SMECO doesn't know how to count!

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Marsha Merchant

Marsha Merchant
slaphappynmd said:
At least they were over in St. Mary's somewhere, there wasn't a smeco truck to be seen in Calvert until late saturday afternoon.
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Do you live in St Mary's or Calvert? Strange you would know the whereabouts of ALL SMECO TRUCKS. I can assure you they were busting butt in Calvert as well as St. Mary's... We are fortunate to have such caring folks to go out in such horrible weather, dealing with very dangerous voltage and doing so SO YOU CAN HAVE YOUR ELECTRICITY which ever county you may live in.... I hope you do your job as effectively as the folks working on those SMECO rigs do... Seems you were lucky to have seen a truck late Saturday afternoon, sounds like a pretty quick response time for the damage that both counties received... Marsha Merchant
 
Softballkid

Softballkid

No Longer the Kid
Marsha Merchant said:
Do you live in St Mary's or Calvert? Strange you would know the whereabouts of ALL SMECO TRUCKS. I can assure you they were busting butt in Calvert as well as St. Mary's... We are fortunate to have such caring folks to go out in such horrible weather, dealing with very dangerous voltage and doing so SO YOU CAN HAVE YOUR ELECTRICITY which ever county you may live in.... I hope you do your job as effectively as the folks working on those SMECO rigs do... Seems you were lucky to have seen a truck late Saturday afternoon, sounds like a pretty quick response time for the damage that both counties received... Marsha Merchant
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I do have to agree, my cousin, and a few friends I know work for SMECO, and they bust their ass when something goes wrong, they my cousin's shift was from 6am-11pm, 30 minutes for lunch, 30 minutes for dinner... and its funny that those who don't get power back on within 5 minutes are the ones who complain. Knowing damn well they have never had to work hours like that, or work in the circumstances they have to..

If you just can't stand how long it takes SMECO to get to you when you lose power, I have an idea, go to LOWES and buy a generator or 2, make sure they put out enough to run your entire house and then you can run those all day, spend a few hundred bucks in gas filling them and act like nothing ever happened :yay:
 
AndyMarquisLIVE

AndyMarquisLIVE

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Pandora said:
I was standing near one when they were trying to restore power. Scared the CRAP out of me when I saw flames.

That is one dangerous job they can keep.
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Those guys also make an ungodly amount of money. Hell, I'd do it.
 
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proudmommy

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AndyMarquisLIVE said:
Those guys also make an ungodly amount of money. Hell, I'd do it.
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I don't know who you've spoken to that has said they make an ungodly amount of money but I see the pay check and after Uncle Sam takes his share it breaks down to about the same as a regular paycheck (without overtime). As far as I'm concerned it isn't worth the time away from families, the danger, the lack of sleep, etc. that my husband and others go through for that "ungodly amount of money". They do it because it's their job and they are working to support their families!!!

If you think it's so easy why don't you step up and apply for a job, I doubt you'd last one storm.
 
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selmore

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I sent an email to the Program Director at WSMD about the radio coverage this weekend and this is what I received in reply. I believe that they were are trying to do the right thing for our community but just got overcome by technology. If you have questions please contact Somar Communications at 301-884-5550. Thanks...


We have been in the process of installing an entire new system, changing stations, and are short staffed right now.

We did give out information on Friday all day..... we did give out information live on saturday.... HOWEVER......

We just put in a new computer system that runs all our stations within the last weeks. Unfortunately not all the bugs are worked out. So while we are working to make things better... we got hit and caught off guard.

The power went out Friday night and after that..... our new system would not let us distribute anything to the stations. We tried getting hold of the company several times and they failed to get back to us. Trust me, our owner was very upset and on the phone with them all day yesterday.

I will let you know that I was on the phone yesterday (9/5/06) with every sheriff's dept, every emergency dept, every county official, red cross, etc. to make sure that we have all the current contact information and that they have ours. They all have my personal cell phone number to make sure that next time........ not just us.... but the ENTIRE community has a better plan. As of Saturday night... we had several faxes from St. Mary's County... which we did air the info... we had 1 fax from Calvert County and we had no faxes at all from Charles county.
 
kom526

kom526

They call me ... Sarcasmo
But they could do a live remote from the Chancellor's Run Rockfest (or whatever) although there was no power at the park. I recall hearing "Awesome Frank Dawson" saying that he hoped the power would be on soon. So I am going to wave the :bs: flag on this one.
 
nomoney

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kom526 said:
But they could do a live remote from the Chancellor's Run Rockfest (or whatever) although there was no power at the park. I recall hearing "Awesome Frank Dawson" saying that he hoped the power would be on soon. So I am going to wave the :bs: flag on this one.
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:yeahthat:

We did give out information on Friday all day..... we did give out information live on saturday.... HOWEVER......
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Friday all day? :confused: when does all day stop for them? 4pm? Cause that's when we turned on our radio and all 3 stations were nothing but static and dead noise.
 
somd whisper

somd whisper

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nomoney said:
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Friday all day? :confused: when does all day stop for them? 4pm? Cause that's when we turned on our radio and all 3 stations were nothing but static and dead noise.
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I was thinking the same.
 
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Josimmon

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AndyMarquisLIVE said:
Those guys also make an ungodly amount of money. Hell, I'd do it.
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Sorry...SMECO linemen are under paid...my dad was a lineman in another state and made a hell of a lot more then the SMECO guys do (look at the website...they are looking for lineman and you can see how little they make). That was 8 years ago too. You have no idea how hard that job is. My dad lost his hearing when a transformer was struck by lightning in front of him...while he was up the pole.

SMECO has always done a hell of a job :clap: ...when we lived in Raleigh we were without power for over a week during an ice storm....guess what...we lived through it with out power...we actually had fun...and I still appreciated what those guys did for us...

I also live in the Calvert. When I came home from work on Friday I saw many SMECO trucks and when we went out on Saturday again we saw them out...I can not believe people are posting that they did not see any so they must not have been working :whack:
 
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slaphappynmd

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Josimmon said:
Sorry...SMECO linemen are under paid...my dad was a lineman in another state and made a hell of a lot more then the SMECO guys do (look at the website...they are looking for lineman and you can see how little they make). That was 8 years ago too. You have no idea how hard that job is. My dad lost his hearing when a transformer was struck by lightning in front of him...while he was up the pole.

SMECO has always done a hell of a job :clap: ...when we lived in Raleigh we were without power for over a week during an ice storm....guess what...we lived through it with out power...we actually had fun...and I still appreciated what those guys did for us...

I also live in the Calvert. When I came home from work on Friday I saw many SMECO trucks and when we went out on Saturday again we saw them out...I can not believe people are posting that they did not see any so they must not have been working :whack:
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never said they weren't working, I just figured they were all over in St. Mary's because they were hit harder and thats why I wasn't seeing any in Calvert. They do all they can, its not like they have a magic wand or something. And Southern, MD got hit with a big ice storm in 1996 and were without power for over a week. At least then you just put the food outside to keep it from spoiling :p
 
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