Posted on 11/05/2011 6:44:51 PM PDT by matt04
Connecticut Light & Power wrestled outages down to the 12 percent level by Saturday night, restoring power to tens of thousands of people but still leaving about a dozen towns from Farmington to Union mostly cold and dark.
And in his bleakest forecast yet, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said CL&P would have to substantially speed up its work pace to make its self-imposed deadline of delivering power to 99 percent of its customers before midnight Sunday.
"I've been skeptical and I'm becoming increasingly skeptical by the hour," Malloy said at a Saturday evening press conference.
The governor directed CL&P to show him an hour-by-hour, town-by-town plan by 10 a.m. Sunday, and warned that he doesn't want the utility to leave open false hope through the day Sunday.
"If they knew that won't make their goal, then the people of Connecticut deserve to know that," Malloy said. "There are 31 hours left and about 175,000 still out. CL&P needs to hold their workers over and have them work through the night."
Jeffrey Butler, the utility's chief operating officer, insisted that with nearly 2,200 crews and help from the National Guard, CL&P can meet its deadline with a major push Sunday.
"I heard his message loud and clear," Butler said after Malloy walked out of the press conference.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
http://outage.cl-p.com/outage/outagemap.aspx
No offense but New England types are whiners. I was without power for 10 days after Hurricane Ike.
Folks should be prepared to live without electric for up to a month.
Sounds like CL&P needs a rate hike so they can maintain more of a surge repair capability.
That’ll fix the whiners.
No offense but New England types are whiners.”
Totally agree. There were some areas of Galveston after Ike that didn’t have power for weeks. The poles and lines were simply gone, even though the houses were there. We were without power for over three weeks in the Houston burbs. Try going through 85 plus degrees at night with no air.
Is this the same Connecticut that joined the anti-energy, anti-business regional greenhouse gas initiative? That pours money into solar projects in a relatively sun starved part of the country? They should consider this a practice run.
Devastating October snow storm. Some towns look like war zones with all the downed trees. Most places out since Sat.
All the leaves were still on the trees, and some places got 20 inches of wet snow. A lot of healthy trees down. Even major transmission lines were taken out by some trees.
You can see my feelings on this other thread. A lot of people here in CT would be dead pretty quick in any major disaster.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2803123/posts?page=14#14
Pony up and bury the utilities. That’s what we do in Central Ohio. None of our suburbs have overhead power or cable lines.
Or at least cut some f-ing trees. But no, the rich libbies go bat$hit when someone cuts a tree.
Exactly. Literally every road in my area was closed or reduced to one “lane” by down trees and wires. IIRC, Bradley Airport was even without power for two or three days.
Di you get your merit badge?
“CL&P needs to hold their workers over and have them work through the night.”
Yeah, just keep them on the clock indefinitely until the job is done. While the governor puts in his 8 hours (or less) and goes home every night to sleep.
Fact is, these linemen and electricians are probably working 16 hour shifts with 8 hours off to drive home, eat, sleep, shower, and be ready to work again the next shift. After about 5+ days of that, they’re tired.
>>these linemen and electricians are probably working 16 hour shifts with 8 hours off to drive home, eat, sleep, shower, and be ready to work again the next shift. After about 5+ days of that, they’re tired.
That is exactly what they are doing. CL&P requires crews to work a max of 16 hours when the outage is expected to be prolonged, though they did say that when it gets close to the end, they ask for volunteers to work 20 hours.
Our governor is an a-hole. I mean, hello? It’s the worst power outage in state’s history, with the worst tree damage we’ve seen since the 1938 Hurricane.
So now we have State Governors bossing around private companies, making them provide reports “by 10 a.m. Tomorrow,” and telling them when and how to schedule their employees?
When did this crap start?
“Try going through 85 plus degrees at night with no air.”
Gosh, Brer Fox, do anythin’ but don’ throw me in that there braiar patch!
You are way too comfortable.
Well they got what was coming to them as I read that Farmington, Simsbury and Avon were still out.
I’m sure that the company is hemmed in by rate control, line maintenance regulations, and an idiot state government.
Hills and mts of SW PA last Feb we got 2 ft of wet heavy snow. Trees down across all roads to our little valley.I was out for 6 days, some for 2 wks. 10-15 at night. I have a kerosene heater so it was like camping. You just have to be prepared. Whining won’t help. Back in the 70s we were t for a month in winter
Hi Matt the roads in rural areas are still covered with trees down, some one lane with low overhead. We have power and are thankful but so many still out, New Milford, and North.
I have noticed the shift with Malloy, first standing with CL&P then leaving the briefing when CL&P Pres. Butler speaks and I thought how childish. Looks to me that Malloy is shifting blame, State will sue and then what.. State control over our power. Yep thinks that’s what Gov. Malloy would be happy with.
What a disaster, as Malloy is liberal, he has the crisis now use it to his advantage.
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