Let the residents who are impacted by this specific outage know so they can make other living arrangements. Don't keep them "in the dark" regarding their cause for outage. People remain in homes with temps dropping to the 50's inside with the hope that today will be the day they get power.

Yes, please. Which specific homes and communities are effected by this?

Thank you for the info. Mayor needs to notify specific residents that are affected. Reverse 911 doesn't work when all their phones, Internet and cable are down. Time to go old school an deliver the word by posting notices on doors if needed. Children, the elderly and ill should not remain in these cold, unsafe conditions hoping any minute their power will be restored if it is not. Let them know ASAP so they can find other temporary housing.

This doesn't seem to be true. If they were progressing this way, there are thousands of residences on Ridge Road, so we would see trucks there and it would be a priority. Ridge Gardens, Society Hill, Darlington Ridge, Ramapo Ridge, etc. The "number of people effected" is probably a few thousand households. I haven't seen one truck in the area since the storm ended.

I live on linden....when i got home last night..there were 20 trucks parked from linden to darlington....i am not sure they are there this morning....but i did see buckets extended and working last night.....

But the bottom line is, the mayor seems to be unaware of this.....stressing the importance of this seems to be a non working strategy..getting the governor on the line and getting the state involved in kicking o and r ass might be a bettr solution......

I live right off Lydia Lane off Risge Road and haven't had power since 2:00 Monday and haven't seen one truck at all anywhere in my development. Also, my association has informed my neighbors who have generators , that they are not allowed to use them because of bylaws!!!

My husband and I are very worried about being forced to leave our home because the temperature had been steadily dropping inside and at some point it will no longer be safe for ourselves and our cats. There needs to be a better way to communicate this kind of information - most people have no way of checking emails or the internet and want to know a timetable for power returning. If work isn't being done immediately I find it hard to believe that they would even be able to get everything restored by the 11th...disheartening for sure!

I live at Ridge Gardens and there were many trucks working on the problem on Ridge Road yesterday. I went past at 6:15pm and the crews were there working. I am not sure why some neighbors are commenting that they have not seen any trucks. It's a tough situation, but we have our homes intact. This is a relatively small inconvenience compared to those that lost everything.

The trucks are gone this morning...the wires are still down, no progress there.....the only thing that was accomplished was the tree was cut down that was resting on a wire.....20 trucks for that?.....MORE needs to be done....if the mayor cant get this done..we need to contact the NJ goverment offices....ya think we are getting screwed because o and r is a new york company?company

MR. Mayor FYI, I live off of Ridge Road in Society Hill and I have not seen anyone to assess anything as of yet. We are going on 5 days without power, no heat and without any communications from your office. No outreach to the Society Hill/Ridge Garden Community. We had to learn about the “situation” from the Patch, on line for the few that have employers that are open and have heat and internet service. I am not sure you are aware, because I haven’t seen any representation from your office canvassing the neighborhood, to make sure that your tax payers are ok and are if they need anything…. Do you realize that we have elderly, young children, babies and a lot of pets that live in the community? The temperature is dropping, there are NO stores open to buy more candles, batteries and if they are they are out of stock. Have you set up a shelter for people to get warm?
I heard a date of something like November 10th? That is totally unacceptable, you have kids who are not in school and a lot of OLD people and should not be expected to go without HEAT till then.

You need to get every available Orange and Rockland worker to get up to Ridge Road and start working on this “situation” -- It should be TOP PRIORITY – No excuses please..
This is not good, we deserve to be informed, we need to feel like this part of town matters and we need the POWER ON. Get it done. Do what you have to do and get it done.

Plain and simple.

O&R has restored power to a portion of Brookside (Wyckoff/Allendale), so now from my house in Mahwah, I can see my friend's house in Wyckoff with electricity...so wrong :) I am thankful that someone removed the tree and power lines that were down on Fardale so I don't have to detour the enire neighborhood to get to work now...any progress is appreciated!

They've known there was an underground wire fire since Tuesday morning, I wish they would have started planning to fix it then!

Thursday was the first day I saw a truck there. O&R said they are prioritizing jobs by how many households are affected. How this is not at the top of their priority list I have no idea. It's on the mayor to make sure this is a priority and keep his residents informed. Residents should have had a realistic timetable days ago so they can make other arrangements. This whole situation seems mishandled by O&R and the mayor.

The only communication I've received from my association in birchwood hills is that my neighbors can't run their generators because it's against the bylaws! I would think state of emergency and disaster area would take precedence over condo bylaws.

Andy - take it up with your Mayor in Your Town - We have no communication with anyone thus far other than this! - we are aware of many towns and neighborhoods that are out of power. I didn't see anyone else mentioned in this forum other than the Ridge Road dilemma. Please and because Ramsey and USR taxes are higher you should be restored first? Stop Talking.

