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I saw my 1st robin of the year this afternoon,way early for southern connecticut. Usually they don't show up until around st. patricks day

today is the anniversary of the 1965 northeast power blackout. My mother still made me and my brother do our homework by propane lantern light.

Because of the blizzard/closed roads in the state, food service workers can't get back to the hospitals to prepare food.People haven't eaten since yesterday.A friend that works at St.Francis mentioned she was able to get home but there are nurses stranded there.

I saw just the opposite effect today.I was waiting to make a left hand turn and had my turn signal on.A guy was approaching from the opposite direction with his turn signal on and something told me to take my time and wait for him to turn.Good thing I did because he never turned I would would...

The only time I used my cell phone in a vehicle was when it was disabled and I called AAA. Other than that there is no need.

I guess you never saw unmarked cars with the lights embedded in the grill. without the lights on,it looks like a regular car. They were noted for using cars confiscated,so it could be anything. I even saw a corvette cop car once.

it dawned on me;what if the car is an unmarked police car? Now every time you see a car in the breakdown lane you are going to have to change lanes just to be on the safe side.

somebody told me ct passed a law if you see a cop parked on the highway in the breakdown lane you have to change lanes and get into the passing lane going by or it's a $180 fine.True or bs?

Last year I had a car battery and power inverter to keep the sat receiver and tv going during the storm.

last year I left the motorized dish up but took down the fixed dish. I was able to watch the weather channel on 72w until the storm rain fade cut off the signal. I paid the price,the winds knocked the dish off by 10 degrees and I had to spend the next days re-aiming.

they will blame the warm weather for the next flu outbreak I bet.

I hugged an evergreen tree with a chainsaw,but it had 2 projections skyward and just taking 1 down didn't improve the sat reception for the sat it was blocking.I will have to hug it again.

southern new england I saw a cardinal the other day. crocus plants are starting to pop out of the ground.

Is that the place that used to have cameras aimed at the top of the rides?

Food stores that managed to stay open with limited service via generators hid their carriages-to prevent hoarding of food and water.It was cash only,people with credit/debit/food stamp cards were sol.You could only buy what you could carry in your arms.

Cable tv was out due to the lack of ac to the amplifiers on the line. I had to use ota for tv,which was pitiful with an indoor antenna.

Only a slight headache in Ct at my ma's Gas hot water furnace,so I used a 140w inverter to run that.36 hours on 1 charge. 2500w generator to charge car batteries during the day for the inverters for tv and to run her well water pump.That was 3x a day only.Smaller 800w generator to charge car...

With so many solar powered outdoor lights you think someone would have come up with a christmas light version. I have a small string of lights that were originally designed to run off 2 D cells.It would be a goof to mate that with my solar rechargeable light and mount it on the top of a tree...

That was Natalie Wood's last film.

He was blacklisted for years.

If you are at home all the time your utility bills and food bills jump.

cummins tools 3kw generator made in china,actually one 2wire electrical connector internal wasn't connected all the way.I found that problem a few years ago and connected it properly.It was that way from the factory.With a heavy load you would get the initial motor jerk and the connection would...

After hurricane Irene I had to use generators/car batteries/inverter and I noticed the generators weren't performing as expected.I slapped a digital voltmeter on both and they were only putting out 105v no load.Luckily there was a screw on the carb for tweaking the speed up,so I set both for...

For CT viewers old enough to remember ch18 in hartford during the 1960's One of the first pay tv stations in the country. A c/p from wikipedia The Phonevision system was operational on station WHCT in Hartford, Connecticut for at least two years, ending in 1969. The station would run...