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GaryBlueberry34 t1_j1e11c2 wrote

guess my bill payment will not be a quick transaction then.

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Mike00726 t1_j1e1ios wrote

Why? Because there is no incentive for us to fix this quickly.

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mkt853 t1_j1e50jj wrote

OK then I guess another state issued Isaias type of fine is in order.

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RamTuff4bi4 t1_j1e79fa wrote

Replying to GaryBlueberry34 (#1,024,652)

Eversourse: Disconnection notice printing wrrrrrrrrrr. Find yourself a new supplier.......oops you can't we are it. Merry Christmas Eversource and don't forget January first our salaries are going up by 100% oh and yes your electric rate as well yes thats correct by 100%

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thewifestah t1_j1e9990 wrote

I don’t know. They started out at 100k. They’re now at 78,113. The storm is still going on so they can’t be everywhere. They’re steadily reducing the number. I’d assume the vast majority of people will back on by tonight with some outliers that had extensive damage, needing a little longer. They always over estimate so they don’t over promise.

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eddie964 t1_j1ecjkr wrote

There is no scenario in which power can be restored instantaneously after a storm knocks thousands of trees down on power lines and cuts power to 100,000 or more people.

No matter how many crews they have on hand, and how many more they bring in, they still have to address immediate safety concerns (e.g., live wires on public roadways), conduct a damage assessment, develop a restoration plan and send out crews to each individual outage-causing event (potentially thousands of them) to do the physical work of cutting trees, erecting poles, replacing transformers and re-stringing line.

Even if Eversource planned and prepared perfectly, and had all necessary resources on hand and ready to go, complete restoration could be expected to take multiple days.

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[deleted] t1_j1ekce0 wrote

Lemme guess.

Everyone's power comes on after Christmas.

👍

Eversource 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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Aran613 t1_j1ekeuj wrote

Replying to eddie964 (#1,025,892)

Hope that boot tastes good bro

Edit: lmao the US infrastructure and power grid has been wildly susceptible to these kinds of damage for so long and power companies refuse to use their record high profits to strengthen any existing infrastructure and they're just cashing in instead of taking any sort of preventative measures so that this doesn't happen. Keep downvoting tho

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Knineteen t1_j1ewck7 wrote

Fearless Democratic leaders? Where are they again?

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BryanCalens2ndFamily t1_j1eybhk wrote

I feel we should applaud Eversource for the swift action, it’s a massive nationwide storm and theyve done exemplary. It would be one thing to say we don’t know where the increased cost goes but it’s clear it’s for work such as this, also the pesky lineman labor unions don’t help the matter. They’re the real ones with the “gimme gimme gimme” attitude. Guess who pays their ridiculous rates and overtime? Working class hurting then working class is what it is.

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_343_Guilty_Spark__ t1_j1ezglh wrote

Replying to Aran613 (#1,026,744)

I’m downvoting because you’re equating common logic with “boot licking” and after realizing how stupid and wrong you were you doubled down with an edit that managed to be even more retarded than your original statement

:)

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Aran613 t1_j1f1o7n wrote

Replying to _343_Guilty_Spark__ (#1,028,198)

So what do you think was incorrect? Eversources Financials are public information. They're making more money than ever and also hiking rates. Do you disagree with that? If not, you should look it up. It's only a Google search away.

Do you disagree with the state of the US power grid and general infrastructure being weak? Do you remember a power station shooting earlier this year that will be down for months? Wasn't there warning that the entire US grid is equally susceptible and poorly maintained?

Surely some of that money that these Eversource execs are making could be used to strengthen these networks, right? Especially with all that money they're making after hiking their rates?

You didn't address anything in my comment lmao

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NecessaryPen6178 t1_j1f2auv wrote

Replying to thewifestah (#1,025,547)

We lost power for about five hours this morning. Fully expected to be out of power and running the generator for the day - since our neighborhood only had like 40 outages compared to other areas that had hundreds out. Pleasantly surprised how quickly it turned back on for us.

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Vandersnatch182 t1_j1f2zq3 wrote

Replying to RamTuff4bi4 (#1,025,325)

I fucking hate eversource. I've been without power since like 7am and my house is getting cold. I may have to spend some of my hard earned money on a hotel room tonight so my baby doesn't get sick, and I'm sure hotel rooms are price gouged to shit because it's the holidays

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_343_Guilty_Spark__ t1_j1f5qih wrote

Replying to Aran613 (#1,028,424)

If that’s what you wanted to say then you would have said it in the first place. Instead you attempted to attack someone and it blew up in your face so now you’re upset and tripling down by openly lying about me not addressing your comment. It’s literally in my first sentence lmao

Everything the original poster said was 110% correct. You can think Eversource sucks and that they should invest in burying the lines while also using the two brain cells required to understand that this is the current reality and attempting to insult someone from behind a screen isn’t going to fix anything

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Vandersnatch182 t1_j1f5yfa wrote

Replying to Knineteen (#1,028,757)

Argue your position? Ned Lamont has been all over this storm, keeping us updated. Eversource, wholly controlled by Republicans, is a dog shit company that takes in tons of cash but does nothing to improve our infrastructure, which desperately needs to be updated in many areas.

