Power is now out in Chatham Twp

we are out in Pines Lake.

We are out in Pines Lake / Wayne.

We are out in stonebridge @ wayne, next to WPC UNIV.

The entire development @ stonebridge is without power. Can hear a lot of transformers popping in the distance west of the hamburg turnpike.

Any idea when the power will return in mt Arlington?

Does anyone know if Independence way has power? My brother lives there with his family.

Does anyone know if independence way in basking ridge has power?

Does downtown Chester have power?

Does anyone know if Kimberwyck II apartments in Hillsborough have power?

Kinnelon at 73? Is that a joke? No one in the entire town has power!

Here we go again-JCP&L once again, thumbing their nose at western Morris County-this is the THIRD time we are out in 5 years due to the freak, once in a generation, October storms. We are out on average of 5 days-no heat, no water, no electricity or cable. We were out with Irene, we are out in the summer, winter-we've been told every excuse in the book. yeah I know it was a catastrophic storm I get it but how is it that others always get restored before we do? They ask us to be patient? We have not seen 1 truck in the hackettstown, mt olive or washington township area all day. Where are they? Our town has done an AMAZING job of clearing the roads, but no trucks... We have family on the eastern part of the state-nutley, westwood, etc. they were out for hours, NOT days... does JCP&L care?

independence way probably does not, i know two people living in the hills who don't have power

Come on JCPL - are you kidding me? Stop the complaining and GET to work - Newark is up and running under PSEG's watch while we continue to increase outages on the JCPL map. I don't underestimate the effort and value the work the line workers do, but the leadership and management of this company is severely lacking! Quit the excuses and get the job done - we certainly pay enough in electric rates that we deserve service at any cost!

Mountain lakes has no power can someone please help! There are kids who don't want to come home on Halloween to a dark house. And kids start school on Monday again so they need power to get ready and have light to do homework and everyone here is freezing trying to warm up next to fireplaces.

I have to agree with the comments about jcpl. They started the assessments today? The wind was safe and many roads were accessible in parsippany yesterday and I have yet to see 1 truck. It is frustrating to hear that other power companies are getting the job done. I would understand if jcpl was getting power back in other areas....but it does not sound like they are.

Anybody know why JCP&L's numbers are going up now? Morristown's number of outages has climbed 1600 over what it was when this story published!

JCP&L is a complete joke. The entire management team of that inept company ought to be given pink slips immediately. While I understand this was a catastrophic event, they had two of these last year to improve their processes and become more effective in responding. After all their promised improvements, here we go again. Our local politicians are also to blame. They are all weak and useless in fighting for their constituents against JCP&L. Pathetic.

No power in The Village Green Budd Lake NJ and Mount Olive not announcement any support for a Families the people is freezing here.

This is literally a 100 year storm. I can't believe there is so much blame and finger pointing just 2 days after. We all know JCP&L had serious management problems in recent years, but I'm not ready to start screaming yet. A little patience will go a long way. Parts of our state are on fire, or look like a tsunami hit. Let's give these guys the benefit of the doubt for now.

Washingtown twp (morris) municpal workers have done tremendous job clearing what they can. The downed trees with electrical lines entangled have not seen any jcp&l tree people at all and running new line wont happen until that takes place. Its going to be a long haul at western edge of morris county

what would be helpful would be to see # of outages based on how many total households. IE. Bernards township has 12,553 out. Is that out of 12,553 homes/customers? Does anyone have power in Bernards?

Really???? Things could be worse. Be patient and let everyone do their jobs. If you still have a roof over your head be happy.

PS.... my husband works for utility company and he is out working his ass off while some are sitting complaining. And we also have kids.

No one is blaming the line workers here folks - we know they are the real heroes here. The ones to blame are JCPL management and their poor leadership. It is simply inexcusable to have this happen again - dealing with this type of catastrophe should be trained for, planned for, and not waited on until it happens to then assess how to act. I don't believe for a minute all the press and hype that JCPL was ready and learned from Irene and the October snowstorm - their marketing firm did a great job. It is also deplorable that consumers have zero choice when it comes to electricity suppliers - I would gladly take PSEG over JCPL anyday!

The lines have to be de-energized before the trees can be removed. THEN they can restore power. Give them a break. They are working around the clock.

Just FYI - I saw two tree trucks with VT plates on them while driving along W. Hanover Rd in Morris Twp this morning. I do think we're getting help, but so many places nearer that we would turn to for help are also in trouble, so help has to come from much farther away this time.

What do u have to say about PSE&G. 900,000 customers without power. Everyone is suffering. The workers are working. Go offer them a cup of coffee.

Jcp&l. Reported 962,000 without service mainly south.
Again stop complaining and let them do their jobs.

Why is it PSE&G is making progress but JCP&L co is making none? Sounds like they invested squat in infrastructure over the years, instead giving it to themselves in big bonuses.

John Case and JCP&L Hater -- Amen to you both!!!! When are we going to drop JCP&L (Really, First Energy Corp)? Our gov't leaders need to look into this company and their lousy service. This has been going on for too long!!!

PSEG was able to restore 300,000 customers by fixing only 3 substations in Newark, accounting for the big dent in their numbers. Given the scope of the damage out there, anyone complaining already is just whining or venting. As uncomfortable and annoying as this historic emergency may be, be grateful if you still have a roof over your head or havent suffered serious injury to life or property and try to wait your turn with some grace. If your power's not back in 7-10 days like they've predicted, complain then.

All of Wanaque NJ is out, Rockland Power and Light came up right across the street already, and I heard nightmare stories about them... this is not looking good for me as a JCP&L subsriber. Also why don't I get email updates? Come on. Super lame.

I am sure my brother is sitting on his duff in some hidden warm cafe drinking coffee, chatting with the guys or texting his family...oh wait a minute..his family does not have power, heat or phone service and a senior Mother in law who is not in such good health...and if my memory serves me right this was the same scenerio last October....when he did not come home for days and what about their safety...Don't be so fast to judge until you have walked in their shoes and know what the hell it takes to get the system in go mode before they can start working on hot wires and climbing poles and trees....Just saying! gotmyirishup!

One substation can affect thousands. Getting that one substation fixed makes a big difference. Look at the heavily treed areas - that work is a lot more time-consuming, requiring police, tree folks, etc., not to mention waiting for poles, transformers, wiring, etc. My guess is the hours:results ratio is much better in cities than wooded areas.

http://pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-10-31c.jsp
http://outages.firstenergycorp.com/nj.html

7:00 PM PSE&G Customers out: 882,000 - 818,000 restored.
8:15 PM: JCP&L Customers out: 938,583 - 30,000 restored.

When we look at the overall infrastructure. Those overhead cables should be buried so that we don't have to face this again in say 5 years time or so, because you know it will one day. Lets start thinking long term, start putting the cables under the highways and sidewalk instead of overhead, then the next time a tree falls ,,,well do I need to say it. I personally will willingly pay a surcharge for this, another 10% over the next 5-10 ten years to have heat and light, and not have to listen to those freakin home generators.

Howcome parsippany is at 18000? My guess is because there has not been 1 jcpl truck seen in the area as well as a town vehicle or a tree svc nothing just leave us with our thumbs up you know where we r used to it jcpl

UPDATE - I just discovered a JCP&L press release which claims a greater number of maximum customers out than the outage tool indicated. Hmmm..

http://pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-10-31c.jsp
https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/fecorp/newsroom/news_releases/jcp-l-repair-work-under-way-following-hurricane-sandy.html

7:00 PM PSE&G Customers out: 882,000 - 818,000 restored.
8:00? PM: JCP&L Customers out: 940,000 - 160,000 restored.

JCP&L is an absolute joke... one of their trucks sat off of West Field in Mendham today for 4 hours; doing nothing. Let's stop calling these guys "heroes" and call a spade a spade - JCP&L is a disaster from the top to the bottom. They are making no progress and we are going through our third unnecessarily long power outage in 14 months.

West side of Schooleys Mountain just got power back about 30 minutes ago. Keeping my fingers crossed that it stays on.

Hillsborough most still no power ,they did a good job clearing most roads of trees.
Loads of generators going hard to find gas

There is a JCPL substation on my street
175 Center Street in Roxbury. I live on that street and we've had no power since Monday night at 7 p.m. I have 2 children in my house and I also have asthma and we are freezing, we have no water, we cannot use the toilet or take showers. Please explain to me how it's possible that I live down the street from JCP and L and have no power And have not seen any trucks go up or down our street in the last 3 days. This is Pathetic and inhumane. There are no trees down or power lines down On our street so what excuse can they possibly have for this?

Dear ms-

I don't have a roof now and I would gladly offer them coffee and food if I had power!! I can't rebuild without electricity which I haven't had
since Monday. The JCP&L numbers are ridiculous.

Jefferson Twp. is still cold and dark. I see about 10 cop cars a day go past my house, since Sandy caused havoc...ZERO.

Jefferson Twp. Is a total disaster. I don't see local, County, OR JCP&L out anywhere. I realize that the shore took the brunt, but as usual we are ignored up here. I wonder if we would be without power if the Governor lived here?
We are the forgotten constituents, even in an election year.

http://pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-11-01.jsp
https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/fecorp/newsroom/news_releases/media-advisory---firstenergy-hurricane-sandy-outage-update2.html

3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 780,000. 920,000 restored.
(100,000 restored in 8.5 hrs)
6:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 915,000. 185,000 restored.
(25,000 restored in 10 hrs)

I think we need a reality check here. Maybe some statistics on the number of poles downed by the storm, number of substations under water, and the number of transformers and distribution lines requiring repair, as examples, may be helpful to the "informed" and "uniformed". I agree with many of the comments on this forum, but my guess is that the amount of work required to get things back to the way they were prior to Sandy still has not been completely assessed in terms of manpower and materials needed for restoration. Noone could have planned for such devastation. I've been without powere since Sunday as well. From the little I've seen in the Washington Township area of Morris County, I'm not betting that we will have power back in a week from now. It's going to be weeks. Maybe I'm wrong, but I suggest we all start hoping for the best, but plan for a long haul.

If this place is this much of a riot after 2 days without power, it'll be amazing to see what it's like a week from now when many people still don't have it back. When these systems are initially installed, the planning and design goes months if not years, lead time for equipment can be 16 weeks or more, and the labor time to install is not insignificant. Then a storm the likes of which the region hasn't seen in a hundred years (forget about Irene and the snowstorm, this beats the pants off both) hits the area, decimates the infrastructure, and everyone is screaming when the power isn't back on the next day.

