Business ProfileforSouth Central Power Company

Absolutely terrible electrical service and bad customer service. Our power goes out astronomically in Hocking Hills. You'd think for all the inconvenience they cause with multiple unlogical outages that they would reimburse your bill or attempt to help you any at all. The past two business days there has been a Hellicopter sent by South Central to trim trees. Their Hellicopter has been less than 10 feet from a private home and they were dropping tree LIMBS extremely close. All it takes is one time and they could easily kill someone being so close to a home. I understand it for forestry areas around that are not occupied by residents but in your back yard less than 10 feet from your home?? As customers we also get no choice in whether or not to allow this barbaric practice on our property do close to our homes. I have called company directly to make it formally known that we DO NOT consent to their hellicopter being in the private immediate air space above our home to do so. Instead of asking you to trim it yourself and giving you a reasonable time to do so they just send a Hellicopter with NO prior authorization and put you in direct danger along with others. Both times they have been here cutting trees on OUR property they have dropped a tree limb on the power line causing yet another power outage. This took them 5 hours to restore when it was there fault to begin with and not weather related. If they can't avoid a power line how are they capable of avoiding you or others that may be outside around a tree while they decide to just trim it ruthlessly knowingly putting you in danger. Not only is it dangerous cause a tree like can fall but a live power line could also hit the ground due to this and send enough electricity through the ground to seriously kill you or seriously injure you. Customers should at least get the right to say no to this. In addition our power bill always changes for illogical reasons that they can't explain yet we have to pay it or else.