Daily Q September 14: Power, Cable & Phone Outages

Lindenhurst Patch wants to know what local residents feel about everything from today’s important issues to the not so important. So Patch will ask Lindy residents to in this about a hot topic of the day.

Today’s question:

blew in and out of Lindenhurst at the end of August fairly quickly, but her effects last for days and weeks – especially when it came to power, phone, cable and Internet outages.

Many in Lindenhurst and North Lindenhurst were without power for days on end – like this Lindenhurst Patch editor; was out for five days, a day longer than after Gloria – and even when the power came back, they still had to wait to have the other services restored.

So Patch was wondering:

• How long were you without power? Did you lose cable, phone and/or Internet, too? How long were they out? How would you rate LIPA’s and National Grid’s response following Irene? How about Cablevision’s and Verizon’s response after Irene? What was your biggest gripe? And how can response time be improved?