Top to bottom, the regional utility employees are working 18+ hour days. Hundreds of crews are heading to NJ from upstate NY and other areas. But the labor is only one piece of the puzzle. When a substation that took a year to plan and design the first time gets flooded or trees fall on it and wreck the components inside, the linemen are supposed to magically be able to fix it in 24 hours while also obtaining the specialized components needed to rebuild it and maybe if they're lucky, have enough time to make sure the thing won't blow up again as soon as it's re-energized with 30k+ volts.

It's not surprising if you haven't seen crews on your street or your part of town this soon after the storm. While the crews are trying to get substations and transmission lines back up that serve thousands, they are not going to be fixing individual streets and houses.

Does anyone know if there is a targeted list of what the crews are focusing on restoring? i.e. in which townships or even neighborhoods within which townships in order of priority.

It would be great if we knew what areas were being prioritized - so that we could all try to plan...sticking it out or jumping to a nearby town with power...

I saw the Clifton DPW cleaning leaves off the lawn of the Library this morning, while trees still block roads. Priorities are skewed in that instance. I know the guys do what they are told, but the boss needs to rethink his strategy , imo.

After reading all these posts I feel a bit guilty for having power. I agree with Rocco, Gary couldn't have said it better. Be patient, and like someone said to me last night, get out a board game or an old fashon puzzle and REconnect with your kids. It can be fun.

I'm not sure if JCP&L has a real order of what counties they're attending to first. I have no confidence in how they manage anything. If they do have an order of what counties they are attending to they are not sharing it with customers because it will cause outrage. My biggest concern is the cold for everyone, but I'm not hopeful power will be restored in less than a week. My friend in Howell, NJ (that's SOUTH jersey) also got her power restored yesterday by her PSE&G Electric.

There is alot of frustration because folks haven't seen anything get done yet. I have yet to see a single JCPL truck. When you have little kids in a 56 degree house it's not that easy to be patient.

don't believe JCPL that your power will be restored within a week. I called the hotline and they said they have no clue when it will be restored. Last year, they kept saying "tonight", or "tomorrow", meanwhile it took 8 days. Seems PSEG is making headway much faster (shocker).

PSE&G reporting RESULTS while JCP&L reporting EFFORTS. My money says they're focused on the Shore since that's where the press is camped out. Have yet to see any help from any source in northeastern Bridgewater.

Thank u Gary. It's a beautiful day out. Go for a walk and enjoy the warmth the of the sun. Sorry for the people that dont have a roof over their head. Take out the board games enjoy family time. I also don't have power, and last night was cold but we all put on sweats,socks, scarves, and cuddled up...we got through it. And yes my husband is back out for 14 hours. PATIENCE and understanding. Gas stations are starting to fill up. Drove down 23south in kinnelon and butler and saw 4 gas stations open. Shoprite in Wharton fully stocked.

The warning before the storm was 7-10 days of no power. I don't know why people are going crazy three days in.

Why did the numbers in Washington Twp go up by 200??

I can't even get through to a live body at JCPL to get any updates. Their customer service dept message always says, "currently closed". Meanwhile PSEG is telling Lake Dr folks that they'll be back up tomorrow. What's wrong with this picture.

Does anyone know if Beekman Gardens apartments in Hillsborough NJ have power?

I do thank all of the JCPL workers and all of the other companies that.came in to help; but they keep forgetting about long valley nj. Last years Storm took them 9 days before we saw electricity! Really! We have so many lines down on zellers rd that we have to drive over them to get into our driveway And NO ONE from the electric company has come by!

PSEG is doing nothing but turning power on and cutting it off, turning it on and cutting it off. Those who had power for days are now without power! This is ridiculous! It's like they are standing and staring at each other! Then they put up barricades to make it look like they're doing something. They leave the barricade for three or four days! I give PSEG the same grade I always give it, a big fat "F"! Too slow!

PSEG claims to offer assistance to its customers, but all you get when you call is an automated machine telling you there is a power outage! How is that providing assistance to anyone? At least let us talk to a live person, to give us some comfort!

Easy for people with power to offer advice, because they're not sitting in the cold, dark, not knowing when their power will be restored! Bet when your power goes out for 5 days you'll change your mood!

If you still feel the need to complain, go to the nearest store that has power and watch News 12 NJ. Look at the COMPLETE destruction in southern NJ and then think, gee I just lost my power for 4 days. At least we have something left to have the power turned on to!!.

Society Hill Bernards I is back!

Wow, we are usually the last to get power back on in the JCP&L area of Hillsborough. Power came back on about an hour ago along with comcast services.

My power is out, will probably be out for a week, bfd. Deal with it. I have clients ( builder) with destroyed roofs , crushed homes, massive destruction and this is Morris/ somerset. How would you all like to be at the beach where the real problems are? Quit your baby crying about jcp&l and your 50 degree ( really?) house and grow up.

You all should vote for President Obama since he's done so much for our state.

Great article and it looks like progress is occurring in places that only exist in the minds of the wizards of JCP&l.. A short hop west and you have Hopatcong which is 100% without power and the same trees that were blocking roads on Monday still blocking the same roads on Thursday but yet the ROBO calls from JCP&l says we're working in your area what a PR scam clever but still giving false hopes to residents that haven't seen one truck!!!

People, this was an epic storm, The last time there was probably a storm like this there was no electricity yet. I just saw on the news were they have multiple air force C-17 Globemasters from CA transporting over 60 utility bucket trucks and over 100 linemen to help. The c-17 should have landed up at Stuart air port by now.

Hopatcong has been out since Monday at 6:53p. We have dozens of do ned trees, poles and wires. There have been no cleanup efforts aside from the local residents. Trees are still blocking the roadways and wires in the middle of the streets. I have called JCP&L and all they say is thar they cannot give an estimate of any service being restored. I do understand that this was a freak of q storm and that initiql reports stated 7-10 days and its only been 4. However letes get some accurate estimates here please. They say that power has to be restored from within but yet noone has done crap around here. Not one truck believe me.

Trees and lines are down ALL OVER THE STATE in EVERY TOWN. They ALL look like your block/town. There are 4 houses on my block that have trees IN them, not to mention the 4 trees on the power lines. And every one I know has the same thing on their street. The JCP&L people are trying to get up their substations ( with there own tree and water issues) and are working on clearing the NJ transit lines so Mass transit can get going, which I guarantee is higher on the priority list than any residential neighborhood. Once that is done they will start working on downed trees and powerlines. Over 90% of all JCP&L customers lost power, It is going to take WEEKS to get it all back.

If you only have no power, you are lucky, you should be thankful. There are tons of people who lost so much and would give anything to only be worried about being cold for a few days. Stop complaining, be patient and get some perspective.

No one should tell anyone not to complain. Everyone's problems are their own. Hopatcong has not seen ANY improvement; they haven't even started clearing trees. Come on, they had since Tuesday to start! The weather has been fine since then. How much "assessing" do you need to clear trees off the road?? And to whomever said to stop whining about having a cold house, you try having an autoimmune disease that makes you cold all the time and to then have no heat or water in your house and nowhere to go. The high school said pets were allowed in crates and there would be three meals a day; instead people with pets are turned away and all they have to offer is coffee and water. I can complain all I want.

The moron who wrote the article didn't put any dates!!! Which Wednesday? Which Friday?

Also the map put out by First Energy has pretty colors but no legend and no definition of "hard hit" areas

How about a real map by county, city and Subdivision with Expected Dates of Completion

Jcp&l, where are you? I am in Wayne and have seen no trucks. The town however has done an excellent job of cleaning up. Can we atleast get an estimated date?

Patience? Assessment my #^¥&. JCPL should have a dashboard map of their entire territory and should instantly know which grid station is down and why.

Their latest status was written by a middle school drop-out. A lot of words "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". A lot of verbosity and no information. I am shocked that the Governor and Mayors are buying this nonsense.

We should all be in front of JCPL offices. Give power to food places and to gas stations first. Who is in charge of this "repair effort"--the 3 stooges?

Stories about chopper rides should be fed to the bears. As soon as a line is down the map should light up and a truck dispatched

Set up concentric circles --and provide data
To the public about number of grid stations down and number of lines down. First Energy and JCPL should be able to redirect power through the grid and get it to a majority of the nodes within minutes and hours not weeks

Jcpl Thy name is incompetence --there is no excuse for losing 90% of your clientele --and when will you begin thinking of underground electrocuted lines. NJ's power grid resembles a third world dump's slum areas. Most the newer cities in underdeveloped countries do not have the unsightly power lines on old wooden wooden poles. Ever heard of power lines under the earth son that they don't break when trees fall on them. Check out CA or VA

If JCPL doesn't bring NJs power grid into the 21st century the state should cancel their ability to do business in NJ and give it to someone who can

Sick and tired of JCPL ignorance, incompetence and sick of their excuses

We are inconvenienced by the loss of power, but there are over 55 people that lost their lives in this catestrophic storm. They are all our "extended family" as Americans, lets not forget that. We are inconvenienced without power, heat, refrigeration, and water. Families that lost love ones would take that sort of inconvenience. We'll get over this, they won't! Wishing all of us quick return to normalcy.

I understand utilities are having a hard time, but we the people who pay our bills on time deserve to have better information provided. Lists of towns and the number of homes out of power is useless. Give me facts, timelines and expectations and I can respect that. I see no PSEG trucks, cannot talk with a human on the phone, and no real info is released to the press. No wonder we are angry. We are not idiots so why do they treat us like this?

And BTW the head honcho of JCPL should be hauled to court for not proving charging stations to the million of NJ residents who don't have power

If JCPL had any morality they would be transporting thousands of generators and renting them out and providing "rent to buy" options to general public

We would pay for the generator while these bozos figure out whose on first

Is FEMA asleep? Where are the disaster recovery plans? Who did the risk analysis for a storm?

No one has shown any sense of organization

Oh! And stop this "storm-of-the-century" crap. Except for the shore and Atlantic Cory--All NJ got was 90 mph wind and the entire system collapsed!

The next time we hear that cliche we should all puke together a la that new movie

Learn from CA. None of the traffic lights have solar power circuits. Some wind and they all die. All major state routes should have solar traffic lights so that the entire state doesn't shut down because JCPL is headed by incompetence goons!

