About 500 Brick Residents Out of Power; No Shelters Open
If shelter is needed, it would be located at Brick Memorial
Jersey Central Power & Light reported 479 customers in Brick were without power Wednesday afternoon.
The utility said customers should report outages by calling 888-544-4877.
Brick Mayor Stephen C. Acropolis said there was a fear that ocean dunes could be washed over by the high tide, though he did not expect a breach.
"We're ready as best we can be," Acropolis said. "I don't think we're going to get any kind of breaches over this."
No decisions have been made to open shelters, the mayor said.
If, depending on the number of power outages or flood issues, a shelter is needed, one would be located at Brick Memorial High School on Lanes Mill Road.
Betty Williams
3:54 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Here we go again! JCP&L at it's finest. And they have the nerve to ask for a rate hike. They are so bad and keep saying that if they get a rate hike they will put it into fixing the problems. But they never do. All they keep doing is give their executives more and more bonuses. And the worst part is the BPU keeps granting them an increase and we are the ones that suffer. We still keep losing power and we have to keep paying more and more for this terrible excuse for a utility company. What is wrong with the BPU????? When is the BPU finally stand up for the people and not big corporations. I still haven't heard anything about this so called investigation going on into their sky high profits. Do I smell a pay off some where. They want us to pay for Sandy when they did nothing to get my power back on. It was the hard work from the out of state companies that worked hard. I never once saw a JCP&L truck during the after math of the storm and I'm sure I'm not the only one who saw this. Enough is enough!!!!!
AJ
4:05 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
When they rebuilt the broken poles and wires ,they should have been made to install them under ground.It costs more to do ,but in the long run nobody would be without power every time we get 35 mile per hour wind.
Comfortably Numb
5:06 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Power for profit. Back during the hurricane when I was out of power and just listening to the radio someone called up a talk show and told a story about a power company from Alabama. The caller claims he talked with some of the guys and they hadn't seen transformers like we had around here in 20 years. Meaning we had old out of date equipment. How true it is I don't know. But I guess it possible.
darrell
6:27 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Someone told me I have secondary electricity on my street, what does that mean?
mamamea
7:51 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
my guess, 1/2 a** wiring as many of the area since Sandy, I have heard that many of the areas that lost power during Sandy the Power Companies " band-aided" the problem until the Spring when they can take their time .. but they wanted people to have some power instead of waiting for the Full complete job
jenny p
7:37 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
It means you are not a priority. I live right near the hospital so we usually get restored quicker.
brick strong
8:05 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Lights flashing in Herbertsville ...
clamdigger
8:49 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
well as the Boy Scouts credo says "Always be prepared".
Around here it's been that way for close to 15yrs now,ever since that one super hot summer when it seemed everything started to "melt down". Since then as "AJ" wrote it's like people are "...without power every time we get 35 mile per hour wind."
in so many of the original neighborhoods (as well as the main lines feeding the neighborhood grid) the lines haven't been upgraded since they were installed in the late '50's and early '60's.
KC
12:40 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
Most of this town was made in the 50's and 60's the homes, the schools and the roads. It looks like not a lick other than a little whitwash work has occurred since. Go into the offices of Brick HS - the counselors offices. It is deja vu to 1965 complete with the crappy fake wood panelling. I guess it hides the mold. Imagine if some of the tax monies had actually been used to upgrade our power, our roads and our schools. Instead we have a bunch of fattened politicos and everything falling apart.