I'm amazed that this is going on just 2 hours away from me. New Jersey - total mess. Connecticut (Hartford area, at least) - pretty much just a bad storm and now everything's back to normal. Gas, power, food, roads, etc. are all fine.
Yup. The problem is there's a lot of stations with gas and no power to pump it. Then a few stations with power that have long since pumped all their gas. The transportation situation isn't making it easy for the gas trucks to bring fresh fuel in. And then you've got a ton more people on the road since public transport is still mostly down. You've also got a lot of people who want that gas for generators....that's what's causing a lot of the fights. People in cars think they deserve it more, people with jugs dont feel they need to wait in the line with the cars. People come to fill up their truck and also five 10 gallon jugs in their bed - there's no rationing or anything, so everyone is trying to hoard as much as they can. The lines are so outrageous that people don't even know where the end is, since they cross multiple intersections, which further snarls up traffic - there are some one lane roads that are completely blocked by the line. And of course people are running out of gas while waiting in the line, or constantly needing jumps because the batteries can't handle so many stops and starts. It's just so many factors that exacerbate each other, it's just total fucking chaos.
Most gas stations that are open have a police presence at this point to keep it from devolving into total anarchy.
Outages in my town dropped from 4299 to 4298. Lucky bastard.
Outages in my town dropped from 4299 to 4298. Lucky bastard.
Still about 1700 JCP&L (aka First Energy) customers still out in Wayne (me included) .. PSE&G has about 10,000 in Wayne still out of service. I am hopeful, we can be back on the grid by Monday. The lines to get gasoline, which my home generator needs, are horrible. Generator runs the Fridge and Furnace, as well as some essential lighting circuits.
It's back to 4299. Sucker!
Finally got power/internet.
Here are some pics I took on Tuesday.
Got internet and tv back this morning.
With the long lines at gas stations, someone from ATOT might have seen my son - he was the guy getting 150 gallons of diesel at a time (making everyone at the gasoline pumps have to wait, since the generators could only run one pump at a time.) No lines for diesel he said, so in essence, he got to go to the front of the line. He's working 16-18 hour days, fueling big diesel generators, so that when people use gas generators to charge their cell phones, they'll still have a signal because his generators are running the towers.
They've been showing more footage on the news, it's sad to see all these houses destroyed, people's memories lost and having to start all over.
Finally got power/internet.
Here are some pics I took on Tuesday.
From Freeport NY:
I work in a NOC and dispatch guys with gennys when a CO/cell site's batteries become low, I imagine those guys are VERY busy right now! Often there's not enough generators for each site so they have to roll them around town to top up the batteries.
Wonder how many COs and cell towers were destroyed by the storm. Getting those up and running, re-splicing the copper and fiber is a whole ordeal on it's own.
Finally got power/internet.
Here are some pics I took on Tuesday.
From Freeport NY: