It's 27 degrees outside and 46 degrees inside my house, hey PSEG where are my electrons?

Well the good news is, my office has power. The bad news is, everybody here is dead in the water at home. Caldwell, Bloomfield, West Orange, Nutley, Cedar Grove are all dark, and cold.

And nobody has even seen a PSEG truck. The company claims they have crews working around the clock. Maybe that means they're all "working" around some big clock somewhere.

The official estimate says I won't have power at home until Thursday morning.

Brrr.

Schools are closed today, and probably tomorrow too. There are trees down everywhere. My back yard looks like a war zone. Many roads are still blocked, but again, we don't hear any chain saws going and nobody seems to be in any particular hurry to clear them away.

Where's Essex County in all of this? They're supposed to be the guys coordinating "emergency management." No shelters are open though, County Executive Joseph "Joe D" DiVincenzo is too busy arranging his special Howl-o-Ween event at Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange to be bothered with trivialities like downed trees and frozen residents.

How do I know this? Because The Patch asked him. "Absolutely," Howl-o-Ween is on. Shelters? Find out from your municipal officials what their plans are, Joe D doesn't have any info on that. But he "thinks" Cedar Grove and Verona are going to open something.

Yeah, I love paying County taxes. Don't you?

Blogging will be sporadic. AT&T's 3G service is down too. So, no Facebook or Twitter either. Verizon is up; I don't know what AT&T's malfunction is. My BlackBerry doesn't even have phone service. And of course the battery in my FiOS doohickey died a few hours after the power went out. So no landlines at home either. Didn't Ma Bell used to know how to deliver -48VDC come hell or high water? Did they forget?

It's like we've been transported back to the 1820's.

Worst of all, Halloween is gonna be a total bust. It's not safe to walk the streets, and it's too cold for most costumes. Sophie is beside herself because she loves Halloween. Some towns are moving trick-or-treating to Friday. Maybe we can ask Joe D if the county could coordinate that.

Posted at 11:08 by Chris Wysocki   [/misc]   Comments | Perm Link |
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