Despite an interruption this week when a nor'easter swept through the region, Con Edison still maintains all of its Sandy-affected customers will have power by the end of tomorrow.
"Just under 20,000 customers remain out in New York City and Westchester, from the 1.067 million affected by both storms," the company said in a statement early Saturday morning.
In addition, approximately 35,000 customers in the flooded Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island area will not be able to receive service "until their own internal equipment is repaired, tested and certified by an electrician as ready for service."
"Con Edison is on pace to have nearly all its Hurricane Sandy outages restoredby Sunday night," the statement said. "Sandy caused more than four times as many outages as the next largest storm in the company’s history, Hurricane Irene, which created havoc just over a year ago."
Customers can check updated outage numbers every 15 minutes on www.ConEd.com/OutageMap.Customers can use their mobile devices,as well as computers, to report power interruptions or service problems at
www.conEd.com. They also may call Con Edison at 1-800-75-CONED (1-800-752-6633).
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So if you want them to bury them start saving
running power lines underground is the way to go for new install, but to take the old system and bury it is a lot more expensive. For one you have to go around, under, and above gas lines digging on main roads is a big cost along with the casement or conduit The cost estimates come from Con ED when asked after Irene in a story that i believe was on patch.
What's really scary is that con ed is estimating a million dollars a mile and they've never brought anything in under budget that I can recall.
Some of the poles in my neighborhood are old and warped and in danger of falling over with the next moderate snow storm, then we are back to waiting for the folks out of NC or AL to come to the rescue. To add insult to injury, just got my latest bill, for 31 days of electricity supply, out of which 8 days worth of supply were non-extisting!