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

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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.