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They failed to properly prepare and preposition crews. by Wooderson
my town is down to 9% without power, down from 50% on Wednesday We were extremely lucky to have a few minor outages (longest was 2.5hrs Fri), but some towns not on the main grid connections are just screwed. THere' s massive amount of debris lying around, too, tons of 110'+ trees went down on power lines and roadways, so gotta clear that before you can redo the lines.
The local DPW crews are working their asses off, but our two power companies (UI and Eversource) dropped the ball badly.
Also, people here are too cheap to bury the lines, which would've avoided a lot of this.