All I have to say is this whole experience has humbled me and my family... Our power came on tonight and it was such a wonderful feeling.. As we all get back to some kind of normal we should use this time to appreciate one another and the resources we use on a daily basis.. Wow I will never take for granted electricity ever again..

Rapalyea still without power!

We live in the gardens,& we feel abandoned. I live on the lake and pay higher taxes than most. Have not seen power trucks in12 days. WTF.

Coolidge Trail still in the dark. Please don't forget about us like we have been forgotten for sewers and paving

Oneida Ave still has no power!!!

Please sign this petition to force JCP&L out of NJ!! This is not acceptable and the people of NJ will not tolerate it anymore **Repost Please** http://www.change.org/petitions/jcp-l-jersey-central-power-light-monopoly-and-inadequate-service-will-not-be-tolerated-anymore";

800 homes to go until we can open the schools...

Mohawk ave has no power

Jcpl has not done a thing except stall. Give the credit where it's due. The out of state linemen. They care more about us than our own!

By the way - the Dupont Ave that runs into Tor still does Not have power. Also there are still power lines down and street where LilChester and Ford meet - which just happens to be a bus stop for the schools

616 now still without power. I got the call the other day saying school possibly might open by Monday but it doesn't look that way now. I hope my children will be back to school within the next week!

half of vermont tr still with out power

curious why theres still no power to bell,depot rd ,tor and ford section , two blocks from the town center does anyone know where the substation is? what is that section called?

No power or water on Boomer....... Wires in the street ... WTF!!!! No one has even been here to look yet!!!! Great Job... NOT!!!!

Santa Fe Trail still in the dark.

Windmills anyone?

Durban ave still out

Lakescape - we still do not have power. just because you pay higher taxes than "most" does not make you more important than anyone else.

Santa Fe Trail still out of power. JCP&L claims we'll have power back by 11/11/12 @ 11:59PM. Kids need to go back to school already!

York rd. still without power.

Some of the power is controlled by Brooklyn Stanhope road so a lot of people are down because of that. Such as york rd.

@No power vassar wellesley maine trail we are always last to get power back,last years snow eight days.I guess there are not enough homes on our loop.Jcpl remember this area also we pay you for power like everyone else mabey we wont be last this time.

Bucknell way still without power, the number listed above do not seem correct.

Tulsa Trail and Squire still NO POWER!!! :(

I have never seen a JCPL or tree truck go on Elmira for the tree on the power line. Thanks for all your help!......

"Drop to less than 1000 according to JCP&L website" seriously? That website has lied to us from day one. I took screenshots several times a day with my smartphone to prove it.

JCP&L didn't touch Brooklyn mountain road until mid-day Thursday, and it took a day and a half to fix two poles within 100 yards of each other.

Still in the dark on day 12 (figuratively too, since I don't have Facebook, and that's the only way out mayor wants to communicate with us).

The mayor can be so nasty to the citizens during town hall meetings, but can't stand up to JCP&L or give the town proper updates. When she first came into office there was a surplus of over $1M in the town (she said it herself at the town hall meeting about privatizing garbage collection) and that $ was just pi$$ed away.

Font tell me there are around 800 w/I power when Knox Way has around 100 houses alone, and all the streets around it are without power.

Broadway area still no power! But I saw 1 truck driving around this morning going up and down Windsor, west end, Tulsa trail...woohoo.

Lakescape I feel really sorry for you and the fact tha you like me have no power but this is not about money and not about you this is about been patient be sympathetic and humble After the storm I realized tha I had a hundred dollar bill in my pocket tha was worth nothing I was not able to buy milk or bread not even gas for couple of days and you complaint about how much you pay in taxes. Let me tell you something we are all in the same boat in times of crisis the best thing we can do is be humble and appreciate what we still have intact. Our famili. Our friends our convictions our hearts and the energy and desire to help those in need. Hope that soon we will be able to recover and always remember that in times of crisis is not really about us it's about who really needs us.

The number keeps climbing rather than going to other way for power restorations....where's the mayor's daily updates...got to love our fearless leader...go mayor petillo...only 3 years to go with her...

I have a question for the Mayor and or the Borough Council. Can anyone of you please explain to the Hopatcong town residents and also the families living on Durban Ave. why the power is still out there? There had not been one wire or pole down on the whole street since the storm.
If the answer to my question is the transformer which is across from our Post Office was damaged in the storm, them I would ask JCP&L why when they worked on it (I think about a year ago) they brought in a portable unit and no one on Durban Ave. lost power.

On powerless Hudson Ave. . . I still feel lucky compared to so many others! Cold, bored, aggravated, anxious, & dissed, but lucky regardless!

Just saw a truck come down Boomer to check the damage..... The crew said they are assigned to this area.... Woo hoo help is finally coming.....

I'm on caribou tel off maxim and still no workers on my street.... I still have my power lines down wrapped around the tree that fell on our shed!

