Bomb Cyclone

I'm not quite sure of what exactly a bomb cyclone is but it has something to do with a sudden extreme drop in barometric pressure bringing high winds and heavy rain. Boston had it's worst bomb cyclone ever last night. It wasn't quite as bad here but we still had 60-70 MPH winds and about 2 1/2 inches of rain,

We had a very brief power outage in the middle of the night. It wasn't enough to require the resetting of clocks but it was enough to turn the light on in our china cabinet (an idiosyncrasy of our china cabinet is that the light goes on during even the briefest of outages).

Our internet was out when I woke up this morning and, while I was attempting to reset it, The power failed. We reported the outage to National Grid and immediately switched over to our generator. We still had no internet.

During the first 1/4 mile of our morning walk, we spotted 3 trees that had broken off and were hanging on the lines. We reported the locations to National Grid and, when I subsequently went out to take pictures, I found 2 more.

Nice finger.

We took a look at National Grid's outage map and learned that they were expecting to restore service by 11pm Saturday (2 days from now). Then the power (and internet) came back on at about 5:30m. All of the trees were still on the lines so that was a bit worrisome. No sooner was it back on and we had National Grid and their tree trimming service in our driveway. We directed them to the downed trees.

Our power restoration lasted about an hour. We are now back on generator but at least the internet is working.

Update:

Our internet failed again right after the last save. Power and internet came back on at about 3am. When we went out for our morning walk, the trees were still hanging on the lines. The tree trimmers showed up while we were passing and we watched them do their job for a bit. As we continued our walk, we noticed that many of the houses in our area still seemed to be without power (everything seems to be back to normal now - Saturday @ 4:30pm).

Other than the power/internet loss, we came through relatively unscathed. The leaves dropped all at once and we had to clear them away to find the downed branches on the lawn (nothing too large). Everything is cleaned up now.

-JC-