that?

Krysal, Karla, and all the other anti-intellectuals out there --

Long term climate trends are IRREFFUTABLY cataclysmic if nothing is done to reverse the problems. This is according to the overwhelming majority of climate scientists -- you know, the people with brains.

If you choose to believe corporations, pundits and politicians over the scientists, then you are completely naive. Educate yourselves please.

up down east (maine for the clueless) weather sure was yucky. tell the new mom to get/use her cellphone and call 911. we transport a lot of moms with new babies to shelters in events such as this ice storm.

For the people questioning Global Warming.......hi, it's Friday, December 12th, 2008 and a worldwide alarm clock is going off. Feel free to wake up.
For anyone over 25, do you remember major seasonal oddities like this when we were kids? No? Do you ever wonder why? Possibly because hundreds of years of abuse are changing our planet's 'normal' seasonal weather patterns. The snow we got as kids, is now ice or freezing rain. The hurricane seasons we used to see and marvel at are now longer, stronger, and more damaging. While you're recovering from this storm, do some research people.

If you are too cold at home, call 2-1-1 the Massachusetts Emergency Management Administrations's number supported by the United Way.
The Governor announced shelters are being set up across the state.
Check in on your elderly neighbors and those with young families.

Finally you people are understanding what we from Alaska have been trying to tell you after Mr. Gore (soon to be in President Elect Obama's Cabinet) tried telling us that we are heating up the planet. While he tries to tell us how dirty we are for producing oil and driving 4 wheel drives he flies around in his private jet. By the way, his private jet (I think it's a Gulfstream 5) is a very inefficient burner of the fossil fuels he receives from my state. Then, while he is blessing the United States with the pollution from his luxury (Didn't Congress recently rail against the Big 3 execs that a private jet was a non-necessary luxury?) item, he rails against those of us who drive big 4x4s. I have a heart for those on the East Coast, but don't you think most of them wish they had a big safe 4x4 right now? They certainly make traversing rough, slick, flooded, or otherwise impassable terrain passable... even if that terrain happens to be inside a city. Please remember the hard times you are going through now when you ask your law makers to legislate against Alaska. You may get bad storms once every few years but it is a part of life for us and the vehicles we use are used because they make life more safe.

PS: When the rest of the United States becomes a barren inhospitable wasteland as Mr. Gore suggests, you are all welcome to join the beach party in Oooguruk Bay (yes it is spelled correctly), Alaska. The weather should be perfect!

stupidity still reigns supreme...
The definition of global warming does not just mean that the entire planet is warming up. Its states that there parts of the planet that are warmer than usual and some parts of the planet where the temperature will get colder. More extreme weather disruptions and the like. Guess when some one says its raining "cats and dogs." You must think, dang, those cats and dogs must be in pain from falling so far from the sky or shoot the streets must be covered in cat and dog's blood. If you cant get it through your imbecile-like mind..maybe "Mother Earth" is showing you with the ice storm.

Oh..My god...

Frodo should stay home. For those of you who don't remember, Elijah Wood's character in the movie The Ice Storm was electrocuted by a downed wire in an ice storm. So be careful out there. If a downed wire is in contact with metal object, don't touch the metal object either.

For the people questioning Global Warming.......hi, it's Friday, December 12th, 2008 and a worldwide alarm clock is going off. Feel free to wake up.
For anyone over 25, do you remember major seasonal oddities like this when we were kids? No? Do you ever wonder why? Possibly because hundreds of years of abuse are changing our planet's 'normal' seasonal weather patterns. The snow we got as kids, is now ice or freezing rain. The hurricane seasons we used to see and marvel at are now longer, stronger, and more damaging. While you're recovering from this storm, do some research people.

I'm in Chicago and it's always warm. If we get 80's in January instead of snow, then I will believe that global warming is real....

Global warming is said to cause extremes in weather conditions, not just a rise in temperature. The weather patterns are disrupted globally. I think that even the skeptics can agree that, especially over the last 10 years or so, weather has been much more unpredictable.

Call it climate change. Global warming is a misnomer, evinced here.

