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I think we should rename this article to pull it in line with North American ice storm of 1998 and January_2007_North_American_ice_storm. No need to put that extra info in the title. I recommend North American ice storm of 2008 since it lines up well with the 1998 one and we know there's not going to be another one in 2008. Soap Talk/ Contributions 03:37, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The title of this article simply isn't descriptive enough. To the casual reader, "northeast" could mean the northeast of anywhere. I suggest it be renamed to either:
-December 2008 American Northeast ice storm
-December 2008 Northeast American ice storm
-December 2008 New England ice storm (it was largely confined to this region, but the introduction can elaborate)
Any thoughts?
~Asarlaí 03:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I just wrote a new alternate (ALT 2) for the DYK nomination, which I think includes all the vital parts of this story. I mentioned it was the worst storm in a decade rather than 21 years since it has been the worst storm in a decade for all parts affected, where as it was the worst in 21 years for only one area affected by the storm. Feel free to visit and comment. upstate NYer 21:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The opening picture far from adequately portrays the extent of the damage suffered by many areas affected by this storm. Many roads looked like a hurricane had hit them. The opening picture should be more drastic so people will be like "holy shit!" and I can be like "that's right bitch, it happened in NEW ENGLAND!"
I have just uploaded a picture I took in Troy during the storm, shows a rather large tree down in the middle of the road. It's in the gallery, but I'm no photographer so it's not a great picture, if someone feels like it, switch it with the opening image. 76.15.12.46 ( talk) 21:30, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
First of all, I got to say.....................wow! I was one of the many millions in the area that experience this "spectacle". I never thought that is was so bad that it could get it's own wiki page, but I was wrong. So anyways, I remember waking up on the day after the ice made my neighborhood look like Jadis's castle. It was cold, there was ice all around, and of course, fallen branches. I was surprised that none of these fallen branches had hit my mail box. So I also see that my dad pulled the cars into the lawn because he thought the branches above the driveway would fall and wreck the cars. The cars ended up stuck in the lawn, and my mom was really upset. The cars eventually got out, but the left side of the lawn got messed up. We filled it back up long after the ice storm. Driving around in the neighborhood during the aftermath makes running around in the battlefields of World War II look easy. We couldn't get one of those generators. We tried to go to the farthest store possible to get a generator, but it turned out others had the same idea. It's like they traveled to Califonia just to get one of them. Of course, the power was out too. With it out, we couldn't conduct heat, which meant we couldn't stay at our own house except when it was night time. We also had birds which would not survive the weather, so we took them to my dad's work place which wasn't affected by the storm. My dad's work place is where we spent most of our days at. After about........... a week and two days I believe, we finally got back our power, and finally got back into our own house, but we still keep our birds at my dad's work place, because we didn't feel like lugging them back. So that's my personal experience. If you don't believe this, that's fine. I'm not forcing you to. I hope you enjoyed reading this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Defender miz ( talk • contribs) 13:20, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I absolutely believe your story, it's not far off from my own family's experience of the post-storm weeks. Major difference being we were lucky enough to have a generator, and a wood burning stove, with plenty of freshly fallen trees to burn, once we had extracted them from our roof that is. One 60+ foot tall Evergreen tree came down, missing crushing my nearly brand new car by inches. 22 days later our power was finally restored, though it took Comcast another several weeks to rewire our street for cable, and Verizon nearly a month to fully restore our landline phone service.
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In areas of North Central Massachusetts served by New Hampshire utility company Unitil, electrical service was not restored in some cases for three weeks+. I'll try to find some official sources, before making any change to the time frames mentioned in the article, however having lived through the 2008 Ice Storm, I could personally testify to that fact. Power in our neighborhood was not restored until late in the afternoon of Day 22, and was nearly pushed back to at least Day 23 post-storm, if not for a crew of out-of-state linemen who by chance were driving through the area, and seeing we were still without power worked into the night to fully restore service. We learned afterwards that Unitil itself was completely unaware that power to our street had not already been restored, and had no work orders pending. Looneybunny ( talk) 06:30, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
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I think we should rename this article to pull it in line with North American ice storm of 1998 and January_2007_North_American_ice_storm. No need to put that extra info in the title. I recommend North American ice storm of 2008 since it lines up well with the 1998 one and we know there's not going to be another one in 2008. Soap Talk/ Contributions 03:37, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The title of this article simply isn't descriptive enough. To the casual reader, "northeast" could mean the northeast of anywhere. I suggest it be renamed to either:
-December 2008 American Northeast ice storm
-December 2008 Northeast American ice storm
-December 2008 New England ice storm (it was largely confined to this region, but the introduction can elaborate)
Any thoughts?
