[Hidden-tech] How to get news in a power outage

[Jan Werner]

WMECO, CL-P and National Grid all have online outage maps that are 
supposedly updated every 15 minutes and show what percentage of 
customers in each town served are without power.

http://www.wmeco.com/outage/outagemap.aspx

http://outage.cl-p.com/outage/outagemap.aspx

http://www1.nationalgridus.com/masselectric/stormcenter/

Right now, the sites for both WMECO and CL-P (which seem to be on the 
same system) are unavailable, allegedly because of server problems. When 
they are working, they also have text-only pages that can be accessed by 
mobile devices.

As of earlier today, the CL-P site showed most of Connecticut north of a 
diagonal running from the SW to NE corners with little or no electric 
service at all, which was confirmed by relatives in the affected areas.

Jan Werner
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Robert Heller wrote:
>     ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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> At Tue, 1 Nov 2011 05:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Marcia Yudkin<yudkinyudkin at yahoo.com>  wrote:
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>>     ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>     ** If you did, we all thank you.
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>> We got our power back in Goshen last night after 48 hours out.  Our landline was out as well.  All we had for getting news about when we might get power back were my smartphone and a good battery-powered radio.
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>> The radio was not as useful as I expected, however, because none of the stations I knew of had good, specific, timely information.  WFCR, which is what I usually listen to, was practically useless.  While memories are fresh, did anyone get specific outage-related information from any local radio station?
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>> On my smartphone, I can go to the web but since this eats up the cell phone battery much faster than just checking email, I don't want to waste time going to sites that aren't mobile-friendly or don't have updated info.  Yesterday, Monday, Gazettenet.com had only a storm-related article from Sunday, which obviously wasn't current.  Did anyone have a better source of mobile-friendly local updates on the web?
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> I don't know how mobile friendly it is, but the power companies seem to
> have mostly up-to-date info on the power situation.  Or that is what I
> have heard (I had no internet access without power and/or phone).
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>> Thanks for your advice - I will file it away (off my computer) for next time.
>>
>> Marcia Yudkin
>> Goshen
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