7 to 10 days without power. Sounds like the same old JCP&L to me.

Hey listen anyone want go out & play with live wires in the rain? Didnt think soo its a tough job & they can only be in soo many places at one time

Electricity is overrated anyway.

Obama will protect us, you'll see. Republicans hate the earth and cause Global Warming with their big SUV's

@ big liberal just like he protected our ambassitor in Lybia........ please tell me you are joking

yeah bryan just like bush protected 3,000 americans in new york, washington and pennsylvania. republicans like romney , rush limbaugh and inhofe laugh at climate change. the laugh will be on them when this "frankenstorm" the second "storm of the century" we,ve had two years in a row has those like bryan sitting at home in his boxing shorts holding a candle. good luck with all of that.

What year was The Perfect Storm this sounds like a repeat? Ahundred years ago the storms had little effect on power lines.

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I can't wait for the weekend when all the morons go rushing around for food, gas and water that they don't need. Oh, let's not forget the mental midgets who all of a sudden think they need a generator, when they could have bought a 100 of them just last week. It's a lousy one day storm people. Live with it. Besides, most of you can forgo food for a few days just to lose some weight.

Love the "pro-active" way JCP&L is covering its collective @$$. It dropped the ball last time.

....this don't happen when the power lines are UNDER the ground. They have number crunchers galore...and it's been determined that it's easier & cheaper to fix a mess ...than it is to take the necessary steps to prevent the mess.

Below ground powerlines? Smart grid? In an area where the rulers allow the companies to take the money and run? Why would such a common sense measure ever even be considered?

Well Here in Holiday City @Berkeley our power lines are underground... and in the nearly three years I've lived here we've had power outages - of varying lengths of time- no less than 5 times. That does include the 12-14 hr outage immediately following Irene about 14 months ago...but the rest were just due to big thunderstorms and who knows what else.

I don't care about storms I just care about being out of work for 3 days

if they've learned from their mistakes then why is the power out?

is this a tap-dance review or the power company we're talking about here?

JCPL SUCKS. PROBLEM IS WE CANNOT OPT OUT FROM JCPL SINCE THAT IS THE ONLY ELECTRICITY COMPANY IN OUR AREA. THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY IS EXTREMELY SLOW. HOW COME PEOPLE WITH PSEG CUSTOMERS HAVE POWER AND JCPL DON't?????

Problem having a different supplier for electric is..they are using JCP& L lines,transmissions,sub-stations. So really you would still have to wait for repairs by JCP&L..the reason for switching to another electric supplier is to lower your bill "ONLY" if possible!

How can you change a supplier when the whole community has JCPL?

Yes, somebody, that is one entity controls the distribution -- the power lines. The state of NJ needs to take over from these profiteering clowns. 7 to 10 days? I understand this storm was severe, however, communities far from the shore still have no power.

When will the state of take away JCP&L's license to operate a utility? Frankly, I've owned cats who could have run a utility better than JCP&L.

.....the "supplier" is only the producer or purchaser of the actual electricity. They may be able to get deals for lower cost. However....you still have it "delivered" to you via JCP&L infrastructure (wires, poles, transformers, substations) ....and therein lies the problem

Yeah right, learned from same mistake... 7 days without power.
STILL without power.
Tell that to my dead fish.
JCP&L sucks, I will switch company at the first opportunity.