~Asarlaí 03:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
I just wrote a new alternate (ALT 2) for the DYK nomination, which I think includes all the vital parts of this story. I mentioned it was the worst storm in a decade rather than 21 years since it has been the worst storm in a decade for all parts affected, where as it was the worst in 21 years for only one area affected by the storm. Feel free to visit and comment. upstate NYer 21:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
The opening picture far from adequately portrays the extent of the damage suffered by many areas affected by this storm. Many roads looked like a hurricane had hit them. The opening picture should be more drastic so people will be like "holy shit!" and I can be like "that's right bitch, it happened in NEW ENGLAND!"
I have just uploaded a picture I took in Troy during the storm, shows a rather large tree down in the middle of the road. It's in the gallery, but I'm no photographer so it's not a great picture, if someone feels like it, switch it with the opening image. 76.15.12.46 ( talk) 21:30, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
First of all, I got to say.....................wow! I was one of the many millions in the area that experience this "spectacle". I never thought that is was so bad that it could get it's own wiki page, but I was wrong. So anyways, I remember waking up on the day after the ice made my neighborhood look like Jadis's castle. It was cold, there was ice all around, and of course, fallen branches. I was surprised that none of these fallen branches had hit my mail box. So I also see that my dad pulled the cars into the lawn because he thought the branches above the driveway would fall and wreck the cars. The cars ended up stuck in the lawn, and my mom was really upset. The cars eventually got out, but the left side of the lawn got messed up. We filled it back up long after the ice storm. Driving around in the neighborhood during the aftermath makes running around in the battlefields of World War II look easy. We couldn't get one of those generators. We tried to go to the farthest store possible to get a generator, but it turned out others had the same idea. It's like they traveled to Califonia just to get one of them. Of course, the power was out too. With it out, we couldn't conduct heat, which meant we couldn't stay at our own house except when it was night time. We also had birds which would not survive the weather, so we took them to my dad's work place which wasn't affected by the storm. My dad's work place is where we spent most of our days at. After about........... a week and two days I believe, we finally got back our power, and finally got back into our own house, but we still keep our birds at my dad's work place, because we didn't feel like lugging them back. So that's my personal experience. If you don't believe this, that's fine. I'm not forcing you to. I hope you enjoyed reading this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Defender miz ( talk • contribs) 13:20, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
I absolutely believe your story, it's not far off from my own family's experience of the post-storm weeks. Major difference being we were lucky enough to have a generator, and a wood burning stove, with plenty of freshly fallen trees to burn, once we had extracted them from our roof that is. One 60+ foot tall Evergreen tree came down, missing crushing my nearly brand new car by inches. 22 days later our power was finally restored, though it took Comcast another several weeks to rewire our street for cable, and Verizon nearly a month to fully restore our landline phone service.
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In areas of North Central Massachusetts served by New Hampshire utility company Unitil, electrical service was not restored in some cases for three weeks+. I'll try to find some official sources, before making any change to the time frames mentioned in the article, however having lived through the 2008 Ice Storm, I could personally testify to that fact. Power in our neighborhood was not restored until late in the afternoon of Day 22, and was nearly pushed back to at least Day 23 post-storm, if not for a crew of out-of-state linemen who by chance were driving through the area, and seeing we were still without power worked into the night to fully restore service. We learned afterwards that Unitil itself was completely unaware that power to our street had not already been restored, and had no work orders pending. Looneybunny ( talk) 06:30, 19 February 2021 (UTC)