Sunday, November 06, 2011

in six days: connecticut community resiliency failing on an epic scale...,


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AP | Tempers are snapping as fast as the snow-laden branches that brought down power wires across the Northeast last weekend, with close to 300,000 Connecticut customers still in the dark and the state's biggest utility warning them not to threaten or harass repair crews.

Angry residents left without heat as temperatures drop to near freezing overnight have been lashing out at Connecticut Light & Power: accosting repair crews, making profane criticisms online and suing. In Simsbury, a hard-hit suburban town of about 25,000 residents, National Guard troops deployed to clear debris have been providing security outside a utility office building.

At a shelter at Simsbury High School, resident Stacy Niezabitowski, 53, said Friday she would love to yell at someone from Connecticut Light & Power but hadn't seen any of its workers.

"Everybody is looking for someplace to vent - not a scapegoat, just someplace to vent your anger so somebody will listen and do something," said Niezabitowski, who was having lunch at the shelter with her 21-year-old daughter. "Nobody is doing anything."

The October nor'easter knocked out power to more than 3 million homes and business across the Northeast, including 830,000 in Connecticut, where outages now exceed those of all other states combined. Connecticut Light & Power has blamed the extent of the devastation partly on overgrown trees in the state, where it says some homeowners and municipalities have resisted the pruning of limbs for reasons including aesthetics.

The company called the snowstorm and resulting power outages "an historic event" and said it was focused on getting almost all power back on by Sunday night.

For some residents still dealing with outages, no excuse is acceptable.

In Avon, a Farmington Valley town where 85 percent of customers were still without power on Friday, town manager Brandon Robertson said he faulted CL&P for an "absolutely unacceptable and completely avoidable" situation. He said the high school that is being used as an emergency shelter was still running on a generator. Although public works crews had cleared most of the town roads, he said, more than 25 still were blocked as they waited for CL&P crews to clear power lines.

"Our residents are angry. We're angry," he said. "It's just really shocking."

8 comments:

Uglyblackjohn said...

Yankee Sissies...
We do this every few years...

Tom said...

Hey, don't be mean.  I'll put down my latte and speak ironically to you, don't think I won't do it.

CNu said...

awwwww snap - fitna get too real up in here http://youtu.be/NAYhWJaexI8

Tom said...

Man, not to go all serious on you all of a sudden, but that's poison.  What are we doing to ourselves letting them put that on TV for our daughters to watch?  

nanakwame said...

Sous-veillance; need to be careful of the recursive theme of controlling - Recursive science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, which itself takes the form of an exploration of science fiction within the narrative of the story. 

Tom said...

nana,  that's over my head man.  Can you simplify it for the man in the street?

nanakwame said...

French word for filming everything in your life. They even film their own crimes today, up to even rape. I was at a family party the other day, and every one wanted to snap their smartphone. At my age I know why wise folks are reclusive. The other point is control. Had to get into my grand-daughters butt the other night, for she sitting at 1:30AM in the morning after talking over ooVoo for hours, after I gave her a curfew, and then talking about my boyfriend is anger at her @ f_kin 1:30 in the morning on a virtual platform. Told her shut it down, and see your boyfriend face  to face later. Not going to stop it or control the woman-child, but keep offering realities and remind them of the economics AND I banned you if you diss my ground rules. She is bright and will go to College.

Tom said...

Thanks.  Yeah, we were taught to stay much more anonymous.  Teaching my kid the same, iphones or no iphones, but I guess we have a struggle in front of us, she's not yet middle school age.  

Very stupid destructive stuff.

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