Lake Worth Beach City Limits: Post-Hurricane Irma: Write a positive Letter to the Editor about Lake Worth’s Electric Utility.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Post-Hurricane Irma: Write a positive Letter to the Editor about Lake Worth’s Electric Utility.

Do you remember after Hurricane Irma and those “disgusting” comments on social media about our Lake Worth Electric Utility, management, and staff were posted? Then a few days later this item appeared on Facebook and shut them all up:

“I do not normally post, but decided to do so due to a lot of complaints I have read about electric [Lake Worth’s Electric Utility] . . . I have lived in this City since 1981. I am not political in any way, shape or form. I have been through the unnamed storm in the late 80’s . . . no power. I have been through Frances, Jeanne and Wilma in ‘04 and ‘05. I lived with no power, food loss, no generator for 7, 10 and 13 days with three children, and even fell and broke my ankle during Wilma.
I saw Matthew at tropical storm . . . no power loss.”

and. . .

“The negativity I have been reading on my phone is disgusting.”

Was your experience a positive one in the City of Lake Worth? Were you surprised or even amazed when electric was restored after one, two, or maybe five days, expecting the outage to last much longer? Why not take a few minutes and write a Letter to the Editor (LTE; see instructions below) with a few words of encouragement for all the hard work to restore the City’s power?

Here’s a LTE published in The Palm Beach Post
last year following Hurricane Matthew:

For those of you who remember hurricanes Frances, Jeanne, and Wilma, hurricanes Matthew and Irma demonstrated how far along our Electric Utility
has come since 2004/2005.

Were you pleased how well the City of Lake Worth and Public Information Officer, Ben Kerr, got so much information out to the public and to the media as well? Write an LTE about that!

Instructions:

How to get your LTE published in the Post.

Keep your LTE to 150–200 words in length. The “shorter the better” is a good rule.
An LTE submitted by email (see below) is the best method and remember to include your phone number and complete address.
Listing your credentials will help greatly.

Then always follow-up!

Follow up your LTE with an email or fax later that day or the next morning.
Then later, call the editorial department and explain why your letter is important.
Don’t be timid talking to the editor and be polite.
Just ask outright, “Are you planning to publish my letter?”