Power outage numbers continued to drop slightly across the state Thursday. According to one utility company, though, residents shouldn't expect power back any time soon from a storm it is comparing to Hurricane Katrina.
JCP&L reported in a release on Wednesday that the majority of customers will be restored within the next seven days. However, it could take up to two weeks for customers in the hardest-hit areas to regain power, the company said.
JCP&L reported about 822,000 of its nearly 1.1 million customers remained in the dark as of about 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, according to its outage map. The number includes 233,899 in Monmouth, down from the 264,061 who were without power late Wednesday night.
“The damage from Hurricane Sandy far exceeds what we saw from Hurricane Irene or the October 2011 snowstorm,” said Don Lynch, president of JCP&L, in a release. “While we were better prepared for Hurricane Sandy, the damage rivals that experienced during Hurricane Katrina, one of our nation’s most devastating and expensive hurricanes. In preparing for Hurricane Sandy, we positioned 1,600 line crews and 1,200 forestry professionals prior to the storm even making landfall.”
At the peak, more than 1 million of JCP&L’s 1.1 million customers were without power.
I recieved an email stating that JCPL are working on the substations for Gordons Corner Rd, Bradvelt, and Englishtown. They plan to have 80% of the cutomers served by those substations up TONIGHT. Id say less then a week after the storm hit is amazing to have that many people back up and running. If it happens is another story but they are out there working. I have had no heat or hot water and have been in the same boat as everyone else AND it's mandatory for me to report to work.....be patient and show a litle compasion for the people who literally lost everything.
Monmouth Heights we are still without power.
Also, why doesn't the township have all the Sandy info on the homepage? Especially for those that are using the internet on smart phones. There is no one in that building that has any common sense. I know I plan to vote accordingly on Tuesday.
Learned from Irene my ass, tell that to my fish. Fuck JCP$L and its CEO
Face it, although we are alive, thankfully, and our homes are standing (for those of us who had no damage) some of us have been literally freezing our butts off for 9 days. This is quite serious, and worthy us voicing complaints.
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