God you people are such idiots. If you actually LISTENED to what Al Gore said about Global Warming you'd know that just because it's very hot or very cold in a SPECIFIC year or day does neither validate global warming nor invalidate global warming respectively. It's a gross and ignorant oversimplification to say just because it's cold today that global warming doesn't exist. You have to look at the big picture, i.e overall trends.

An ice storm proves global warming doesn't exist? Talk about not understanding science.....

GO YANKEES! REDSOX SUCK!

yeah vermont is cool

Time to grab the chainsaw and blaze your own path out of town. Make sure you wear your Jason goalie mask for effect.

Are some of you really this ignorant about global warming? It does not mean that temperatures simply get warmer. It means that in the summer, temps get warmer, and in the winter, temps get colder. Which, according to statistics and your comments, this is happening.

I got back to the Phoenix area in the nick of time.

Wow, people who are now questioning global warming clearly have no grasp on the concept. Morons.

For those of you who think that an ice storm is a sign that global warming is a myth, you need to do some research. Extreme weather, including temperature swings, are part of the global warming picture. Don't chortle to yourself yet - you just don't understand the science.

Extreme weather is the child of global warming. Denying the science is like denying gravity. In a normal winter this would be snow.

Drew Bledsoe is the best QB ever

This shows us that, how powerless we are against the power of God. He is telling us that He is the only one who is in complete control of everything, yet if we do not submit to His will we are the bigest loosers. That is to say to follow His last book of revelation, "The holy Quran."

Temperatures in the 60s on the South Coast?
While western and northern NE are iced over?

The storms are only going to get worse. Everywhere. And where there are no storms, there will be droughts. If you knew anything about global warming and read the news more than once a month, you'd know that it's the main source of increasing instability in our weather.

I'm astonished that after every cold-weather event someone screeches that global warming is not real. What the heck do they do the rest of the time, stick their heads in a bucket? I'm sorry for the plight of those with damage and no electricity... but did you honestly--with every cell in your struggling, confused brains--think that drastic lasting climate change would happen overnight?

Thank goodness for scientists. And people who educate themselves.

i'm ok in boston

OK in FL? Only until the FL Keys stretch all the way up to Jacksonville,

Climates change. Ice ages come and go. Whoop-de-doo.

Lucy was you daughter and baby able to find a way out?

P.S. There's no cholera in Zimbabwe.

I think its time to move south.

The power line from the pole to my house is down. From what I understand, its national grids repsonsibitily to fix that, but its my responsibitly to fix how it connects to the meter? WE live pay check to pay check, I cant afford to go home this Christmas and I certainly cant afford to pay an electrician. So Lord knows HOW long we will be without power. Well water so no water also.

Relocate the utilities wisely to the ground level instead of hanging on the trees. Hopefully will reduce these power outage for families years after years

Pretty funny that the "global warming" (oh, excuse me -- "climate change") crowd gets to use both incidents of warming AND cooling to support their arguments -- I guess only a decade of mid-range temperatures would serve as a counterargument to them...

Drew Bledsoe never would have let this storm happen

Prime example of why one should own a generator when living in Maine. The wood pellet stoves "need power" for their blower, the gas "look a like" wood stoves do not..but a generator will assure one of power for immediate needs. What good is that flat screen everyone rushed out to buy on Black Friday-- Wal*Mart in the foothills of Maine where layoffs were common place over the years brought in over $400,000 USD by mid day. Buys a lot of generators.. ;) When will people learn you can't disregard Mother Nature's warnings. Hows that new flat screen working for ya? and your Wii? ;)

Rational Mind... thank you!!!! Good to see someone has one.

The climate changes four times a year here in Ohio: spring, summer, fall, and winter.

CO2 is hardly a pollutant--you tree-huggers want to deny plants their carbon dioxide!? Besides, CO2 levels rise in RESPONSE to any warming...you guys have the cause and effect turned around.

Father God, not "mother earth."

