re: So John Young was on the radio going off on Entergy

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because of a pole holding a transformer was rot for months before this storm and Entergy was notified multiple times about it and did nothing. First gust of wind Tuesday night guess what happened to that pole. Now Entergy will get to charge a "hurricane fee" so we can all pay extra for there lack of grid maintenance.

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Bingo.

This is how I understood it to work. I knew someone who was hired to go around and servey they poles recently. It was a cluster fck with how bad things were. He was told that Entergy decided a long time ago to decrease their maintenance staff and just rely on insurance and rate adjustments to help them make up for any losses.

Crews subcontracted by entergy left from several states yesterday morning. The hurricane was rolling thru Wednesday. You expect them to be through in two days from when most crews began transit. I have several buddies with Demco service that wish entergy was an option for them. Ragidy shite goes down for minor rain storms. Bent poles, and old shite. They change shite after its broke and don't spend barely any money trimming and keeping their lines clean.

Someone was bitching on WWL any how Entergy workers were at bars bragging about how much they were making for hardly working, easy money, etc.

Do you have power? Have you ever lost it for days on end? It's hard not to Bitch. Most of it is just people venting and all.

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He was told that Entergy decided a long time ago to decrease their maintenance staff and just rely on insurance and rate adjustments to help them make up for any losses.

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This is a complete and outright lie. Are you making this shite up as you go along? If that someone told you this, he is full of shite. Entergy has standards they have to maintain for installation, infrastructure, etc. Some are mandated by the PRC. As a matter of fact, if the PRC deems Entergy did not spend enough money on infrastructure and other improvemnts, they have to give their customers a credit.

The fact of the matter is that roughly 36 hrs after the storm moved out, Entergy has roughly half of the customers that lost power back on the grid. Thats pretty damn good. The JP Parish president is an idiot. Instead of asking what resources the crews need to get to work, he's whining on the radio.

A couple of notes:
- Entergy does not stage restoration assets in the path of the storm. How pissed would you be if half of their bucket trucks were sitting in a flooded parking lot now?
- Up until yesterday morning, the parish was pretty much cut off from major roadways. Interstate 10 and 55 are both closed. Hwy 90 and Airline just opened back up from the east yesterday afternoon. I'm sure that contributed to the slow start.
- Jeff Parish has a lot of infrastructure damage/ Trees down/ poles down. Those take more time to fix than flipping a fuse.
- FACT: Entergy will regularly trim as many trees as they are allowed to do so by the property owners. You want to bitch at someone for having lines wrapped up in trees? Bitch at the property owner who tells them not to cut their trees. Thats why you see Asplund trucks trimming trees all over the place after storms: they try to cut back as much as they can while they are able to for outages and noone is telling them not to.

The fact of the matter is that most of you have no clue how a complex power distribution grid is maintained and operated, nor do you know anything about electricity other than the basics you learned in high school physics. Most of you should stick to your expert weather predictions, since this board was filled with people on Sunday saying that Issac would be no big deal and laughing at all of us who were choosing to make preparations.

Meanwhile, Cleco has been kicking arse on the Northshore.

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FACT: Entergy will regularly trim as many trees as they are allowed to do so by the property owners. You want to bitch at someone for having lines wrapped up in trees? Bitch at the property owner who tells them not to cut their trees. Thats why you see Asplund trucks trimming trees all over the place after storms: they try to cut back as much as they can while they are able to for outages and noone is telling them not to.

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While i haven't bitched and I am practicing patience for the most part, I either got the run around from Entergy or this statement is incorrect. Our power goes out if somebody farts hard enough. The same guy kept coming out and even he was joking that it was a weekly occurrence. In fact, counting when I lost power for the Hurricane, I lost power 4 times in 5 days (I'm still down) leading up to my current outage. Our power has been going out so much we called up Entergy with our neighbors and told them they need to come cut the trees along the lines and probably replace the transformer. When they got out there they told us it would be $500-$700 a customer to trim trees because they were our trees. (In fact they are not our trees and are on the other side of the property line) We were literally begging them to clean the lines and they basically told us we were SOL. I would gladly have them come napalm the woods behind the property if this wouldn't happen anymore.

ETA: I understand there is complexity I have no inkling of, but the reason I am without power so often is strictly because of Entergy's unwillingness to do what is necessary in my tiny corner of the world.

I think what he is really pissed at is the fact that 75% of the lift stations are still without power. This is something that should have been taken care of first. Now JP is having to spend time and resources to send out vacuum truck to suck everything out. Entergy did not have a good plan for this storm.

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I think what he is really pissed at is the fact that 75% of the lift stations are still without power. This is something that should have been taken care of first. Now JP is having to spend time and resources to send out vacuum truck to suck everything out. Entergy did not have a good plan for this storm.

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Maybe JP should have had generators on standby to power those lift station in case something like this occurs. Seems to me JP has not prepared very well.

Also, I'm tired of the people of JP bitching because they don't have power. Their clean up process has begun while Tangipahoa Parish is still evacuating residents out of flood areas, Ascension Parish is evacuating residents, other parish have far more damage and far more things to concern themselves with than power.

It's as if JP feels they should be taken care of first, which is bullshite. Entergy is dividing their resources among all effected areas. John Young saying Entergy should have paid for hotel rooms and staged resources within an hour of the affected areas is idiotic. How are they going to do that when no one knew exactly where the storm was going to hit. What would of happened had they places their resources in Laplace? Then people would be bitching because they did that. How about instead of bitching, listen to what entergy is saying. Power plants, sub stations, transmission lines, essential services come first.