In the most recent PECO update, from Friday afternoon, PECO reports about 125,000 customers still without power:
- Bucks County = 75,000
- Montgomery County = 38,000
- Chester County = 5,500
- Delaware County = 3,800
- Philadelphia County = 2,700
“This is the worst damage I have ever seen,” said Pat O’Neil, a 25-year PECO veteran supervisor who has been working 16 hour shifts to restore service since the beginning of the storm.
“Many of the areas we are working in had significant damage, including multiple downed trees and poles, downed wires, and damaged equipment. In some of these areas, we need to completely rebuild the electric distribution system and supporting infrastructure to restore service to our customers.”
PPL reports 10,834 customers without power from Hilltown up through the northwest Bucks County, with about 2,000 customers out in Montgomery County.
Met Ed still has 5,234 customers out in northeast Bucks, from Tinicum up through Riegelsville.
PECO expects the remaining customers to be restored to power by Sunday. PPL is giving a similar time frame for completion.
According to the release, more than 4,600 PECO employees, contractors and workers (from as far away as Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland, and PECO’s Chicago-based sister utility ComEd) have restored service to more than 725,000 of the 850,000 PECO customers impacted by Hurricane Sandy. An additional 400 support personnel from Maryland and ComEd had joined the restoration effort Friday morning.
It's not very helpful, I know, but I'm sharing it in the absence of anything more concrete.
I'm sure no one wants to go to a shelter - but if you're cold, you really need to. It's freezing out today. Please, please don't try to wait it out!
We cant control what mother nature does.we just have to rely on others to help each other.i feel sad for those who lost everything..but we are a spoiled country and expect everything done over night.we are all human and the repairs are being done asap by human man.please be patient...we all understand the tragedy out there...please be thankful for the ones who are helping and prayers to the ones that didnt survive..thank you...
The township, homeowners and PECO need to take a hard look at the trees that have been growing here for 60 years, trees that may be getting too big or too old to remain without posting this type of long-term outage when they exist near power lines, transformers and wires. It's a shared responsibility in a community like Levittown and should be addressed as such. PECO is responsible for trimming trees around wires. Would it help if there were some sort of evaluation process where homeowners could work with PECO and Bristol Township to participate in a trimming/cutting program that protects wires, home owners and public utilities?
1.)October 31st, 11pm. 2.)November 1st, 10pm. 3.)November 3rd, 10pm. We got power back on November 3rd, 12pm. Thanks PECO for getting to us after changing estimates 3 times. Oh, last nite at 8pm I get a recorded call from PECO telling me that multiple problems can arise, and that they are working to restore power. (This call came 8 hours after the power was restored) PECO is on top of it. Lucky for PECO, Upper Makefield by now is back to soccer and BMW's, and content to be PECO's ugly duckling every single time.
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I WANT TO THANK THE LINEMEN OUT IN THE COLD TIRED AND OVERWHELMED WHO HAVE COME FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO HELP US!!! IT'S A HARD JOB MY HUSBAND WAS A LINEMEN..DANGEROUS JOBS THANKS GUYS VERY GRATEFUL TOO YOU ALL...