I’m pretty sure our power has auto reporting now. The website now has geometric shapes that gerrymander around the neighborhoods as it builds data.
I did eventually get my boots on. Definitely under a foot. More like 8 inches.
The trees in my backyard this morning. Beautiful, but you couldn’t pay me enough to step under them right now.
I’ve been hearing that awful cracking sound off and on.
The grandkids are tempting fate running around out there.
I’m really surprised we didn’t get more tree damage here at the house. (Don’t know about the woods at large)
I understand there’s more in other places.
We ended up getting more snow than I expected, but still not all that much. I’m hearing on the news that there was so much snow a little south of where I am that urban areas are having trouble finding places to dump it all. The weather remains cold so it’s nowhere near melting.
If a tree falls in the woods, & there’s no woman around to hear it, is the man still wrong…or something like that. 
The crust of ice on the top of has made it so the plows have to keep backing up and ramming the ice. It’s a slow process, and our neighborhood hasn’t been touched yet. I’ve got the cars cleared off; I slammed the trunk and one of the doors on each car, and it loosened everything enough for me to break off big chunks and toss them aside. Still no reason to dig out cars since they may just get blocked in again by the debris that’s plowed. And, hark, do I actually hear a plow? Could be a small one used by landlords of the nearby apartment buildings.
I saw on the news where Toronto got hammered. Apparently, a worse dump of snow than occurred in January, 1999. I was living in Toronto then, and that was difficult enough to deal with. I cannot imagine what a worse one would be like,
Maybe they could use a little help from the army … 
If the man wants fire wood from dead fall next spring he’ll believe her.
I had never heard of an auto-reporting meter until your posts. That too may explain why some people didn’t notify the utility department themselves.
Our neighborhood was featured on the local news today due to so many neighborhood streets not being plowed. I haven’t watched it, but the news truck was on the corner next to our house. And no, it still hasn’t been plowed. Our street is just a few blocks long. When we came home via Uber we saw a mail truck stuck a block away and a plow trying to work around it. Also, someone parked on the even side of the street when they aren’t supposed to. Who knows when we’ll be able to get out?
So it’s been about 8-9 days since the storm hit and there are still about 37,000 households without power in Mississippi and 21,000 without power in Tennessee.
https://poweroutage.us/
In Tennessee the big problem is the Nashville area which is served by a municipal electric power service.
We were lucky here, in S. Ark., a brief outage or 3.
The bigger problem has been debris on the secondary roads.
Clean up has been hampered by extremely cold temps and the snow and ice not melting.
I can imagine crews working on downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee having real problems. ‘Cause it’s been cold folks. We’re not used to that down here.
Here in Memphis we got above freezing today! No more faucets running! It was sunny so melting began. We broke the record for most consecutive days with at least 3 inches of snow on the ground. Was 5, now 9. I went out and started the car and let it run for a bit. One of my neighbors tried to go somewhere but was foiled when their car got stuck on the street. It took 4 people to get it back up the driveway. It’s going to rain tomorrow and be around 50 so that should clear the side streets. I’m so looking forward to going to the grocery Wednesday. Hopefully, it will be better stocked by then. I’m sick of the food I have left. I want a good salad.
Storm is long since over. There haven’t been any significant power outages that I know of because it was all snow, not freezing rain, and in many areas not even all that much snow. But there’s been lingering cold ever since the storm, looks like it’s finally warming up today.
Oh, yes. NES really screwed the pooch on this one. Apparently, they had not been clearing lines for the last couple of years. I can believe it. NES takes over a couple of mile north of me, and I can verify that a lot of the above ground lines literally had trees looming over them.
My son’s trumpet tutor has been without power for well over a week, and he’s been staying in an AirBnB. We’ve offered him use of our washer and dryer, which he declined. He did not decline the quart of chicken soup I made for him, though.
Schools have finally reopened in our county. Week long closures, while not unheard of (it happened couple of times while our kids were in school), are not common. I’m looking forward to subbing again tomorrow. I cleared our driveway last Friday, but didn’t dig out the car that’s parked on the street until yesterday. I had to break up the ice on top and then shovel it. There’s a giant pile of ice and snow next to the driveway now, and I’m not sure it will all be gone until March.
If you believe weather reports(not sure I do) there’s another round of very cold, maybe precip, coming by the weekend.
Man’s got priorities.
We were amazed this weekend at the # of cars where she lives that still haven’t been dug out. Now I don’t know who owns them & whether it’s a second (third?) car for the household but who doesn’t drive their car for weeks at a time…& these are not garaged collectibles waiting for warm, dry, salt-free weather again; they’re parked outside, & with one exception (an early 80’s Caprice) nothing is remotely collectible.