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Fewer than 200 Long Island Power Authority customers, islandwide, were still experiencing power outages caused by Hurricane Irene as of Monday morning, according to Mark Gross, a LIPA spokesman, who said the authority hoped to have everyone online by the end of the day.
“We hope to have it wrapped up today by the end of the day, if not sooner,” he said of full power restoration.
LIPA’s Storm Center website was listing 235 customers as being without power in Southampton Town Monday morning, with 228 of them in Bridgehampton. Mr. Gross said those could be “new outages” unrelated to the storm, or “intentional” temporary outages to make restoration efforts safe for workers. The other outages listed in Southampton Town were “less than 5” in Hampton Bays, North Sea, Remsenburg-Speonk, Westhampton,... more
“We hope to have it wrapped up today by the end of the day, if not sooner,” he said of full power restoration.
LIPA’s Storm Center website was listing 235 customers as being without power in Southampton Town Monday morning, with 228 of them in Bridgehampton. Mr. Gross said those could be “new outages” unrelated to the storm, or “intentional” temporary outages to make restoration efforts safe for workers. The other outages listed in Southampton Town were “less than 5” in Hampton Bays, North Sea, Remsenburg-Speonk, Westhampton,... more
Sunday midday -- the storm and winds started to dissipate, and you consider an 80% restoration rate good late on Thursday?
Did you fall into a Rip van Winkle slumber in the last few days?
I guess you are used to being abused by multi-national corporations, the first priority of which is:
PROFIT!
Wake up!
We are putting lots of Euro's into the bank accounts of a corporation (National Grid, in case you haven't awakened yet)_which ...more basically does not have OUR best interests at heart (in my personal opinion).
LIPA makes $ by charging people for energy - if people can't use energy, they don't make money. This was also the 3rd largest power outage ...more for LIPA in their history, so when, in your opinion, do you think power should have been restored for everybody? What would be "acceptable"? These hamptonites seem to think they are more important than others around the island. Meadow Lane and Dune Rd. should be last on the list as they are out of the way, have low residential density and most of the residents have generators (or should)
Many of LIPA's senior managers are, in my personal opinion only, either long-gone due to National Grid's 2011 cost-savings, or they are afraid to take urgent and crucial action because their "forced" retirements would be jeopardized. [Ditto for Keyspan's natural gas executives IMO.]
You are a bright person, we all recognize. What would you do after decades (30-40 years +) of working for the same bureaucracy?
Challenge ...more the ludicrous half-hearted response to Irene, or sit back and hope that National Grid will keep it's (not "their" -- it is a foreign corporation after all) to honor the retirement packages of each and every employee, which packages in theory vested a long time ago?
The profit "window" to which you ascribe a positive motivation for LIPA, to honor the restoration of power ASAP, is NOT governed by people here on Long Island. This "profit" matter is entirely OUT OF THEIR HANDS!
The next pay check, however, is on their radar. Sad that intelligent and caring people like you are so optimistic in the face of multinational corporations ripping us off.
Wake up!
How does this benefit the bottom line of LIPA? They (the public utility) make money by providing energy to people. If they do not provide energy, they do not make money. If you could please give me an economic explanation for dragging out the restoration of electricity to their customers I would be satisfied. To vaguely talk about "higher ups" and their retirement packages is a disservice to your time honored tradition of demanding facts and full bore ...more explanations.
Furthermore, you did not answer my query of what would be an acceptable time frame for restoration of power to all customers.
LIPA is not perfect (show me a public utility that is), but they are getting killed over this which is absurd. D*mned if you do and D*mned if you don't is the game they are forced to play.
As for those who say we should have the BEST SERVICE in the US because we pay the second highest rate (outside of Hawaii) are foolish and I hope you do not take such a stance on everything in life for I fear you must be perpetually disappointed. Everyone in the hamptons should be completely aware that consumer cost and service mutually exclusive variables. We pay the most because we are a) an island and b) because of the Shoreham power plant. (The shoreham power plant has much more to do with it than being on an island). The fact that we pay an ABSURD amount of $$ to pay off the Shoreham debacle has nothing to do with the service we get, nor the service we should expect. We don't pay a high price because they are supposed to offer great service, we pay a high price because of that clusterf*** of a building rotting in shoreham.
And thanks for the compliments - I will return them by saying you are amazingly persistant.
I think at this point we should agree to disagree. You are optimistic for sure (others might call this "blind to reality").
And you appear to love abuse by multinational corporations.
Good night.
PS -- I have no idea what an acceptable time frame for restoration of service might be. I do not have the expertise to analyze this. Comments here are only personal opinions, as we all recognize.
IMO the restoration of 98% ...more of the service should have been accomplished days ago. If you drove around on the East End starting Monday, it would have been clear that LIPA (NatGrid) was NOT measuring up to the task. That is the main point.
