How can freezing rain cause power failures?
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Freezing rain in it's most severe form is called an ice storm where everything gets covered in ice and everything is frozen solid.  A true ice storm is an incredible event, you can't get out of your house as every door and window is frozen shut, when you eventually get out to your car the door's frozen shut.  After fighting your way into the car you can't go anywhere because the tires are frozen to the ground etc etc.\n\nThe ice that builds up falls as rain and freezes on contact with whatever it lands.  Something like a power line is very susceptible as huge quantities of ice can form on the lines and the towers.  The lines can snap and the towers can buckle under the weight.  The Canadian ice storm of 1998 left many people dead, a million without power and several million relying on temporary accommodation in shelters and with friends and relatives.
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Probably just the weather changing quickly ? We had a thunderstorm a few weeks ago, except it was snowing with it. Really warm before it and really cold afterwards... I'm sure it's nothing to alarm yourself over.
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Try to shut power down. This error can be a result of outside intrusion. Make sure that you are safe. If any doubts, call 9-1-1 immediately.
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Summers can get very hot for outdoor jobs, particularly on bad air quality days.  \n\nSpring and Fall are pretty moderate.\n\nSnow storms, ice storms, and sometimes a threat of a snow storm will cause school closings and many offices to shut down for minimal amounts of snow.  \n\nDue to the inconsistency of bad winter weather, local governments do not have the equipment to get the bulk of the roads in good shape when a bad storm hits.  Fortunately it gets back above freezing often during the winter there so there typically aren't any long term affects.  \n\nThe biggest exception would be large power outages from bad ice storms (lines down from broken tree limbs) that have lasted over a week in some areas in the last few years.  That does not however happen that often.
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Snow Shower - A short duration of light to moderate snowfall. Accumulations of snow are possible.\n\nFreezing Rain - Rain that falls in liquid form and then freezes upon impact with the ground or an item with a temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit or less, possibly producing a thin coating of ice. Even in small amounts, freezing rain can cause traveling problems. Large amounts can pull down power lines and tree branches.\n\nSleet - Precipitation consisting of transparent pellets of ice, 5 millimeters or less in diameter. Also called ice pellets. Forms when snow enters a warm layer of air above the surface and melts and then enters a deep layer of sub freezing air on the surface and refreezes.\n\nSnow Flurries - Intermittent snowfall of short duration. No measurable accumulation of snow occurs.\n\nYour HW i guess? ;)
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A power surge can cause multiple drives/devices to fail at once.  Also, if your power supply starts to go out, it can take other components with it.
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it doesn't seem normal.  I always unplug my computer during lightening storms and never have any problems.
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Any precipitation when it's "too cold for snow" will produce ice instead of snow.
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As a kid I thought that if I kicked up a lot of dust and got it as high as I possibly could, that it would cause precipitation in my town.  So on below freezing days, it would snow.
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for frost you need cold and humidity.\n\nby looking at the dew point and temperture you can tell what is going to happen.  if the windshield temperature lowers to the dew point condensation will happen.  if it's above freezing then dew will form but if it's below freezing it will condense as frost.  but if the windshield temperature doesn't lower to the dew point no condensation will happen which is why some nights you don't get any frost at all.
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It rains because the upper atmosphere is warmer than the air at the ground. Generally this is freezing rain, but not always.
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A snow blower that doesn't work
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i don't know, i usually have to wait till the storm is over then my satellite will work again. u know the clouds is what causes the signal to go out.\n\ni HATE when that happens, good movie playin-tv goes out
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Cold water has more dissolved gases in it than hot water.  Any dissolved solutes cause the freezing point of water to be lower than pure water with nothing dissolved in it.\n\nThis means if your power goes out in the wintertime and it is about 32 degrees F outside, the water in your hot water pipes is more likely to freeze than the water in your cold water pipes.  This is because the freezing point of the water in your hot water pipes is higher than the freezing point of the water in your cold water pipes.\n\nSpeed isn't being considered here.  The cooling process is assumed to be slow so that the pipes are in thermal equilibrium with surroundings.\n\nAlso check out this link.  It is from the Alaska Science Forum.  They can explain the water pipes problem more correctly than me and they have more personal experience with the phenomenon.\nhttp://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF4/440.html
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High up in the atmosphere where rain clouds form, the temperature is freezing cold. At these aktltitudes the water can freeze. If there is turbulance a drop of water can freeze and be caught in an updraft. A layer of water can form around the frozen rain drop, freezing too. Thti small ice ball falls within the cloud and gets caught up in another up draft. If this continues a piece of hail is produced. It becomes too heavy to stay up and falls to the ground.\n\nIn still air the water is  in vapor form and as the temperature falls below freezing point, molecules of water coalesse and form crystals. If the air is freezing cold all the way to the ground, these crystals fall as snow. If the temperature is slightly above freezing point these crystals melt and form sleet.
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Plug all your computer equipment into a surge protective power bar...although very rare...it is known to happen\n\nBut to keep your system running should the power go out...install a generator to your power fuse panel.
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Four possible problems --\n\n1) Modem is not working correctly and needs fixed or replaced.\n\n2) You are getting bad signals on the line (corrupted line) and the modem is getting mixed up on how to handle.\n\n3) A slight possible problem is that your options on your computer are not set properly to handle the DSL hookup, but I doubt this since it only happens every few weeks. \n\n4) Power or power spikes at the DSL Provider company is causing the DSL line to have errors and the DSL device stops working.  This can happen in lighting storms, High wind, or someone hits a power pole! \n\nIn both cases, you need your DSL representative to send a technical person to do a check of your line and modem to be sure they are in good working order.\n\nThe technical person will likely tell you that since you are not getting the problem more often that they are likely not going to be able to trace down the problem.  \n\nSuggestion -- See if there is a log on your Internet connect that can be set on to trace all communications.  You have a good chance of catching what is causing the problem if your computer has the capability to log problems.  Mine is done through the security software I have installed.\n\nRecommend going to Cable if you can.  It does not cost too much more and you will have far fewer problems!