White Plains CitizeNetReporter - One House at a Time. 2 Hours to Restore One Home.

WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. October 31, 2012: ' 9:30 A.M. TUESDAY-- DPW STYMIED BY DOWNED WIRE The White Plains DPW crew and rolling stock of chipper,power backhoe and debris truck arrived to unblock the city side street where two tree trunks were blocking the road and a driveway at approximately 9:30 A.M. yesterday. As they were approaching with power saws, a neighbor saw that one of the limbs was lying across a powerline. The crew had not realized it. Their crew chief phoned in the report of the downed line that was still connected to the home it was leading to. 4:30 P.M. -- CON ED IN BLUE, DPW IN YELLOW COMBINE TO START THE CLEARING/POWER-UP A Con Edison crew arrived at 4:30 P.M. to cut the wire enabling the city DPW crew to begin clearing the limbs from the road, while the Con Edison crew waited to restore the cut power to the house after the clean-up of the storm debris. Two hours later at 6:30 P.M. the line was reconnected to the house. It took Con Edison's crew about a half an hour to forty-five minutes after the DPW crew had cleared the driveway and roadway to enable Con Ed to access the home's power connection to repower the home. The time--approximately two hours. INTO THE JUNGLE, 4:30 P.M. CHAINMAN CUTS INTO THE LIMBS BACKHOEMAN TAKES A BITE OUT OF DISASTER-ONE BITE AT A TIME. DUMPS LIMBS ON ROADSIDE. FINISHING CLEARING 5:40 P.M. CONED TEAM MOVES IN TO MAKE THE CONNECTION (45 MINUTE PROCESS) IN GATHERING DUSK. BRINGING IN JUICE. WIRE MAY BE SEEN JUST BELOW WHITE EXTENSION OF BUCKET ARM, AS CON ED TECHNICIAN MAKES THE HOOKUP This scene is being reenacted house by house, neighborhood to neighborhood and it is perhaps indicative of the logistic problems encountered with each neighborhood. The Con Edison crew has to be called in to cut electricity enabling the tree-clearing. Depending on how extensive the tree debris is, and how far the line is in to the house, it can take as it did here two hours to restore one home. As of Wednesday morning at 9:30 A.M., 10,881 White Plains customers were without power out of 23,854 Con Edison customers in the city. In New York City, 585,099 customers were powerless out of approximately 3 Million customers according to the Con Edison Summary. Con Edison is warning Trick-or-Treaters to beware of downed wires and to wear bright clothing because of piled tree debris on the sides of roads, and the possibility of downed wires that have not been discovered yet.


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