Also idc what your voter registration is. You're obviously on the right based on your original comment. Republicans are the types of people who try to politicize a fucking storm

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jeangrey99 t1_j1f65oe wrote

I have to say I’m impressed. Mine was out from 5 am to 3:30 pm. I was expecting worse.

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Vandersnatch182 t1_j1fb6br wrote

Replying to danhm (#1,029,073)

I may just head over to my mom's. I have a 14 month old little boy and I'm not really in a position to be waiting around for eversource considering how they handled the last major weather event....

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evillordsoth t1_j1fkrm7 wrote

Replying to eddie964 (#1,025,892)

> even if eversource planned and prepared perfectly

I don’t think we need to worry about that.

I’d love to know about money they spent on resiliency. I havent seen them burying lines when the towns tear the roads up.

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evillordsoth t1_j1fl577 wrote

Replying to eddie964 (#1,030,461)

I don’t think its a million dollars a mile when the town tears the road up for other repairs. I think that million dollars a mile quote includes all of the money to dig and then road resurface.

Other municipally owned utilities like bozrah l&p bury lines when the road has to be torn up to repair sewers or lay nat gas pipe.

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Ashaw06339 t1_j1fq8qd wrote

Groton Utilities had ours back within an hour 👍

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Knineteen t1_j1fs5s3 wrote

Replying to Vandersnatch182 (#1,028,842)

A storm? Try half a dozen storms. Eversource has been dropping the ball for over a decade, all of which has been under Democratic control.

Don’t tell me they did a bang up job with tropical storm isaias.

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LordConnecticut t1_j1g483a wrote

Replying to eddie964 (#1,025,892)

Idiotic. You’re argument is analogous to this:

“There is no scenario where you can drive Boston to NYC instantly, so even if you drive normal highway speeds it will still take hours to get there.”

So you’re saying we should blame Eversource for driving 5 MPH for that trip? Because that’s what they do. They’ve gutted themselves in the name of regulatory avoidance and profit. All you need to do is look at how quickly other utilities in other states restore power when they have the same number of outages.

Enough with the Eversource apologies. May the entire board rot in hell.

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LordConnecticut t1_j1g4os0 wrote

Replying to BryanCalens2ndFamily (#1,028,075)

Exemplary? By what metric?? Just about every other state has moved faster and had less outages.

By the way, the reason we had more outages IS NOT because the storm was more intense here then other states. It’s because Eversource doesn’t maintain their poles and lines, or trim properly, or staff properly.

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eddie964 t1_j1g9wy5 wrote

Replying to LordConnecticut (#1,032,401)

My point is that there are real limits to how quickly a utility can restore power. You could have a thousand crews lined up and pre-positioned before the storm starts, and all but a dozen or so are going to be sitting around collecting double-time-and-a-half for the first 12-24 hours while the rest clear downed trees and pull live wires off roads. You can't fix damage you can't get to.

Although major repairs get underway as soon as it is safe, most of those 1,000 crews will continue to sit in their trucks, sipping coffee and making money for the subsequent 12 to 24 hours while assessment is underway. And then you have to factor for the time it will take to actually repair the broken system.

Could Eversource manage this process better and more efficiently? Almost certainly. But eventually, you hit diminishing returns.

After Isaias, IIRC, it took Eversource eight days to get the last customers back on. They had made a bad guess as to how impactful the storm would be, undercommitted restoration resources, and performed poorly during the effort. They got justifiably creamed by PURA. They got slapped with tens of millions in fines and penalties, suffered a reduction of their allowed profitability, and got a whole shitload of unwanted (by them) new laws and regulations.

PURA and the General Assembly got a lot of headlines and tried to come across as tough on the utilities, but here's what no one is telling you: Even if Eversource had prepared correctly and executed its restoration plan perfectly, it would have had power fully restored maybe 24 hours sooner. If it had overcommitted and gone well beyond what its restoration plan specifed, it might have cut that by another day.

Either in that case, there would still have been massive numbers of customers out 48 hours after the storm, and full restoration work have taken six days. Hell, even if they could have gotten it down to five days, customers would have been showing up with pitchforks and torches, calling for heads to roll, after two days without power. And that's just not realistic.

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LordConnecticut t1_j1gasn4 wrote

Replying to eddie964 (#1,033,009)

I understand what you’re saying, but you’re either too young to remember or have forgotten that 20 or more years ago, restoration for similar storms with similar amounts of outages took several hours to days at most, not weeks.

There is no guesswork here. It’s not conjecture. We have seen better in this state and it’s a direct comparison to past recoveries.

You’re using a baseline that is also shit. You’re assuming the restoration plan was “good enough”. There are no diminishing returns lmao. Line workers don’t become less productive the more of them there are.

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eddie964 t1_j1gbw8t wrote

Replying to LordConnecticut (#1,033,080)

Categorically not true. Hurricane Gloria took well over a week to restore. And having lots of crews on the ground is just a waste of money until you can get them to the damage sites and know where to send them.

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B6304T4 t1_j1gxswb wrote

I'm not sure why this is a shock to anyone. They run the same script every storm. They do zero prep, zero upkeep, and take zero initiative to prevent any of it. Then they pull in all the "dirty hands clean money" velvetbrain racketeers from every dark hole in the country to put up in hotels across the state for a week at an unfathomably high billable rate while a small army of their junior engineers drive around looking for broken sticks on the side of the road.

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