My neighbor was told they would fine him daily. Another neighbor, who has a permit for her professionally installed generator for health reasons , had someone come and shut it off on her property!

Mahwah covers such a large area. Residents feel as though they are forgotten. The Ramapo Brae, Stag Hill (Silver Lake) have nothing as well. There are children and elderly folks all over. Some folks don't have the luxury of having OR getting gas to get out to the police station or to the centers that are providing shelter, food etc. The police should canvas these neighborhoods and check on the residents. I understand this is a large scale problem but a lot of folks need help.

can anyone contact the governor

WELL SAID MATTHEW - Stop Talking Andy

Andy -- I was referring to the fact that the Ridge Road line affects thousands of housholds. I don't see where I compared Mahwah to Ramsey or where I said tax rates or income levels were a factor. Ramsey does not have the condominum population like Mahwah does meaning less households sharing the same grid. Society Hill, Ridge Gardens, Darlington Ridge, Ramapo Ridge --- 4 condo area's out because of this. In addition our High School, Middle School, and 2 elementary schools are out, all because of this power line. If total household's affected were in fact the deciding factor (as O&R says it is) then this should be the number 1 priority

I'm not sure many of you know how power is delivered to your homes. Just because you don't see a truck parked outside your home or on your street does not mean the problem is not being addressed. Many of the outages are due to power grid problems or transformers that are located a distance from your home. A fix in one distant place can restore an entire area.... So lets hang in! O and R is doing a tremendous job along with companies from Florida Kansas. Etc. Remember they are serving hard hit places in surrounding towns including rockland and parts of Passaic.

Mayor is with O&R crews right now on Ridge Road. I understand that he has been pushing them VERY hard to make this a priority. I hope O&R can do the necessary repairs quickly. Good luck to all!

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The update on the Mayor's page sounds encouraging.

Just to be clear here - I am commenting on the article that started this whole string of comments - Ridge Road - I don't care if they are working from a computer somewhere, we have not been contacted. We have had no communications - and the reverse 911 doesn't do anything because cable is out so I am not sure who thought of that. Nice Try. I have seen no activitiy to date on Ridge Road that was I was saying. I can't comment on any other street, town, etc., the article was specifically talking about Ridge Road, and that is where I reside.

Roberta-any suggestions on how best to communicate with those residents that have phone service and/or internet through their cable company? I know the town is using text messages to cell phones, reverse 911 to land line phones, the township website and Mayor's Facebook page; in addition to utilizing the Mahwah Patch. Perhaps the condo associations could help by distributing and posting updates? Any other thoughts?

i live in ridge gardens and we have been out of power since monday 2pm. once again whoever approved of the way are electric is ran should be shot!! these condo should be the number 1 prioroty not the schools or the library! i left for P A becauyse there are no hotlels available! i would like to come home but no 1 can give me an honest answer and what about the people who dont have i phones that can"t find out any information! how about using a squad car with therer microphones driving around are complexes to tell people what the hell is going on instead of paying them to montor the f@$%^ng gas lines

I think that everyone iis missing the bigger picture here. After many years of bandaid patching this road, they just recently spent our hard-earned money to repave the road. However, I would like to have been a fly on the wall in the planning sessions now that I hear that the asphalt is being melted. If the expected life of underground cable is around 25 years, was there consideration to replacing that cable while the repaving was being planned? I would suspect, not know any better that this cable is old. Was our road repaved over old cable that was at the end of its livespan and ready to fail? Could someone in this Township who was involved with this repaving decision please respond? How much repaving will we have to pay for due to this melted road?

The Mayor has been updating the actual Mahwah Township website a few times a day all week with announcements. There have been warming stations, charging stations and some free meals along with transportation to shelters.... http://www.mahwahtwp.org/cit-e-access/news/index.cfm?NID=27614&TID=64&DID=1268

A brand new wire can burn underground too ...

Additionally, has capacity planning been applied? Or, were users just added without additional or was additional service capacity added over the years as demand increased? I had worked on some construction projects in the past, and found it amazing how many times added capacity or upgrading out-dated facilities was not considered eventhough there were architects and consulting engineers assigned to the project.

I have been reading alot about the no power and how long it is taking to get the power on. My mother lives off of Ridge Road in Ramapo Ridge and my concern was that she did not know there was a charging station at the police station and the local church was serving a pasta dinner. I live in Pa and had a hard time reaching her and when I finally did I was able to let her know what was happening. She spent time at the Senior Center today and met alot of new people.
Since the schools are closed it would be a good time to get together some high school students to do community service and pass around flyers so people know what is happening and where they can go to get warm and maybe a hot meal

Power is on in Darlington Ridge now. Someone lit a fire under O&R today.

I was just called and notified that power has been restored to Society Hill II. I am out of town and was wondering if this was actually true, considering that O&R still estimates power won't be back until Nov. 11th and all reports throughout today made it sound like it would be quite awhile before power came back. Can anyone from this complex confirm that power is back?

