yeah! I surely hope my section of Paula Drive is one of the 65%! Last year we were the unlucky 30 homes on Paula without power for over 9 days...I hope we ALL are powered up soon! Thank you so much Jason for keeping us posted.

Hey mayor, where are these dozens of crews working. Provide real info, not the PR from JCP&L. The substation for many residents is on Newburgh Road and it has been up and working.

"infiltrated" - LOL We tried to keep them out, but ,,,

I am new to the township. Heard it took a week to get power back after Irene last year also. Is this a standard repair interval? Sounds like an awful long time.

This does not coincide with JCP&Ls twitter reports. According to them only 9% of Washington Twp has power and very few more to be added by Monday. Someone has their wires crossed

I saw one crew fixing the broken pole in front of Schooley's Park this morning around 12PM. I have not seen any other crews in the Twp, and none here in Long Valley at all...

Anyone have any sightings?

No sightings at all. Where is our township

Not one JCP&L truck in any area on the mtn that I could find. western section of Springtown rd is sol again. Same as with Irene and that freak snowstorm. This is the pits.

Don't residencies that depend upon a well for their water have the priority? This was JCP&L's position last time around. I do like a good fairy story.

Haven't seen any utility trucks in the valley either. Does anyone know where they are giving out water?

Sounds like more JCP&L spin doctoring. Like many residents I have seen no sign of their trucks anywhere
at all today. Naughright Road near the school is still closed.

They have water faucets available at Schooley's Mountain Fire and Rescue 24 hours

I saw a crew from JCPL and asked them what they were doing. I was shocked at the response. The guy who seemed to be in charge said to me "What do you care, you seem to be getting enough to eat fat-ass." I told them that my family has been without heat or electricity for days, and he said "Why don't you hook up a treadmill to your house so can heat your house AND lose a couple of pounds." I have reported these "gentlemen" to JCPL and have been told that they will be disciplined.

No priorities? What was all the nonsense about registering for priority treatment for customers with wells? We filled out all the forms. Please get us up soon so we can flush some toilets and rinse all of those containers from the thrown out nasty food in our fridges.

"Dozens of Jersey Central Power & Light crews have infiltrated Washington Township Saturday, with a promise by the foreman to Mayor Ken Short that two-thirds of residents would have electricity by midnight Sunday." What a joke, they must be invisible because no one in Washington Township has seen these crews.

Called JCP&L at around 4 pm Saturday; was told there were over 6,000 in the township without power, and that they would restore power for about 1,100 on Sunday, and for the rest by Monday night. When told of my toilet problem without a pump, the lady was nice enough to advise that next time I should store enough water to flush toilets. She obviously doesn't know there's something called septic pump, without which all that toilet water would back up into my house anyhow. Now that I am out of power for 5 days, I had to refrain from drinking, not to save water for the otherwise unsightly toilet, but to save the toilet from the unpleasant water.

Please ask our Mayor why he cannot get specific information?
Trees are on power lines the entire length of State Park Road, power poles are snapped, and as of yesterday at 3 PM, not a crew in sight.
Our guess is power for Long Hill Road in 7 to 10 day.........wonder where I got that estimate from???

83% are still out of power according to JCP&L website. There is no way this will happen in 2 days. Tree crews needed to come and remove the hundreds of down trees that are all over the wires as well as all the trees being held up by wires. How about getting real timeline and not wishful one. Has anyone seen the following warzones... Beacon, Black River, Fairview Ave, Slyker, East Valley Brook? These are only a few that require much work.

Been cycling around Ling Valley. No crews to be seen yet.

So what proof will we have that 65% actually get power tonight..none if he has no specifics... I have not seen a single crew either.. and you got to wonder.. what recourse will the mayor actually take.. Nothing.. of course.. We plan to tough it out.. vote for someone new and get rid of JCPL...

They are invisible! After five days without power on a main thoroughfare (schooleys mtn rd near municipal bldg) we FINALLY got a crew here who could have restored power except "jcp&l didn't give us a can for the pole". They're words! That's organization and planning for you! The emergency number rep told us it could be wed before we saw power...all due to the fact that jcp&l didn't do what the should have. Since these kinds of storms seem to be increasing in frequency i think they need a MUCH better emergency response plan!!!!

Agree with Bill Z. Live near State Park Road, near State Park. Just unbelievable! And there are many other places that are bad! No tree trimmers and no jcpl trucks.
School is not going to open, wires down all over, not safe for buses, besides no power at some of the schools.

On Long Hill as well. Don't think having a well gives us priority. We seem to be one of the last neighborhoods to come back. Unfortunately, given the situation in many other parts of the state, I'm not certain the mayor can do much about it. Long Valley, in general, is not high on the power priority list. Just thankful our family is OK at this point. Wishing everyone luck and hoping you are all comfortable and back to work soon.

The Great State of Ohio represents (Go Buckeyes!) an Ohio Edison crew has arrived at Naughright and Arrowhead!

As of 10:35 83% are still out of power. Not much progress in over 3 hrs. No way will 65% be back by end of day. School that has power is only Flocktown/Kossman, so school is not opening anytime soon. Stay safe and warm. Just want honest estimates and not wishful thinking. If it will take another 10 days, so be it, but just let the people know so we can prepare properly.

