TREE ON PECK LANE CHESHIRE CT LEANING ON POWER WIRES.
OK I am FINALLY in a place (after traveling) where there is power-no snow-and 60 degrees and it ISN’T FLORIDA. DAMN. I had a hot meal, a shower, there was heat in the house. Oh Lord.
This CL&P or what I now call-CONSTANTLY LOSING POWER-has got to go and they will. When I return, I am going out every weekend to every Stop and Shop in the area of Connecticut that has CL&P and getting a petition to GET RID OF THEM. THEY ARE TERRIBLE. AND I WILL. PEOPLE WILL GLADLY SIGN. WE WILL HAVE A CONSORTIUM AS WALLINGFORD ELECTRIC DIVISION IS A PART OF-CMEEC. THE ARE IN IT WITH NORWALK, NEW LONDON, AND NORWICH. THEY PURCHASE POWER FROM DIFFERENT POWER SUPPLIERS AT A MUCH MUCH CHEAPER RATE THAN CL&P AND U.I. I WILL CALL OUR CONSORTIUM C.H.P (CONSTANTLY HAVING POWER).
On Sunday-Wallingford CT HAD POWER; NAUGATUCK HAD POWER; MERIDEN HAD POWER AND THE NORTHERN PART OF HAMDEN FROM DIXWELL AVE TO THE CHESHIRE LINE (THERE WERE SOME PARTS OF HAMDEN THAT DID NOT) HAD POWER. WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM IN CHESHIRE. GOD IT WAS LIKE A WAR ZONE AND THEN TRYING TO GET GAS WAS SOMETHING OUT OF “MAD MAX”
I HAD MY GAME FACE ON. MY DAUGHTER LET HER GAS GAUGE GO ALMOST TO ZERO-SO ON SUNDAY AROUND 7 p.m. WE STARTED OUR TREK. WE TRIED TO GO TO THE TA TRUCK STOP IN SOUTHINGTON CT. BIG MISTAKE. NEARLY A MILE BACKUP ON BOTH SIDES. THEN WE SAW THERE WAS POWER ON WEST JOHNSON AVENUE IN CHESHIRE CT AND THOUGHT (MISTAKENLY) THERE MIGHT BE POWER IN SOUTHINGTON/PLANTSVILLE-WRONG.
GAS GAUGE WAS BOUNCING ON “E” SO I CALLED UP THE WALLINGFORD CT STOP AND SHOP. THEY SAID THEY HAD POWER AND THE GAS STATION WAS NOT REALLY BUSY. SO WE BOOKED IT OVER THERE. WHEN WE ENTERED WALLINGFORD FROM RT 68, I SAW THE ENTIRE TOWN LIT UP. I EVEN SAW THE ONE PART NEAR BROAD BROOK RESERVOIR THAT DID NOT HAVE POWER ON RT68-I SAW A WED TRUCK WORKING ON SUNDAY NIGHT. I DIDN’T SEE CONSTANTLY LOSING POWER WORKING AT ALL!!
THIS IS A DOWNRIGHT DISGRACE. CL&P DOES NOT DO ENOUGH TO KEEP TREES TRIMMED IN PLAIN ENGLISH. WHERE WERE (AGAIN) ALL THESE CREWS THEY SAID WERE “STANDING BY” THE NIGHT BEFORE THIS STORM? GOD ALMIGHTY I FELT LIKE I WAS IN DR. ZHIVAGO FOR GOD’S SAKE. PATHETIC. PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GO OUT AND BUY GENERATORS OR SIT IN THE DARK . THIS IS 2011 ALMOST 2012. AND YOU KNOW WE HAVE HAD TROUBLE WITH CL&P FOR 26 YEARS-I HAVE THE RECORDS TO PROVE IT AND WENT TO THE CHESHIRE CT TOWN COUNCIL ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO AND WAS TOLD “THE PROBLEM WOULD BE SOLVED-DON’T WORRY.
LIKE CLOCK WORK-NO MATTER WHAT THE SEASON, WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS A STORM -OUR POWER WOULD GO OUT AT LEAST 2 to 3 OR MORE TIMES A MONTH. WE WOULD BE AT HOME AND BANG-OUT IT WOULD GO. GET THE KIDS IN THE CAR-GO TO THE HOTEL FOR A SEVERAL HOURS OR A DAY. COME BACK ON. THEN REPEAT OVER AND OVER. THAT DID STOP WHEN THEY CLAIMED THEY PUT IN A NEW CONDUIT-REMEMBER OUR LINES ARE UNDERGROUND.
BUT WE WOULD CONSTANTLY GET TWO OR THREE SECONDS OF INTERRUPTION AND THEN BACK ON AGAIN. ON OFF ON OFF FLICKER. DISGUSTING. I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MANY REFRIDGERATORS WE LOST AND EVEN A FURNACE MOTOR (WHICH CL& P DID REPLACE) YEARS AGO. NOT ACCEPTABLE CL&P.
GILFORD NEW HAMPSHIRE WHERE I HAVE ANOTHER HOME AND HAVE SHOWED YOU ON GOOGLE MAP WHERE IT IS LOCATED-ACROSS FROM GUNSTOCK SKI RESORT IN THE BELKNAP MOUNTAINS, 1000 FEET UP-IN THE WOODS RECEIVED NEARLY 18 INCHES OF SNOW. GUESS WHAT? THEY HAVE POWER!! NEVER WENT OUT. IN FACT, SINCE THE 12 YEARS I HAVE OWNED THAT HOME (IN A RURAL AREA) THE POWER WENT OUT ONCE FOR A HALF HOUR!