I wonder if the Mayor even cares about the People living on Stag Hill and Ramapo Brae Lane!!! Who went through out the entire storm with Power just to have O&R disconnect Our Service and Leave!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Mayor for all the work you did to get power restored to Ridge Road. Its finally back on and i saw you up there talking to the OR workers. good to see you on the job

Thank you Mayor! Great job. Keep it up! (And maybe you will get power back at your house soon)

Amen Ralph!

Did the schools get power back? If so that is great great news. We desperately need schools open Monday

society hills II at kilmer woods has power. Neighbors can come back home

Do you know the schools are without power still???

Hey, this is the best news I have heard in 5 days!!! Ridge road is open and so we can go home to our houses and get warmth and food. Our Mayor did a great job in getting this underground burning wire situation taken care of. Thanks to our Mayor and DPW crew for working so hard to restore power. Now let's all pray that the rest of the town and nearby towns get their power on by this weekend.
Glo

Ralph I have gotten email alerts from the Mayor everyday on different events in the Town. I live on ridge road and didn't see any dpw trucks clearing the road in fact it was an utility truck from detroit. I did see the mayor on ridge road talking to the utility workers. no dpw people in sight.

Wait there are still many along the ridge road power grid that don't have power.400 townhomes to be exact. We lost power hours before the other side did since Monday at 2 pm.

Mayor bill and ORU please don't forget about us. It's 54 in the house and dropping

Helixcon don't be so happy cuz the other side of ridge road is dark as hell

Blondee are you on the w. Ramapo side of ridge or the darlington side?

Hi all -- Update on this article...the schools do not have power yet. Decision about school will be made by 3p Sunday.
http://mahwah.patch.com/articles/o-r-crews-restoring-power-to-some-of-ridge-road

The blog from O & R. Is really interesting. If you go on the Mao it will show you whee the outages are and how many affected. Mahwah gas 323. And affecting 32000 some odd people in the immediate area. With a niv11 restoration date. The funny ( and I mean that sarcastically) thing is that if you take every disc in the area the alllllllll say. Nov 11. Restoration. Come on now give me a break. Is the big switch in the sky going to come back on that day????? Duh!! I would like to see some honest predictions and breakdown if progress areas and PLANS. After all. Gas is now being rationed. Onthe year. 2012. AMAZING. Still haven't seen one truck in Brookside Manor. But emergency services are getting calls for possible Hypothermia. Please be aware of older neighbors who may not have much information or family to help them.

Still in total darkness and cold on this side of ridge road - burchwood hills . Not one truck on my street yet. Same tees and lights still down. I'm happy that peiople are getting power back - it gives me some hope.

...and no generators allowed here

Please stop. I live in Darlington Ridge and have no power (that I'm aware of) because I'm in manahawkin/LBI trying to help my elderly mother who lost everything. She not only has no heat, she has no house to live in. Be thankful you still have a home with all of your nonworking luxuries, others are not so fortunate

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Interesting..just drove all around fardale...Wires still hanging on youngs road....saw only one crew...and apparently, people are being told that it is all due to the burning wire on ridge road..which we all know by now is a bunch of BS as they have already stated there is no underground burning wire...

Doesn't seem the Mayor is onto to anything...except raking in more profit at his gas station...where he is over 10 cents more a gallon than the Gulf station across the street...and more than 20 cents more than the highway stations...

But he's always more expensive so you shouldn't be surprised. I get my gas there often times to support a local business of a person I know.

Goodness gracious!!! Power is still out in large areas of Rockland, Ringwood area and neighboring nj towns! Mahwah is not the only place dealing with outages! O and R services a large area. I agree it is not pleasant, but only so many hands can be on deck at anyone time! Service people are working around the clock in shifts. Have the people who say they have spotted crews getting coffee or resting in trucks thought about the fact that many of these responders are working 12 hour shifts with little sleep in between? I saw a few guys yesterday and thanked them!! and actual restoration could not be started until the storm passed and assessment could be done. If you lost power on Monday do ya think crews were going to be out at the height of the the storm? I think the response has been tremendous...

While it's a hardship to not live in your home b/c of lack of electricity and the things that it supports ( running water, heat hot water) , there are others who have nothing! I have been out since Monday, we will probably be the last in Mahwah to get it back on, but hey, I have a house to go home to. Panicking because I was running low on gas, but then the exileration at filling the tank. Not having hot water to bathe, then having a 1 hour shower, not eating a hot meal, then getting a Yankee pot roast meal at State line, I was able to do this, some people have NOTHING, so please , be considerant and shut up.

And another thing, thank those utility workers! Coming from: Detroit, Southern Cali, Georgia. Glad to see them. Bring them donuts/coffee to show your appreciation.

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