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my parents here lost it initially from the storm and got it back the very next day. A week later they lost it for 4 hours. And on Friday it was lost for 25 minutes. I assume they do this to get other people back on safely.
Tomorrow will be 2 weeks without power still for our house. Neighbors down the road seem to be getting it back and the workers said they are staying to get it completed by the weekend (not a whole lot of weekend left). I have seen plenty of trucks around town, but only in the last 2-3 days, and none of them are LIPA themselves.
Oh have I got a story for you - see the photos? That's Pike Electric from Florida. The guys were here fixing stuff around the block and we lost even the half power we had. They turned it off to work - so I grabbed one of the guys, a great fella named Aaron Smith. He instantly came to our house, brought his crew and got right up on our pole to fix the broken leg - full power is back. Took him 10 minutes. Now, these guys told me that they could have been here the day after the storm, but LIPA turned them away. It was only when they got desperate that they let them in - and get this - the LIPA guys are going around with a PETITION to get them kicked out of here!! Can you ****ing believe this ****? Please, please share this on your pages - the photos and the story. These guys are sleeping in their trucks, getting fed ****ty ham sandwiches and being treated like undesireable garbage by the LIPA crews. To say this is beyond disgusting is the understatement of the century. Special thanks to these guys, who were SO helpful, so polite and just amazing. Also the rest of the crew - Dillon Chance, Cory Oxford and Curtis Estaban. Please share this everywhere you can - LIPA needs to go. This can't stand - unreal that out of state guys care more about us than our own electric company. Please get petitons going for the FIRING of Michael Hervey. I know I will be doing that, and writing to the state and local govt with this story. What an absolute EMBARRASMENT LIPA is......Oh and get this - depsite reporting this to LIPA for a week straight - at least 10 times to the automated system, the guys told me they didn't have a work order for my house! To be clear, I am adding that we do not believe all LIPA crews are not working hard - I'm sure many of them are and we thank them, but don't try to tell us a bunch of underhanded **** didn't go on here, and I implore you all to petition your state and local government for the removal of LIPA. Thank You All for your input.
Just yesterday LIPA released a statement saying they did let non-union in. http://plainview.patch.com/articles/...ot-turned-away The full story is that they did so only after realizing the severity of the outages. I hope the backlash remains constant and there will be no choice other than an overhaul of LIPA.
bought coffee for the out of town help; as of yesterday, they were still camping in eisenhower park and getting c0$k blocked by lipa, lipa was telling them they cannot enter people's yards
While we are all suffering now. I'll bet dollars to donuts that as soon as normalcy returns this will all be forgotten with no lessons learned.
I firmly believe that in the 21st century we need to update our infrastructure by putting all these lines underground. Will that happen? Doubt it, cuz I don't believe that the politicians or the people have the wherewithal to spend the money that is required to do this. Short shortsightedness will once again burn us in the future.
Its sort of like NIMBY'ism, everyone wants it and knows we need it but won't pony up for it.
bought coffee for the out of town help; as of yesterday, they were still camping in eisenhower park and getting c0$k blocked by lipa, lipa was telling them they cannot enter people's yards
They are putting them up at St. Paul's field house in Garden City too. THey have 700 cots set up there, and they can shower there too. They have a big trailer there too that they must be feeding them out of.
The story about the Florida utilities was in either Newsday print edition or the Garden City News (can't remember which) and quoted the CEO of the Florida utility. It is a legit story. It took several days to work out an agreement that the FL guys wouldn't have to join the union. Of course, there was only one way to work out the agreement - if they wanted the help, the union needed to back off.
We were up this weekend and saw plenty of utility crews working but not one of them was LIPA.
allegedly the makeup of the ground on both north and south shores would make underground wires a bit tough
I heard that too but if they can build tunnels in the bedrock of Manhattan, they can certainly bury some wires on Long island. Guaranteed, its a money issue and lack of will.
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