Posted on 11/05/2011 7:28:39 PM PDT by matt04
The Asylum Hair Salon, in Canton, has filed a lawsuit against Connecticut Light & Power for losses suffered during the power outage.
Attorney Edward Jazlowiecki said the salon is the only plaintiff, however if other plaintiffs who suffered losses emerge, the suit can be prosecuted as a class action suit.
The salon's suit was filed in Hartford Superior Court on Friday.
We used to live in Connecticut, and whenever there was a storm it took forever to restore power.
I thought that part of the problem was CL&P, but my wife reminds me that the typical Connecticut homeowners wouldn’t let the town or the power companies trim the trees.
And in turn the town wouldn’t let us trim the trees on our property along the road. One time a large pine tree fell down on the wires at the bottom of our property, and we were out of power for about four days.
Maybe that’s part of the problem.
If this succeeds, and spreads, it will only make electricity more expensive. Power companies will be forced to build to a higher standard, and develop redundancies to try to prevent losses in courtrooms. Rate payers will pay for those “enhancements.”
When I saw all of those overhead lines on TV I wondered, what is taking so long to bury them? Seriously.
On my street a section had huge trees fully entangled in the power lines. A good wind would knock out power for hours until crews could clear the branches and reset the circuit. They could never remove the branches because the owner would fight it every time.
When they sold the property, the new owners had the trees trimmed or removed. Never lost power because of that again.
Stupid people. Don’t they know that electricity is the high priest of false security?
Notice the language. It’s a power “outage” not a power “failure”. Failure inplies guilt or fault which it should.
Just like the airlines leavin ya on a plane for 7 hours:
“Oooops! Sorry about that, oh well, act of God I guess, nobody’s fault.”
“Notice the language. It’s power “outage” not a power “failure”
Failure implies guilt or fault which it should be”
You have a great point, not unnoticed by our liberal law makers in CT. It is embarrassing how they are reacting. Gov. liberal Malloy is using this crisis for political purposes now and enjoying it. Watch the state try to take over the private CT Light and Power. Tonight Gov. Malloy is using “failure” expect lawsuit.
I just watched a report on the local NBC affiliate (WVIT) where the interviewed the owner of the salon and the attorney. They are seeking $20 MILLION in damages on three counts.
I will look for video tomorrow.
***Attorney Edward Jazlowiecki said the salon is the only plaintiff, however if other plaintiffs who suffered losses emerge, the suit can be prosecuted as a class action suit.***
“Step right up folks, it’s litigation lottery time and all you financial worries could be put to rest forever! Cannot show harm due to the said power outage? No problem! Don’t even live in CT? No problem!”
Well, this is ridiculous.
On another note... after Irene, there were widespread outages in Connecticut, and out-of-state contractors hustled up here to help get power restored. CL&P didn’t pay them. I don’t know if they’re hoping FEMA settles it or what, but they didn’t pay ‘em.
And they’re capping overtime on the guys who are on line crews as well, which also slows efforts.
I grew up in CT and honestly, in all the bad storms and power outages we had in southern CT over the years, power was never out for more than two days.. It’s a brave new world. Phht.
Have you ever dug much in New England?
It takes for ever. Once we were burying cable along a street in Springfield Ma and we ran into granite cobblestones that were not on any map. We went through one or two diamond saw bits a day. And we had to slug through about a mile of that stuff. It took three times longer and was about four times as expensive.
That is why lines are still above ground in New England. It is too expensive. These type of storms are very rare up here. You don’t build these things for the 100 year storm. And, in most parts we were back up in five days or so.
That makes sense to me . . . I was thinking that it might be because you can’t get the proper-sized backhoe in to what must be some tight quarters (not to mention everyone would complain about all the trees that would have to come down, anyway).
In most new residential and commercial areas, it is underground.
In the cities I was involved in building, we were underground to the street, and then went onto poles in the back yards feeding the streets from behind. That was a nightmare too.
Remember, some of these towns are working on grids started in the late 1800’s.
We regularly ran into wooden conduits and even wooden lined water and sewer lines. None of them on city maps. We were like freakin’ archeologists.
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