CL&P TOLD ME AFTER THE LAST POWER INTERRUPTION A FEW MONTHS AGO, THAT OUR RELAY STATION WAS COMING FROM MERIDEN AND WE NEEDED A NEW ONE, PREFERABLY IN THE NORTH END OF TOWN, NEAR WHERE THAT MALL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. THEY CLAIM THE TOWN OF CHESHIRE CT DOESN’T WANT IT. SO ARE STUCK WITH CONSTANT ON OFF FLICKERING POWER SURGES.
CL&P IS FINISHED. I WILL SEE TO IT GOD MARK MY WORDS. I REALLY DO WANT TO COMMEND THE TOWN OF CHESHIRE CT FOR THE GREAT JOB THEY DID WITH THE WARMING SHELTERS. WE WENT TO THE SENIOR CENTER ON SUNDAY NIGHT. WE GOT SOME FOOD, COFFEE. I WAS TOLD CHRIS MURPHY CAME IN WITH SOME FOOD AND I SAW MAIN STREET CAFFE COME IN WITH FOOD ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. ALL OF THE TOWN OFFICIALS SHOWED UP AND WERE CONCERNED AND THE POLICE DID A GOOD JOB MANNING THE RECEPTION AREA AFTER HOURS SO PEOPLE FELT SAFE. CHESHIRE CT DID A GOOD GOOD JOB. THIS IS VERY STRESSFUL. I REALLY AM WORRIED ABOUT OUR FISH THAT IS 10 YEARS OLD. I AM AFRAID HE WILL DIE. WE DID TRY TO PUT SOME WARM WATER INTO THE TANK ON MONDAY. I PRAY THIS FISH WILL HAND IN THERE .
I DID RECEIVE A RECORDED MESSAGE FROM CONSTANTLY LOSING POWER AND THEY SAID IT COULD BE SEVERAL DAYS. WHAT? WHY ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE OUT OF POWER IN CT? CL&P AS GOD IS MY WITNESS YOU ARE GOING TO BE DISSOLVED. WE WILL GET TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SIGNATURES-NO PROBLEM. AND ANY POLITICIAN THAT IS NOT BEATING THESE PEOPLE OVER THE HEAD TO SOLVE THIS QUICKLY WILL ALSO BE OUT OF A JOB. COUNT ON IT. I PRAY THIS SUFFERING WILL BE OVER SOON OR THERE WILL BE PROBLEMS. YOU COULDN’T GET HOT FOOD IN CHESHIRE CT IT WAS LIKE A WAR ZONE. ON MONDAY, POPS PIZZA WAS SELLING HOT SLICES-IT TASTED GOOD TO HAVE HOT FOOD. WE SAT BY OUR FIREPLACE AND ATE. GOD DAMN THESE CL&P BASTARDS. YOU WILL BE ELIMINATED. I WONDER IF THEY EVER TOOK THAT HANGING TREE THAT WE DRIVING UNDER ON PECK LANE DOWN. TALK ABOUT SCI-FI. SCARY.
HALLOWEEN IS A BUST IN MOST OF CHESHIRE CT I PRESUME. I WOULD NOT GO OUT WITH LITTLE KIDS. THERE ARE DOWNED WIRES. I DID NOTICE ON A LOCAL MEDIA WEBSITE, THE CHESHIRE POLICE DEPT IS QUESTIONING WHETHER PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE THEIR KIDS TRICK OR TREATING. I WOULDN’T. I AGREE WITH THEM WHOLE HARTEDLY.
I TELL YOU, I GOT IN A SURVIVAL ZONE ON SUNDAY. I GOT TO THE STOP AND SHOP GAS STATION IN WALLINGFORD CT ON SUNDAY AND SOME GUY IN A COMCAST TRUCK KEPT TRYING TO PUT IN HIS CREDIT CARD AND IT WOULDN’T WORK. I STARTED THINKING-IF I DON’T GET GAS, SOMEBODY’S CAR IS GETTING SIPHONED AND I WASN’T KIDDING. MY EYES WERE WIDE OPEN AND NOSTRILS FLARING. THEN THE GUY GOT THE CREDIT CARD ACCEPTED AND STARTED PUMPING GAS IN HIS TRUCK, THEN TWO GENERATORS, SOMETHING LIKE 40 GAS CANS. I WAS READY TO KILL THIS GUY. I GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND ASKED THE PEOPLE IN BACK TO MOVE BACK SO I COULD GO INTO THE OTHER LINE, WHICH THEY DID. I WAS IN SUCH A ZONE ALL I COULD SEE WAS GETTING THIS GAS-MY HEART WAS PUMPING. I WAS READY. WE DID GET THE GAS-I FILLED IT UNTIL IS SPILLED ONTO MY CLOTHES-I WAS SO PUMPED UP.
I NOTICED ON MONDAY, THEY DID HAVE POWER IN SOUTHINGTON ON RT. 322. THERE WERE LINES FOR GAS AGAIN. THERE WERE LINES AT THE NOTCH IN CHESHIRE CT BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST WANTED SOMETHING HOT-HOT COFFEE. REALLY SAD. CL&P HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO PREPARE. THEY DROPPED THE BALL AGAIN.
FOR THE MOST PART-PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REALLY GOOD AND PATIENT. BUT HOW MUCH MORE CAN THEY TAKE?
