http://www.wfpl.org/2009/07/30/pscs-ice-storm-survey-ends-tomorrow/ Louisville's NPR News Station Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wfpl.org/2009/07/30/pscs-ice-storm-survey-ends-tomorrow/#comment-448 David Cooper Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:18:02 +0000 http://www.wfpl.org/?p=7263#comment-448 I think that LG& E should learn from September's windstorm and January's ice storm. The company should prepare for such contingencies. It is unacceptable that some people were without power for two weeks. This is not the turn of the 20th century. The utility should implement alternative green energy sources and should also bury the power lines underground. Although my family and I were greatly inconvenienced and even had to spend one night in a hotel at our expense, LG&E estimated my bill and charged us for a service that we did not receive. We have stopped keeping meat in our freezer because we never know when LG& E will fail again. In the last five years we have been without power six or seven times. If I could get off the grid, I would.LG &E handled the emergency at a snails pace and deserves no kudos although I do appreciate the workers who came from other states to assist us. Maybe the company should hire people to trim branches away from power lines. I think that LG& E should learn from September’s windstorm and January’s ice storm. The company should prepare for such contingencies. It is unacceptable that some people were without power for two weeks. This is not the turn of the 20th century. The utility should implement alternative green energy sources and should also bury the power lines underground. Although my family and I were greatly inconvenienced and even had to spend one night in a hotel at our expense, LG&E estimated my bill and charged us for a service that we did not receive. We have stopped keeping meat in our freezer because we never know when LG& E will fail again. In the last five years we have been without power six or seven times. If I could get off the grid, I would.LG &E handled the emergency at a snails pace and deserves no kudos although I do appreciate the workers who came from other states to assist us. Maybe the company should hire people to trim branches away from power lines.

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