An Ice storm came through last night and did a lot of damage! there is a total of 205,000 people with out power here in maine and 400,000 people in New Hampshire.

I work for Whole Foods Market in Portland and my store will be with out power untill sometime saturday. I was one of 3 people in my department that came in to help out close the store down. I estimate about 1 mil dollars worth of product loss store wide.

The Govener issued a state of emergency @ 7 this morning. There are power crews comming as far away as S. Carolina, New Brunswick Canada and Michigan.

Temps for tomorrow will be 17-25 degrees so everything that melted today will freez tonight.

Sounds bad, hope everyone is OK. We had a bad ice storm here in Canada in the province of Quebec several years ago and it took a long time to get everything up and running. Did you loose power where you live, or did you get lucky?

I got lucky. The area I live in has power but I can drive down the street and there are houses with out power. The last major Ice storm was in 98' where it took about a month to get power back to the entire state. I was out of school for 3 weeks.

haha you guys got it easy, us here in WA are preparing for whats suppose to be the worst storm since the 50s

Well hopefully things get better. Those deep freezes can be a little scary. Fairly mild winter out here in Colorado, I am waiting for that eight foot storm over night I know it is still to come.

I heard about that big storm. The news just briefly touched on it. What are your weather reports like?

Its been awhile since we have had a good storm.

While I'd like some snow. I don't think I want that much snow. That's nuts. Hopefully you keep your power.

I got my fingers crossed

We laugh about anything less than a foot here. In the city (Denver) they freak out about a few inches....guess you have to live in the mountains for a while you get used to it.

Any updated on the weather Mike...hope everything is well.

All is good now. Still alot of people with out power tho. its going to warm up over the next 3 days and the electric company is worried about the ice melting and snapping the limbs back up and and knocking the power out again.