file photo by Boyd Loving
Readers says so let’s all whine about PSEG when the power is out for a week
Ok so let’s all whine when the power is out for a week the next time a storm takes down the low hung power lines.
The optimal solution would be to bury at least the trunk lines. I’d shell out a couple grand to dig a trench from the street to my house, if it meant that the power would stay on.
I’ve been watching Parks & Recreation on Netflix recently, and their depiction of the public is not far off the mark. No matter what happens, half the room is outraged.
Do you think that high voltage power lines on taller poles will not come down?
Maybe they should have buried them – or put them along the PSE&G right of way.
Keep your high voltage lines, I bought a generator
Have fun at the gas station. Hope you know how to fix it! Should have slapped a couple solar panels on the roof and batteries in the basement.
Nine months ago, our Village was in the dark for a week and more for some while other towns saw the light much earlier. The mayor, through the daily robot calls and other conversations promised to take PSEG to task on this. Nine months later, PSEG shows up with higher power lines. I wonder how this will go.
These power lines have little to do with any service to the residents of Ridgewood. They provide no direct service to any resident. They are being strung to connect 2 substations in Paramus and Fairlawn. They belong on the existing right of way, not 22 feet from people’s front doors.
AS per a pseg executive, those lines are bringing power generated by coal from Pennsylvania, it’s cheaper to purchase power generated elsewhere, Also with the price of natural gas coming so much pseg is starting to decommission it’s nucleaer reactors. Now I wonder if those facts will bring about more lines because the power is being generated elsewhere?