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Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:23 pm to BoobieWatcher
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If you say it is to restore hospitals and substations the please spare me.
Dude, you are really broke up all over this. I agree, Entergy sucks in times like this. However, they have a huge service area and it just got battered big time. Its been what... 2 days tops. Give them some time. In the meantime, call every day...even twice a day. It gets difficult to keep track of hundreds of thousands of outages.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:25 pm to BoobieWatcher
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Where is the master plan?
I have been at work all day. I called them, checked their website. I see nothing or have been told on nothing.
ETA: If you say it is to restore hospitals and substations the please spare me.
1. Damage assessment. The computers can tell them what is out, but they don't know how. They began that this morning. During the assessment, if the power can be fixed, they'll fix it.
2. Priority Grids
3. Neighborhoods/transformers
4. Individual outages
What more do you need to know?
BTW an Entergy assessment truck just drove by my house.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:26 pm to Golfer
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1. Damage assessment. The computers can tell them what is out, but they don't know how. They began that this morning. During the assessment, if the power can be fixed, they'll fix it.
2. Priority Grids
3. Neighborhoods/transformers
4. Individual outages
What more do you need to know?
BTW an Entergy assessment truck just drove by my house.
This is the only way it can be done. It works, but not always the fastest for those individual outages.
Boobie, did you take any damage to your house? Like, are your lines down from a tree, or are you underground?
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:26 pm to Golfer
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It shouldn't be their job to deflect, avoid, or not release pertinent information.
Nobody's avoiding releasing pertinent information. Crews are released to repair the transmission infrastructure and trouble shooters are released to refuse lines that are able to be energized.. That's how large numbers of customers come back on right after the storm.
The rest of the crews go out and trace out the feeders that come off the substation, down to the distribution lines that feed people's houses.. If there are poles broken or crossarms need to be replaced, trees cleared etc., those crews go out and perform that work.. That's the hardest work and takes the longest amount of time to complete.
The reason PR people don't provide specifics is because they're not out there, seeing what the crews see. The PR people are answering when customers, police, sheriff's dept etc call with emergencies and notifiying the crews.. Nobody can know everything all at one time..
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:27 pm to BoobieWatcher
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Pathetic.
I'm sure Entergy is MORE than willing to add a digital tracking system with real-time updates...enjoy your monthly bill tripling.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:27 pm to SaintEB
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Its been what... 2 days tops.
More like 10 hours.
They couldn't really start assessments till dawn this morning.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:27 pm to SaintEB
I hope Old Gretna has crews on the ground. After the derecho here in DC, some went a week w/o power
This post was edited on 8/30/12 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:28 pm to Golfer
I drove around several parts of nola today checking on older people i know who stayed and saw probably a dozen cox trucks but not a single entergy truck
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:28 pm to SaintEB
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This post was edited on 2/5/13 at 4:49 pm
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:29 pm to bdevill
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The reason PR people don't provide specifics is because they're not out there, seeing what the crews see. The PR people are answering when customers, police, sheriff's dept etc call with emergencies and notifiying the crews.. Nobody can know everything all at one time..
Sounds like Boobie wants the crews to update the PR people every 15 minutes instead of working 16 hour shifts to repair the lines.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:29 pm to BoobieWatcher
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Honestly, if they had more Demco people in Baton Rouge we could probably get better service.
This illustrates your ignorance. Where do you think Demco gets their power from? If anything, co-ops like Demco are even more dependent on Entergy.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:29 pm to Siderophore
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They couldn't really start assessments till dawn this morning.
Good point. People should start worrying this weekend.
Not to mention, Entergy does not employ enough crews to work this sort of damage. They have to call people in. Those people have to travel. And they travel in line trucks, bucket trucks, and with trailers and stuff. Those things barely go 60MPH. Fact is, this is a massive undertaking and can't be done overnight.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:30 pm to BoobieWatcher
Have you really been sitting at your keyboard bitching about this for 2 hours? WTF?
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:30 pm to BoobieWatcher
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I mean they didn't go out till 7:30 a.m. and the wind was well below 20 mph then. Just wondering why everything is taking so long.
They've got 800,000 customers without power and started work this morning.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:32 pm to BoobieWatcher
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They are a monopoly. So lets break it up or allow more competetion here.
You realize in cities with multiple power companies, there is still one company that owns the lines?
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:32 pm to BoobieWatcher
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I mean they didn't go out till 7:30 a.m. and the wind was well below 20 mph then
I've attempted damage assessment in 40+ MPH wind. That was stupid. You get nothing done. Not to mention, crews cannot work in that wind. Its impossible.
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Just wondering why everything is taking so long.
Over half a million outages man. No telling how many are Entergy.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:32 pm to BoobieWatcher
My power came on this morning and I am an Entergy customer. The spokeswoman for Entergy last name is Pounds has gotta be the most pessimistic PR spokeswoman I ever saw. She made it sound like absolutely nothing would be done except driving around for 2 days.
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:32 pm to SaintEB
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Those people have to travel.
They started traveling days before Isaac made landfall.. C'mon man..
Posted on 8/30/12 at 4:34 pm to Golfer
You motherfrickers complaining in here are fricking worthless! Wait and you will get you power, if you don't like it move to a neighborhood that has power now. If yo feel mad cause theIr customer service ain't telling you wuss goIng on, maybe it's cause most of their money is on peoPle trying to restore your power. BITCHES
This post was edited on 8/30/12 at 4:36 pm
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