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famous last words.. I used to think like that.

Trees on the sides of roads are not good. We have enough forest everywhere. What kind of generator did you get.

We tried to tell them. We need to trade ambience for reality. Forests are in great shape according to Ct forestry report just issued. Trim the hell out of the trees, take um down.

Crews from Ontario were in Mass yesterday arrived today. After 10 days of no power in Hurricane Bob with 3 little ones and no generator I gave a case of Canadian Molson to a Quebec crew as thanks when they flipped the tripped breaker in front of my house I pointed out to them. I literally stood in the street and stopped the truck and bribed them.. All these guys are heroes their bosses in their Eversource Offices are zeros.

Canada? I thought the border was closed? Those extra crews should have been traveling Sunday

hmm, well away huh, like 10 feet

Act of god, no ones to blame

Luke lives in Southington right? Yikes. Perfect example of trimming N side and not S . If they only had leadership that understood the nature of tropical storms in Ct

Kind of a sad response and pretty typical attitude in Ct. Push the problem down the road it will fix itself. Sad state of affairs. I won't leave because of family obligations but if you think its not all coming to a head you might want to do some research

our town doesn't even have its own bucket truck, lol they share with Canterbury. Disaster prep is a joke around here. I grew up in Westerly RI where its a priority, I guess 38 had a lot to do with that since they had the highest death toll in the country from that.

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So an example for @Hoth My road, they trimmed the tree across the street but not the one on the south side. These wires cross the street, they told me it was the towns problem. I don't get it, maybe its me.

CEO made 13 million last year

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obviously you can not stop it all but if you seriously think they are doing enough take a ride up here and look at the rural areas. They half assed it. After all the lessons from previous storms they failed to prep, especially in towns. We all know power loss happens and we prepare but to see the same mistakes happen over and over again is cringe worthy. When you anticipate 10 to 15 % loss and you get 75% you better do a couple of things. Get better forecasters and reevaluate your infrastructure

Not one town had a crew staged with DPW. Think about that. Understaffed, totally dependant on outside contractors and sending millions to CeOs and stockholders. Maybe it's time to break up the monopoly and make it privatized

All they had to do initially is put one crew in each town to respond to hot spots. I saw pics of melted Asphalt from down wires, fires burning up to hours. That stuff is easily fixed. Utility Emergency preparations should expect the worst and scale back, not scale up. EM 101. We know power goes out,, it happens. But at least give it your best. The tree trimming which we are charged for is an absolute joke and that includes towns. Tree huggers need to step to the back row. The forests are extremely healthy as shown in the recent released CT forestry report even with gypsies and borders, the biomass has grown. They don't trim opposite sides of streets despite the fact south side trees fall more readily. I really hope they step it up.

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Was the buzz worth it?

Fuking sweating my ass off in my house 82 degrees RH 60%, where's our relief lol

no its not Wiz. They failed

Towns don't touch trees on power lines without Eversource. Preposition means embedded a crew with each town so they can deenergize so trees can be removed. Believe me, this is an epic fail on Eversource. They actually told me this year when they were trimming trees when I asked about the south side trees that it was the towns problem. I pointed out that most trees fail in southeast winds because trees grow stronger in the prevailing wind direction. They looked at me with cross eyes. As someone who dealt with EM for years it was always a challenge getting CLP to storm prep meetings, usually no shows