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What can you do to prepare for Hurricane Joaquin

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October 1,2015

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

What can you do to prepare?

Ridgewood NJ, PSE&G is making preparations for a possible landfall of Hurricane Joaquin. We are also closely monitoring the expected heavy rains and high winds over the next several days.

While it is too early to know with any certainty when and where Joaquin will make landfall – and the strength of the storm when it does – we take every storm with the potential for outages seriously. We are activating our emergency protocol and personnel, and performing system checks on critical transmission and distribution equipment. Also, we are requesting mutual aid from other utilities, securing additional tree crews and ensuring the availability of materials and supplies.

What can you do?

Generator Usage:

• If your facility has a generator, now is a good time to ensure the generator is in good working order and there is sufficient fuel for your operating needs.

• Review generator safety information found on our EnergeLink website.

Communicating with PSE&G:

• Register for our free MyAlerts service ahead of time to receive email or text notifications about an outage at pseg.com/myalerts.

• Sign up for My Account at pseg.com and bookmark the mobile-friendly homepage on your smart phone to report outages and check restoration progress.

• Compile a list of emergency phone numbers, including PSE&G’s dedicated, toll-free Business Solutions Center line at 1-855-249-7734 (1-855-BIZ-PSEG). “Like” PSEG on Facebook and follow PSEG on Twitter @PSEGdelivers for tips and information about storm progress.

• Be ready to report and track outages on PSE&G’s “Outage Center” at pseg.com/outagecenter.

Additional preparedness information can be found at www.ready.gov.

10 thoughts on “What can you do to prepare for Hurricane Joaquin

  1. Im not doing anything till I get the Mayor’ 5th robo call.

  2. Thanks PJ at least someone is looking out for us. I know the council isn’t.

  3. The Mayor can’t do a robo call. He his to busy doing damage control from Wed night and put signs on the front lawns of his friends to vote yes on the parking garage. All these project are connected.

  4. Well the 3 Amigos should know a lot about Hurricanes after Wed night.

  5. Village vehicles moved to higher ground at Vets.

  6. Whatever happened to the incessant robo calls from Aronsohn. I need him to call me and let me know that it is raining.

  7. Hurricane Pooch.

  8. Before a predicted storm we’re always told to focus on websites and electronics. Guess what–if I lose power I will not have electronics! And also guess what–not everybody in the world, or even in Ridgewood, has a smartphone or receives email on a cell phone, which would run out of power soon anyway. Gimme a break. What a copout for those in charge–pathetic.

  9. I will “like” PSE&G when Hell freezes over.

  10. i finally purchased a generator… ergo there will never be another power outage.

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