To say I'm frustrated with @EversourceCT's response to Storm Isaias is an understatement.

There's no power in my apartment, so I went around my neighborhood in Westport checking in on neighbors. Here are my takeaways... (Thread)

I met constituents who rely on oxygen, who need to charge their wheelchair, and who need to keep medication refrigerated.

These are people for whom an outage is not an inconvenience, but a genuine, life-threatening danger.

The temperature reached 92 degrees this afternoon in Westport. Without air conditioning, people are genuinely at-risk of overheating.

Worse, homes with electric-pumped wells lack running water.

The biggest thing I heard, though, is that people are feeling isolated. In a time when we're already feeling stuck in our homes, these outages have made things even worse.

People don't have access to phones, to television, to internet. Most had heard nothing from Eversource before I showed up.

And with limited access to news updates, it was up to me to pass along the mostly bad news.

I had to tell people that it would be a matter of days, not hours, before an Eversource truck could come restore power to their block.

Look, the line crews restoring power work hard, and I don't doubt their seriousness. But, we've been here before. Storm after storm, Eversource's response to outages lags and lags.

Preparedness is about more than press releases. @EversourceCorp needs to make changes.