Anyone still not have power?

[bvibert]

You're making my point for me. It's been a week. I sure as hell would hope they could make progress in a week with no wind or rain.

I don't see how I'm making your point for you? It's been 6 days and they have made a lot of progress. Since I posted that 1.5 hours ago they got almost 10,000 additional customers online.

Unless you have some sort of inside info I'd take everything you hear on the news with a grain of salt. Just because they claim that CL&P didn't pay most of the crews from Irene does not mean it's true. I'd need to see some proof before I believe that argument.

 

[bvibert]

why am i so fired up?

Beats me? Did you inhale too many fumes from your generator?

 

[Madroch]

Still no power in my hood in Avon, and yet to see a utility truck despite at least 8 poles and 2 transformers on the ground in the immediate vicinity. Guard came by yesterday and at least made the roads passable. Too tired to chime in on the clp debate... Maybe when I have power in about a week.

 

[billski]

Still no power in my hood in Avon, and yet to see a utility truck despite at least 8 poles and 2 transformers on the ground in the immediate vicinity. Guard came by yesterday and at least made the roads passable. Too tired to chime in on the clp debate... Maybe when I have power in about a week.

Bummer Madroch. Too bad there isn't a lot of snowpack. You can rent a condo at the slopes for dirt cheap this time of year.

You either must be at the end of the line, or you're late on your payment :angry:

 

[mondeo]

According to the website I got power back sometime tonight. Can't tell, I'm in VT.

As far as people bitching about cl-p, have you seen how many trees are down? Of course they're going to get to the hardest hit places last. If you have to go house to house like a lot of places I've seen, you do that after the less hard hit towns which you can get 100 people back at a time. There were 5 times as many trees down for this as there were for Irene. There's no precedent for this. The fact that an entire town has a high percentage left doesn't mean anything, clp has to look at the quickest way to get the most people back. In this case it meant ignoring Farmington for a little while.

As far as clp not paying other people goes, were the bills from Irene past due? Its business to business, I'd assume they weren't. So what's the problem?

Personally, I'll take the lower electric bills if it means going without power for a week every fifty years.

 

[Madroch]

From what i can tell and have been told-One line ends at the house next door (simsbury- no power). Other line ends at my house ( Avon- no power either) Much more damage near me in the simsbury line. The Avon line is only out for a mile or so near my house- maybe not enough homes to warrant attention.

Cold tonight.... I'll be shocked if clp makes the midnight Sunday deadline- lot of work to be done in my area-- new transformers, new poles, substation issues( or so the rumor mill suggests). I know nothing about power except that I don't have it.

 

[Madroch]

Okay, So now they say wed by midnight for us. Unreal.

 

[deadheadskier]

god damn

that's ridiculous. My folks lived in Burlington, CT for a number of years. I'm sure there old home up on Johnny Cake is going through the same issues.

Local hotels must be gouging people big time

 

[hammer]

god damn

that's ridiculous. My folks lived in Burlington, CT for a number of years. I'm sure there old home up on Johnny Cake is going through the same issues.

Local hotels must be gouging people big time

I would hope that hotels couldn't charge higher rates...we didn't need a room but I know someone who did and the hotel rates were not increased.

 

[gmcunni]

Okay, So now they say wed by midnight for us. Unreal.

WTF? that sucks! Hopefully it doesn't take that long.

 

[gmcunni]

Okay, So now they say wed by midnight for us. Unreal.

fwiw, home depot down this way has generators in stock.

 

[Madroch]

To add insult to injury.. my chainsaw died today mid clear...on top of the pull cord on my snow blower snapping last Sunday, the only time I didn't (couldn't) use the electric start. What next?

Still no power.

 

[billski]

suck es vou!

Our freecycle mail list has temporarily extended its listing to cover "borrowing" equipment for recovery/repair.

 

[bvibert]

My folks lived in Burlington, CT for a number of years. I'm sure there old home up on Johnny Cake is going through the same issues.

