LIPA Faces Angry Customers, Lawmakers as Blackouts Linger
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Frustrated residents joined lawmakers in calling for a shakeup of the Long Island Power Authority as 76,160 of its customers remain blacked out two weeks after Hurricane Sandy.
The state-owned authority’s customers accounted for about 58 percent of an estimated 136,936 still without power today, including homes and businesses with property damage unable to reconnect, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from utility websites. Sandy and a subsequent snowstorm knocked out power to