In the face of fear that this is quickly going from TheRangaBlog to TheAngerBlog, I would like to point out my most recent frustration with things in general. As you may well know, we had a good old fashioned "Nor'easter" here in Connecticut over the weekend. Anticipating that the damaged trees from Irene were not a good sign once heavy, wet snow fell, I was sure we'd lose power. We rode our luck for the first 12 hours of the storm and had a nice day at home, watching movies, lighting fires, and eating like pigs. After a few teases of a power outage, around midnight, the power went out for good. We called it a night and went to sleep.
At this point, we were pretty sure we were fucked. I held out a glimmer of hope that the outage would be less than our 6-day debacle during Irene. Why? Because our utility, United Illuminating, had only about 45,000 customers lose power, out of the total 320,000 served. Compare that to Irene, when UI had more than 100,000 customers go dark. UI even encouraged this hope, saying that they expected all power to be restored by Monday, October 31st, at midnight. Two days max without power? I can live with that.
Of course, UI overpromised and underdelivered. The table below is a "Town Outage List" that UI updates every 20 minutes throughout the day. When the table first came out, there were 19,000 outages total, and Hamden (my town) represented 2,500 of them. We were definitely on the larger end of the scale, with only a couple other towns like Fairfield, Trumbull, and Shelton being in the 2,000-3,000 range. My frustration stems from watching this table over the last few days and seeing every other town dwindle to less than 100 outages while Hamden held steady up at 1,900 until this morning. Only today are we starting to see some progress in Hamden, which now accounts for 1,100 of the 2,000 total outages. That's right, we went from being 2,500 out of 19,000 total outages to 1,100 out of 2,000 total outages. Why, God, WHY!!! Please give us our power back! All I want to do is take a poopie at home!
At this point, we were pretty sure we were fucked. I held out a glimmer of hope that the outage would be less than our 6-day debacle during Irene. Why? Because our utility, United Illuminating, had only about 45,000 customers lose power, out of the total 320,000 served. Compare that to Irene, when UI had more than 100,000 customers go dark. UI even encouraged this hope, saying that they expected all power to be restored by Monday, October 31st, at midnight. Two days max without power? I can live with that.
Of course, UI overpromised and underdelivered. The table below is a "Town Outage List" that UI updates every 20 minutes throughout the day. When the table first came out, there were 19,000 outages total, and Hamden (my town) represented 2,500 of them. We were definitely on the larger end of the scale, with only a couple other towns like Fairfield, Trumbull, and Shelton being in the 2,000-3,000 range. My frustration stems from watching this table over the last few days and seeing every other town dwindle to less than 100 outages while Hamden held steady up at 1,900 until this morning. Only today are we starting to see some progress in Hamden, which now accounts for 1,100 of the 2,000 total outages. That's right, we went from being 2,500 out of 19,000 total outages to 1,100 out of 2,000 total outages. Why, God, WHY!!! Please give us our power back! All I want to do is take a poopie at home!
As of 11/01/2011 03:10 PM | ||||
| Town | Number Served | Events | Current Number Out | Portion Out (%) |
| Ansonia | 8,514 | 9 | 9 | 0.11% |
| Bridgeport | 57,938 | 6 | 6 | 0.01% |
| Derby | 6,308 | 2 | 2 | 0.03% |
| East Haven | 12,986 | 17 | 17 | 0.13% |
| Easton | 2,869 | 53 | 173 | 6.03% |
| Fairfield | 22,194 | 29 | 81 | 0.36% |
| Hamden | 25,896 | 108 | 1,093 | 4.22% |
| Milford | 26,174 | 10 | 13 | 0.05% |
| New Haven | 54,264 | 40 | 72 | 0.13% |
| North Branford | 3,352 | 6 | 6 | 0.18% |
| North Haven | 11,418 | 39 | 145 | 1.27% |
| Orange | 5,976 | 7 | 60 | 1.00% |
| Shelton | 16,494 | 67 | 81 | 0.49% |
| Stratford | 22,960 | 5 | 11 | 0.05% |
| Trumbull | 13,589 | 81 | 83 | 0.61% |
| West Haven | 24,566 | 8 | 71 | 0.29% |
| Woodbridge | 3,626 | 31 | 110 | 3.03% |
| Totals | 319,124 | 518 | 2,033 | 0.64% |
Copyright 2011, The United Illuminating Company. | ||||
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