Plainview Lags in Restoration of Power

LIPA reports 93 percent of Long Island homes regain service.

Posted by Pam Robinson (Editor), September 3, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Plainview continues to lag the rest of the Town of Oyster Bay in the restoration of power lost in last weekend's storm.

As of Saturday morning, the Long Island Power Authority was listing 1,190 customers as out of service, while other communities, such as Hicksville with 764, were closer to full restoration.

Or, to put it another way, of the 7,028 outages in the town, 1,190 are in Plainview.

In all cases, the status of repair is listed as "pending dispatch."

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Ian G September 4, 2011 at 02:39 pm

After more than two and a half days without powert, they thought they knew why we did't have power. Those inspecting our lines got a call that someone was coming to fix our problem and to meet them at the pole. All they needed to do was turn a switch back on. Someone did show up, but he wasn't authorized to do the work. That took another 18 hours. We cleaned and stocked the fridge. About 18 hours after that, at 5 in the morning we lost it again. Now we weren't a priority. More than a day and a half later, after clearing a couple of branches, at 9 PM Friday, we finally had power back.
A special thanks to the fire department rescue truck who was in front of my house but would't lend me power for five minutes to pump the water out of my basement. What were they driving around for? We needed a bit of "rescuing". We had the pumps but no power. Now we need new carpeting and a bit of sheetrock as a result.

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