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This is an update. I'm writing this Saturday 11/5/11 & it's 4:15 p.m. Just got off the phone with my friends in Torrington, Ct.They got their power back on at 4:00 p.m. today! Told me that their cell phone towers had stopped functioning.
No Cell Phone, No Electricity, No Land Line Phone
I have combed through The Hartford Courant and Connecticut Light and Power. I don't see any emergency information from any media, agency, law enforcement, CL &P, UI - nobody - that would inform an out of town reader like myself what is being done to NOTIFY WEST HARTFORD and TORRINGTON residents THEMSELVES about the resources for the snow emergencies since power and land line phones are down.
Transportation to shelters? Am I to assume emergency services providers literally walk from house to house, apartment to apartment? If they do in fact walk to dwellings and attempt to make contact with residents? If so, I wish a media contact would let us know because I'm certain that I can't be the only person worried about the notification issue. I was concerned before but this article by Amanda Falcone of The Hartford Courant is frightening me:
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Live Wires Melting Tar In West Hartford
By AMANDA FALCONE, Email address removed The Hartford Courant
1:27 p.m. EDT, November 2, 2011
WEST HARTFORD ----
Five days after a rare fall snowstorm and wires are still live in West Hartford, said Town Manager Ronald Van Winkle. They are melting tar, he said.
Connecticut Light & Power has not disconnected all wires, and it is a dangerous situation, Van Winkle said. Residents are walking in those neighborhoods, he said.
There is little the town can do when it finds a live wire, said Public Works Director John Phillips. It can only notify CL&P of the problem, he said. Phillips, however, said town workers do have the authority to identify home service lines and remove those wires from the road safely. They are doing just that, he said.
"I think they can probably use all the help they can get," said Van Winkle of CL&P.
Van Winkle expressed frustration with CL&P and the company's communication with the town Tuesday. More than 26,000 West Hartford residents are still without power.
The live wires are not in an isolated area, but they are being found throughout town, especially in areas where there are a lot of trees, he said.