Throw the buns out this election--

I am trying to find out about the area of Basking RIdge near Alexandria Lane. Hoping there will be power but sounds like no trucks are even around.

New Jersians. Next time you charge your cell at the local school call the Governor, the mayor and the White House.

I can't believe that Christie has not complained about the lack of support from Obama for NJ

It is unbelievable that Christie is sitting Fat Dumb and Happy and not after JCPL.

Obama should see up a crisis cell because it is obvious that Christie can't

And where is the Mayor of Parsippany? Hiding under a rock?

While motorists are slugging it out at gas stations and the Police is busy blocking roads--who is minding the farm?

Why is NJ so patient? JCPL can't even tell is "when" and Christie is complacent and spreading accolades! What's to celebrate about? Drive along Rt 10 or any other Rt at night and you see large expanses of blackout! What's up with that

And those stolid signs say "emergency --seek shelter"! Get real! The storm has come and gone. Give some real information!

We need gas and power!

In haven't seen a JCPL truck in days!

Obama and Christie

Where are the convoys of oil tankers that should be providing gas an generators to the gas stations--son that millions won't die of cold

Shouldn't all gas stations he mandated to have back-up generators? Surely they can spare $2000 per gas station.
Ill pay a nicle more to the gas station that has the brains to think ahead

Calling the National Guards

When will you be called to bring oil to the Gas Stations and assistance to JCPL in figuring out how many trees fell down. It's been a week and JCPL is clueless. Apparently they can't count.

BTW: while helping the bozos at JCPL born some oil generators tonHome Depot and sell them in street corners.

You will be surprised how many gigs am kisses you will get

Can someone tell my the significance of seeing trucks? You want visual confirmation that they're working?

Power has been going on in different areas, and a lot of people still don't have power. I'm not sure what you want past that.

Again, small towns clean up the downed trees but can't touch the ones with power lines in them. They put up some cones and wait for JCP&L who supposedly have thousands of people and trucks working on problems. The JCP&L crews and trucks are invisible as I never see them working. No progress from JCP&L at all...

I live right across the street from Warren Municipality. Their power has been restored this morning along with the banks and other businesses, but not the apartment complex. I even received an automated VM staring my services "may" have been restored. But nothing. Do they even realize we still have no power? I'm confused and there is no actual human voice at JP&L that can clear this issue up. I can be patient but I hate being left in the dark (literally and figuratively).

I was wondering, if JCPL were to advise 25,000 customers in Morris County that full service will take 6-8 weeks due to extensive damage to overhead lines and poles upstream of their homes, whether that would be an acceptable response time?

Aliph Bay wins the Moron Poster award for this article. So clueless as to almost be amusing.

What a bunch of soft ignorant residents we have around here. Obama's not helping us I can't see trucks I have kids and my house is cold waahhhhh. I don't enjoy not having electricity either, but WHAT PART ABOUT YOU MAY NOT HAVE POWER FOR ONE OR TWO WEEKS DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? TOLD TO YOU DAYS AHEAD OF TIME?

My mother has full power for days
Only out 2 hours out in Parsippany
My Bedminster town not so lucky
Jcp&l not one truck
When is the power coming on???????
Your bills are gorged , you're readings are inaccurate - thanks for the hospital visit -get my power on ! Please !!!!
A nightmare . My friend is in an evacuation zone in Staten Island and has power ! What's wrong with bedminster/basking ridge jcp&l!!!!

Yup that's right JCP&L , where are you guys????? We have not seen any trucks of JCP&l in Long Valley except for tree cutting services. You have no problem in collecting the consumers money monthly but you definitely have a problem in doing your job.

Bridgewater is still 10,000 + out. There are many trees still leaning against power lines across roads that you have to drive under (we are cold, tired & hungry - need to get some sustenance amongst thousands trying to do the same - so yes we have ventured out) where are the local workers clearing some of this in advance of the utility trucks??? The roads are still hazardous, but we have no choice & no where else to stay.
Have seen nothing (just some cones & yellow tape)
PSE&G ETR has been moved from 11/5 to 11/7, was told will get an automated phone call with updates - also nothing.

"Bury the lines underground" - who's paying the $1 million or more per mile to do that? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/25/why-most-cities-dont-bury-power-lines/)

"The power company should just be able to reroute power wherever they need to in order to make it work" - this isn't the movies, the entire US is running on decrepit infrastructure that nobody wants to spend the money to upgrade. When people raise holy hell about the most minuscule increase on their bill, how are companies going to raise the billions of dollars needed to modernize the power grid? "The government should make them!" "Keep the government out of private business!" "Let the market take care of it!" People can't make up their mind. The problem goes way beyond JCP&L and PSE&G, it's a national epidemic that won't be cured unless there is a serious shift toward funding infrastructure improvements in the US.

"Mandate that gas stations have generators" - great suggestion now, but if it was suggested two weeks before the storm it would have been called the government grossly overstepping its bounds and imposing even more costs on businesses and customers (Plus that $2000 estimate is more like $5000-$10000 for a legally installed generator with the capacity to back up all the pumps, lights, etc.

"Give us a map with detail down to the house on when we'll get power back!" - so that when you're not restored at 5:57 like the map said, you can scream even louder?

http://www.pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-11-02.jsp
https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/fecorp/newsroom/news_releases/media-advisory---firstenergy-hurricane-sandy-outage-update3.html

11/1 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 780,000. 920,000 restored.
11/2 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 716,000. 1000,000 restored.
(64,000 restored in 24 hrs)

11/1 6:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 915,000. 185,000 restored.
11/2 5:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 760,000. 340,000 restored.
(155,000 restored in 23 hrs)

Okay now a bad situation has become potentially worse. Noreaster hitting NJ early next week. 50mph winds and rain, snow expected in interior parts of NJ.

Very speculative about any storm next week.....official forecast:

Monday

Clear. High of 48F. Winds less than 5 mph.
Monday Night

Clear. Low of 27F. Winds from the North at 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday

Mostly cloudy. High of 45F. Winds less than 5 mph.
Tuesday Night

Overcast. Low of 34F. Winds from the NE at 5 to 15 mph.
Wednesday

Overcast with a chance of snow. High of 45F. Winds from the NNE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 70%.
Wednesday Night

Overcast. Fog overnight. Low of 28F. Winds from the NW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20%.
Thursday

Partly cloudy. High of 48F. Breezy. Winds from the West at 15 to 20 mph.
Thursday Night

Clear. Low of 32F with a windchill as low as 23F. Winds from the West at 10 to 15 mph.
Friday

Partly cloudy. High of 55F. Breezy. Winds from the West at 15 to 20 mph.
Friday Night

Clear. Low of 34F. Winds from the NW at 5 to 15 mph.

I can't believe we just had one of biggest storm in in our history and I see all these people complaining after a short few day. Half the people here need to grow up and stop wasting time and energy complaining.

Just think about it all the time you people use here you could help clean up to make there job go faster and smoother.

Why is it the numbers in either these reports or those reported by JCPL make sense.

40% of affected customers restored?

971K highest
756K lowest
22%

If JCPL is reporting this number, why isn't the press fact checking? I have no power and I can check that face.

Ok, so I am just curious why the timelines that JCP&L had promised are still not communicated anywhere? I think at one point the BPU needs to get involved in this disaster. I am absolutely not mad about the workers out in the field but the corporate tools should really DO THEIR JOB and communicate where (in which county and which section) the workers are currently working and some proper timelines!! I mean the 7-10 day projection started counting on what exact day? That's really a moving target. So yes, I heard next Wednesday MOST customers will have power........well why not lay out on which part of the grid people are on so that we can see and know who should get power next ?? And one more thing - if JCP&L had not moved everything out of the state then obviously they would not have to make such a POINT of mentioning over and over that workers have to come in from out of state to help restore power. Duh!!

Okay my friend in Brick, NJ (also very close to the beach) just got his pseg power today!

THANKS PSE&G !!!!!! You said 7 to 10 days and was on in 2. ATTABOY !!!!!!!!

You are one of the lucky ones. Now if you live in Montville Township, your message would not be that good. Enjoy!!!

On the same grid as Gov. Christie...soooo it may take awhile... think he's trying to prove something!

We couldn't be more happy with JCP&L this time around. I think they have definitely adapted from last year.

Irene = 4.5 days no power
Snowtober = ~6 days no power
Sandy = 3 days no power

I do feel bad that some people reading this might still be out, but have hope that maybe this time the outages will be shorter than whatever it was for you last time.

Lot's of folks on this string are wagging their fingers at others for complaining about being without power. I'm sure there is not one person that is not thankful for their circumstances being only due to a power outage if that is the case. Nevertheless, it is cold out and getting colder, and not having the basics for survival, heat and water, makes life exceptionally difficult and dangerous depending on the situation. Bottom line, if JCP&L communicated better, communicated any detail of their recovery plan outside of a broad statement of most by Nov 7, those hardest hit another week and then others still longer, I would guarantee folks would feel better. However, in the absence of that communication we all are forced to assume there isn't a plan and if there is, it isn't a well laid plan. I would be relieved to hear some honesty and forthrightness about the situation, I'm sure others would too.

Nordrom Keni and TL are obviously JCPL employees. HR needs to take notice of their abuse to the clients who pay for their salaries. I am going to report Keni to JCPL after we get power. Learn some manners. You of course are not capable of comprehending what I wrote earlier and don't have the mental capacity or approtide to refute the content of the message. Name calling doesn't achieve your objectives or add to the discourse! Grow up!

Shame on you Keni!

Does JCPL have a plan to start burial of cables. It has one million customers. If it attaches a $1 surcharge per month that's $12 million per year. A multiple of that eiuld take care of things in five years or so. Do it more efficiently than the nimbers you quoted. New areas must be mandated to have buried cable. We lost $50 billion in his storm--not counting the business losses. There is a ROI on this! Duh!

Gas stations should e allowed to charge an extra
Nicle till their generators are paid off.

Where is the plan Christie? Where is the oil Obama?

The press has a responsibility to raise these points instead of low-cost Human interest stories with no research find no real content.

Please excuse EOE-- typing on cell phone

Spread the word! Utility crews from out of state were turned away in NJ because they are non union employees! Just thought everyone would like to know how much our representatives in NJ really care about its citizens! This place makes me sick! People are shivering, struggling to find food, and these heartless, well, you know, turn away help for us because of something petty like that? Folks, we're in trouble!

