treeman82
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New Year's Day one of my friends calls me up. Apparently somebody had been doing tree work down the road from her house, and was kind enough to wipe out power to about 40 homes in her neighborhood. This was around 12:30 PM. I took a ride up there around 4:00 to check out the carnage. They dropped a roughly 3' diameter oak tree which more than likely would have knocked out the power lines on its own. However while the tree was falling it managed to uproot (it was COLD that day) a ~20" DBH silver birch, that tree given its location would have DEFINATELY taken out the wires. Power was not restored until 6:00. Needless to say the neighbors are not pleased, but nobody knows who did the job. I was talking with one of my friends today, he gave me a name.
Apparently these morons pulled up to the job with a 50' bucket, put the boom up in the air with the idea of piecing it out from the bucket. The truck didn't reach high enough to be effective (big suprise with a 50 footer!) so they decided to just bomb the entire thing. Obviously we all know how that turned out. So when the power company showed up, the linemen told the idiots to just take off, because they were getting triple overtime, and didn't care to take down information. This is of course what was told to me third party, and I am hopeful (particularly knowing CL&P billing practices) that these bums will get a bill in about two months.
It's just shameful in my eyes though that they would A. work on New Year's Day, B, proceed in the manner that they did after realizing that "We're gonna need a bigger boat." and C. be able to walk away with no immediate knowledge of impending doom... they think they are getting away scott free, which I hope is NOT the case.
Apparently these morons pulled up to the job with a 50' bucket, put the boom up in the air with the idea of piecing it out from the bucket. The truck didn't reach high enough to be effective (big suprise with a 50 footer!) so they decided to just bomb the entire thing. Obviously we all know how that turned out. So when the power company showed up, the linemen told the idiots to just take off, because they were getting triple overtime, and didn't care to take down information. This is of course what was told to me third party, and I am hopeful (particularly knowing CL&P billing practices) that these bums will get a bill in about two months.
It's just shameful in my eyes though that they would A. work on New Year's Day, B, proceed in the manner that they did after realizing that "We're gonna need a bigger boat." and C. be able to walk away with no immediate knowledge of impending doom... they think they are getting away scott free, which I hope is NOT the case.