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LIPA customers who spent weeks without power due to Sandy get zapped with normal electric bills
NY Post ^ | 11/24/2012 | NY Post

Posted on 11/24/2012 11:20:04 AM PST by Dallas59

LIPA customers who spent weeks without power got zapped with their normal electric bills — as if the outages never happened.

The clueless utility charged Sandy-soaked Long Island residents an estimated rate that covered the entire billing cycle, and the statements made no mention of potential refunds to account for the prolonged blackouts.

Jonathan Saporta was slapped with a double whammy by the Long Island Power Authority — a $649 bill for the Long Beach home he left in October and a $281 bill for his new Great Neck pad.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bills; government; hurricane
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To: knarf

GFY


41 posted on 11/24/2012 12:23:57 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

They won’t issue “refunds”; they’ll just issue “credits” against future bills. ‘Course, you can appeal to the PUC, but that’ll get you nowhere, very slowly. Their billing system is pre-archaic.


42 posted on 11/24/2012 12:26:04 PM PST by Carriage Hill (America - a great idea while it lasted.)
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To: stanne

I didn’t hate him. I voted for him. Although - sorry - the jaywalking stuff was really dumb.


43 posted on 11/24/2012 12:26:12 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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44 posted on 11/24/2012 12:27:03 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: RJS1950

Read the original article please, not just the excerpt. One customer tried to submit an adjustment online and was not refused due to not being on an appropriate payment plan for that; he was refused due to the system blindly estimating that his adjustment was too large.


45 posted on 11/24/2012 12:31:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: miss marmelstein

Me too. I do usually remind people that there are about 40% of NYers who not only don’t vote Dem but who are conservative and living in a liberal culture, and deserve our regard.

The jaywalking stuff WAS dopey-I like to cross the street when and where I want to when I see an opportunity.

Forgot about that.


46 posted on 11/24/2012 12:32:13 PM PST by stanne
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To: SoothingDave

You’re correct. they were estimated bills. it says so on the bill. The numbers will be adjusted in january when the meters are actually read and the usage and lack of it for the two weeks will be be measured. This seems a big story and the Post and local TV and radio are making a big deal about it. Funny though. none of the media bother to inform the public that LIPA is a state agency. Wonder why?


47 posted on 11/24/2012 12:35:34 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: SoothingDave

You’re correct. they were estimated bills. it says so on the bill. The numbers will be adjusted in january when the meters are actually read and the usage and lack of it for the two weeks will be be measured. This seems a big story and the Post and local TV and radio are making a big deal about it. Funny though. none of the media bother to inform the public that LIPA is a state agency. Wonder why?


48 posted on 11/24/2012 12:35:40 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65

It was the way their system blindly reacted to the inability to read a lot of the meters. Instead of issuing NO bill, it issued a (very stupidly, in this case) “estimated bill.” These were NOT fixed-payment plans as two here have already asserted without reading the linked article.


49 posted on 11/24/2012 12:39:31 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: stanne

Oh, they always lump us in with the rest. Not much we can do about it!

I’ll never forget a poor cop stopping me from crossing the street to Saks Fifth Avenue. “Da mayor doesn’t want ya crossin’ in de middle of de street.”


50 posted on 11/24/2012 12:40:31 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Poor guy. He hated it more than you did.


51 posted on 11/24/2012 12:44:25 PM PST by stanne
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To: Dallas59

I remember after Hugo, SCE@G gave the residents a pass on their electric bills, even if we had incurred actual usage.

But that was when we were a red state, now that it’s turned purple, I doubt that would happen again.


52 posted on 11/24/2012 12:52:56 PM PST by RetSignman ("A Republic if you can keep it"....)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Actually LIPA only reads meters bi monthly in any case. My reading was supposed to be actual but half the customers were due for an estimated bill. Given LIPA’s failures it was not surprising that they couldn’t get the meters read. As t2/3rds of cutomers use balanced billing where the o issubill is spread equally over 12 months. The two weeks of no electric and in most cases no natural gas usage will be registered over the ing a no bill mailing, well over following months.


53 posted on 11/24/2012 1:02:44 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65; HiTech RedNeck

It appears you owe me an apology, HTRN.


54 posted on 11/24/2012 1:16:33 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: xkaydet65

We have something special here in upstate with NYSEG.

NYSEG has protected “projected profits”. If we have a warm winter, it will not be reflected in lower utility bills for us - our bill will be adjusted upwards to provide for the projected profits NYSEG “expected” to make. Not joking.

We pay on average $4500. per year elec. & gas on a small house that is very well insulated and has great nearly new windows and doors. Around here it doesn’t bring your bill down to “weatherize” your home AT ALL. You are just more comfortable without all the drafts.

Everyone on NYSEG deals with this type of adjustable billing, but most of them do not know about this profit “clause”.


55 posted on 11/24/2012 1:20:52 PM PST by Ladysforest
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To: miss marmelstein

“I’ll never forget a poor cop stopping me from crossing the street to Saks Fifth Avenue. “Da mayor doesn’t want ya crossin’ in de middle of de street.””

=

What a condescending post. I have a son with NYPD and he never spoke that way in his life.

.


56 posted on 11/24/2012 1:40:18 PM PST by Mears
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To: Dallas59
$649 bill for the Long Beach home he left in October

Glad Texas isn't on one of the national grids. I can't get my bill that high in the summer even with a long string of 100+ days - and I like it cool inside.

57 posted on 11/24/2012 1:47:03 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Mears

Have many friends and relatives and ancestors in NYPD & FDNY. Never thought MissM’s post was anything but anecdotal and believable.

Heck, it’s exactly the way I’d have said it and with the accent. He was wisely editorializing on Hizzoner’s condescending rule.


58 posted on 11/24/2012 1:50:40 PM PST by stanne
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To: Mears

Oh, stop. That’s what the cop said.

And I’ll go further: cops need to lose weight and stop holding up the line at Dunkin’ Donuts. And they need to dump the 4’11” women cops who dole out the tickets.


59 posted on 11/24/2012 2:05:12 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: stanne

The cop was really, really down that he had to enforce that ruling. He had a New York accent. I have a New York accent. I absolutely love New York accents - they conjure up everything that is warm and fuzzy about my childhood in Queens.


60 posted on 11/24/2012 2:08:33 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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