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Talk about ignorance! There is nothing unusual about an ice storm. We had one 2 weeks before the blizzard of '78, and nobody had ever heard of global warming or climate change or whatever else you want to call it. There were many more before that and we will have them again. This storm proves nothing other than how uneducated people on both sides of the argument are.

hmm we seem to be focused on global warming alot here... I am by no means a scientist, nor do i specialize in global warming, as a matter of fact, I'm just your everyday 19 year old trying to make it in this world. I live in Minnesota, aka Minnesnowta where it snows here about Nov.-Feb, March or so.. it gets pretty cold, not as cold as Alaska (which is actually a pretty warm state, i LOVE it there! so pretty!) But moving on, I love watching the weather! It amazes me, and over the last 3 years i have notice DRASTIC changes, during our summer months we got way more thunderstorms rolling through, the baramectric (sp??) preasure is ever changing at diffrent rates, and the snow is more or less going away or not nearly as much has been falling as it has in years past. I'm not saying its all due to global warming, or whatever, but its changing, and it would still be changing even if we were "green" 100% because thats what happens, things change over time, its just a matter of how well we adjust to those changes, so get used to things like this people, cuz its only going to get worse before it can get better...

Hey! Karla & Ed & other dumbos who use this as a platform against Global Warming measures or to knock Al Gore! Don't bore us with twaddle lacking any wisdom-- as a former Antarctic Cruise guide I met many of the scientists based at places like Palmer Station down there- Brits & Americans & others --who first warned us quite a few years back what was happening. They said there would be extremes of hotter & colder weather involved in all this & thats exactly what we're getting so dont ridicule counter-measures--the stakes are too high! Now with cheaper gas- fewer folks will cut emissions. Its disastrous! Its diastrous!

It is amazing as to how many people comment on Global Warming that do not know what it means. They see the word 'warming' in it and make assumptions without actually learning about what global Warming really is.

I know that I will most likely receive some hearty scoffing for bringing in the Bible - but, it has, remarkably, predicted that in the end times, which we could be in or near - there would be an increase of earthquakes - check, a tumult in the seas - check, and unpredictable weather patterns - check.

Also - sadly - an increase in lawlessness and ungodly behaviors and in scoffers - check, check, check.

A wake-up call from above???

im in wells maine and the whole southern coast is out until portsmouth. news on the radio is practically nil. I hear two or three days. its getting colder. many downed lines. have seen no power workers yet. seems to be no rush

"On a serious note, I cannot believe that crook Gore who has made millions off of people's fears that he instilled in them, can still go around screaming the planet it heating up....just unreal."

No kidding. And some of those wacky scientists claim the world is round. What a bunch of baloney. These are the same crackpots who claimed there was a hole in the Ozone Layer and that it was possible for man to fly to the Moon.

Bernie Kosar!

Stop thinking short term. Look at long term. We are coming out of an ice age and if you look back the past 500 or so years some data even suggests we entered a mini iceage. Now, I do believe we are making changes to our climate unnaturally, but no one, yes NO ONE has been able to make the distinction on how much we are actually changing the climate as opposed how much is the natural climate change as we exit an ice age.

As for pollution and planes you cannot just stop the pollution. At present time the pollutionclouds in our atmosphere is actually keeping the temperatures down. Look at the climate data for the week after 9/11/2001 when there were no planes in the sky.

Stop listening to 2 second newsbytes and half page articles in the paper and really look into the issue and stop calling people idiots are you are as uneducated as them on the subject.

End times, Jubilee? If the rapture comes, can I have your car?

when will the electricity in parts of dorchester be restored????

The term global warming is rather a poor term. It has different impacts on different areas. The poles, for example, are rapidly getting warmer.. The melting of the polar ice caps is in turn decreasing the temperature of the water around it as well as increasing the height of the water level. If enough of this occurs, then it could have SERIOUS impacts on the gulfstream... the current pattern of it ends up HEATING up the UK quite a bit! Keep in mind that England is the same distance north of the equator as SIBERIA! The reason England isn't a frozen land mass is because of the gulf stream. If this gets shut down (which is NOT far fetched, ENgland will freeze over during "global warming"

Becker College in Leicester lost power starting at 11:30 last night. They were telling us not to leave the buildings where ever you were. Dorms and academic buildings are damaged, trees are down everywhere also damaging several students cars. For most of the trees on campus about half the tree is on the ground. The damage is so extensive they evacuated the campus. No power, no water, no heat... till at least monday. Even the school kennel had to be evacuated. Clean up will take forever.

