Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Memo to Con Edison - Fire John McAvoy

Fire Consolidated Edison CEO John McAvoy.

That's right, fire him because I don't blame the thousands of Con Ed front line workers who toiled long hours and dangerous working conditions in restoring service to thousands of homes in Westchester County in NY State who had no power from the March 2 and 6 winter storms,  I blame McAvoy for his incompetence in handling the  crisis with broken promises on Con Edison's timeline, wrong information sent out to workers, lies in social media (especially on Twitter) and a malfunction in their communication systems. Over 100K customers (and their families) lost power from these two storms, Riley and Quinn (a Scandal TV reference??).   Heck, even the Con Edison website went down on Sunday 3/11.





Westchester County Executive George Latimer and Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano both called for McAvoy's head on a silver platter but what I don't understand is that why did Latimer wait until Sunday 3/4 to declare a county-wide state of emergency?  That was 48 hours after the first storm, Riley.  Towns in Upper Westchester, especially Cortlandt, Peekskill (city), Yorktown Heights and Briarcliff Manor had over 1,000 outages each.

Here are some good tweets from angry Westchester County residents, including one from Ossining Police Chief, Kevin Sylvester.



















When NY State Assembly Member Terrance Murphy (Yorktown) has no power to his office AND his residence, you know Con Edison must be this bad in responding:



The so-called Con Edison outage map had no areas where crew is on-site - - locations where power was restored but was actually false information.  Crews were sent to wrong locations, and even the Westchester county summary was missing at one point.






Con Edison on Twitter lied to customers about filing a claim for food and medication spoilage. This is one of their tweets to their disgruntled followers.:



But wait, claims will not be paid for long term power outages due to storms.

 

  


And McAvoy admitted that his communication systems were not working  during the storm outages - what a moron.   All while Lockwood and Palmer Aves, (both near the Saw Mill River Parkway) in Yonkers were closed for days due to downed trees and power lines.  McAvoy said that he has no intention on resigning but seriously - - he need to go - - fast


 



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