Governor Cuomo Holds LIPA and ConEd Accountable for Response and Communication (or lack thereof)

cbsnews.com - November 6, 2012

'The Long Island Power Authority has removed some areas of Long Island and the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens from its map of power outages caused by superstorm Sandy, saying homes there are too damaged to receive electric service ... the number of customers in Rockaway affected by power outages is listed as zero. There are about 193,000 customers in Nassau and Suffolk Counties still without power...New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed the state's utility companies... Cuomo said that power had been restored to all but 480,000 New Yorkers, down from 2.1 million affected by the storm. But he added that, a week after the deadly storm made landfall, such slow progress was "unacceptable," and that utilities will be "held accountable for their lack of performance,"... Con Edison has restored power to almost all Manhattan ... But Cuomo said that there is more to Con Ed's service area than just Manhattan, and accused the utility of blowing other areas off... '

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57545640/some-hard-hit-ny-areas-disa