What nobody can say for sure is how much change pollution is having on the climate. It's changing, but does anyone seriously think there were no storms like this one 200 years ago? Does anyone really believe there's never been a time in history when the ice at the poles melted before now? Can anyone say with 100% certainty that things wouldn't be pretty much like they are right now if we all lived on sunlight and didn't breath out CO2 with every breath? What I can say for sure is that if the government has anything to do with a "solution", we're all going to pay big for it, and forever. And Al Gore will get to be a billionaire with his own fleet private jets.

I can't believe the ridicuous comments..this was a serious ice storm, people (including me) likely will be without power for days, because of damage to my house I will be paying a lot of $$$ there goes christmas, there goes all the food I bought yesterday, I hope no one as injured, but a DPW worker is missing, and you are talking about Al Gore?global warming? I am surprised no one managed to blame Obama for this. It seems its the same ignorant people that comment here.

If you don't know what GLOBAL warming is, the least you could do is go to (for example) wikipedia and check it out. It's called GLOBAL because we have seen a 1.33F increase in global (the whole world) surface temperature in the last 100 years. That is a such a very small change year to year that it goes completely imperceptible to our human senses that respond to the more strong normal fluctuations. That's why is not surprising that one year, 10 years ago, could have been warmer than this year. These fluctuations, even though are large, average out in the long term, while global warming is a cumulative effect that builds up over the centuries. Also remember that global temperatures have been relatively stable for the 1000 to 2000 years before that. So, the "we are coming out of an ice age" argument doesn't make any sense.

All you idiots posting about how this proves global waming doesn't exist clearly don't know what the term entails - it predicts severe weather at BOTH ends of the spectrum. Do a little research before you post online sounding like a total moron.
As someone else said, a healthy level of skepticism is fine, but denial? Really?

I grew up in the Upper Pennisula of Michigan. When I was little I would always be angry because my mom would make me wear a snowsuit over my halloween costume for trick-or-treating. I remember seeing snow from September to May, 9 months of the year. Well I am 32 now and they do not get snow until mid November and it clears up in April. Everyone can argue the cause (global warming, natrual trends of the earth, a biblical end) but change is occuring.

Whether you believe in global warming or not, we are a society who does things in excess. Don't waste unecessarily and don't take more than you need, sacrifice a little comfort sometimes. For example, when your cold put on an extra sweatshirt instead of raising the temperature on the thermostat. This philosophy would save us a lot of problems economically as well as environmentally. Not to mention making us less dependent on the Middle East.

Nick, you're a moron. Nobody in east coast cities needs an SUV. Hell I have a toyota camry awd, and it gets awesome mileage to boot. Not to mention it's 20 years old, so there are NO payments on it. There's no justifying gas-guzzling SUV's - you're just against climate legislation because it will reduce your oil-state kickbacks.

Everyone else - Al Gore didn't invent global warming. It's been around since I was a kid, at the very least, and it's more global climate change than warming. Yes it is part natural. yes we did some screwing up on our own.

I lived in Northern NY in 1992 and 1998 when we had some REAL ice storms. This is nothing, compared to entire TREES coming down and killing people in their sleep, and being without heat in the dead of -10 degree winter for over a week. But yeah, this still sucks. Suck it up.

Good God, Alexandra: "CO2 is hardly a pollutant--you tree-huggers want to deny plants their carbon dioxide!?"

My faith in humanity as a creation of an Almighty is shaken.

Ergo Eli Manning is better than Tom Brady? Let's hope not.

The weather now comes out of the HAARP Project in Golconda, Alaska. Thank you Sarah Palin and the Navy and Tesla who thought it all up. It's what is holding off Global Warming, to the extend that's happening. Just because we get rain and snow once in a while doesn't mean it's not. Last year we had snow on the 10th, this year rain. That's a warming trend at least for this date.