Enjoy the abuse Nature. You have asked for it.
PS -- Katia may give you another opportunity to take a direct hit, and apologize for another multinational corporate HIT!
I find i tinteresting that LocalEHGirl gives an explanation that is in direct contravention of what everyone else is whining about (saying it's incompetent management and it's National Grid's fault. She's actually blaming the guys who are up there doing dangerous work 16 hours a day away from their familes who will be sleeping in shelters tonight).
I'm ...more not defending LIPA's response, I'm just saying that they are a business, and the goal of a business is to increase the bottom line. They can't do that if they're not providing services to their customers.
You (once again) offer no solution, no facts, no suggestions, no alternatives etc. All you say is that LIPA didn't use our money wisely... what does that mean?
The real issue is that LIPA is mismanaged and they don't care a hoot about it. They continually do things wrong, costing us millions of dollars for inferior service yet instead of getting rid of the people making the mistakes ...more they promote them. Take a look at LIPALIES.com or lipaoversight.org for the real truth.
PS -- Cablevision and Optonline come through the same single cable "pipeline" BTW.
So critical of the "cycle of dependency", and so blind to your own...
No insult intended...
I agree with Nature...power back on means revenue and revenue leads to profit. Dragging out the repairs is only going to cost them more (because they are paying the out-of-state contractors to be here) so it's in their interest to get power back quickly.
Finally, as for where to focus their energy...if Dune Road has 100 houses, but uses the energy of 10,000 houses, it doesn't surprise me if that gets fixed ahead of an area with 1,000 houses. Housing density isn't going to drive the focus...energy consumption is.
You can't make this stuff up!
Leaving the maintenance of OUR crucial infrastructure up to the "profit-making" attitudes of a huge international corporation is not sound IMO.
Sorry to repeat this, but if Irene had been a huge ice storm Nor'easter during the winter, we would be up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
Have ...more a great long weekend, even if you are without electrical power. At least it is warm and the forecast is good.
Good night, Katia -- TBD!
Less than patiently.
We are at the point of being ready to submit the last two days of receipts, and deducting it from the next billing cycle. The first three days I can understand. After that, the lack of proper sleep is wearing on my patience. Severely.
Take not convenience for granted.
I think that was also on the table that shattered...
I was at a home in Westhampton today (9/3/11) that does not have power. There are a bunch of wires hanging right across the street from their driveway.
From Shoreham to Irene - they spell failure and incompetence.
They are destroying Long Island with their overpaid executives and some of the highest rates in the nation.
Cuomo needs to have the district attorney's office carefully investigate their practices.
Perhaps the name of the "Customer Outage Information" page, should also be updated to this?
"Customer OUTRAGE"
See: lipower.org/outrageous !!!
PS -- LIPA's contract with National Grid is due to be renewed in a week or two, as I understand it. If this renewal goes through as planned, then the whole operation will suggest indeed IMO, that "Something is Rotten in Denmark."
Please reply LIPA and National Grid, as you seek to have your contract renewed.
You can't make this stuff up!
Good Night, Katia.
The trees that Mrs. Havermeyer noted as being removed included "red maples and honey ...more locusts". If anyone took a drive after the storm, they noticed that the majority of trees that went down (or had limbs fracture) were that of maples and locusts (mostly silver maples and black locusts, which Mrs. Havermeyer may have mistaken for their native relatives).
So, PBR, whose fault is it that trees that "should have" been trimmed came down and ripped out wires?
A simple google search of "LIPA's Tree Cutting Stirs Suffolk Protest" will bring up the article in question.
People like VOS are stating that wires came down because LIPA did not trim the trees properly. East End pointed out that in Water Mill there was a "brouhaha" regarding LIPA cutting down trees. I spent 30 seconds googling and locating an article to back up the claim. I then used the contents of the article to make the point (which apparently wasn't too clear). So here it is in basic terms:
-People have complained ...more that LIPA was irresponsible in not cutting down trees and limbs which would have prevented lines from being taken out.
-Nine years ago, local residnets and politicians blasted LIPA for removing trees and limbs that posed a threat to their lines (within their ROW mind you). Fred Theile and the Supervisor both came out against LIPA for what they did which discourages LIPA from doing the needed work which is sometihng that the people of the Town did not want done (a position backed by local officials).
-The tropical storm took down trees and limbs which took out powerlines. This could have been prevented (not entirely, of course) if LIPA had not been discouraged and threatened when it comes to doing tree maintenance in their ROWs.
D*mned if you do, and d*mned if you don't. Once again, I'm a provider of facts and basic conclusions, while you offer nothing generalties. My reputation of accuracy preceeds me.