January 4,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
RIDGEWOOD NJ ,Yesterday more than 500 PSE&G customers in the Village of Ridgewood lost power on Sunday due to an outage.
The outage was first reported by PSE&G at 11 a.m. The area effected was around Linwood Avenue and Oak Street . The Village website reported that
“Between 10 am & 12 pm there was a localized power outage that effected small areas by Linwood Ave. Village Hall was effected and lost communications for Website/Email. All system where back online by 2pm.”
Questions remain as to why the Village failed to use the emergency generators . The emergency generator would provide lights and some power to the computers. So why isn’t it used to supply the website ? If they are going to use the excuse that their e mail was down because of the power outage what would have happened if it were a real emergency ?
As usual, the village website material was written by someone whose grasp of English is weak, at best. EFFECTED should have been AFFECTED four times (headline here is correct but it was wrong on website); “all SYSTEM WHERE back online”–really?
Great! Next they’ll create a position and hire a Village Editor. As for emergencies… Take the scenic route to Garber Square and read the LED sign. Make sure to get there after the generators are brought over to power that sign.