re: In Defense of Entergy

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During Gustav, our power was out for approx two weeks. Repairs were made by two sets of line crews from two different parts of the country. Both told us the line quality in BR was the worst they had seen in their experience. Take it FWIW, it's just an opinion.

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My father in law was hired a few years ago by an independant company on behalf of Entergy and Bellsouth(AT&T) to go around and count poles and mark who owned which one.

This took him all over the city and he said it was a damn fine joke to see all of the shitty poles. He saw a few that were actually not even touching the ground due to rot, so basically the lines were holding the poles up. There were trees falling into lines and lots of very badly leaning lines.

During this whole process he was approached several times by residents who thought he worked for the power company and they wanted to tell him how they had been calling in complaints about poles, lines, trees, etc, but nothing was ever done.

Of course this is just an opinion also, so I know the Entergy PR folks in this thread are going to blast it.