If Eric flew with balloons this would never have happened.

To Bill,

Yes, my daughter and baby were able to get out. They are staying with relatives who have power. Now they just have to worry about freezing pipes and cleanup but that is minor compared to getting the baby to a safe and warm place. Thank you for asking.

To Terry, earlier this year a wind storm blew a huge branch from my neighbors yard and knocked down the power line coming into my house. This is covered by insurance...You can have an electrician fix it and have your insurance company send the check directly to them. We live paycheck to paycheck also and had just had a baby so I was out of work. Thank goodness for home insurance!

I wish to extend my sympathies to those affected by this ice storm. Hard-hitting ice storm experiences are not generally pleasant, and can turn quite ugly rather quickly.

I can recall two ice storms in the last roughly two decades that hit northern New York while I was there.

The first one caused power fluctuations in the area that ultimately caused our house to catch fire. A transformer nearby my house exploded and sent a surge of electricity into our home. Somehow the circuit breakers didn't prevent the surge from reaching all of our outlets and something (a CD player, we suspect) sparked and caught a bed on fire. It took over 30 minutes for the fire department's response team to make the one mile trip from the station to our house. Fortunately everyone got out safely, only two kittens parished.

The second ice storm was in January of 1998 and it is sometimes referred to as the "Great Ice Storm of 1998". We were lucky to get power restored after six days, more rural areas had to wait months for normal power to return. This storm was much worse than the 1991 one, something around 1/3 of the entire tree population was devastated (which, to an area dependent on the local logging industry, was not a good thing.) Home heating was an issue, particularly for the elderly and those needing special care. Emergency rules restricted movement due to the risk of electrocution from downed power lines that were possibly still live. (Electricity travels well enough through water and ice to be dangerous at larger distances than one might expect.)

Travel was made difficult, if you managed it at all, because ice that had fallen from power lines and tree limbs had a rounded shape that acted like ball bearings under car tires. Gasoline was rationed at local gas stations, prioritized to those helping the relief effort. Many community members pitched in to help in any way they could, the important things in life were made plainly obvious and differences were set aside for the time.

During those six days my family and I bailed out the basement every morning, noon, and night in bucket-brigade style as the heat from our house melted the nearby snow and ice. And, wouldn't you know it, another transformer near us exploded - this time we had flipped the circuit breaker and removed appliances from the walls, the lesson learned from the previous storm.

The folks who might benefit the most from my past experiences are probably the farthest from being able to read them right now. May their stories end up being light-hearted ones.

If there is global warming, and there probably is, it has little if anything to do with human activity. We've had at least four ice ages in earth's history and each one of them was, naturally enough, followed by a long period of global warming. Only 12,000 years ago there was glacial ice two miles (10,560 feet) thick in Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine, only 200 miles or so north of Boston. That two miles of ice has completely melted in these past 12,000 years, although mankind has been burning carbon-based fuel in any meaningful quantity for less than 200 years. Global warming is real, but all this CO2 and carbon-cap stuff is wrong, wrong, wrong. We need nuclrear power, wind power, coal-to diesel plants, cleaner-burning but not unrealistically clean coal plants. What we really need is leadership out of Washington. The first Arab oil embargo and energy shock was in 1973, a nd during the last 35 years we've done - nothing!

Not to worry. Global warming could be reversed (sooner than anyone expects) by a nuclear winter. So... forget about it being five minutes to midnight on the Doomsday clock that those stupid scientists invented; keep chatting on your not-made-in-the-USA cellphones; keep buying lots of gas for your not-made-in-the USA SUVs; keep putting billions of dollars into third world black-gold/ enriched uranium market(s) and enjoy the Superbowl and some light beer and - most importantly - let your grandchildren sort it all out.

If Harvard was hard hit, I suppose Bolton was too. Any reports from that town?
Also, how about Greenville, Maine (Moosehead Lake area)? Did you all get hit too? Good luck to all who are coping.

keep family and friends out of harms way. no ladders and power tools help is on the road from all over the nation. Be patient stay warm

wow #7 that's one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

@ chilly doug: THANK you. I'm sick of the global warming crowd's whiny, self-righteous, morally superior attitude. Either do something about it or shut up - insulting people via news story comments is not going to change anything.