HURRICANE SANDY EMERGENCY INFORMATION

EMERGENCY UPDATE 11 / 9 /12 Next Update will be 11 / 12 / 12

Very nice that people are still without power 13 days later and the next update on the town webpage will be in 3 days, so I guess we will still be without power by then, will be too much to expect daily updates as they promised only a couple of days ago :)

I live on Dartmouth Trl and have 2 down poles on either side of my property. I have a transformer leaking oil on my front lawn and nobody is doing anything!! Haven't even come and look. Wondering if I live in the USA at this point. Day 13 and no hope. Shame on you JCP&L and Hopatcong!!

bell ave still out WTH ! lights on all around us

Wildwood shores still has no power

When a town is 100% without power, sad to say, some will get power within a few days, and some 2-3 weeks later. I'm on day 12, just got my power back, but recognized i could have been at the end of the list. We need to stop thinking nobody's tryng to get your power back. The workers cant be on every street, sad to say, but we are progresing at a very swift speed these last two days! Hang in there..

Brooklyn mt road near lakeside no power. Streetlight still put for cropped sake!!!!

Darn spell checker. How about for pity's sake?

They are working by our house on Idalroy but the supervisor said they won't be able to get power on tonight because they are waiting for a pole. Jcp&l keeps denying that there's a problem getting poles but we're going to be spending another cold night because the workers can't get one.

2 power crews on Brooklyn Mountain now that weren't there earlier, but still other areas on Brooklyn Mountain that haven't been touched. Tomorrow will be Day 13. Maybe 13 will be lucky . . .

JCP&L outage report lists only 328 outages in Hopatcong right now. There is no way that number is even close. Why even bother with the numbers at this point? They are only good for a laugh. The company should be fined for posting false numbers for days.

JCP&L outage report for Hopatcong just jumped back up to over 2,200. Was there another hurricane in the past half hour that took out another 1,900 customers?

It's back up to 2300 out as of 5pm Saturday. What game is JCPL playing with these numbers?

Wildwood shores is still out.

my fustration was with power out all over town and having complete understanding with procedures already in place with trees on power lines needing to wait for JCPL to look at it and make documentations, but if they cant take care of it in 48hrs then DPW needs to step up and do what ever it takes to move that tree from the roadway,1 week for that Lakeside blvd/Nariticong ave feasco is about 5 days to long,i might be wrong but it could have been even longer,they really needed to open that road up to traffic the very first day Tuesday it was no doult a mess that couldnt be fixed for days but vehicle traffic should have been give way more importances then the electric,the Blvd took about 2 hrs to clean up and about 7 days for vehicle traffic,Nariticong took about 20 mins to clean up and about 4 or 5 days just to get to the job,. lot of red tape or milking,and it took two guys but only one of them was from the dept of public works.

Can somebody please tell me why now the numbers are rising for hopatcong power outages..site shows almost 2300 now....

Still no power on Brooklyn Mountain, North way, Marla Road, Winding Hill. JCPL map for Hopatcong shows 2254 without power as of 6:45 Satuday. Where does PATCH het less than 1000?

I don't understand........This says their is less than 1000, but the JCP&L website that was updated at 6:46pm tonight showed the following.....

HOPATCONG BOROUGH
Customers Affected: 2,254
Customers Served: 6,540
%Customers Affected: 34%

After this is over I think everyone on Durban Ave. should demand an explanations from the Mayor and the Borough Council on why we had to be about the last ones with power when we had no physical damage to wires or poles.

I know jcpl is full of horse dung, but thought for sure they were "put into shape" by our mayor and the governor of this wonderful state that said "power to homes will be restored on sat night...its sat night and still no power in the ford bell dupont area. how exactly does jcpl get away with saying that there are only 800 people without power this morning around 7am and than now 7pm say that over 2,000 people still have no power? and what will be done to jcpl by the governor of this state or our mayor? a slap on the wrist? this is pathetic and needs to be resolved asap.

Thats still 999 without power for two weeks is to long. Who gets to play the numbers game Jcpl startedto repair main lines on Brooklyn Mt Rd & Lakeside Blvd. And stopped working on the repairs in mid stream and are gone? Hello these are major feeds to Hopatcong.

Patch shame on you , why lead off with numbers from a source that can't count. this has been proven by the out cry from the community and the part time mayor followed suit..JCP&L spent way to long in the magic garden to be a reliable source and to that you reported on their inability to add earlier this week?? confused confused confused. tell you what lets drive around town and count the house in the dark trust me its not hard to find them i'll even spring for the gas i have about 12 containers for the generator laying around... epic fail JCPL

A friend of mine was talking to a crew from Ohio who were replacing a transformer. They said they haven't seen a transformer like that in 20 years. They also couldn't believe all the rotted poles. All the money goes to the ceo's and shareholders. What a shame.

Brave Trail off of Papoose is still without power. Another day...another cold night in the dark

Way to go Mayor. So much for giving updates every day. I live on Durban Ave and no one can get information from any body if Durban Ave. will every have power back and be able to flush a toilet again.

Jcpl just quoted tonight or tomorrow for brown trail, yeah I'll hold my breath on that!!!

