We are now day 3 of no power and the Town/Police/Fire Depts are all completely useless
So About 5AM Sunday morning a tree came down across the street from my apt. Needless to say it scared the shyte out of us as we were up. Heard the CRACK, then the flash of brilliant light and then no lights.
The tree took out the lines which
**** and broke the utility pole in half. The top half had the transformers on it. 2 smashed to ground and the others were dangling. the top half of the pole and the connections to my apt and my neighbors business are all dangling. The top part of the pole is dangling on wires hanging over the street. We got to watch catch fire from the live wires. So I called the police no emergency line. They said they would check it out, 40 minutes later nothing so I call the fire dept. they seem disinterested as well but say they\'ll check it out. 40 minutes later they sent someone who couldn\'t be bothered to get out of their truck to look.
So that was Sunday - Monday. Monday morning the NYSEG truck is gone, no repairs at all. The pole is still dangling over 117 (which is the one major way in to town) and the wires block all traffic (It is supposed to anyway). So there is a pole hanging and wires down, they have signs saying road closed on either end of my block. What do the COMPLETE
**** **** IN MY TOWN DO ? They cannot be
**** bothered to actually follow directions. They have been driving around the barriers only to get to my place and realize the only way to go is either back or over the lines that are hanging off my place. We have had to rebuild the barriers and stop people from driving over the lines numerous times. Last night when it was pitch black there are no working street lights and people are blowing the barrier. They would get to about 10 feet before locking their brakes up in front of the lines. So i call the cops and tell them that people are blowing the barriers and there have been almost 4 or 5 bad accidents. THEY DON"T
**** CARE. I am hoping someone gets hurt bad so I can go out there and hand them my info and tell them that the town has been notified numerous times of the hazard and has completely ignored it.
They have the commuters walking over down power lines to get to the train. No police ANYWHERE directing traffic with all the lights out etc. I haven\'t seen a cop or a town worker at all.
i live in a really upscale town. I\'ll tell you what, I was never one to own a weapon but considering this tiny storm has people acting the way they do and the supposed "town or local officials" are no where to be seen you are so on your own. If this were a really bad storm or situation I couldn\'t imagine what it would be like.
People
**** suck.