Why don't any of the news services give information on how people can help??? I could volunteer in addition to offering a dry wood briquette product, but can't seem to figure out where to turn.

Don't Taze me, Bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe how many climate morons are on this one web site. Read a book. The “warming” in “global warming” refers to whole earth’s average temperature from year to year. Not just the temperature in your back yards you oblivious clowns.

Stop thinking of it as global warming and start thinking of it as “Global Weirding.” The drastic increase in average temperature cause exaggerated weather of all kinds not just hot….for instance huge ice storms, snow in the south or frequent wild fires…..does any of that sound familiar.

Stop taking pride in your ignorance and read a book. In fact I dare you to find one that disagrees with Global Weirding.

Fret not, rational people shocked by the freaks who post about global climate change not being real -- the deniers will die off soon. New generation coming up and into power laughs in the face of these insecure know-nothings and is going to reverse the tide of their ignorance. These people shouldn't be paid attention to - Don't respond to them. Maybe they will go post on Drudge or call into Limbaugh or something.

Remember when Steve Grogan stopped an ice storm back in 1984?

Grogan Warming

athol and tully finally got power

Maybe the out of towners should move back to NJ, NY and CA etc.. Then there will be plenty of power for everyone even if there is a storm.

Bless~

This is one big tragic storm... we lost power 10 pm on friday night and still do not have power... we are in a hotel, and at our house, it is 30 degrees inside. The downstairs flooded, and froze, and outside there are 9 pine, and birch trees down in our yard as well as bunches of branches. our driveway has frozen birch tree arches, and our road is a frightening obstical coarse!! we have heard that southern nh may not get power back until wednesday

Global Climate Disruption, the most critical issue of the 21st century. Get ready, folks. It's gonna be a wild ride.

Because of humankind's greedy behavior, we have ruined our home planet.

May Mother Earth have mercy on our children and grandchildren.

I live in Fitchburg,MA it is such a mess we were one of the worst hit.....we have a genorator so i have the computer and heat but it really stinxx!my neighborhood is all trees and a hudge pine tree fell across my driveway....i know people are seeing this on the TV but you don't know how bad it is untill you are driving around or walking around. The National Guard just came today and there are sooo many shelters counting my school. You out there that have power and cable are lucky cause you know more than we do cause we have a radio and thats it!THIS REALLY SUXX!!!

Global Warming? IDIOTS. That is all I have to say. Have fun with Al Gore and the Bongwater Brigade.

Thank you Krista and all you others who take this serious situation seriously!! I am a single mother and have a house with a fireplace. Thankfully no damage was done to the house or my car but we decided to tough it out in our home...offring to support others in our neighborhood (elderly neighbors and others). All you oppertunists want to fill up this space with your bickering about global warming and so on ...meanwhile real peple have real problems. My 90 year old neighbor got sick...My 4 year old just developed a high fever this morning (an indirect result of the outage) and I'm sure others are going through simiar thing. We may not have had a high death toll when this storm hit but I have a feeling there willbe tradagies due to it....in that respect kindly let this space be used for people in our sommunities to reach out to eachother in this time of ned. Use some other cause to argue your opinions ....

I would like to come to an area that was badly hit by the ice and work this weekend cuttting trees. I have a bucket truck and have had alot of experience cutting trees, also worked extensively in the ice strom of 98. could any one give me a good neighbor hood that would b good to come to? Think I would b most useful in a situations where diffcult removals are, like on a house or hangers.

First, far too many real scientists dispute man-made global warming. We do need to get away from fossil fuels, but not because of a religious belief that the air you expel is bad. Politicians love global warming because it allows them to tax life itself. Others cling to it because it has really become a religion. The scientists who originally made the call are even disputing the claims still made by the IPCC. Oh and when you say that calling it "Global warming" is outdated, exactly why would that be? So you win no matter which way the weather goes? No, weather has changed since long before mankind was on earth and it will continue to do so no matter how many carbon taxes or other attrocities you impose upon the human race