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Re: Hurricane Sandy

Yeah :-/ oh well I tried.. I highly highly doubt he is going to have power back before the end of the week I will just keep it on standby hah

reply to bennor
The rest of the neighborhood is back up, but our street is still dark.
Running on generator.. avg 1/2 gallon per hour. That puts a price on this event.

7000W?

reply to bennor
My 7k is supposed to do around 12 hours on 6 gallons = 1/2 gallon per hour. So far I've only done a half hour welcome to my yard are all your nuts and bolts tight inside? run on it (thankfully. ) Glad it isn't LP. I think a week at The Bellagio in a suite would be cheaper than a few days worth of LP consumption.

I paid 2.899 for regular the other day

MA lower fuel tax + Shell + Stop & Shop points = $2.899

Course then again, we pay $50 for $20 of groceries, so we get a $10 gas discount for our troubles. The next nearest grocery store is 20 miles out.

reply to bennor
A friend has a house right on the beach in Old Saybrook. He said he doesn't even know where to start. He just had the floors done in May.

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reply to bennor
Hope everyone is OK. I know the coastal areas got hit really hard. Hang in there.
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You're in WV/VA admiring the 3 feet of snow, aren't you.

reply to bennor
Yea! Got my juice back at 8:00pm last night. Thank you to CL&P and all the line workers out there. Still no Charter service but we'll get there.
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I'm a union worker but geez can't they just bend the rules? This is not something that's going to happen often like this again.

reply to bennor
Really. Is this what the people in our state are like. If I was the repair crews I would let the whole city sit in the dark until all surrounding areas were restored.

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Angry residents pelted utility crews with eggs as they tried to restore power in Bridgeport, Conn., after the mayor claimed the local power company had "shortchanged" the state's largest city as it tries to recover from superstorm Sandy.

United Illuminating workers reported eggs and other objects being thrown at them a day after Mayor Bill Finch said the utility was taking care of wealthy suburbs while his constituents suffered. The unrest caused United Illuminating to pull its workers out until the city agreed to provide police protection.

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Some of the UI workers risked their lives to take care of two substations in Bridgeport during the Hurricane. That Mayor is an idiot. United Illuminating actually has more crews in Bridgeport than the other towns around it. Maybe if the mayor did something about all the drug dealers, murders, and scum of the earth in his town, the linemen wouldn't have to worry about risking injury due to those animals throwing shit at them while they do their job. If I was a lineman and someone threw something at me or one of my coworkers, I'd leave and not come back until I had the police come out and stay at the job site. Linemen have enough problems working with electricity that can kill in an instant. They don't need those fucking animals in Bridgeport complicating things.
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"The level of sacrifice that you give is beyond my comprehension. If the rest of us in the Country showed the level sacrifice that you do on a daily basis, we wouldn't have any of the problems we have." – Comedian Lewis Black speaking to the US troops.

In that type of situation, this avowed lefty libertarian says they should declare a state of civil emergency and give the line crews armed escorts.

Or send out the National Guard with them.

reply to bennor
That's a shame..I understand how it is to be without power but have some respect.. my late uncle used to be a lineman and I used to love hearing his stories.

reply to Harddrive
When we talk about 'armed escort' in a civil emergency, the National Guard would certainly be the first thought.

I had a flash of a daydream about sending martial arts masters out with them, but I've probably watched too many Kung Fu reruns.

reply to bennor
Just got my Internet back. Again thanks to all the linespeople out there busting their asses. I don't think some people have a clue as to the extent of what happened. They only care about themselves which is pretty darn sad.
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