MOG, how do I unsubscribe from this thread of idiocy?

Here's the proof!

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/02/New-Jersey-Turns-Away-Nonunion-Relief-Crews

Omg! How fo we get these Jcpl employees and Jcpl apologists off this board and get Jcpl out of nj?

The reason why we are all complaining JCP&L is when I see a simple fix and it's not done! I see the tree on the next block hanging over wires that is what caused our neighborhood outage. If they just got the tree off and turned on the transformer we would have power and then we would be able to help others who are worse off!

The Chatham Boro numbers keep INCREASING with outages? What the heck is that about? And shame on JCPL turning away utiltiy workers from Alabama because they weren't union. Greed in the face of this disaster is just heinous. I hope Gov. Christie puts the hammer to them.

I really appreciate all the hard work put by the power co crews. Please get power to our place too Parsippany, NJ. I really appreciate and so much thankful to those power crews working for getting power for ppl who is no one to them.

Wouldn't it be great if towns could determine who their power company was? Id want to move away from JCP&L yesterday!!

PSEG absent in Wayne. Have not seen a crew no where in Packanack Lake

SP-has the power been restored to the apartment complex behind the PNC Bank yet?

For Jefferson residents - just heard that as of right now it is unlikely that power will be restored for us before 12/3.
They are still "assessing the damage".
I'm hoping this is wrong.

Does anyone know if the Willows town house complex on Schindler Ct. in Chatham borough as power yet? THe street behind (Girard Ave.) has had power since Tuesday night

Has anyone seen any JCPL crews working around Windmill pond in MoTown? I'm one of the few houses in windmill pond that doesn't have power. I've called JCPL every day to inquire and they can't tell me why just our few houses don't have power while the majority of the neighborhood does.

Does anybody know anout Monarch Circle, or Crown Court Drive, trees and lines down, we seem to be alone

FYI - This is from the Hillsborough Twp. website, but I think it probably applies for the entire state:

POWER UPDATE:
The power companies have advised that hospitals (which are now complete), police, fire and municipal complexes, shelters, school districts, etc. and then remaining residential and commercial customers will be restored in that order.

PSE&G has advised that full restoration to Somerset County is anticipated on or by November 11, 2012.

JCP&L has advised that full restoration to the area will be on or before November 12, 2012.

Day 5 and we are seeing little to no action on power restoration in Hopatcong. I understand that this was a huge storm and can accept that we are out of power. What I am having a problem with is the lack of information we are getting from JCP&L and our local town officials. It has to be more at this point than just trees down around town. If we were being provided with more than "We hope to have power restored by next Wednesday" it would allow residents to make plans to get out of town. I called Gov. Christie's office and asked for help with getting in touch with a human at JCP&L. I would ask that everyone who is reading this to call his office and ask to get more information from JCP&L and to start to acknowledge that there are other areas in the state that were affected by Sandy also. Gov. Christie's office 609-292-6000

How many people out there are gonna ask Santa for a generator for Christmas ? I got mine last Christmas, best gift ever !!!!!!!! Hope everyone gets their power back soon. Stay safe,stay well !!

Lot of elderly folks in my community, Moore Estates off Woodland Avenue in Morristown. No sign of JCP&L crews for the past 5 days,except 1 employee in a car would was "assessing the damage". A crew from Asplund arrived today to remove two trees but were waiting on JCP&L to arrive on scene to discharge live wires. Granted, many have suffered worse, but we expect the power companies to react and respond during a crisis. Clearly evident JCP&L failed miserably. Morristown mayor and council members have done nothing to aid those in need of assistance. Shameful!!!

I hope this means they're going to start restoring customers again. Restoration has been virtually stalled...

6:11 PM - 2 Nov 12
PSE&G ‏@PSEGdelivers
Major work completed on transmission and sub-transmission eqmt. This allows us to start moving trees and getting small circuits back faster.

I live in Paterson NJ and I'm still without power and I have a new born baby! I really don't know what to do? If my son gets sick someone will pay I've called several times all they did was take my number and say someone will call..

JCP&L has started publishing some timetables:

https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/dam/newsroom/files/JCP&L_Town_ETRs_Nov2.pdf

Can anyone please tell me if Somerville Road is open North of Allen Road? Hunter?
Thank you

Those are wishful thinking estimates CSS, did 1201 homes go online in hopatcong today? I could be wrong but it looks pretty dark outside and the sweet hum of generators is still filling the air. frankly I think this gives the people of hopatcong false hope when they publish these types of "here's what we would like to do" reports and it doesn't mesh up with what the town officials are saying nor the end of the day results..shame on you JCP&L stop padding the numbers and focus on the task ahead

When will parsippany get power?

Obama's Katrina!
Is this Bush's fault too?
Keep enjoying Las Vegas Mr. Absentee President!

Frank, this is beyond politics. You sound like a partisan fool.

TR- I last checked Friday night and still no power. I too had to re-report my outage. With no gas left in my car to drive, it's extremely difficult to check on the status of my power. So if anyone learns that the complex in Warren behind the PNC bank has power restored, please post here. I'll check periodically.

Live in long valley. Got power back last night. Prayin for power for everyone soon

"At the peak, more than 1 million of JCP&L’s 1.1 million customers were without power."
The company said more than 1 million of its customers have had power restored, and that about 692,000 were without power."

LOL - how does this math work?

If JCP&L fixes things as well as they know math, we're all screwed.

I just heard a story that a certain Knicks player makes $200K per day!
EXACTLY whats wrong with this country... we are spending so much money for someone to play ball but not spending on Infrastructure that is outdated and useless in a disaster. Our society cares more about what the Kardashians had for breakfast than how we can invest in seawalls and flood mitigation projects. SHAME ON US AMERICA!

We really need to push our elected officials to drive measurable performance out of our utilities. There should be metrics such as # of poles restored by day, # of trees on lines removed, # of miles of cable re-strung. The overall house number is misleading and does not show the true performance of PSEG vs. JCPL. Anectodally, JCPL is far worse than PSEG.

It is an outrage that the utility crews are staying at a single location long enough to actually fix the problem. Instead, they should be driving around from one downed pole to another, staying just long enough for people to see that they are out there doing something.

Can someone please post when power returns to Mountain Ave between Hillcrest and Stirling Rd (by the high school)?
Thank you

JCP&L is owned by First Energy an Ohio based Public Utilities holding company.the CEO is Anthony J Alexander who took home a salary and bonus of 18.3 million dollars in 2011.Again,this is a Public Utility CEO,you think he is losing any sleep over this.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!.....how large apartment complexes ARE STILL IN THE DARK....from Monday 5:30pm........NOW is Saturday morning.....and it is still out. Is anyone worng on this problem??
Where are especially assigned Government Crews????
Because I do not see any power trucks fixing any thing:.........ONLY the Mexicans are cleaning up the tree and leaves.
I really think that we have to change our electric company or maybe just the members in the corrupted management who can not handle basic tasks!!

SP-thank u! I'm heading in for an assessment now-if anything changes I will let u know!

http://pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-11-03.jsp
http://outages.firstenergycorp.com/nj.html
(no press relrase from JCP&L)

11/1 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 780,000. 920,000 restored.
11/2 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 716,000. 1000,000 restored.
11/3 5:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 612,000. 1104,000 restored.
(104,000 restored in 26 hrs)

11/1 6:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 915,000. 185,000 restored.
11/2 5:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 760,000. 340,000 restored.
11/3 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 612,000. 488,000 restored.
(148,000 restored in 28 hrs)

I have not seen one utility worker in my part of town. In the last snow storm they were out the second day.

Day 5 and JCP&L continues its absenteeism from Long Valley and western Morris County. Do we have to pay our bill next month? JCP&L is clearly in way over their head.

Does your IQ need to be under 80 to post on here? Sure seems like it . . . .

Large section of Wayne went back on line 4 am Saturday, Hawthorne Friday at 7 pm, , keep the faith.

Whispering Hills in Warren is still without power as of 11AM Sat. There aren't any down wires or blocking trees in the area. I'm not sure why we're still without power.

If anyone is in need of fire wood we have a lot from our downed trees. It's precut to fireplace size just come to 45 Quail Run in Long Valley off of Flocktown. Just back your truck up on the side yard and pick it up. As much as you can carry for free.

Karen thanks for offering up the wood i'm sure many can use it....

How is it that PSE&G has restored more than a million customers already and JCP&L only some 340,000???? I hope BPU is following all this closely! What a lousy electric company.

How is it that PSE&G has restored approximately 1 million customers and JCP&L only some 340,000??? I hope BPU is watching all this closely. What a lousy electric company!

Does anybody have power in the Hills in Bedminster?

Does anyone know if the Jacob Ford Apartments off of Washington Ave have gotten power yet?

Probably not the right place to ask but seeing the wide spread destruction across new jersey and living it between morris and sussex counties why were they not included as a federal disaster zone like the other counties?

Officials need to stop telling me to "have a little patience". Nobody has touched the downed wires on my street. There's only so much patience one can have.

http://pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-11-03a.jsp

Here is a summary of this weekend’s restoration work schedule:

Hudson County
-- PSE&G has been working to restore the substations serving Jersey City and Bayonne and believe it will be able to restore service to over 85% of those cities’ customers on today if all goes well. PSE&G crews and out of state crews will be working there all weekend.
-- We expect the vast majority of customers in Union City and West New York by Saturday evening.
-- Of the 306,900 customers in Hudson County, 225,480 lost electricity. As of Saturday morning, 99,400 were still without power.
-- In Hoboken, the extensive flooding is preventing us from repairing three of the substations that serve the town. It will take an extended period of time to restore service. We are working with FEMA to get generators to strategic locations in Hoboken as soon as possible to provide some relief while we continue to work to repair severely damaged and flooded substations.
-- We have restored the Exxon and Hess refineries.

Essex County
-- Of the 346,260 customers in Essex County, 251,000 customers lost electricity. As of Saturday morning, 122,400 customers remained out of service.
-- We have restored service to 65% of the customers in Newark and will be working in the city all weekend.
-- Crews will be also be focusing on Irvington, West Orange, Montclair, East Orange, Bloomfield, Maplewood, Orange and Belleville this weekend..

