Well, CL&P is making progress on restoring power, with remaining customers without power in Meriden down to 28 percent at press time for Saturday’s edition and 15 percent by late Saturday morning, with fewer than 10 percent in Southington and Cheshire. Compared to the Farmington Valley towns, our area is doing fairly well, but again it is worth reiterating whether rate payers would rather pay ongoing higher rates to encompass aggressive tree-trimming and more crews all the time or consider low rates as the end-all.
An election is still scheduled for Tuesday, regardless of power status (although estimates are seeming pretty firm that all polling places will be supplied by that time). As a matter of interest, had this storm occurred closer to the election date, what remedy for the mess would there have been?
As has been remarked on other occasions when the lights have gone out, local residents do seem able to increase their courtesy factor and navigate without damage or collision the many intersections where traffic signals remained out – even, in the case of several places in Meriden, on Friday.
It’s hard to keep up with technology. Meriden used radio, internet and phone emergency reverse 911 to get word out about where and when shelters were open and where food might be located. Yet there were still people who, without power and without telephone landlines which don’t use power, were left “in the dark” as it were and really needed door-to-door information delivered.
After recognizing that such things as sump pumps don’t work without power and that electrical damage may need to be corrected even when power is restored, a comment was made by Alan Barberino, property manager of Crown Village condominiums in Meriden, that generators may become a more standard item in the future. If correct, we wonder if that suggests a decline in utility service, an increase in power-demanding technology, or a rise in severe weather?
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