"There is almost no context within which to place the BWL's loss of 40 percent of our customers," he told the Lansing City Council during a hastily convened special meeting at which BWL customers vented for more than an hour. I think we probably weren't as hard on ourselves as we need to be. Only 30% said their cash registers were busier.The gloom created by slow sales may carry over into the rest of the year.The Lansing Board of Water and Light released the findings of an internal review of its response to the storm last night. She says her husband is worried that the pipes are going to freeze or that someone’s going to break into their home in Lansing. "We are spending more money today than in the past and will continue to spend more than that tomorrow to make sure the system is more robust and better able to handle what nature throws our way. AP Photo/Al Goldis Their showings weren't flawless and the commission required them to make changes to ensure a better future result. "Less than two months after the storm, however, the BWL released an In retrospect, Price said, that report wasn't critical enough. "I have the sense the corporate culture is starting to change. "The BWL structure and culture make reform difficult, if not impossible, from within, " investigators wrote. Storm system could bring rain, ice, snow to Lansing area this weekend Ken Palmer, Lansing State Journal 1/9/2020 Rep. John Lewis received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. "He ordered an internal, top-to-bottom review to assess BWL's performance. "I think it's important you and your readers know the BWL is a different entity than it was a year ago," he said.The CRT and MPSC combined to make more than 100 recommendations.
"My God, it's why you do planning," McDaniel said. Going forward, that won't be good enough, the utility said, promising to be better than average.A majority of BWL's eight commissioners accepted the report at face value. "You can have a catastrophic failure of one thing, but to have so many things go wrong is just too great a coincidence. The utility company is promising in a new report it won’t happen again. The release of the CRT report in 2014 should have been a turning point, he suggested.Price now says he wishes he had done quite a few things differently.
"I think I got a substantive review of the storm. West Michigan residents are expecting another winter storm, and that could mean more power outages.More than 230,000 people in Michigan lost power last week, most of them living on the west side of the state.
LANSING, Mich. — The last major ice storm Michigan had was right before Christmas in 2013 on December 22nd. "Some are calling it the storm of the century. "It was meant as you can't do it by yourself ," he said.
Updates will follow throughout the day.The utility has its hands full: Calls to report an outage to Board of Water and Light lead to a full voicemailbox and unlike Consumers Power, there is now way to report an outage online.Robin Miner-Swartz was one of many Lansing residents complaining on Facebook about the utility's lack of information: "Wait, the last time the Lansing Board of Water and Light posted on Facebook was in October, and its last tweet was Nov. 22?
LANSING – For retiree Flo Baerren, the December 2013 ice storm created physical, emotional and financial hardship.The arrival of winter and the one-year anniversary of her loss of power have left her scared — and rekindled her anger. He says about a third of the nearly 200,000 Consumers Energy customers without electricity are in Flint and Genesee CountyJACKSON, Mich. (AP) - Winter has arrived in Michigan with an icy blast, sending freezing rain across a wide section of the Lower Peninsula, knocking out electrical service to at least 382,000 homes and businesses and causing multiple crashes around the state.The state's largest utilities say it will be days before most of those blacked out get their power back because of the difficulty of working around ice-broken lines.Michigan Radio's Dustin Dwyer talked to Morning Edition host Doug Tribou about the power outages. Before the storm, he said, "We didn't know what we didn't know. "It's unprecedented. "There were several board members who had not been in a crisis situation like this," he said. In a 5-3 vote, the board fired the general manager for "just cause" in But Lark threatened legal action against the board and ended up Lark, who sold his East Lansing home in 2016, could not be reached for comment, He now owns one condo in Naples, a Florida beach community, and another in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C., property records show.The outrage over Lark's "golden parachute" prompted the board to take a more critical look at Peffley's contract, Price said. Because of road conditions, emergency response may be slowed; people who need regular medical care, such as dialysis patients, may not be able to get treatment; and those who depend on in-home assistance may be without regular services. Trees glisten at the entrance to East Lansing condos on Grand River at Coolidge Road. when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, McDaniel asked.
About 20,000 DTE Energy customers and 7,000 Lansing Board of Water & Light customers were still in the dark as well.Debra Dodd is a Consumer’s Energy spokeswoman. The shift empowers people lower down in the corporate structure to make decisions more quickly, Peffley said.