Bergen County
-- Of the 333,690 customers in Bergen County, 215,770 lost electricity. As of Saturday morning, 142,100 customers remained without power.
-- Crews will be focusing on Teaneck, Englewood, Ridgewood, Fort Lee, Paramus, Bergenfield, Palisades Park, New Milford, River Edge, Glen Rock, Tenafly, Hackensack, Lodi and Bogota this weekend.

Passaic County:
-- Of the 173,000 customers in Passaic County, 87,000 lost electricity. As of Saturday morning, 53,000 remained without power.
-- Crews will be focusing on Paterson, Clifton, Passaic and Wayne this weekend.
-- Power was lost night to part of Totowa as a result of an accident that took out a pole.

Union County:
-- Of the 192,340 customers in Union County, 177,860 lost electricity. As of Saturday morning, 73,000 remained without power.
-- Crews will be focusing on Elizabeth, Union, Plainfield, Linden and Westfield this weekend. Work in Elizabeth and Union also will continue into Monday.

Middlesex County:
-- Of the 250,350 customers in Middlesex County, 217,400 customers lost electricity. As of Saturday morning, 61,000 remained without power.
-- Crews will be focusing on Edison, Piscataway, Woodbridge and East Brunswick

Somerset County:
-- Of the 103,500 customers in Somerset County, 83,940 lost electricity. As of Saturday morning, 31,700 remained without power.
-- Crews will be focusing on Franklin Township this weekend.

Would love to see something similar to the above from JCP&L - it would at least allow us to plan a little better.

SP-nothing yet but it appears that everything around the big flags have power! WTF!!!!

As a matter of fact. alexaqui, I am perusing that PDF right now. I will upload it to this article so you all can have a look.

JCP&L are nowhere to be found in Long Valley/Schooleys Mtn after 5 days. Western Morris County screwed again.

I live in Montville Township. From the links that have kindly been provided here, it seems that about half our town has power, if they can be believed. If you don't have power (and I don't) it is hard to be patient, but we all have to realize there are many who have it much worse.

There are a few things that do irk me:

1. no sight of any JCP&L crews working in our town. We lost power Monday night. Where are they? Do they not have enough employees? Have they not received out of state assistance? Do they not have parts? What is the reason our streets are not full of emergency workers?
2. live wires and trees wrapped together still unremoved and affecting traffic patterns
3. minimal, if any, information from JCP&L. If the company is having trouble delivering to it's customers, then tell us. Be frank. Sometimes the truth hurts but it is better than being left in the dark (no pun intended). They should be informing each town it's individual and detailed status.
4. minimal, if any, information from our town council and mayor. Yes, there is a website with 'daily' updates. We now have a flashing light on the side of town that has power (????) that says 'power restored in 7-10 days', whatever that means.

I hear some towns have telephone updates via phone calls, or are even using twitter or facebook. This is a time where people are concerned and would appreciate any form of communication.

Is anyone pressing JCP&L to fix this mess quickly?

If folks want to understand what JCP&L and PSEG have been dealing with, check out www.pjm.com and read their New Release. They also have a nice video explaining how the electrical distrbution network in NJ works.

Restoration spreadsheets for both PSE&G and JCP&L

http://readynj.posterous.com/

03 November 2012
Posted at 1:03 pm
Governor Chrisitie Releases Power Utility Companies' Revised Plans for Service Restoration

PDF copies of revised service restoration plans from PSEG, JCP&L and ACE can be found attached to this email.

Scondo, I'd be more inclined to agree with you if I actually saw a crew working anywhere NEAR my neighborhood.

Completely and utter disgrace JCPL is. My town, Parsippany, has the most outages and not a truck in site all week. pathetic. Step it up big bold and brash Governor and lay some of that weight of yours on JCPL.

As equally bad as JCPL performance has been Washington. Township officials have also under performed. Major roads are still closed JCPL not only is non active the town has been color coded orange in priority versus red. We need officials who hold
JCPL accountable. If they can't meet the standard revoke the franchise . Town ordinances need to be passed that set standards for tree clearing all lines, redundant sources of power and penalties for non compliance.

Office need to appear at BPU meetings and demand accountability.
Ray Rice

Im curious, how do they justify releasing this 'status' report im sorry xmas list?..false hope to the millions in the dark!! shame shame shame. Has the governors office vetted it out? or at least said prove it? According to the JCP&L xmas list, 1200 homes in hopatcong should have power? hmm going once, going twice, ahh the hum of generators. Can I add a backup generator, mobile hot spot and access to patch 24hrs a day to this wish list..or how about something less flashy like power.......

WOW!! Even the restoration plans given by JPC&L are inferior to those given by PSE&G and even ACE. Both PSE&G and ACE give actual a breakdown of the number still without power and date on which those towns should be served as well as an update verifying those areas have been assigned. JCP&L only supply a number.
http://www.nj.gov/nj/home/features/spotlight/hurricane_sandy.shtml

It's great when all you see are meaningless numbers and have no idea if your neighborhood is included in them or not. Great job, JCP&L. You're a model corporation.

everytime Boro outages go down, they go right back up again...down to 840 this morning, now up to 1400+ ! Where is the Mayor?

We are off turtle rd. In convent mews community. No power since Monday. Take care facility on corner has power. Morristown has power. Madison has power. We are a section in between. Haven't seen a truck here. Don't understand why we don't have power Sorry about the lack of capitals... On iPhone and it's dark.

SP-a substation that I believe was fixed after Hurricane Irene because we were down then as well! I know that some of the houses up the street power was restored as well! Again WTF!!! And why did I have to report my power outage twice since it first went out on Monday!!! Now I have to check to be sure it's still reported! Down with JCP&L!!!!

Stonebridge @ Wayne, next to WPU still without power or internet. 220 families, over 800 people. We don't have any down wires, all our utilities are underground, but no power. High Mountain, down the street,; got their power back, about 24 hours ago. Not to mention that I'm almost out of gas, and I got the wrong license plate number.

Sloopy:

Maybe Jacob Ford (where i live) is on the same station as you, as we're not that far away - perhaps we'll come on at the same time when whatever needs to be fixed is. I'm confused because I think somebody posted that Normandy has power - maybe they're on a different station even though they're right between us. Who knows.

Stonebridge @ Wayne, next to WPU, still without power. 220 homes about 800 people without electric since Monday night. We don't have any downed power lines or poles, all of our utilities are underground. High mountain down the road got their power back about 24 hours ago. Did they forget us. The pse&g web site says that we are not going to get power back until Nov. 9, 2012 @ 1:59 PM. Where is all the help we were going to get from Washington? I have not seen one utility truck up here since before the storm.

Pete
Hospital has power. They have forgotten us . It's not like we are at top of a mountain, Our power comes off of Madison ave. I am going to try emailing our town council.

Best of luck.

Thanks Nancy. Hopefully our complaints will do some good and expose jcp&l as the robber barons that they are.

ZERO being restored in Chatham Borough today. ZERO https://www.firstenergycorp.com/content/dam/newsroom/files/Town_ETR_Report.pdf

I have reported our outage here in Morris Plains 3 times and not a single crew has even driven down my street. A neighbor around the corner told me she saw a power guy today who told her they didn't even know about our problem and that it would take 7 - 10 days. 7 - 10 days from when? JCP&L has said 7 - 10 days since Tuesday or Wednesday1. And, how do they not know about the situation here...didn't they spend a whole day "assessing"? Unbelievable!

To all of you sitting in your homes bawling, I have as one of the people who has to straighten out your homes been in: mendham twp (home), mendham borough, Chester, long valley, bernardsville, bernards twp, bedminister, far hills, Peapack, Randolph - starting to get the idea? There is more damage by far than any other storm ever in my life time- quit your bitchen-everyone is working hard-and should be thanked for their effort especially all the out if state guys who leave their families to come here .

11/10 would anyone know if power on at 206 and nottingham in hillsborough. Am Trying to make plans to return from parents home in ct

Hey "What", I'll continue to bitch as long as I f'ing please. It's cold, and I have young children. So shut your mouth.

it seems like all i have been hearing is JCPL worrying about substations and transformers. why aren't there teams of electrical workers and tree removal workers going street to street/grid by grid to clear debris and put the wires back up?

I live in lake Hiawatha and all around us there is power our grid which is about 350 to 500 homes have no power we have had problems since irene and the ice storm last year. It escalated Sept 8 when we were out for 7 hours and repeated about 2 weeks later for about 7 hours the problem is always the same place and guess what it's the same place again. We have complained to JCP&L and nothing has been done. I guess we don't matter JUST PAY THE BILL we have yet to see a truck working. Talk is cheap

I think it is time for JCP&L to go we need a utility that cares the just raise your rates and take goverment money (our taxes) for upgrades they never do.

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What a bunch of little babies most of you are. Boo hoo hoo a week and no power, unless you have a genuine medical issue ( and no, a cold doesn't count)-grow up!

Oh and Nancy, my job is president of a construction company, that's funny that you think jcpl employees get paid enough to live in mendham, reality is I would gladly return the $ for no storm.

You are a jerk "what". If you don't like what's being said here ... It's easy... Don't post. Go to another site. People have a right to complain. Jcp&l is incompetent. That is what we are complaining about. I dont know who you are, and really don't care. If there was an ignore button on this site you would have the honor of being the first to be ignored. GET LOST!!!!!

What - That's how the president of a company talks? How professional.

We were out of power for 6 days after the last storm and are about to break that record. I've seen lots of crews around town, but all were sitting in trucks or standing around chatting with each other, collecting overtime. I wish I could think these guys are heroes but I agree with those who think the First Energy crews are just prolonging their paychecks. Chatham Borough went from 1681 to 1477 -- woo hoo! 200 people restored. Time for another coffee break while kids have to sleep in a 40 degree house for another night! What heroes! It's time to oust JCP&L and their lack of disaster planning,

When the power will be restired at vail gardens on vail road, Parsippany ?

Stop bitching about the power. Find something constructive to do.

Anyone know if all of windmill pond, specifically Lynn court has power back yet?

When can we expect power in piscataway Dickerson Dr...We have small kids at home ....

After the last outage I switched to Ambit Energy
I still have to pay jcpl for transmission, but at least they no longer get a penny from me for the juice. Made me feel much better.