That's quite possible. I saw several damaged lines in that area on my way through yesterday evening.

 

[soposkier]

god damn

that's ridiculous. My folks lived in Burlington, CT for a number of years. I'm sure there old home up on Johnny Cake is going through the same issues.

Local hotels must be gouging people big time

Wouldn't that be illegal for hotels to price gouge? (not that that would necessarily stop some from doing it)

 

[deadheadskier]

Wouldn't that be illegal for hotels to price gouge? (not that that would necessarily stop some from doing it)

Depends

I used to work at a hotel in Portland, ME. Busiest weekend of the year was Camper's weekend in the summer time. This is the middle weekend of summer camps when parents come up and spend a weekend with their kids away from camp. Rooms that weekend were sold at $300 per night.

There was a couple of bad storms during my time there that caused many in the local area to lose power for a few days. Now, the GM of the hotel could have set the rate at $300, perhaps even higher as the demand was there. Would selling the rooms at $300 be considered gouging under the eyes of the law? Probably not. Charging more than $300 might draw attention. The GM of the hotel always did the 'right' thing during those times and rented the rooms for $99 figuring the good will he was building in the community would be worth more in the long run than getting as much money as he possible could out of people during a time of need.

 

[Geoff]

Depends

I used to work at a hotel in Portland, ME. Busiest weekend of the year was Camper's weekend in the summer time. This is the middle weekend of summer camps when parents come up and spend a weekend with their kids away from camp. Rooms that weekend were sold at $300 per night.

There was a couple of bad storms during my time there that caused many in the local area to lose power for a few days. Now, the GM of the hotel could have set the rate at $300, perhaps even higher as the demand was there. Would selling the rooms at $300 be considered gouging under the eyes of the law? Probably not. Charging more than $300 might draw attention. The GM of the hotel always did the 'right' thing during those times and rented the rooms for $99 figuring the good will he was building in the community would be worth more in the long run than getting as much money as he possible could out of people during a time of need.

The B&B across the street from the Long Trail Brewery in Bridgewater, VT was charging $200 the day of the Hurricane Irene flood to out-of-staters stranded on Route 4 with all the roads closed. That's for a room the size of a closet with no electricity and no running water.

 

[soposkier]

Depends

I used to work at a hotel in Portland, ME. Busiest weekend of the year was Camper's weekend in the summer time. This is the middle weekend of summer camps when parents come up and spend a weekend with their kids away from camp. Rooms that weekend were sold at $300 per night.

There was a couple of bad storms during my time there that caused many in the local area to lose power for a few days. Now, the GM of the hotel could have set the rate at $300, perhaps even higher as the demand was there. Would selling the rooms at $300 be considered gouging under the eyes of the law? Probably not. Charging more than $300 might draw attention. The GM of the hotel always did the 'right' thing during those times and rented the rooms for $99 figuring the good will he was building in the community would be worth more in the long run than getting as much money as he possible could out of people during a time of need.

I guess hotel rates would be hard to gauge in the eyes of the law, as they flucuate so much anyways as compared to common items such as milk, bread and water which you hear about the AG going after during shortages.

 

[drjeff]

I guess hotel rates would be hard to gauge in the eyes of the law, as they flucuate so much anyways as compared to common items such as milk, bread and water which you hear about the AG going after during shortages.

Hotels do that all the time -look at the Renaissance Hotel at Patribot Place - most nights of the year its in the $99-$139 a night range, but if its there's a Patriots game that weekend or a big concert at Gillette then that same room will be going for the full rack rate listed on the back of the door of $499 a night range Same thing at the casino's except the usual "excuse" for full rack rate is often just that its Friday or Saturday night, reguardless of the time of year or the entertainment, and if they weren't getting folks paying those rates, they wouldn't charge them. Right? I guess that's all in the eye of the consumer paying for it

 

[Madroch]

Umh... Hearing rumuors of another full week for parts of the valley.. still poles, transformers and wires everywhere in my hood. See tons of crews at the local DD and gas stations but none on the streets.