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On the article Power Fully Restored to NJ by Sunday, Christie Says
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On the article Power Fully Restored to NJ by Sunday, Christie Says
John Case
12:19 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
ReplyIf you would look at the date (November 8, 2012) you would realize that you're commenting on 6 day old news...
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On the article Power Fully Restored to NJ by Sunday, Christie Says
John Case
6:54 pm on Saturday, November 10, 2012
ReplyPSEG:
5,580 outages remain from Hurricane Sandy. Power has now been restored to more than 99 percent of the 1.7 million customers impacted..
17,148 outages remain from the Nor'easter Wednesday night and reports of outages received since Friday; these outages may or may not be weather-related.Since service restoration began, PSE&G has replaced at least 2,500 poles and 1,000 transformers, as well as cut down 41,000 trees, to repair widespread damage from the hurricane. Contrary to rumors, PSE&G has ample supplies of poles and other equipment on hand.
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On the article Power Fully Restored to NJ by Sunday, Christie Says
John Case
2:23 pm on Saturday, November 10, 2012
What was unusual about this storm, IMO, was the 75+ MPH sustained gusts so far inland.
Most of the trees I saw were not rotted or diseased. A lot of what was left of those rotted trees, fell in the last two storms. What I saw that was unusual, was that most of the trees were UPROOTED, especially pines that don't have a deep root system. Even in open areas that have no (alleged) root constraints, perfectly healthy trees were pushed over.
Many telephone poles were falling, not due just to trees, but due to wind loading on the poles and wires. Over the years. we have been loading down poles with more and more services. In our area, in addition to the primary and secondary wiring, we have multiple land-line trunks, plus multiple Comcast lines, plus a big FiOS fiber cable and all the various interconnect boxes and amplifiers, adding both weight and wind loading. It's just more than these poles can take. The pole spacing probably dates back to the early part of the last century based on a fraction of the bearing weight and wind loading. My 2c...
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On the article Power Fully Restored to NJ by Sunday, Christie Says
John Case
8:29 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
>And here is the sad part. Next emergency they'll all be standing around again looking stupid again and saying;
This the third big outage in three years in the Sourlands. Just about all my neighbors have gotten generators by now.
I eventually want to get a whole-house generator, but in the meantime, we have an RV with a 4kW generator (electric start) with a 50 gallon gas tank we keep topped off. Along with some gas in cans, we can go for 2 weeks before needing to get gas. I wired the generator into the well water pump and connect a hose to the RV which has it's own water heater for washing dishes and taking showers. We had the freezer, refrigerator, gas stove, microwave, coffee maker, 3 computers, 2 TV's, fiber terminal (FiOS), Wifi, routers, printer, cordless phones, cellular femtocell, 3 CFL lamps, clock radios, etc all running off the generator (and several extension cords). :-)
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On the article Outages Drop as JCP&L Adds More Manpower
John Case
8:53 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
ReplyYou think you have it bad. I talked to a cashier who's friend has a long driveway with poles down. JCP&L told him not to expect power until December...
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On the article Outages Drop as JCP&L Adds More Manpower
John Case
9:51 am on Monday, November 5, 2012
Replyhttp://pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-11-05.jsp
http://outages.firstenergycorp.com/nj.html
(no press release from JCP&L on 11/5 yet)11/1 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 780,000. 920,000 restored.
11/2 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 716,000. 1000,000 restored.
11/3 5:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 612,000. 1104,000 restored.
11/4 5:00 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 445,000. 1271,000 restored.
11/5 6:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 375,000. 1341,000 restored.(70,000 restored in 24.5 hrs)
11/1 6:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 915,000. 185,000 restored.
11/2 5:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 760,000. 340,000 restored.
11/3 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 612,000. 488,000 restored.
11/4 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 482,000. 618,000 restored.
11/5 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 384,000. 716,000 restored.(98,000 restored in 24 hrs)
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On the article Road Closures Slightly Reduced in Hillsborough
John Case
8:47 pm on Sunday, November 4, 2012
ReplyThere are at least a dozen utility trucks working tonight on Long Hill Rd from in both JCP&L and PSE&G territory. Tree removed and new power pole erected on Long Hill near Spring Hill and may be open by now, but Lindbergh still has a barrier at the Wertsville end. Montgomery Rd is now open from Wertsville to Long Hill. The main roads from Wertsville into Flemington are open.
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On the article Outages Drop as JCP&L Adds More Manpower
John Case
5:09 pm on Sunday, November 4, 2012
ReplyDo the math. Both power companies have about 450K in customers left. They are both restoring at the rate of about 100K/day. While they are getting more and more assistance, the circuits they are restoring are bound to be getting smaller and smaller, reducing the restore rate per repair.
If one assumes the run rate per day stays about 100K per utility (optimistic) then at least 200K of you have another 4 - 5 days wait.
You don't see trucks because they can't be everywhere at the same time. Using words like unacceptable is not going to change the math. Sorry.
For those with small children, elderly, etc. I would suggest you find/buy/borrow some good thermal sleeping bags. We opened one up and used it as a quilt on our bed. It's toasty warm now...
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On the article Road Closures Slightly Reduced in Hillsborough
John Case
9:41 am on Sunday, November 4, 2012
PSE&G is scheduled to focus on Hillsborough & Montgomery on Monday 11/5. I saw JCP&L working on Long Hill Rd last night (between Zion and Amwell).
John Case
1:42 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
And it wont be, for homes that have been flooded out. It's not safe. BTW, JCP&L says there are 19 out in Brick. (They could by lying...just sayin'..)