I saw a bunch of Jcpl trucks just sitting in the old pathnark parking lot in Livingston. Why aren't they out? East Hanover hosts a substation and we still don't have power.

http://pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-11-04.jsp
http://outages.firstenergycorp.com/nj.html
(no press release from JCP&L on 11/4 yet)

11/1 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 780,000. 920,000 restored.
11/2 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 716,000. 1000,000 restored.
11/3 5:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 612,000. 1104,000 restored.
11/4 5:00 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 445,000. 1271,000 restored.
(104,000 restored in 23.5 hrs)

11/1 6:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 915,000. 185,000 restored.
11/2 5:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 760,000. 340,000 restored.
11/3 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 612,000. 488,000 restored.
11/4 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 482,000. 618,000 restored.
(130,000 restored in 24 hrs)

Iive off Reinman - on Livingston (next to roseland) in Warren? Any word? Im in PA for shelter - but my young son is autistic and desperately wants/needs to go home to his space - PLEASE post if the pwer comes on there! PLEASE! Single mommy - two little boys - just want to go home!

Terhune Drive( 202) has a power line down running parallel with road. Traffic going by - no cones-no police-no JCPL anywhere.

Any restorations in Warren today at all?

Do the math. Both power companies have about 450K in customers left. They are both restoring at the rate of about 100K/day. While they are getting more and more assistance, the circuits they are restoring are bound to be getting smaller and smaller, reducing the restore rate per repair.

If one assumes the run rate per day stays about 100K per utility (optimistic) then at least 200K of you have another 4 - 5 days wait.

You don't see trucks because they can't be everywhere at the same time. Using words like unacceptable is not going to change the math. Sorry.

For those with small children, elderly, etc. I would suggest you find/buy/borrow some good thermal sleeping bags. We opened one up and used it as a quilt on our bed. It's toasty warm now...

Phyllis, the wires are dead or the police would have taped off the area like they have been doing all over town. They can't sit an babysit every wire that came down in town.

Any idea if the power is restored in The Hills - Carlisle section on Huntington Road

Warren's timeline keeps saying "Wednesday Nov 7", because that's when JCP&L intends to return to town and actually do more work here. They got the center of town up and running days ago, no problem. Then they disappeared. So don't believe their lies about "needing to fix substations in other towns" or "the heavy duty lines are damaged in the hills.". Really? Then how did you get the whole Warren town center up with those same problems still in play? Also, if JCP&L are indeed adding more and more workers to the workforce, why isn't their timeline shortening?

Hey did you hear about the caravan of utility trucks from Alabama they turned back because they weren't union affiliated? Its bullshit. Who decided this crap cause intervale rd mountain lakes could be up and running right now. Instead its 8 days no power! !!!!!!!!!!!! Time to clean house with these people! They were here to help out And they were turned away! Heard it was 30 utility trucks and tree trimmers. Somebody should look into this !!!!!!!!!

Lynn ct in windmill pond is still out Meg - Monday, 11/5

Is Jcpl going door to door says Dec 3 in Hopatcong?

I am in Jefferson twsp still mostly down and I know with the impending storm projected for Wed. &Thurs. Even if we are up power will go down again. I understand there is much work to do but I loose power at least 5 times a year, why? cause there are so many trees threating the power lines, I guess no one does assessments of the system during times of good weather. Now out to venture for gas yet again. Oh BTW our Gov needs to stop stating the abvious and get better results after all he speaks as if he is some sort of king.

Just called jcpl n they cannot even determined if we r in the hard hit area! With our address, shouldn't they be able to tell!! Ridiculous!

I am sick and tired of everyone patting themselves on the back for a job well done -----it is a complete joke that we are still without power 7 days later. I am so tired of hearing the governor and JCP&L feel so good about the job they are doing. It doesn't make me feel any better and to be perfectly honest just pisses me off a bit more. The reality is as follows: The are working 24 hours a day ---complete myth. I drove through all the streets not one crew working on the issues. Plenty of downed wires, plenty of downed trees but not one crew working --come on Gov. didn't you tell us that they were working so hard!!! Gas - go south in Jersey and there are no lines - why they get their gas from the same place -- because they have power!!!!! Only 40% of stations in the north are up and running -- can anyone say generator????? Supposed to be the worst storm in history (which it could very well be) and no real preparations with the exception of evacuations was done by the governor. mr. Governor, Stop talking and start doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still nothing here in Intervale, Parsippany. Someone cut some of the trees off the power lines on intervale rd. but left the rest and oh I saw a street sweeper and optimum both pointless.

We can visit outer space....we can invent a device that acts as a phone,computer,internet,camara, able to have world wide communications....but can't get electric and HEAT in our homes...in NJ

SPRINBROOK ROAD HAS NO POWER & WE HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN A POWER COMPANY AT ALL!!!!!

Can anyone explain this:

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, it seems to be pretty clear that residents of New York City and the surrounding areas could use all the help they can get.

However, a Davisburg man said some people in the area are more interested in “protecting their turf” than in distributing those supplies to the masses.

Mike James, an independent trucker, said he and three other truckers were told to haul a load of transformers to the city to replace equipment anticipated to be lost in the storm.

James, two men from Holly and a Flint man arrived in the city Tuesday night and slept in their trucks before attempting to deliver the 144 transformers to emergency workers.
When they arrived Wednesday, they were turned away by Con Edison employees because they were not union workers.

“These transformers here, I don’t know how many lines they would power or how many homes they would power, but just the fact that they were supposed to be going to help people, and these union guys care more about protecting their turf — I got a very sour taste in my mouth about New York City people,” James said.

The transformers weren’t the only help to be turned away.

“Utility crews came up from Alabama,” James said.

“They called them scabs and sent them home. They said those people from Alabama were taking food out of their families’ mouths.”

Still no power in montville township, no power for our schools and a nor'easter is coming in a couple days. Im sure our town mayor made sure his power was up and running real fast. We have not seen any trucks in the week its been since the storm and there are utitily poles still laying on the ground. Good to see ravaged towns such as atlantic city has full power back and they made the casinos a priority so the money machine can keep churning while NJ's citizens are cold and hungry. We need to have another option besides this monopoly known as JCP&L. I hope we vote everyone doesnt forget this come election time.

http://pseg.com/info/media/newsreleases/2012/2012-11-05.jsp
http://outages.firstenergycorp.com/nj.html
(no press release from JCP&L on 11/5 yet)

11/1 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 780,000. 920,000 restored.
11/2 3:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 716,000. 1000,000 restored.
11/3 5:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 612,000. 1104,000 restored.
11/4 5:00 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 445,000. 1271,000 restored.
11/5 6:30 AM: PSE&G Customers out: 375,000. 1341,000 restored.

(70,000 restored in 24.5 hrs)

11/1 6:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 915,000. 185,000 restored.
11/2 5:00 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 760,000. 340,000 restored.
11/3 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 612,000. 488,000 restored.
11/4 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 482,000. 618,000 restored.
11/5 9:30 AM: JCP&L Customers out: 384,000. 716,000 restored.

(98,000 restored in 24 hrs)

Berbards Township has 36% of JCPL's outages in Somerset county but you cannot find a JCPL truck in town. Gov Christie is big talk about holding the power companies feet to the fire, where are the results? I feel bad for the poeple who lost everything at the shore but we are tax payers also. Where are the local Bernards Twp officials??? Missing in Action. They waste thousands on mobile electronic signs to announce their events but none are out informing citizens about what is going on? If you don't have power you cannot go on line! Try getting in touch with them, impossible!!

Time to vote him out -- sure let's put the devastation of the second homes, income properties and shoreline on TV 24/7 and forget about those that live here in primary residences in North NJ. He can give a great line of BS but if he was in the real business world where results mattered Christie wouldn't last a week. I am an independent voter and want to see results. This aftermath from Sandy is so mismanaged it isn't funny. The governor couldn't manage his way out of a paper bag -- who can blame him though he problem got stuck at the bottom of the bag looking for the crumbs for the special interests groups that are lining his pocket and campaign. I can't wait until the day we can get out of this corrupt as all can be state.

The latest figure from PSEG as of this morning...SEVEN days after the storm, Watchung is still 80% without power, one of the only 4 municipalities in the entire state with 80%+ outage. Our two little kids are bundled up shivering in a freezing house with no electricity, no heat, no hot water, even our Verizon phone service is out. Where is the "army" of technicians and crews that PSEG promised to be working round the clock at the beginning of the storm? And Verizon said they will send a technician out on Nov 13th, are you kidding me?! For 7 straight days, I have not seen a sign of them anywhere in my town, incredible!! Someone commented how quiet Watchung residents are on this forum compared to the overwhelming responses of Millburn residents, well, that's how JCPL moved up Millburn's restoration from Nov 8th to Nov 2nd, and Millburn's mayor took the gripes directly to Governor's office. As a result, Millburn residents are all nice and warm in their homes now. Watchung residents, this is a call to action! Use whatever battery power you have remaining in your cell phone, call your elected officials, call mayor's office, call Governor's office, do something! Or we will be the last to be paid attention to!!!

Just found out that the center of Warren Township is powered by PSE&G! That actually explains a lot as to why they have power and everyone else in town does not. You learn something new everyday!

Feel free to follow up using the reference # below. This is referencing the situation on King George Road.

FirstEnergy has received your inquiry and will respond to your request as
soon as possible. This response may be delayed due to our representatives
handling outage calls as a result of Hurricane Sandy. If at any time you
need to contact us about this request, please reply to this email and
include the Request Number below in the Subject line, or call Jersey
Central Power & Light at 1-800-662-3115.

Thank you for visiting Jersey Central Power & Light’s website at
www.jcp-l.com.

Please refer to request number JC01-110512-090233 in any future
correspondence.

TR, wow, thanks for that info. Not surprising though. And, like Watchung and other towns, more than 80% of Warren residents are still without power. The numbers that JCP&L are quoting on Warren are not true. We're all in the dark!

The ower companies have very poor communication programs. If they would publish a daily action plan showing where they are working and what they are doing there it would help tremendously. The lack of credible information is ridiiculous and makes everybody crazy. They can't be everywhere at once- we get that. But where are they and how many of of them are there? Somebody must be managing the best process. Just explain it to us each day in some detail. Their web sites suck and are totally insufficient.

PSE&G is doing fairly well at communicating -- at least they send a daily e-mail which describes their progress for the day, and their plans for the next day.

More frustrating than the lack of power is the lack of communications from JCP&L. Daily communication is needed from them. The info on the web-site is days old, and not at all accurate.

