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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm sure they are not the best, but isn't this more the fault of mother nature than the power company? it does take a certain number of days to repair hundreds of down lines and damaged transformers, right?[/quote]

No, Pepco has a responsibility to upgrade its equipment to use modern cables and components that are more resistant to weather related problems. Pepco also has a responsibility to trim trees so that there are fewer outages when storms do hit. A number of households and neighborhoods lose power even though their upstream lines are fine because Pepco has old equipment that trips with downstream breaks. A few years ago, Pepco took a lot of heat for constant outages and they reluctantly went out to trim trees. The storms the following year were the same but fewer outages. However, Pepco has not been back since to proactively trim trees, most has grown back and guess what the areas that could have been trimmed knocked down wires.

The storm didn't just target areas served by Pepco yet Pepco areas have many, many more outages. This is a result of Pepco's poor service. Pepco response is also very delayed, poorly organized and done to spend the least amount of money to resolve the outages. I'm sure that our outage will end up in their databanks as being much shorter than reality. Pepco has a habit of cleaning an outage when power is still out. Residents need to realize when they do this and call back to report an outage. Pepco gets to record that they were only out for a shorter period of time. If residents do not call back in to report it is still out, Pepco takes credit for restoring their power earlier even though they did not. [/quote]

not sure if its fair to compare Virginia to Maryland.  Virginia has more newer developments with underground lines.  the older neighborhoods in Virginia were hit pretty hard too.[/quote]

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