<p>Its called a radio, Hayden :)</p>
<p>I am so sorry you are going through that. Must be awful!</p>
<p>Worst two is down to 15% outage. Our town has 5% without power and apparently FEMA is touring the town. On average, I’d say about the cities and towns in the area are around 6% with outages. PSNH has said that 99% should have power by midnight tonight. I think that is true overall but some individual towns might be lower than that number.</p>
<p>Our two Senators are calling for a review of electrical system standards. We had 300K without power on Saturday and the number is down to about 6K six days later. Progress has really accelerated the last two days but it felt like nothing was happening for the first two.</p>
<p>^ According to the latest CT Outage map, Connecticut still has 35 town with >50% still without power. There’s no outcry for review of electrical system standards however. Apparently outrage has been beaten out of state residents!</p>
<p>“We like our state,
We love CL&P,
Their slow-paced service,
Suits us to a T.”</p>
<p>In MA, it wouldn’t be an outage without the Attorney General calling for an investigation.</p>
<p>With about 220,000 electric customers still without power four days after a nor’easter knocked out service to more than 600,000 people across the state, Attorney General Martha Coakley says her office is reviewing how utility companies manage their resources even when a storm is not coming, and what persisting problems need to be corrected.</p>
<p>“I think it’s an important time for us with the DPU [Department of Public Utilities] to say ’Where are you marshaling your resources?’ Not just the short-term preparation for this storm,” Coakley said at a breakfast event hosted by the public relations firm Denterlein.</p>
<p>Coakley said her office will review the response of utilities to the weekend storm to determine the reasons behind the length of power outages, if the utility companies adequately prepared for the storm, and if any fines are necessary.</p>
<p>[Amid</a> outages, Coakley calls for look at utilities - BostonHerald.com](<a href=“http://news.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20111102amid_outages_coakley_calls_for_look_at_utilities/srvc=home&position=recent]Amid”>http://news.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/20111102amid_outages_coakley_calls_for_look_at_utilities/srvc=home&position=recent)</p>
<p>National Grid recently reduced its U.S. workforce by 20 percent, prompting pols to question whether management has to share the blame.</p>
<p>“How many linesmen are out there working? Do we have enough of them, or are we relying too much on subcontractors?” said Brown, who wants the state’s four biggest utility providers to explain their prestorm plans to him.</p>
<p>“Whenever I go out, to get cat food, or put gas in the car, people are coming up to me and saying, ‘Scott, what is going on?’</p>
<p>“Clearly the response plan is not as effective as it could be,” he said.</p>
<p>Coakley said: “Where are they spending their money and their personnel?”</p>
<p>[Pols</a> fired up over outages - BostonHerald.com](<a href=“http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2011_1102pols_fired_up_over_outages_coakley_brown_join_public_in_outrage/]Pols”>http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2011_1102pols_fired_up_over_outages_coakley_brown_join_public_in_outrage/)</p>
<p>BOSTON - With more than 200,000 Massachusetts homes still without power after the weekend snow storm, Gov. Deval Patrick says he is beginning to lose patience with electric utilities.</p>
<p>Patrick told reporters Wednesday that while he understands crews are working around the clock to restore power, the utilities need to “step it up” to get the job finished.</p>
<p>He said residents waiting to get their power back are understandably losing patience, “and so am I, frankly.”</p>
<p>Patrick said state officials continue to hear complaints about a lack of timely information from utilities.</p>
<p>[Massachusetts</a> power outages down to 220,000 - BostonHerald.com](<a href=“http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20111102massachusetts_power_outages_down_to_220000/]Massachusetts”>http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20111102massachusetts_power_outages_down_to_220000/)</p>
<p>Officials in New Hampshire are not as outspoken as those in MA which is big on consumer rights but we seem to be louder than CT.</p>
<p>Day 7 of no power or water in northern NJ. Only sign of progress is today’s addition of an orange cone on the tangled mess of wires in the road. I’m getting very grumpy.</p>
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<p>I don’t recall anyone opening anything up for showers during our week long outage for Irene. Maybe they figured since it was hot that we could just take cold showers. I did find that for about 4 days, I walked around continuing to turn on light switches. I stopped by day 5 or so. Then the day the power came back on, I found my myself fumbling around in the dark looking for something, completely forgetting that I could flip a switch. Never thought that would happen.</p>
<p>Cartera - I know what you mean! Yesterday, on the way home from work, I came to an intersection with a working stop light. I stopped there, and I couldn’t figure out why the guy perpendicular to me wasn’t going, when it was his “turn”…then I realized my light was green, and his was red. Huh. I got so used to intersections with non-working lights…</p>
<p>Still out here too. My town in CT has over 70% without power. CL&P now estimates we’ll be restored by 11:45pm on Sunday – that’s a 14 minute improvement from where we were yesterday.</p>
<p>Still no word on who in Farifield County won the gigundo powerball??</p>
<p>We got our power back on Wednesday night and felt lucky to only have been without it for four days. I’m a little concerned because it’s getting windy now and there are still plenty of trees hanging on or near the power lines.</p>
<p>Hope those without power will have it very soon.</p>
<p>The outage in towns that I’m interested in are actually increasing.</p>
<p>My tennis partner said that he lost his power today after getting it back a few days ago. I’d guess that the power companies may have to shut off power in some cases to work on nearby lines. Hopefully the shutoffs are short.</p>
<p>Yes, radio.
