malchior wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:14 pmThis depends. In rural areas there is too much work and this cycle happens. In more suburban areas (like mine) I get a door hanger that they are coming out. They need signatures but they'll roll a tree crew through to do the entire street every few years here. I've been through at least 3 cycles of this since Sandy. FWIW this is PSEG which is heads and shoulders better than First Energy. First Energy doesn't do tree maintenance. They don't upgrade equipment. They just pocket the money. NJ should probably consider a forced sale of the territory for their performance over the last decade.
All true. In case anyone wants to read up on
what makes NJ so fun, from an overview article posted today. ~3 days for most service to return. I don't want to freak out Octavious, but a little bird told me it could be up to 7 days for his town. Not sure what happened over there, but I'm guessing it was a mess.
Of note from this article (all the way at the end):
“Every time we have a storm, the power goes out. The damage and outages that this tropical storm has caused is a clear-cut example as to why we need to modernize and fix our grid,” he said.
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“Unfortunately, we experienced the worst. Our luck ran out,” he said, noting that at the peak of Superstorm Sandy, which brought historic damage to the state, 2.7 million utility customers were without power.
At the peak of Tuesday’s storm, 1.4 million people were in the dark.
“New Jersey was probably one of the hardest hit states,” the BPU president said.
Prediction - there will be a storm in NJ over the next 365 days that knocks out power for another 500,000+ people. And nothing will have changed by the time the next 1+ million person outage storm rolls through.