<p>We just got our power back !!! I’m so excited. I ran around turning all the lights on, just to know the feeling of being in light instead of stygian darkness. And I don’t have to sit on my underwear anymore to get it warm enough to put on . . . </p>
<p>I’m not so happy that I am forgetting all you others still without heat. I’ve got my fingers crossed for you (which my hands are not warm enough to do), and hope your power comes but on “any minute now”.</p>
<p>Whoohoo we’re back too. About 10,minutes ago. So relieved. We made it. Hang in there everyone!</p>
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<p>Just phoned home from the library. Still no power. Happy for those of you that are finally restored.</p>
<p>Still nothing here. I don’t believe JCP&L’s outage numbers for a minute. They’re showing 5 outages for my town yet agree with me that all 22 houses in my neighborhood are out. Not quite sure how that math works out.</p>
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<p>Shellfell, you’ll get there soon. Any minute now. Really.</p>
<p>I’m afraid to let the fire go out, for fear that power will go out again. Don’t quite trust it yet.</p>
<p>Most people where my father lives still don’t have power - 61% without power.</p>
<p>Day 8 in Connecticut. 21 towns still have >50% without power … that includes 7 towns which still have >80% with no power.</p>
<p>[Outage</a> Map](<a href=“http://outage.cl-p.com/outage/outagemap.aspx]Outage”>http://outage.cl-p.com/outage/outagemap.aspx)</p>
<p>The difference between this and many other outages is that 14 substations, and many main transmission lines were damaged in this storm. There has never been this level of damage OR number of folks without power before. </p>
<p>It’s frustrating not having power, but there was a ton of damage…a ton. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for all of you.</p>
<p>One astounding thing I heard…one high school shelter here has 1500 people at it…that is a HUGE number of folks in a shelter. That town is still over 80% without power.</p>
<p>My cousin who lives on Avon Mountain said there are still so many trees down all over the place that there is zero way they will get power back tomorrow, which is what CP&L is promising. </p>
<p>Consolation, maintenance is a thing of the past. National Grid use to trim trees every 3 years now it’s every 5 years and they only patch things now instead of making the necessary improvements to the infrastructure. Hence, every storm, rinse and repeat.</p>
<p>re: the trees down, I think that will be the reason that schools will remain closed on Monday and beyond, even if power to the schools is restored. The bus routes are just so dangerous. One street in my mom’s neighborhood is still completely blocked, in fact there is at least one home on the road where the resident has not yet been able to get a car out of the driveway. And I don’t think that situation is uncommon in town. </p>
<p>CL&P listing my town as 62% without power right now. I feel so fortunate.</p>
<p>We’ve broken the 200,000 mark!</p>
<p>While at my Dad’s clearing all the broken limbs, we saw…miracle of miracles - two (not just one but TWO!) bucketloaders, with guys in hard hats. Almost ran up and hugged one. Maybe there is hope yet!</p>
<p>There was an online poll on the Hartford Courant web site: “Will CL&P restore power restored by Sunday night as it promises?” 86% said no, understandably. There’s no way just shy of 200,000 customers will get power restored in the next 33 hours. These are the relatively more difficult outages to fix (ie, lowest customers per downed line quotient). Easier restorations were accomplished at approximately 4000 customers per hour. Can the more difficult ones be accomplished at twice that “easier” rate? Um, what do you think? </p>
<p>In any case, full restoration wasn’t what CL&P’s CEO promised. According to the press, that number was “99% of customers.” With 1.2M customers, that means just 12,000 will be without power at midnight tomorrow. Still looks like a significant hurdle to me.</p>
<p>[Will</a> CL&P get power back on by Sunday? - Courant.com](<a href=“http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/todaysbuzz/hc-weekend-buzz-1105,0,7180534.story]Will”>http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/todaysbuzz/hc-weekend-buzz-1105,0,7180534.story)</p>
<p>POWER BABY!!! Took 20 min.</p>
<p>Tomorrow will be day #9 of no power for us. What’s depressing is that 90% of the town is back with lights except our street and a few others. It’s very difficult to see our street so dark. We’re at mil’s tonight. Been in hotels an hour and a half away and had many frozen nights at home…this is getting very old. Several downed power lines on our street. With so many people in the town back with power, they’d better concentrate on our street tomorrow!</p>
<p>for the first time this year, we lost power for 20 minutes and we panicked. Because we have well water, we don’t have water to flush toilets etc and my 94 year old father is with us since he lost power. Fortunately we got it back - I guess I got punished for bragging that we had power.</p>
<p>Woohoo. We got power back at 5:15 this afternoon, almost exactly 7 days after we lost it. I felt giddy. I wasn’t looking forward to another night in the cold.</p>
<p>I feel for those of you still without power. Yesterday, the police chief had to go public with the fact that we had 35 streets blocked by downed trees & power lines. After hearing that, I didn’t think we’d have power by Sun. night. I still think over 35% of town is in the dark and cold.</p>
<p>Keeping a good thought for those of you still suffering.</p>
<p>With so many getting their power back, hopefully this should free up space in hotels that were full before. NH is in pretty good shape right now - down to about 1% of customers that lost power, which is what they promised by last night. </p>
<p>MA is down to 5% of customers that lost power that still don’t have power.</p>
<p>I’ve seen a few convoys of utility trucks around town so I think that the remaining folks in NH will get their power back quickly now.</p>
<p>I cannot imagine what some of you are going through - no power for over a week is crazy! My thoughts are with you all.</p>
<p>Our power came back around 6pm last night. We’re still at the beach and will be going home tomorrow. Thank goodness for answering machines that let you remotely check on your personal power status!</p>
<p>We were out of power for one week and two hours. The outage report says that 700 people in my town (slightly over 1%) are still out this morning.</p>