How come we are promised Saturday eve and now possibly Sunday. I really bieve like I heard a week ago by Thanksgiving. A holiday without powe. This is not a joke anymore. There is no power lines down on Smokerise so what is the holdup. I have not seen one truck on that road. This is costing us a lot of excess money because of this storm. Then you fill out a application with FEMA to find out I do not qualify. If my home is not loveable go to a shelter. A nice answer to be given. No compassion to us for what we the people of Hoatcong are going through How many more phone calls to Jcpl and to get the runaround and lies. You ask to speak to a supervisior and of course they do not return your calls. I guess we are not important. But I'd you do not pay your bill on time what will happen? I guess I am going to find out. They told me my bill will be estimated this month.Oh really! So how much longer is this nightmare going to last? How many more cold dark nights do we have left without power? Winter will be here and is this going to happen again? Well I said enough time to sign off and pray for a miracle to happen but not when you see the numbers going up in town with no power? Why bother listing numbers on the website they are false. I think we should all get together and contact the Governor and perhaps the. President of the U.S.

I think someone fed the mayor and Patch a bunch if poo, stating less than 1000 remain without power, and they got caught in their lie. That may be why the number went.back up. By the way, Lakeside still out.

This is total bs........I don't believe the mayor anymore, our OEM officials.....jcpl.....none of them.....have a meeting on Tuesday with an attorney to see what if any course of actions I can persue...

Still no power in the heights. Big mess on Knox way.

I say we all start sending JCP&L Bills for all the gas we put in our generators (I'm at $25/day), and any other costs we had to go through to get electric. I was lucky enough to borrow a generator, and I know how to wire it myself to the breaker box to get heat and water, but I still paid over $100 for the wire and the plug. How many people shelled out $800 for a generator, $25/day in gas, and almost a grand to an electrician to wire it up so you could operate your well to flush your toilet?

We've had 5 nights with 20-degree temps, most of us have wells, and a 5500 watt generator can't run a hot water heater and the well at the same time.

Send all your bills to JCP&L (gas, generator, electrician, wire, 220 plugs, and spoiled food). They will NEVER pay it, but if we band together, and all send it in, we can't be ignored!

By the way, if you have a generator, try your cable and Internet. MINE WORKS, and has since mid-day Saturday (11/10). How can I have cable and Internet, and no power. Never mind, I know why... Incompetence!

At 10:40 PM on Saturday, only 3 other towns in Sussex County listed on JCP&L outage report with outages over 100 and all under 400. If numbers for other towns are accurate (not likely), Byram had power restored to nearly everyone today. Why the lack of progress only in Hopatcong and why aren't the crews that are finishing up in other towns being directed to Hopatcong to help?

Just checked the outage map. Along with Hopatcong, I have been following Long Valley because I have family there. They have roughly the same amount of households as Hopatcong but over 4x the land area. They started with the same percentage of households down, and had just as much, if not more trees down (main road, Naughright, has been closed since the storm, and still closed as of 3:00pm today) and as of 12:30 am 11/11 they have less than 500 w/o power and we are at 1900.

Why is that? Is that because their mayor gas been complaining about JCP&L on NJ 101.5 and the daily record? They have also been getting DAILY calls from their mayor with updates. What had our mayor done? Has anyone gotten a reverse 911 from the town? NO! Our schools have been calling, but the mayor can't be bothered. If you don't have a child enrolled in schools, you have heard nothing!!!

Our mayor needs to be recalled. It's bad enough being in the dark without power, but we are in the dark with information from our town.

It took 9 days for our mayor to speak to the press, and it was WRNJ, where you can't get signal if you are more than a mile away. The only thing the mayor said was the "the information from JCP&L has not been accurate", the mayor from Long Valley derided JCP&L on statewide media, not a warren county radio that has 3 listeners.

Mayor Petillo, STAND UP FOR YOUR TOWN. Come back from your 2-week vacation, and do your job!

Why doesn't Patch have reliable information? The JCP&L website reports 1,832 outages in Hopatcong tonight....

We need to get together and have a class action lawsuit against JCPL....

Please let me clarify what I mean by an estimated payment to JCP&L...you pay what you think JCP&L is owed not what they list on your bill. My estimated bill is $80.00 higher than last month actual meter reading. Please do not pay what they are sending you as the estimated bill.

still no power on bell ave but we do have cable and internet ......somebodys not doing something they should

As of 6:15 According to JCP&L in Sussex County there are 1324 w/I power, of them, 1008 are in Hopatcong, that means in all of Sussex county, there are only 316 people w/o power who DONT live in Hopatcong.

When I get home tonight I will believe it when I see lights in my house. After. 14 days of listing to JCP&L I would or will not evert believe them or powers who are now running Hopatcong.again. Hopefully JCP&L And the Mayor and Borough Council will be out on the next election.

and its to bad for the mayor the chief of police Chatham is number 1 of that 1008 ...Hey Phil did you get your power yet or do i need to take a ride around town again to see with my own eyes,Durban to Broadway and Geneva to Carteret thats easily 1000 swing voters right there.She knows how to get votes i`ll giver her that,but she has know idea how to keep them shes not really a mayor,walking in parades,pouring coffee and handing out cookies to seniors does not a mayor make,and she wants to go full time with benefits to boot..GAG