Anyone still not have power?

[Greg]

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.

You have a generator yet? It made the 5 days we were out quite tolerable. Actually nice being a bit disconnected actually. I caught up on sleep in a major way.

 

[deadheadskier]

I caught up on sleep in a major way.

I lost sleep in a major way due to one of my neighbors. :lol: Guy with the generator was two streets over, probably 100 yards away and I could hear that thing running all night long. Easy to let go and deal when I knew I had heat and he probably didn't.

 

[Madroch]

We have a generator- borrowed from folks who got power back last week. But not wired into the heat. While it is not intolerable, it has grown quite old. I was fine through sat. Sun okay until they cancelled more school.. Today I am just pissed. We have been scrambling to find child care or taking time off from work, shuttling the kids to friends for sleepovers eating out way too much. It is hectic, expensive and far from restful.

 

[Madroch]

Seeing zero progress day after day is infuriating. It's like groundhog day every day when I return from work. No removal of wires, poles etc. Let alone any sign of repair activity. Seriously, the second week feels insulting.

 

[deadheadskier]

(((vibes))) madroch

I'd be SO pissed to be in your situation. The disaster sounds to be unprecedented, but the unprepared response even worse.

The thing that blows my mind is Avon is one of the wealthiest towns in the Hartford region with I can only assume massive tax rates. You would think the town DPW would be working 24-7 to clear debris in support of CL&P. It doesn't sound like that's happening.

 

[deadheadskier]

(((vibes))) madroch

I'd be SO pissed to be in your situation. The disaster sounds to be unprecedented, but the unprepared response even worse.

The thing that blows my mind is Avon is one of the wealthiest towns in the Hartford region with I can only assume massive tax rates. You would think the town DPW would be working 24-7 to clear debris in support of CL&P. It doesn't sound like that's happening.

 

[2knees]

(((vibes))) madroch

I'd be SO pissed to be in your situation. The disaster sounds to be unprecedented, but the unprepared response even worse.

The thing that blows my mind is Avon is one of the wealthiest towns in the Hartford region with I can only assume massive tax rates. You would think the town DPW would be working 24-7 to clear debris in support of CL&P. It doesn't sound like that's happening.

town dpw crews can't clear trees that have even dead lines in them. they have to wait for a line crew to clear the wires. that was one of the biggest frustrations towns all over the state had. they couldnt even begin cleanup and to make it worse, cl&p would tell towns that a line crew would be coming at X time and then never show up. Towns would send their crews to the spot and then sit and wait. doing nothing.

 

[ctenidae]

I got a call from CL&P yesterday, automated message asking me to call if I was still out of power. Must mean they're about wrapped up adn want to make sure they didn't miss anyone.

Of course, we never lost power, but it's good they do that, and that they seem to be about done restoring power.

 

[Madroch]

Power. Serious manpower in the hood. 10-13 trucks replacing poles, stringing lines. Still going through the night. Impressive once they got here.

 

[Edd]

Nice! That must feel awesome after such a long wait.

 

[drjeff]

Power. Serious manpower in the hood. 10-13 trucks replacing poles, stringing lines. Still going through the night. Impressive once they got here.

My strong hunch is that this is what the committess/commissions being set up to investigate the response and restoration effort will eventually find. And that is that given the magnitude of destruction over such a large area, that ultimately the most efficient way to restore power to all customers was to keep the crews in large groups that are capable of handling large distances with multiple downed poles, etc more efficiently than to split that crew of say 10-13 trucks up into 2 or 3 crews of 3-4 trucks each. Would these smaller crew sizes have presented a more visible presence over a wider area, likely, but would that really have expedited the restoration project??

 

[mondeo]

My strong hunch is that this is what the committess/commissions being set up to investigate the response and restoration effort will eventually find. And that is that given the magnitude of destruction over such a large area, that ultimately the most efficient way to restore power to all customers was to keep the crews in large groups that are capable of handling large distances with multiple downed poles, etc more efficiently than to split that crew of say 10-13 trucks up into 2 or 3 crews of 3-4 trucks each. Would these smaller crew sizes have presented a more visible presence over a wider area, likely, but would that really have expedited the restoration project??

My hunch is that the commitees/commissions being set up will be pure witch hunts with no benefit coming out of them.

 

[Madroch]

Methinkest Mondeo is correct.

 

[Glenn]

My hunch is that the commitees/commissions being set up will be pure witch hunts with no benefit coming out of them.

This.

They'll get rid of the CEO or a few of the top brass, everyone will feel better...and in reality, nothing with change. Except tax payer dollars will be wasted on a few studies and commitee reviews.

As the kids would say: "whateves"

 

[drjeff]

My hunch is that the commitees/commissions being set up will be pure witch hunts with no benefit coming out of them.

Totally agree with this!

I think that the state of CT has far more pressing issues to deal with now than this. And maybe if they spent as much time dealing with actual problems instead of just trying to makes excuses we wouldn't have as many problems as we currently do!

 

[bigbog]

HAVE to have a committee, how else would a couple meeting/lunches be explainable..

 

[Glenn]

I think that the state of CT has far more pressing issues to deal with now than this.

Like that multi BILLION dollar busline project that won't ease any traffic. Let's get on that! :lol:

 

[Geoff]

Totally agree with this!

I think that the state of CT has far more pressing issues to deal with now than this. And maybe if they spent as much time dealing with actual problems instead of just trying to makes excuses we wouldn't have as many problems as we currently do!

There are only three states with a state & local tax burden of more than 11%. New Jersey (11.8%), New York (11.7%), and Connecticut (11.1%). Connecticut is #1 for per-capita state & local tax burden ($7,256). #1 in property tax rates. #3 in personal income tax rates.

That part of the country is going to tax themselves into the 3rd world.

 

[drjeff]

There are only three states with a state & local tax burden of more than 11%. New Jersey (11.8%), New York (11.7%), and Connecticut (11.1%). Connecticut is #1 for per-capita state & local tax burden ($7,256). #1 in property tax rates. #3 in personal income tax rates.

That part of the country is going to tax themselves into the 3rd world.

Sooner or later, *maybe* my state will realize that is this modern era of telecommunications and more and more GLOBAL telecommunting that folks making mega bucks on Wall Street DON'T have to live within say 50 miles of Wall Street if they don't want to, but yet still make their Wall Street Mega $$. Since with some of the incomes your talking about, a percent or 2 less tax wise IS a significant number, and many of the folks making the big $$'s got their the old fashioned way (as the old Smith Barney commercials used to say ) they "Earrrnnnnnnnnedddd IT!" and as such like to keep it

The funny thing though property tax wise, is that my house in CT (which has an assesed value comfortably greater than my place in VT) actually has a lower property tax bill than my place in VT! But then the entire VT property tax issue would be at least a 50 page rant thread of its own

 

[soposkier]

There are only three states with a state & local tax burden of more than 11%. New Jersey (11.8%), New York (11.7%), and Connecticut (11.1%). Connecticut is #1 for per-capita state & local tax burden ($7,256). #1 in property tax rates. #3 in personal income tax rates.

That part of the country is going to tax themselves into the 3rd world.

No sales tax though!!