Damned CL&P [electrical outage in CT]

The BBQ Pit
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A week. Some areas are still out of power. [although we did actually get a case of MREs and several gallons of water from FEMA. Not sure what we did to piss off FEMA that made them give us MREs though:dubious:] We just got the electricity and internet back this afternoon at 4.

CL&P now wants to have someone else pay the $75 million for repairing their infrastructure. I always thought that they were supposed to use the money we paid for things like maintenance and infrastructure repairs.:dubious:

A freaking week for a tropical storm grazing us, it took less time when the hurricane actually pegged into us directly last time. And it seems that they concentrated their 800 work crews in Fairfield County, Hartford County and the coastal cities. Nice for the rest of us country bumpkins who actually live in the sticks. Not to mention they refused to let the town DPW take care of the downed trees … so they sat on their asses doing pretty much nothing, and made our residents have to detour because of the 4 trees in a row between where we live and rt 14 [our road is a fairly major short cut in the area to get to rt 14 to Plainfield [rt 395] and Willimantic [rts 6&66]

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You must have missed your copy of the Public Utility Corporate Manual.

All expenses are, as far as possible, to be socialized, while all profits are, as far as possible, to be privatized.

This distinction is to be observed especially rigorously in public statements. The utility’s role as a public service, answerable to the people and regulated for their benefit, is to be emphasized most strenuously at time when public money is needed to repair infrastructure or otherwise carry out repairs, maintenance, and upgrades. When questions of rates and regulation are discussed, however, the utility’s need for freedom and independence as a corporation must be stressed, and concerns about socialism and overweening government interference should be broached as often as possible.