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#Snowtober Day 5: now it's just ridiculous, and #PSEG lies to us

At about 6:30 PM last night some streets near mine got power! There was a fleet of PSE&G trucks parked, engines idling, right down the block from me. I dared to dream of warmth.

And then, they drove away.

That's right, "working around the clock" means "we knock off at 7 PM."

Critical infrastructure — our town tennis courts — are lit up like Yankee Stadium. I'm still freezing in the dark.

The neighbors, we talk. And we've discovered that PSE&G is lying to us.

If you call, the rep says your power has been restored. Or, she says there is no report of an outage in your area. Yeah, right. Because nobody has reported it yet, four days after it went out. And if she says we really do have power maybe we'll believe her instead of our own lying eyes.

The Two Ralphs (Izzo and LaRossa) must think we're all idiots.

Oh but they've released a statement, which the media gleefully laps up without an ounce of skepticism.

PSE&G reports that it is making steady progress restoring service to the more than 570,000 customers impacted by Saturday's storm. In a notice dated Nov. 1 at 9:30 p.m., PSE&G announced that about 67,000 customers were still without power.

So, PSE&G will admit that some people still don't have power!

The utility has restored service to 83 percent of customers impacted.

Which orifice did The Two Ralphs pull that number out of?

I wonder if PSE&G is counting my neighborhood in their "83 percent." Must be, when we called they said we have power. Yeah because the thermometer in my bedroom that reads 42 degrees, maybe it's in Celsius and I'm really not shivering in the dark all night long.

The company expects to meet the state's goal of having at least 95 percent of its customers restored by Thursday.

PSE&G lies.

This morning, there isn't a truck in sight.

UPDATE 03 Nov 2011 09:24:
Linked as Legal Insurrection's Post Of The Day. Thanks Professor Jacobson!

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