LIPA executing well-planned storm response
Photo credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara | LIPA electrical contractors work to restore power in Patchogue during Superstorm Sandy. (Oct. 29, 2012)
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The man responsible for getting Long Island's lights on after the largest outage in the utility's history was preternaturally calm on Tuesday.
"I hear that a lot," Michael D. Hervey, the Long Island Power Authority's chief operating officer, said Tuesday.
More than 82 percent of the utility's customers were without power at one point, the result of slow-moving superstorm Sandy.
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