Two blue towns??

I never said dividends went to executives lmao. With your calculations, it would.

Do you think the dividend (i.e. money basically given away) is the total sum of their cash on hand? Not to mention the several executives making over $40 million a year?

Are you incapable of math? 348 million shares at $2.55 annual payout per share:

$887 million dollars.

Did you not read? They paid dividends worth over $800 million dollars last year. Case closed.

Also, side note since you seem unaware. Eversource in other states is separate operationally. That’s one reason why the performance of the company in say, NH, is better then in CT. They’re essentially joined at the very top, holding company level.

The West Hartford theater has the type of reclining seats as the AMC. It’s pretty nice. The only thing it doesn’t have is stadium seating because that wouldn’t work well for the full food service.

Do you think that the only thing line workers do is work during a storm? There’s a ton of deferred maintenance across Eversource’s lines. Normally, these workers do other jobs during normal operation. Instead Eversource has no one doing those jobs.

Tell me then, why is Eversource just about bottom of the barrel when it comes to restore times compared to utilities in other states with the same number of outages. Oh yeah, because shareholder profits don’t restore power.

Yes that’s right, it was the longest outage to date at that point. Strangely, it wasn’t until the 2010s when there was another outage that long, and then there were several in a row….

I understand what you’re saying, but you’re either too young to remember or have forgotten that 20 or more years ago, restoration for similar storms with similar amounts of outages took several hours to days at most, not weeks.

There is no guesswork here. It’s not conjecture. We have seen better in this state and it’s a direct comparison to past recoveries.

You’re using a baseline that is also shit. You’re assuming the restoration plan was “good enough”. There are no diminishing returns lmao. Line workers don’t become less productive the more of them there are.

That’s not being fair. They shouldn’t need to beg for help every storm. That’s a failing. As you pointed out, how many line workers could be had for $891 million.

Exemplary? By what metric?? Just about every other state has moved faster and had less outages.

By the way, the reason we had more outages IS NOT because the storm was more intense here then other states. It’s because Eversource doesn’t maintain their poles and lines, or trim properly, or staff properly.

Yes lol. But it wouldn’t matter. Because all the lines are buried except for the main transmission lines.

Idiotic. You’re argument is analogous to this:

“There is no scenario where you can drive Boston to NYC instantly, so even if you drive normal highway speeds it will still take hours to get there.”

So you’re saying we should blame Eversource for driving 5 MPH for that trip? Because that’s what they do. They’ve gutted themselves in the name of regulatory avoidance and profit. All you need to do is look at how quickly other utilities in other states restore power when they have the same number of outages.

Enough with the Eversource apologies. May the entire board rot in hell.

I hope so too!

Perhaps, you’re right. But the power went out because of of the fire, not the other way around.

In 2019, the family proposed a major redevelopment of the 11-acre Seaport Marine property, called Smiler’s Wharf, that included 120 more slips, a 45-room hotel, a marine services building, a second restaurant, a public park and walkway and housing, but withdrew it in the face of opposition.

The new owners. This is a bit suspicious.

Festivus pole?

I have a similar situation to you. My entire house already ducted for central air, I’m trying to figure out how difficult it would be to switch the condenser to a heat pump. I believe my air handler is already compatible.

Anyway, if you don’t mind me asking, what was the cost for your ducted system?

Actually the article says we’re second after MA for school quality.

Forbes tried to mix it up this year and calculate “safety”. With some arbitrary methodology that includes stupid shit like safety officers. I think it’s the other way around, if a school doesn’t need the fake police standing around it’s safer then one that does.

So yeah we’re 2nd after MA.

Edit: Oh. So Forbes literally is pulling a Wallethub ranking lmao. They don’t even do this themselves anymore.

So they’ve gone with the brilliant analysis of the A-grade statistical site, Wallethub.

/s

Read the article. We’re not. In the quality rating we’re second.

Forbes just tried to toss in some arbitrary “safety” rating this year that somehow put us at “3”. The methodology is nonsense.

Not true. In the quality rankings CT is #2 behind MA.

These are all that matters. Forbes tried to do some stupid “safety” rating this time around too which has arbitrary methodology. I wouldn’t put any weight in that bit.

Ah that makes sense, I haven’t been down there in awhile but I heard all the anchors are gone. Unless you count target. Doesn’t seem Like it has long left.

Wait which ones? Oh man. When I was last there a few months ago only the old Lord & Taylor was empty. There were a couple coming soon space though, like Abercrombie returning after leaving 7 years ago.