According to an article in today's Star-Ledger (www.nj.com) JCPL reports that only 7% of residents without power in Washington Township has had their power restored. We are lagging behind most of the communities in Morris county as well as most of our surrounding neighbors. This is a repeat of the poor performance of last year. The mis-information issued by JCPL makes it only worse. The mayor needs to stop listening to empty promises. Has Rt. 513 been opened yet over the mountain? I would think it is unlikely that power will be restored on any widespread basis until the roads are cleared.

not a single soul to take care of bartley rd. you know it isn't important to get the high school back up or clear the major connecting road between 206 and 24

We should all make sure that our payments to JCP&L are the same number of days late as the number of days that we were without power. not a lot of other ways to hurt a monopoly

I second that motion.. Definitely pay late to JCPL.. we were not the priority.

I encourage the residents of Washington Township to contact the office of Emergency management for Morris county (973- 285-2900) (Available 24/7) . Ask them what are they doing to ensure to safety of the township's residents. Many roads still have trees suspended over the roadway by wires, or are complete impassible . If there should be an medical emergency or fire, how can the emergency vehicles reach us. This is not a matter of comfort or inconvenience, it is a safety issue.

as of 6:28PM.. we are 1 of 4 townships with more than 5,000 out of power.. Us, Roxbury, parsipanny and bernards township...are the only 4 left in North NJ..

http://outages.firstenergycorp.com/nj.html think it will be the end of the week before we see service... on Four Bridges.. Heck, people here cut down the branches off the powerlines for them.. you would think at least they could show up.

I think if everyone conserved their energy usage by 20% month after month it would put the hurt on jcp&l. And, it's good for our planet and our own pocketbooks.

The 65% number, as we all expected, was complete BS. Mayor Short needs a more credible source than a "foreman". I guess no one bothers to returns his calls.

Angelo - I wish that could happen. I would love to get natural gas throughout Long Valley instead of having to use electric stove and oil heat for the house. The U.S. is fast becoming a leader in Nat Gas in the world and the prices are very low. That would cut down my electricity significantly.

And yes I know I could get a propane tank but having one gas pipe into the house would eliminate all my need for the large tanks on the property.

Also contacted the OEM for Morris County ( Tks ValleyGirl)
Informed them that the various trees lying on the power lines and wire on the ground are a saftey issue, and asked them to please try to get some info.
They took my number and said we they would contact who they could to have someone contact me to follow up.
The Morris County OEM has a direct phone number at 973 829 8600.

@greg i agree, especially since the natural gas line passes right through long valley. One thing jcp&l should definitely do is bury the power lines that go schooleys mtn.....these are a problem in every storm. A shout out to verizon for getting their cell site up, we had lost our signal for a few days.

That should read, "....power lines that go up schooleys mtn..."

21% rather than 65% in service. Either jcp&l doesn't have a clue as to what is going on or they were just lying.

Well, it's 11:30 and according to JCP&L website it looks like 79% out of power. I live on Fox Hill and haven't seen a single truck on or near my road. Not sure who feeds us this info, but when I called today to JCP&L the answer was Wednesday for total recovery.

This seems nuts, I am newer to town and we seem to loose power here in a warm summer breeze - WTF? Limited sidewalks, natural gas lines, muni water / sewer, and crappy utility service - besides the ok schools where does my tax money go? Why can't we bury our utilities like other towns and avoid most of thus problem? Why not cut some dangerous tree limbs in the summer and make winter easier for us? Come on Long Valley leadership - do something for us!

I think that someone should start an emergency review/ plan group for the township And meet with the locals to gather info on what went right or wrong and be a spokes group for the people and maybe get some answers from the farmers and mountain men and tradesmen than make our township "tick" as to how to prepare roads ,wires,trees, our homes correctly to be prepared for the future . Maybe even have a plan where we employ some of our town guys to be on emergency repair..... I trust them because they built this town and probably work harder and longer and with more skill than any outsiders we are dependent on. We need to get a spokesman to evaluate this and not be on the towns payroll / parrot - role

The midnight Sunday deadline has passed with no significant change in the power situation. What is our next step Mr Mayor? More promises from JCP&L.... Where are these "dozens of JCP&L crews".

Here are some current facts about the outages in Long Valley supplied by JCP&L themselves that I have posted on twitter for what it's worth
@mcspud1947: @JCP_L @GovChristie @njdotcom @MCUrgent You promised Long Valley Mayor Short and he reported to the residents 65% power by Sunday night. Your figures show 11% Please explain ?

I'm with denise on this. Once power is restored let's get some townsfolk together and make some plans. Remember to vote tomorrow.

John

Huge thank you to the people of our community for providing updates and insights from around the township. We've been counting on each other for a week. Hang in there folks - we'll get through this.

So far basically no change in the % restored since yesterday ( it was 21% restored, now 22%).

would it be too much ask to have the mayor or ANYONE to have updates on the twp website ( i could see those on my cell)?

Mayor has fallen SHORT

I was referring to power restoration updates.

@liberty where are the power restoration updates on the website?

@liberty thanks but on my android i dont see any blue box (my cable is out also). In any case I'm familiar with the outage map. What I'm interested is seeing info from the mayor or twp official as to what jcp&l is telling them in their meetings about when power us going to be restored. Maybe you can help me since you can see the info: when is restoration planned for west springtown area?

Sorry Angelo, couldn't get info that specific. Only guesstimate is Wed. the 7th.
I'm near E. Springtown and have power now, so you may be close!

@liberty ok, thanks. We have broken poles, dangling transformers, wires on the road. Would take a major effort to fix by wed. Let's hope.....

I've lived on the mountain for 20 years, and 5 years before that in the valley. I do love the area, but have never been impressed with our town leadership. The mayor needs to be in touch with the residents on a daily basis. I still have no power off of Zellars and was told by a lineman working on Pleasant Grove that there is a huge shortage of telephone poles and is likely we will be without power for 2 more weeks!!!!