We loved it in the dark cold house…all four of us gathered around. Kinda Walton-ish.
BUT it was reeallllly annoying when the local station kept prompting us to ‘logon to Wblahblahblah to see the latest on power outage and school closings’</p>
<p>Come on! If we could log on, we’d have power and if we had power, we wouldn’t be looking for power outage info!!! Yikes.</p>
<p>We’re now down to 260,000.</p>
<p>Let me share today’s sad story with you. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. </p>
<p>Upthread, I shared that my mom who lives 2 miles from me was restored yesterday. Today she had us over for dinner, a nice hot lasagna, and a hot shower. During dinner I decided to try my “trick” of phoning my home to see if my answering machine picked up - an indication that our power was back. So I dialed the home phone, and LO AND BEHOLD, the machine picked up!! WHOOHOOO! So my husband quickly left to make sure that everything was in order…while we stayed at Mom’s.</p>
<p>A few minutes later H called me from the house saying, no, no power here…I checked my cellphone…I HAD DIALED THE WRONG NUMBER. I was so excited when an answering machine picked up, I hadn’t even bothered to listen to the message, which obviously was NOT MINE. Crushed. Just my luck.</p>
<p>So. No power. Day 7 almost done. It’s supposed to be in the 20’s tonight. I’m so disappointed. whaaaa.</p>
<p>The concern tonight is wind…and cold temps. There are still plenty of branches on tree lines here. I’m hoping we don’t lose power again…although I’m very happy to have it now. There are a couple of towns near here where there are still power outages of more than 80%. Some schools have cancelled throught Tuesday of next week.</p>
<p>Glad to hear you’re back online.e Thumper! Hope to join you someday…I mean Sunday at 11:59.</p>
<p>Any minute now. Any minute now.</p>
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<p>Sat. morning & still no power. The house got down to 48 last night. I also tried calling home to see if the answering machine picked up, but I dialed the correct number & it didn’t. My town still has 59% without power, so I can’t believe 99% will be back by tomorrow night. The town has moved polling places for Tues, so they must not think we’ll have pwer by tomorrow night either.</p>
<p>This is getting old. Actually it got old several days ago.</p>
<p>Day 8 still no power at my Dad’s although they tease him with robo-calls saying your power is up when it is not. still no sign of trucks repairing or even looking at anything in the area, that is the most frustrating part. It’s as if you don’t exist. JCP&L must be fabricating their numbers so news reports that all is well in NJ when you can see it is not. Someone tweeted that they say a JCP&L truck and had to rub their eyes because it was like seeing a herd of unicorn.</p>
<p>My mother in Wilton got her power back some time on Thursday, thankfully. Her house was down to 48 or so. When I spoke to her, she was busy doing everything that required power, such as washing clothes and vacuuming and cooking things that had thawed. She’s afraid that the wind will bring down more branches and the power will go out again.</p>
<p>I was living in New Canaan during the great ice storm of 1974. We got our power back in 3 days. (Of course, it was so extremely cold then that many people who didn’t bleed their pipes had frozen pipes and extensive damage to walls and floors. At least this time it was relatively warm.) What’s the difference between now and then? I would venture to guess that it is that CL&P has pared their maintenance staff to a bare minimum, and are unable to respond to crises as a result. It’s likely that the same thing is true of all of the surrounding utilities, so that there are fewer crews to “borrow.”</p>