I'm sorry for my rant

[chopper]

The snow did come and it is quite precarious out there. 9 inches since midnight.

On the upside I checked out my neighbor's new battery powered snowblower. We did the immediate "which one is bigger" and his throws snow a good 23-30 feet just like my souped up Honda blower.

It was quite impressive. I think it is some kind of dual battery Ergo or something.

[TheTominator]

chopper wrote:
I think it is some kind of dual battery Ergo or something.

Cogito ergo snow.

[Numo]

I think the true test of a snowblower is how well it handles wet snow.

[chopper]

Numo wrote:
I think the true test of a snowblower is how well it handles wet snow.

Well, I had not done a portion of my driveway and the snow was over the top of the snowblower. My snowblower had never struggled with any snow previous this this. It was laboring hard.

That battery thing had some serious torque.

[SteveG]

9 inches of snow? Doesn't sound like the world-ending headlines we're seeing (BLIZZARDS IN LOS ANGELES!!)

The ones around the Great Lakes earlier this season were real record setters, however.

[SteveG]

The largest outages by far were in Michigan, where more than 820,000 customers were without electricity, mostly in the state’s southeast corner, where power lines and trees were shrouded in ice. DTE Energy said some outages could last through the weekend.
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“A quarter-inch of ice on an electrical system is the equivalent of a baby grand piano hanging on those wires,” said Trevor Lauer, the president of DTE’s electric arm.

[PeterW]

9 inches is paralyzing when your snow removal program consists of hoping it gets warm soon.

[mikebw]

chopper wrote:
[quote=Numo]
I think the true test of a snowblower is how well it handles wet snow.

Well, I had not done a portion of my driveway and the snow was over the top of the snowblower. My snowblower had never struggled with any snow previous this this. It was laboring hard.

That battery thing had some serious torque.
That is the main benefit of battery. Main drawback is amount of energy stored in them, and how long you can use the tool.

I've seen a battery powered pressure washer that has runtimes on the order of minutes depending on which capacity batteries you have inserted. Of course if that's all you need then great! This washer also has a 120v electric cord for when you need longer run times, which also gets you a bit more pressure.

[Rolando]

Notice y'all did NOT lose power. I hope Newsome points that out to Texas!

[GGD]

Rolando wrote:
Notice y'all did NOT lose power. I hope Newsome points that out to Texas!

There were some pretty large and long power outages in the SF Bay area this week, including one multi-day outage in Menlo Park that required shutting down a major freeway (10 lanes, 5 each direction) to re-string a damaged wire that crossed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5UpdTxkMFU

But unlike TX, we didn't have a supply problem, it was just weather damaged distribution problems.

I luckily didn't lose power this storm (I did in January), but I lost internet twice for long periods because a nearby area lost power and some of Comcast's equipment is powered by that, their backup batteries last for 3 hours and then we lose TV and Internet. Whenever I have a Comcast outage I first check PG&E to see if that nearby area has power. And if they don't it's very consistent that the PG&E outage started 3 hours before the Comcast outage.