Elected Officials -- Please get INFO from JCP&L and pass it on!!

wOULD I BE OUT OF LINE TO ASK "WHY" UP MY HILL AND DOWN MY HILL, HAVE POWER BUT THE HOUSES IN THE MIDDLE WITH A WELL AND NO WATER, ETC (UNHEALTHLY AND UNSANITARY) ARE STILL WITHOUT. MINE ROAD, BRIDGEWATER------------BRIDGEWATER RESIDENT

Did any one receive power today in Chester? As they claimed 54% power restoration, just curious to see.

Still no power in montville

Maybe getting rid of FEMA is not a bad idea. Private ins cos. won't insure shore homes but people build and rebuild because FEMA (as in taxpayers) will give them money dollar-for-dollar to rebuild!
www.datehookup.com › Forums › Current Events & Politics
12 hours ago – First off, FEMA is billions of dollars in debt. ... funded by tax dollars. ... that can not afford to live there pay to rebuild for those in high risk zones? ... the Jersey shore are seasonal second homes that have been in some families ...

Mr. Mayor - congrats two years in a row we're last in Morris County to have power restored. Did we not learn any lessons and did we not adapt after last years debacle? Apparently not.
Is this a substation issue or main line issue ?
Are we 'hardest hit' - so we can plan this Wed or next week?
Haven't seen a JCPL crew in 7 days lines down & trees leaning on lines on 517 - just in time for WED nor'easter
Do we have a generator for a gas station like neighboring townships have ?
Are you on twitter or Facebook - to keep us informed ?
Communication is key in a crisis
The lack of crews must mean they are diverted to a substation or higher pop. areas - well if a substation 7 days enough to repair as our surrounding township are getting back online - now with > 5200 LV still we MUST be a priority for Morris County - that is where u come in...
This is a lack of leadership & communication from Washington TWN staff & JCP&L interface. Can't wait to hear again why LV is last AGAIN - See u at the next township meeting. Semper Fi-
Capt Morrissey USMC

I have survived a Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 before coming to this blessed country in 1990. Unfortunately, I don't see any difference in handling a disaster between a communist regime back in the USSR and the current US officials - same lies, empty promises, and desinformation. They are all alike.

Utility companies are obligated to let you purchase elictricity on the open market. I switched to Ambit Energy after the last prolonged outage and my frustration with jcp&l. I save approx. 15% per month while still paying jcp&l for transmission services. We are stuck with whatever company owns the lines, etc.but you can buy the actual electricity from other companies. Doesn't get me away from jcp&l in total, but sure made me feel better to deny them revenue for the 'juice'. How else can we send them the message that we are not satisfied.

JCP&L says 1/2 of Chatham Twp. has power. I'd say its more like 5%. Does anyone believe anything they say anymore. And tell that fat, stupid Howard Tafy governor of ours, that we still need gas & power. Guess he has no such problems sucking the juice off of the rest of us.

Sir -- filled my car up in PA yesterday and pulled right up to the pump and filled the car myself. Imagine that the gas cap clicked 3 times and the engine light finally went off from the NJ station that didn't close the cap right. Must to be nice to have power and say not my problem that my neighbors don't have power. I am extremely disappointed that Parsippany is the slowest town to recover. School closed 7 days and slowest to recover makes me wonder who is steering this ship as it sinks.

Saturdays van fill up was 1 hr, this morning ,15 min on rt 10

The Cedars just got power 10 mins ago....

Standing in A&P - power just went out, the entire center

I feel like I am never going to have power again. I am so angry and disappointed. I just want heat and a shower.

How are my kids going to school on Wednesday when I have had zero power and am staying in Harding with friends with a generator? I am not even going to mention the poor freezing elderly out there that are frozen to the core. This town needs it's soul serve the people not damn sbux!!!

only when people start dropping dead canwe expect major news.

Lenape. The lost trail in Chatham Township. Can't we please just get an ETA?

Lost power around 7pm at bridgewater. Someone at pse&g must have screwed up. I have had power for 3 days.

Long valley mayor has disappeared again. He believes the garbage the jcpl has 65% restored. Fat chance!! Hey Mayor, instead of hiding why don't you provide real info like how jcpl prioritizes repair orders. Your a joke!

Does anyone know of anyone doing "house calls" for generators? Ours needs a "tune up" (spark plug, filter, etc).
I normally use Mayberry but can't be without it right now.

7 days later. PSE&G had four times as many customers out as JCP&L, yet they're down to about the same number still out. JCP&L Is quick to tell you they are "investor-owned" - how about the investors forgo a dividend or two and they hire some more people to get the job done? I understand it's a catastrophic storm - but wasn't it equally catastrophic for PSE&G? 27 degrees tonight. Whose pipes are going to freeze? This is nuts.

Long Valley/Schooleys Mtn is dark. We still have 9 roads blocked by downed lines and zero crews working in the township. JCP&L are truly pitiful.

PSE&G get a thumbs up, JCP&L get the thumbs down. Thank God we have PSE&G !!!!

In Wayne, PSE&G said a certain neighborhood is really messed up and no one will be coming out any time soon. That is because multiple utility poles are down and PSE&G said it's not their problem to fix. THEN WHO'S PROBLEM IS IT?

24 degrees at sunrise - yes pipes may freeze - looks like Sat will be 60! What we have is a breakdown of key information for citizens. What we need from our local Leadership & JCPL is the big picture. For example is LV among the last again due to a substation, main line, local or a general lack of manpower ( my gut says lack of resources as lines are still down and trees still hung up on 517- great with tomorrow's nor'easter with 30mph winds)
But I digress - are we in the 'hardest hit' area? That way we know it won't be restored till next week...citizens need info to make executive decisions for their family & property. JCPL website is great to see the number of cold frustrated smelly customers- we need additional info & root cause details - JCPL has this info as they are prioritizing the deployment of their crews...we are in the dark - but keep the info flowing...
Stay warm Semper Fi
Capt Morrissey

Fraud. JCPL own stats had the number of outages in Bernards Township grow by 166 on Monday from 6,660 to 6,730but they said they reduced the number by 1,205. What lies. Can't someone hold them accountable?????? Where is Gov. Christie and his friends at the power companies??? He said he would hold them accountable!!!!! Let's see???

Bernards Township now has JCP&L largest # of outages in New Jersey and 41% of their outages in Somerset County. Great Job Township Committee!!!!

Washingtown twp, morris. could be two more weeks: http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/pm_29221/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=i8EuqMGs

I'm sure we won't be the only ones..

Gov Coumo says he is totally dissatisfied with LIPA response and that their franchise "is not a god given right". Nj had 2x+ without power and what does Christie say? Nothing.

I live in Warren and to be honest, I'm more angry with the leadership of this town than JCP & L. In their quest to keep taxes down in my Republican bastion, they refused to spend money to prune back the trees along the main roads and power lines after the past two years of storms and significant power outages. The amount of trees into power lines this time around was simply outrageous and could have been mitigated by spending a little money over the past year. I don't know about you, but after a week of no power, I think I could live with my taxes being raised 1% if it would mean avoiding this fiasco in the future.

The couple weeks before the storm, JCP&L left notices on our mailboxes that were going to be doing tree pruning around power lines. Then they came through and did it, so it might've been worse if they hadn't. There's a lot of factors in play.

Does anyone know if the Manor section of Chatham Borough has an equipment/substation problem, or is it that we don't have any crews here? Power was restored to within a block of us to the north and east last week. And then the jcp&l restoration numbers for the Borough stopped moving down at all. It was 21 degrees this morning - if there is no end in sight for the borough, I would like the utility or borough administration to tell me.

Trees and wires still down on Headley Road and have not been touched. All of Lidgerwood and portions of Windmill Pond still without power. Is this Morristown, NJ or Mumbai India? JCPL lets go here!!!!!!!!!

Like many others, I've been without power since Mon Oct. 29. I have a well, electric stove/oven, electric heat, hot water,etc. I did many things to prepare for the storm, but this power outage has lasted much longer than I was ready for. In Oct. 2011, I was without power for 8 days, this time going on 9.
Now I want to know exactly when JCP&L will decide I can have power. Just give me a date. Where is their accountability?
Patch has a lovely photo of utility trucks at the end of this article. I'm wondering where this was taken. Certainly not Long Valley.

I find it interesting that New Jersey rejected assistance from out-of-state utility crews because they weren't union. These out-of-state crews drove all the way here to offer their assistance and their help was turned down. I guess it is better for us to suffer and in some cases, die, then to cross union lines in times of emergency.

Whispering Hills in Warren now has power!

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Morris County, Chatham Township.....Tuesday November 6, 11:11am....it is 9 th day without power on huge apartments complexes by River Road, Terrace Drive, Heritage Drive.
We do not see any single repair truck to solve the problems.
Outside is only 21 degrees!!
Does anybody do not care about us in the time od Sandy's devastation?

Morris Township - Anyone have any info if they've even started work on James St. near 287? Do the nottingham/sherwood condos have power yet? Any power in the subdivision across the street from them? All of Windmill Pond up yet?

I just drove through the area the township says is being worked on and only saw one lousy truck on Runnymeade. The intersection of River Road and Southern is a total disaster and the destroyed poles and downed lines run far down River toward New Providence. It will take days, days to fix the problems on River Road. We are being lied to and the mayor need only drive the Township roads to know we are being lied to - yet, she is out there shilling for the power company. The response from JCP&L is atrocious and getting dangerous for those of us without power. The only response possible is to sit this out and then sit on bill payments - you think those spineless utility bureaucrats are going to shut you off for non-payment in the aftermath of this mess? Screw 'em.

According to JCP&L's newest spread zero (0), a total of ZERO customers in Wayne are estimated to be restored today. And this may be a stupid request to the companties, they are giving estimates per day, after that day is finished, why can't they list how many people in each town were restored? I wish we would ahve purchased a home on the PSE&G side of Wayne. I guess its truely time to bite the bullet and have a standby generator installed because its always a week plus to have power restored.

So the Township gives the power contract to JCP&L. Year after year they fail to provide anything resembling decent relief in the wake of these storms. Yet the very few residents who actually vote continue to re-elect the committee that gives the contract to JCP&L instead of another power company. And now those same people are without power...again...for days. Wonder if they will remember come the next election. The ONLY way to end this madness is to throw out the elected officials who are clearly in the pocket of the power company whose contract they continue to renew despite the awful service. Is it just me, or does this seem like a pretty simple connect-the-dots conclusion? You don't really believe a power company with no incentive to provide better service is going to work harder do you? Why would they when they know they will get a rubber stamp from the committee every time. If the committee hasn't fired JCP&L by now...can we expect them to do it in the future? Once the center hall colonial crowd gets the power back, this will all be forgotten...until the next storm.

