On Nov 4, 9:00*pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Nov 4, 8:38*pm, " wrote:





On Nov 4, 5:37*pm, wrote:

It is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that the thing
you think should be done cost money. *The power companies do their
best to keep costs down. *But if you would like to pay twice is much
for power, I am sure they could fird a way to spend the extra money
improving the system. *Why don't you start the ball rolling by sending
the power company twice as much as they bill you? *Please post here
when you start paying twice as much for your power.

Dan

Dan,
Of course power companies try to keep their cost down. But the
solution you put forward, individuals sending twice their bill, is
ludicrous

I was only proposing that TMT send extra money to the power compary so
they would do what he wants. *It was intended to be ludicrous much as
TMT's proposal that houses and apartment buildings *all have their own
independent generators.

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So why do houses and apartments have their own independent heating and
cooling systems?

Is that ludicrous?

I could easily see a small generator being a part of the heating
system which could share subsystems and be there for when the mains go
dead.

And if the infrastructure continues to be neglected, I can easily see
it becoming an option that a homeowner would want.

In countries where power is intermittent, owning a generator is
common.

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This should have been fixed sooner...the blizzard that caused the
outages was not that severe.

I suspect that we are talking about neglected maintainance and old
infrastructure that has not been updated.

TMT

Power outages linger as New England braces for cold blast
By Lauren Keiper | Reuters - 14 hrs ago



BOSTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of homes from Pennsylvania to
New Hampshire remained in the dark on Friday, nearly a week after a
monster October snowstorm swept through the Northeast and knocked out
power to more than 3 million customers.

In Connecticut, where homes and businesses were particularly hard hit,
more than 300,000 customers remained without heat and electricity as
temperatures hovered near freezing overnight.

American Red Cross shelters housed more than 1,100 people overnight
seeking warmth across New Hampshire, western Massachusetts and
Connecticut.

Utility company Connecticut Light & Power said it is working to have
99 percent of customers switched back on by Sunday night, with a
priority on schools and polling places ahead of election day on
Tuesday.

More than half a dozen people in Connecticut and Massachusetts have
died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning from unvented toxic fumes
generated by heating devices.

The deadly storm that dumped more than two feet of snow in parts of
the region was blamed for at least a dozen other fatalities, mostly on
slippery roads.

Although warmer weather is forecast for the coming week, some
residents without power nevertheless were bracing for a significant
chill overnight.

"A nasty cold shot will roll out of eastern Canada into New England
and upstate New York spanning tonight into Saturday," said
AccuWeather.com expert senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.

That arctic air coupled with gusty winds could make it feel as though
temperatures are in the teens and 20s, AccuWeather.com said.

In Massachusetts, about 85,000 people were still without power while
lingering outages in New Jersey topped 65,000. Outages on Friday also
included about 19,000 customers in Pennsylvania, about 6,000 in New
Hampshire and about 6,000 in New York.

(Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Jerry Norton)