Tag Archives: Noreaster

Keeping the lights on

New Jersey, ,

power outages

Now that the second nor’easter in less than a week is over, I have grave doubts on the ability of our electric utilities to keep the lights on.

As I am writing this today JCP&L has 129, 000 customers without service while PSE&G has 83,000. Somehow this seems to be a bit too high a set of numbers, especially for JCP&L. After Superstorm Sandy both utilities were assuring the public that they would make sure that the massive power outages that happened would not occur again. Continue reading Keeping the lights on →

Preparing for a Nor’easter

National,

Nor'easter

Preparing for a Nor’easter. Since the second one in a less than a week is coming my way I thought I would talk about how you should get ready for one and no, that does not mean go out to buy bread and milk. Continue reading Preparing for a Nor’easter →