[Don]

mdross1: The next storm, which has already started, will be the numerous inquiries into the performance of the power company, CL & P, during the extended outage. Valid fact finding has yet to occur, but mentioned are the decrease in the number of line crews, tree trimming practicers, overall coordination of restoring, who pays for the labor/materials ( rate payers or stock holders ), OT policy including scheduling to avoid/minimize OT costs, underground power cables, etc etc

Got to give the line crews a lot of credit for their work......and maintaing a safe and injury free environment. Believe CL& P restricts their line crews to no more than 16 straight hours, then mandatory 8 off for safety reasons....do not know how many consecutive days allowed. My longest outage was 6 or 7 days during the 1973 ice storm