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2-3 weeks ago I was trying to be proactive and I called LIPA to tell them we saw flashes and heard poping noises during a wind storm. We never lost power. Three separate people come to my house. Three. All on consecutive days.
Last night I'm watching Intervention. With 5 minutes to go right when the girl walks into the intervention we see about 15 flashes and hear the same number of pops/booms. Bam! No power. We were supposed to be restored by 3 am. Now they say 9 am. And I still don't know if the girl is off heroin.
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To top it off, when one of the guys came to my house he blamed the out of state guys who came during sandy. He said their equipment didn't match what LIPA used. He said nothing of the crap that liPa has been using for years to patch everything together.
I guess when LIPA sent three guys to my house they did nothing to fix this problem. Three guys and no work done. The woman on the phone said the tree service was supposed to be sent. No wonder our rates are so damn high. We have to pay for three people to look at something and they still don't fix it.
Last edited by nancy thereader; 06-14-2013 at 07:07 AM..
we had a random crackling sound at our pole for the longest time and I reported it when I first moved in - kids are playing in all our backyards. Months later it was still happening. That was 2 years ago and I'm not sure it was ever fixed. But Sandy fixed it by knocking down the adjacent tree and half the pole. 2 weeks after that we got a new pole and no more crackling! Go Sandy (and the crew from Tennessee)!
Ah my friends the key is to use the words, "I see or saw sparks" They will be there lies flies on a carcass. Works every time. In fact I a similar problem when my house was on the market and I noticed what appeared to be a burn mark on my siding. Sure enough there were sparks and I could have lost the house.
I got a call from my wife. The power is back on. All they did was flip a switch on the transformer. Of course, they didn't fix/replace anything. I'm sure the same thing will happen during the next storm.
Trees get weighed down with wet leaves, and blow around in a storm. When the wet branch touches a wire, and the insulation is worn away or thin enough, there is a fault. Many times, the branch blows back and/or the leaves dry and the branch goes back to where it was, no longer close enough to touch the wire and cause a fault. The tree trim crews are supposed to trim branches back, but there is hardly enough crews to go around. I think the entire town of Brookhaven has only 4 crews. National Grid lays them off a lot, and only keep as few people as possible for maximum profit. They get to you when they get to you. If anyone thinks they need tree trim service, call LIPA's 800 # and ask for it, they will send someone out to look at it. If it's bad enough, eventually they will get to it and you will have lessened the possibility of a power outage. If you own trees near power lines, do yourself and everyone else on that circuit a big favor, and have the trees trimmed WAY Back or taken down.
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