there are thousands still in the dark in New Jersey, including 601 in just Monmouth and Ocean counties, according to the JCP&L outage map.
As of 3:15 p.m. Monday, there are 441 outages in Monmouth and 160 in Ocean and about 3,100 outages among JCP&L customers in the 13 counties it serves, the map shows.
In Morris County alone there are 739 JCP&L customers reporting outages.
Atlantic Electric has restored power to all customers who can safely be restored, said Frank Tedesco, company spokesman. He said there are 2,000 to 2,500 customers who cannot be safely restored due to flooding or structural damage to homes and meter boxes.
"Some of those homes may not even be there anymore," Tedesco said. "But as people return to the island and have their homes inspected, we will restore power as quickly as possible to those that can be safely restored."
In Ocean County, reported outages include 13 in Point Pleasant Borough and 31 in Point Pleasant Beach.
In Point Borough, tenants at a home on Route 88 report a damaged pole and an ongoing outage. Councilman Chris Leitner said he would try to find out when JCP&L is going to correct the problem and restore power.
In Point Beach, Patch has received outage complaints from residents at: 215 Central Ave.; 9 Beachcomber Lane; Sea Gardens Condominiums, 330 Route 35; 1603 West St.; and the Bay Point Condos on Maryland Avenue, just north of Bay Head.
Residents at all of the above locations report that the meter boxes have not been slapped with red stickers. If they had, that would indicate that the boxes have to be removed by JCP&L, replaced by private electricians and inspected by the municipality before JCP&L can restore power to those sites.
Patch has given addresses of those reporting outages to a spokesman for JCP&L, who said he is looking into it and will provide an update when they have it.
The JCP&L website says outages should be reported, but a number of local residents have complained that their reports don't lead to restoration or they are put on hold for long periods or cannot get through on the line.
To report a JCP&L outage, call 1-888-LIGHTSS (1-888-544-4877).
Patch will update local outage information for Point Beach and Point Borough as it becomes available.
I hope people aren't back-feeding their panels without disconnecting from the incoming line. That can only cause more problems.
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I felt like you once, until I read this first-hand account of an Oklahoma crew at Rivoli's Restaurant a couple of days ago. Kinda debunks that Snopes link you provided, that says in short that NJ utilities are accepting ALL offers of help. I'm not so sure that's their stance anymore. I'll let the restaurant owner's page & photo do the talking, at least it will give you some food for thought, if nothing more. https://www.facebook.com/rivolis.river ..
I don't mean to be a stickler of semantics either as my heart goes out to all these people still without power... But like Tom, I also heard Gov Christie say "most" in one of his speeches and had an immediate feeling that many people would take it to mean "all".... I don't totally trust audio clips which can easily be altered, so I searched for actual videos and found this one. Jump ahead to around 3:12 or 3:15 where he's talking about Sunday... then he does say "most" of New Jersey around 3:22. I hope you take a minute to review this. Can't make this stuff up either! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mggR0lYhd0 ..
You know what, first of all you didn't state which speech you were referring to, and secondly why would you only focus on one speech among many, and not consider any LATER speeches that perhaps contain more updated news/info by the Gov? Why focus on an audio speech from the day before this one here as you kindly pointed out? And yes, I wouldn't have provided a link and where to start listening if the word in question wasn't there. Please listen to the video again, he did say "most". I'll be more specific. Listen from 3:13 to 3:25 mins: "Now by Sunday, we will have substantial and ALMOST completely realized progress on all of these front and life will be back for MOST of New Jersey to normal come Sunday." Then shortly later, he says about power: "It's my BELIEF is that we will have ALMOST 100% percent restoration...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mggR0lYhd0 Look, I don't like to split hairs, and I haven't particularly liked Gov Christie up to this point either, so I'm in no way sticking up for the guy at all. But this video shows he did used such ambiguous words as "almost", "most", "my belief", etc, which some people either failed to hear, or are now taking out of context and assuming it was meant to be a sure thing. That's why so many people are angry now. I for one never believed everyone would have power by Sunday though, and ambiguous speeches like this explain why. ..
The Governor is a lawyer and coastal building codes are laws. Where are they, Sir? As to the power company, I am on the water and can see ten miles down the Bay and last night I noticed the little power in Bayville and even the usually very well cared for Lacey, had been cut back even further than it was a week ago. All I could see were a few generator powered buildings and 9 or so probably Route 9 street lights - or possibly GSP entrance lights. The President of the power company ought to be replaced now and the Governor needs to at least accept email from we who are in the cold and dark rather than spreading those emails automatically to the departments which are the most guilty. The governor doesn't seem to want to hear from us and that is a bad sign and shows in part why there is no leadership of zillions of civil "servants" who in my section of Bayville have done nothing while they earn 136% more than the general population. And all that OT is building them up while they watch us crumble.
And I hope the power company bills are returned to them en masse so that they cannot benefit by asking to be paid for zero service and miserable repair. So let's have it Governor - or drop off a new generator at every single house that has been living in the dark and cold for weeks. Stop the double and triple dippers and you will have the money to pay for those generators. Love Mayors with 2 or 3 civil "servant" paychecks and pensions. Obviously there are not enough hours in the day for them to perform any of those so called jobs properly. And yet we are made to pay for them - and their sloppy work, to boot. Enough.
Now what Mayor? I don't think we in Good Luck Point should have to pay any taxes at all for the entire length of the ongoing debacle. The once a week pick up with the trucks that crush and break our cans routinely might be the only thing open for discussion. You have two civil servant jobs with pensions and all the rest of it. How about giving up the Mayor's spot to someone who has management skills and who will work full time for we who seem to you to be simply endless pots of money.
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