Electric service territories are set by the NJ Board of Public Utilities.

Local municipal governments don't award electric service contracts,
the service is provided by whichever utility company has the territory.

Just got power back on Southern Blvd. Happy day.

Where do you live on Southern Elizabeth ?

Frank,
Appreciate the correction. Is the Board of Utilites appointed or elected? And if that's the case, why would the mayor waste her time begging for help from JCP&L when they don't answer to the local municipality?

Any hope for Parsippany? Near Smith road we are drowned in darkness for a week now.........and Noreaster is coming no JCP & L!

i would love to start a petition against jcp&l, but i just don't have the time...i will be the first one to sign to liquidate them.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=122104031162717

NJ Board of PUC -- be prepared for the wrath of NJ residents. Do your job and hold them accountable. The progress being slow today in inexcusable. They should have crews all over the place getting the job done and providing detailed updates instead of generic BS. No accountability going on here...

1,400,000 are still without power as of Monday, down from 8,500,000 last week.

I just called the governor's office and gave a 10 minute detailed report on what I've seen (or haven't seen from JCPL) in Morristown and specifically my area. I also recounted the falsities of numbers posted. The person I spoke to said that the governor is being given a report of all such calls coming in today and will chose how to move forward in regards to the utility companies. Not sure what it'll do, but instead of simply posting your tribulations here like I have, please try to call as well. The more people they hear from, the harder we are to ignore. the number is: 609-292-6000

SO JCP&L releaded a new "spreadsheet" its fileed with ggggrrrrrreeeeeaaaaaattttttt news. Wayne not only will have zero restored today they will have zero restored tomorrow. And the woman I spoke to on the phone said she isn't even in New Jersey. But she understands the frustrations. The problem is, there really is no place to complain, no place to to et action done. The Govonor can only bitch on TV it isn't helping the situtation. The facts are, JCP&L were unprepared again for a storm, the company is to big and far reaching to have fast response, they have piss poor communication skills, they have no solid information going to the people and they are out of touch with reality. Look if I'm told the power is out to Next Tuesday thats fine, I can figure out a hotel or something, instead I'm strung along with this the power will be back on by Wednesday. Well not in Wayne, they will not be restoring anyone more until Thursday at the earliest. So I guess we are "the hardest hit areas" that they keep speaking of. This company is worthless, but I bet our transmission fees will go up.

Gov Christie, why don't you come for a photo op in siberia, nj (Bernards Township). There are more place to NJ than the shore!!!

Gov. Christie is too busy hugging the Boss. If he isn't hugging celebrities, he is eating another donut. What a complete joke, one tree down on the road and no power for 8 days and running. But we are really lucky to freeze in our house (no hotel rooms). Called JCP&L and they tell me tomorrow, that's what they said yesterday. Good thing Christie is meeting with kids, he is afraid to get in front of anyone who will argue back. Typical bully. I so wish he was up for re election, he is complete and utter garbage.

Unbelievable. The fat Governor shud b impeached.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20121106/NEWS02/211060339/Christie-warns-NJ-utilities-about-Hurricane-Chris-?odyssey=nav%7Chead

When Wayne is restored it will be early next week. OVER 2 WEEKS? HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN IN AMERICA? I swear there should be a way to sue these power companies. We are HOSTAGES.

Dear Editor at the Patch,
Kindly pass the following invitation to Mr. Don Lynch, President of JCP&L
Dear Don,
You are cordially invited to spend the next 24hrs enjoying sub freezing temperatures with me and my family at my Patriot Hill Dr., Basking Ridge residence. We have arranged front row seating for you for the upcoming Nor'Easter and we promise you will feel every moment of it from head to toe! Kindly RSVP in person and please, no percentages in your reply.

Has the Southern Blvd/River Rd intersection been restored? cleaned up?

Welcome to the new soviet union everyone and don lynch is the leader! I say tar and feather the creep, bet he's all nice and toasty warm someplace. Hey don....would not want to be you on judgement day!

JCP&L (Wayne) is a disgrace. I have yet to see a crew out working. I'd like to see when their president, Don Lynch, got power back. They are so completely inept but it goes beyond that because of the complete lack of communication supplied. Why not tell us where people are working or what is being done? It won't necessarily get the power back on but will provide some measure of relief to know that JCP&L doesn't stand for "just cut power & leave"

You think you have it bad. I talked to a cashier who's friend has a long driveway with poles down. JCP&L told him not to expect power until December...

Please call JCP and L customer service # 1-800-662-3115 everyday! For Hazardous situations like down Power lines and multiple streetlight problems and power outages.
Call customer service every day and let them know it is very important they fix this situation as it is a Safety issue now. It is best to call at 8AM as they are less busy at this time.
I called today and they are hoping to have everybody up in Parsippany by SAT. They should be ashamed for keeping us in the dark for so long. They should not send us a bill for this whole month or offer us a deep discount. We are losing a lot of money on gas for the generator, going out to eat everyday, hotel stays. This is a natural disaster and I understand but they are the Power experts and they should have a plan in place to keep us all safe. This is a major inconvenience. We are high paying tax customers and we do not deserve to be treated like this. Our power should have been restored long time ago. I wonder what Mayor James Barberio could do to help us. HIS # is 973-263-4297. Call him too and ask him. We will not be ignored.

According to JCP&L, they are not obligated to provide power to us. Really? This was a response to a question about why I still have not seen a single utility truck in the Morris Township area. Power lines are STILL down everywhere, laying across the street. We really need to take some action to get the state to kick this corrupt company out of the state of NJ. They STILL cannot provide any estimates that are meaningful. Where is the accountability? If I don't pay my bill, I'm going to have my credit destroyed by them. I have a 4 month old and I was pretty much forced to buy a generator to survive.

I hope one day we can hold the leadership of First Energy accountable for their negligence.

So the latest JCP&L outage map shows all areas in Morris County are expected to be restored by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 11. Are they joking? They are just throwing out another date and they will then miss that date. They have no plan....

Watch: it will be changed to tuesday because of nor'easter moving in today; they will "lose" two days.

If anyone uses twitter, I have started tweeting at JCP&L (@JCP_L) using the hashtag #nopowernoanswer

So far no response.

The JCP&L site shows ZERO restorations yesterday, ZERO anticipated for today and only 50% by the end of the week. How do we put pressure on them to get crews to our town.

Morris Township here. James Street still closed. Poles down on James and wires still down on Mt Kemble. Going on day 9 with no power, really wish the township would do something to motivate JCP&L, who give bad estimates and copy and paste twitter replies.

Here we are daY 10 with no power in tghe alpine road area of towaco.Italked to jcp&l yesterday afternoon and was told crews aRe out there working but yet I travel through montvile area 3or4 times a day and have not seen any of these crews that I was told are working on restoring power.The only thing I see is the trucks rideing around or sitting in a parking lot some where doing nothing

To say I'm aggravated by JCP&L's slow response in Hopatcong is an understatement. But what annoys me even more is the complete lack of any real information! If I were told that there was a 98% chance I would have power by 11/12, I would be okay with that! But with the way things are, it feels as though I've been thrown into prison without being told how long my sentence is!!

The only way to get back at JCP&L's lack of regard for their customers is to initiate a class action suit. Bloomberg and Cuomo were able to pressure ConEd to get the hard hit downtown area up and running in 5 days, and we can't do the same? Where are the trucks from all over that are supposedly helping to restore power? Haven't seen one since the start of this nightmare (October 29 @ 7:30pm).

I Spoke with someone from JCP&L on Monday about getting power back in the Long Valley area - he said if we are lucky today, but more likely to be Thurs/Fri. I called again yesterday - because at this point I dont care how many times I call and I got a diff answer. This time the woman I spoke with said we my not have power until Nov. 16th!! We need to some how get this issue escalated. There are down wires and poles all over the place and I have not seen 1 truck out working anywhere near this area!

The lack of information is the key frustration. Yesterday Bernards Mayor Mary Pavlini posted a letter on the township site which said she "GETS IT" but the letter is evidence she does not. It was a self serving letter that did not have one detail, not one. The lack of any details is an indication they do not get it. Residents want information, details. JCP&L has stated all week that 2,902 customers would be restored on 11/6 but their own numbers show this to be less than 1,300. Who is holding them accountable? Where are our elected officials?

Does the rationing apply to cans? Can I fill my cans no matter what day it is?

Yes, you can fill gas cans no matter what day it is.

Numbers do not match,tnx for lies

TODAY..11/7/12...IS DAY 10 WITHOUT POWER...LINCOLN PARK NJ

Pines Lake ... now on our 10th full day with NO POWER. I believe all JCP&L service users must lobby our Governor to require this powerless power company to no longer refer to us as "customers" and be forced, instead, to call us "victims" until/unless they can prove that they do, indeed, own a pair of BIG BOY PANTS and are willing to wear them - acting, for once, like a grown-up business that understands its role & its obligation to the people who send them ungodly amounts of cash each month.

If that fails, then at least force them to call this particular service package "THE DARK AGES INTERMITTENT ELECTRICAL SUPPLY AND NEGLIGENCE PACK."

It's the year 2012 and my family is living in a dark, frozen cave. The only difference between us & the neanderthals of long, long ago, is that the neanderthals lived with the hope of Darwinian progress. Honestly, what hope do we have that a large, faceless conglomerate like "First Energy" (JCP&L parent) is going to suddenly decide to take their gobs of cash profits & invest them in designing and implementing a 21st Century system of infrastructure and enhanced customer communication capabilities - especially when its so much more fun to simply keep their existing state-of-the-fart grid limping along and use that cash to create an even wider gulf between First Energy executives and the other 99% of us?

When they see us, they see SUCKERS. I can hear them now ... at their next Board Meeting ... "Let them eat frozen cake in the dark."

Friends,
We must stand together and demand accountability from
JCP&L and our elected leaders....
The response to the aftermath of this disaster is their
job. Period .
We should not accept excuses .... Working hard... Inadequate systems... Weather threats etc.
There is a complete absence and failure from the Management of JCP&L and our elected officials
in this regard.
Only two solutions stop paying your bill and vote IN new leaders......
This response all the way around has been a disgrace !
Thank You!