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Thanks for the link silenus. I don’t think we have such fancy things here, although maybe I’ve overlooked them. We do have the kind to start fires though.
12/16/08…
NO POWER
NO CMP TRUCKS
Beech Ridge, Birch Hill, and Goodwin, streets that border our road HAVE POWER, WE ARE STILL OUT!!!, CMP is still CLAIMING that there are crews in the area (BS!), yet we have yet to see a single truck!
I talked with a “supervisor” at CMP and she basically admitted that they don’t deal with the “fiddly onsie-twosie situations until the end of the outage”, basically admitting that our road, which has about 30 houses on it, is being ignored!
I took a drive around this morning, evaluating the poles, and found a popped breaker bar on one of the poles, IOW, I did CMP’s evaluation job for them, and it only took me about three minutes to find the tripped breaker, obviously I called it in, fat lot of good it will do though, I also distributed CMP’s corporate number to a few more of my neighbors, all were quite happy to get the number, as every one of them said, without me even asking “we haven’t seen any trucks”
…once this outage is over, we are going to have a LONG conversation with CMP about their incompetence and their deliberate ignoring of an entire group of customers, I want heads to roll for this!
I’m not in NE, but in NY, can I join in too? I still don’t have power either. Mine has been out since Friday. I am at the point of tears sometimes, though we are coping. I don’t have a genny or a keresone heater, and no real intention to buy one, honestly, this is the first time this has happened to this extent in over ten years in Albany. Power is scheduled to be restored tomorrow night.
Saturday night was the worst, and Sunday we were almost in tears. At least I could bring my gecko to the office, or he might have died. 40 degrees was the temp in the house on Sunday, and he would have died.
And the only other thing we were worried about is the pipes freezing.
You people still have my sympathy. Not that it will keep you warm, though I wish it would.
Not yet. A good friend of mine there is still out, and will be until at least a week (elapsed). An entire line of poles is down in his neighborhood, not just the lines.
The Mainers I work with were happy to have a reason to get their chainsaws out, at least.
I heard on the news last night that some people will not get power back until after christmas. Good luck!
Luckily we just got about 8 inches of snow, and that melted off yesterday. I’m on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, so they don’t even consider coming to restore our power until they’ve dealt with everyone else.
A guy here in my lab is still powerless and living in a hotel. In his case, the line that’s down leads only to his house, so he’s the only one affected. This means he’s far far down the priority list. Sucks.
Harsh. Perhaps not all of Hampstead is up, but the Hannaford’s at the intersection of 111 and 121A has been lit since Sunday.
Hi neighbors (waves)
I’m in Kittery, Maine, and bizarrely, we never lost power in my neighborhood, though apparently much or most of Kittery did. Many friends here and in Portsmouth (and in interior NH) are screwed. You can all come over to our place for a beer in front of the fire if you like.
MacTec, not that I’m down with CMP per se, and of course they shouldn’t say they’re working in your area if they’re not, but doesn’t it make sense for them to tackle the tasks that get larger numbers of people their power back first? and aren’t they pulling in crews from all over the place to try to get through it all, and there’s just too damn much damage? Or did I miss something?
I would hope a grocery store would have a generator as insurance against this kind of thing.
Emily, that does make logical sense, but what does not make logical sense are;
1; Goodwin road has power, we get our feed from there
2; Birch Hill has power
3; Beech Ridge has power
visualize the capital letter “H”, the upright portions of the H are Goodwin/Birch Hill and Beech Ridge, ALL these roads have power, we get our feed from Goodwin, which had power restored two days ago, our road is the horizontal portion of the H, connecting the two verticals, we…do…not…have…power!
we have seen trucks on Goodwin, Beech, and Birch, not a single truck has set tires on our road
Understand our frustration now?
Hell yes. I misunderstood earlier and thought Goodwin, Beech and Birch all got theirs back from some far-away repairs or something, and you were maybe on a microspot of different power source, like the reverse of my neighborhood. If trucks have been to surrounding blocks but not yours, that’s incompetence.
Is there like a PFLAG equivalent I can join for friends of the power-deprived? We could bring pitchforks and hot cocoa to your angry mob…
It doesn’t even fucking matter if it makes sense. It’s frustrating and depressing to drive home past forty houses that all have power and christmas lights up and then get to your dark street at the end. We only have 104 people on our grid, or whatever, and so we’re LOW on the totem pole and I have been contemplating pulling down some Christmas lights or breaking our neighbor’s generator. Of course I wouldn’t…doesn’t mean I haven’t been fantasizing about it, though.
MacTech, at least it’s CMP up here and not Unitil… small consolation, but apparently it could actually be worse.
They do, but it’s not ment to power the entire store for days on end.
Three words…
ABOUT
FRAKKING
TIME!!!
Power was restored on 12/16/08 at approx. 7:50 PM, FIVE DAYS after the storm
CMP overall grade;
F MINUS MINUS!, or -273 Farenheit, ABSOLUTE ZERO!
I need to type up my final observations about the experience and sum them up in the next post or so
My sister and her family are back up. My mother, however, is still in the dark. Apparently PSNH is actually running out of poles, lines, and transformers. The word is she can expect her power back by the middle of next week. As in, Christmas.
Fortunately, she has a wood stove to keep her warm, but she’s still a little fed up.
I spoke too soon, no less than THREE minutes after I posted my last update, the power went out AGAIN!!!
Two tripped breakers on the Eliot side…
We called CMP immediately after the second outage, they said they’d “try to send the trucks back, Frost Hill is not listed as “closed” yet”
And you guessed it, NOT A SINGLE TRUCK HAS BEEN SEEN!!, and now we have about 3" of snow on the ground to compound matters, and we’re running low on wood…
CMP “CLAIMS” that all power will be restored by midnight tonight, I’ll believe that when I see it…
See why I HATE CMP?, this is normal for them, you can’t BUY this level of incompetence!
(bolding mine)
:eek:
Yes. Yes, I do.
Seriously, there are going to be lawsuits and legislation and attempts at heavy fining for all the power companies in the outage areas.