Earth calling NORECO, come in NORECO!

Well, this storm was rather weak in my opinion, nothing like the storms that pound the Oregon Coast nearly every year. It did manage to knock down quite a few power lines, mostly from trees falling over them. Nothing like the damage that we acquired from Sendong last year.

Yesterday we toured around quite a bit, Valencia/Bacong, Valencia/Dumaguete, Vallencia Sibulan (back roads), Valencia Palinpinon, etc... There are lines down along most roads, but not a lot as there was after Sendong.

In a total of nearly 100 km yesterday we saw NOT ONE NORECO truck/crew out. Are they on vacation? When are they coming out from hiding?

This morning on the way to Dumaguete we saw ONE guy with ONE ladder, near the new bridge. No truck or other crew in sight.

No sign of them in the new McDonald's either.

Hmmm...

Larry

 

That one guy did miracles with his ladder, we got power back in Batinguel since yesterday late night.... seems he knows to set the right priorities :-)

 

I live in Bacong and saw several crews out in the neighborhood
But we still don have elec yet. Lots of big trees downed power lines.

 

Power came back on in Piapi last night and has stayed on since, but too late to save the meat in the freezer.

Overhead power lines will always be prone to falling trees, but not all outages were caused by trees. Travelling around you can see numerous wooden telegraph poles leaning at a precarious angle, only prevented from completely falling down because there are still some cables attached. These poles may look sound on the outside, but they are rotten on the inside at ground level from water rot and chemicals from cement. The board of Noreco2 spent mega money some 5 years ago to purchase concrete poles, and accounting for the money spent and the quantity of poles delivered has been a goat rodeo ever since. 5 years on and they are still not installed. If they had been in place, they would have withstood the wind force where the rotten wooden ones couldn't, and therefore power outages would have been kept to a minimum. I don't question the boards efficiency or transparency; I question the lack of it.

 

IT was back on late last night at the check in
cheers

 

My extended family in Bajumpandan are still without power since Monday...

 

We still have no power on my street. (trees down power lines). Downtown Bacong no power, tree on highway removed but no repair. More fun in....

 

A week later and still no electricity? O-| Maybe you need a longer extension cord? :D Seriously though, I think they started their repairs in Dumaguete and are "concentrating" there before branching out. They really have more work than they can handle. As a side note, they have a contact number on their "real" Facebook page (thumbnail pic shows their company emblem/seal) where you can talk to someone or text them about "problems". Maybe calling them, if you haven't already, would help?

DUMAGUETE Consumer Welfare Desk: (San Jose, Sibulan, Valencia, Dumaguete, Bacong and Dauin)
422-6522 ; 225-14830 (I couldn't find the cell # you could text to that they had posted before)

20 hours ago on their Facebook page:

The backbone lines are about 99.9% energized as of this moment. Teams are currently working on the un-energized backbone lines that need repair in San Jose (affected areas are Poblacion to Tampi, San Jose) and Bacong (Banilad to SPI, Bacong). NORECO II Operations and Maintenance Teams are now working on the lateral lines (primary and secondary lines). There are about 30 to 50 poles for the lateral lines that were affected by the typhoon Pablo which are isolated and of which the teams are beginning to work on.

The public may have noticed that the Operations and Maintenance Teams check several areas with no power and leaving that area without restoring the power yet. What they have done was to isolate the area in order to restore the power in the other areas.

If an area does not have power yet, this means that the lines have been isolated. These are isolated due to broken or leaning pole, broken or detached primary or secondary line, and/or the line needs to be cleared from vegetation (e.g. fallen tree or leaning branch touching the line). These issues should be resolved before restoring the power for the safety of the public.

We are hoping that all isolated lateral lines will be resolved within this week. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience.

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We had two brownouts last night in Dumaguete. One for 45 minutes, and another that lasted about 10. Our ceiling fan couldn't decide if it was on or off. :D Still sorting the kinks out?

 

A week later and still no electricity? Maybe you need a longer extension cord? Seriously though, I think they started their repairs in Dumaguete and are "concentrating" there before branching out. They really have more work than they can handle. As a side note, they have a contact number on their "real" Facebook page (thumbnail pic shows their company emblem/seal) where you can talk to someone or text them about "problems". Maybe calling them, if you haven't already, would help?

DUMAGUETE Consumer Welfare Desk: (San Jose, Sibulan, Valencia, Dumaguete, Bacong and Dauin)
422-6522 ; 225-14830 (I couldn't find the cell # you could text to that they had posted before)

20 hours ago on their Facebook page:

The backbone lines are about 99.9% energized as of this moment. Teams are currently working on the un-energized backbone lines that need repair in San Jose (affected areas are Poblacion to Tampi, San Jose) and Bacong (Banilad to SPI, Bacong). NORECO II Operations and Maintenance Teams are now working on the lateral lines (primary and secondary lines). There are about 30 to 50 poles for the lateral lines that were affected by the typhoon Pablo which are isolated and of which the teams are beginning to work on.

The public may have noticed that the Operations and Maintenance Teams check several areas with no power and leaving that area without restoring the power yet. What they have done was to isolate the area in order to restore the power in the other areas.

If an area does not have power yet, this means that the lines have been isolated. These are isolated due to broken or leaning pole, broken or detached primary or secondary line, and/or the line needs to be cleared from vegetation (e.g. fallen tree or leaning branch touching the line). These issues should be resolved before restoring the power for the safety of the public.

We are hoping that all isolated lateral lines will be resolved within this week. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience.

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We had two brownouts last night in Dumaguete. One for 45 minutes, and another that lasted about 10. Still sorting the kinks out?