Thousands in Conn. enter 2nd week without power

[marmar]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Connecticut residents went to bed wondering whether they would awake Monday to find themselves among an unenviable fraternity: the small percentage of people entering their second week without power.

The electrical outages, the legacy of a storm that hammered the Northeast on Oct. 29 and 30, were largely an unpleasant memory by Sunday night for most of the 3 million who lost power at the height of the storm. But in Connecticut, about 50,000 residents remained without electricity by Monday morning, nine days after the storm. In New Jersey and Massachusetts, only a few hundred customers remained without power.

Connecticut Light & Power, the state's largest utility, announced Sunday night that it would miss its goal of restoring power to 99 percent of its 1.2 million customers by midnight. Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey apologized, saying that power might not be restored to everyone until Wednesday. About 6,000 of the outages were new and unrelated to the snowstorm, he said.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has called the delays unacceptable and said the state is keeping its legal options open in case there are grounds for recourse in the courts once the circumstances are examined. ............(more)

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[NNN0LHI]

1. Damn, we are at the end of the line here and the longest we ever went without power was a week

After that we got a generator(nothing fancy), and had a switch box installed so it could be used safely. Just enough to run the important stuff like the furnace, sump pump, fridge and a few lights.

I highly recommend people doing this. Don't need to get real expensive with an automatic natural gas generator. Power doesn't go off enough to warrant an expense like that around here. Keep it simple, cheap and safe. Don't even keep gas in ours. We keep the generator stored in a heated attached garage and the gas out in the unattached shed far from the house. Starts every time first pull.

Don

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. I went out and bought a generator. Don't you know......

2 hours after I got it running we got power back. So it goes but I am convinced thing are going to get worse and I am glad I have it now.

[DesertFlower]

3. we're considering getting a generator

to run the whole house.

we're in phoenix. checked out solar and it would cost us about $70,000 after rebates.

[chrisa]

4. CL&P laid all of its employees off and the CEO got a record bonus this year.

Basically, the usual in America these days.

[Ship of Fools]

5. My husband works for Kansas City Power & Light.

He's been in Boston for 2+ weeks helping out. The goofy old bastard, finally turned from old-time Repub to Dem this year,
is grasping (albeit slowly) the concept of global warming.

WE are getting a generator. Advice to all is to do the same.
These guys are aging and tired. Not many *newbies* coming up.
The grid is DECREPIT and is just being hobbled along.

Basically speaking, we're screwed. That's it.

FWIW, Charlie will probably be OK, but KCPL keeps gutting the union, laying off,
parachuting the CEO, and bringing in the crony. Same as it ever was.

[Ship of Fools]

6. BTW, for anyone who may not know this (I doubt many):

Linemen et.al who work for power companies do NOT get free power ...