The Heat and Lights are Returning to Bridgewater

Late this morning, Jim, a customer service representative from JCP&L, said that prior to the latest weather blast in the form of last night’s visit from Athena-the-nor’easter, “it looked like by Friday at midnight,”  [tomorrow] power would be restored to all customers in Bridgewater, where many households were still out of power.
 
But as of 11:09 this morning, however, Jim wasn’t as confident because of the need to assess the current condition of the double whammy from Sandy and Athena. 
 
He said that the “crews were still out there” in Bridgewater this morning, but that there was a “possibility that they could be moved around”  [outside of Bridgewater], and that he “didn’t know specifically” whether or not the crews would remain.
 
Hang in there.  The cities are up and running.  See all of the white on JCP&L’s outage map.  Perhaps now, crews will concentrate on an ‘edge city’ like Bridgewater.
 
The telephone number for JCP&L is 800-662-3115.
 

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UPDATE AS OF 3:33 PM today:  After this long blackout, power finally has been restored at our home in Bridgewater.  It will take the weekend for us to get everything back up and running inside the house and to clean up the mess.
   
Hopefully, power will be restored to every single one of us in Bridgewater and elsewhere in New Jersey very soon. 
 
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to all of those out-of-state power crews who have come to New Jersey to help out – without their skills, cold and darkness! 
 
Not to mention the 24/7 active leadership of Governor Chris Christie who has been walking his talk.  This state and the nation need more leaders like him.
 
It was frustrating, but no complaints from Pris and me.  It could have been worse – far worse.
 
Still, there is a need to understand and to remember:  Hundreds, if not thousands of our neighbors are still in cold and dark homes and in shelters across New Jersey.  It’s not over yet.