8 Nov UPDATE FROM WARC PRESIDENT. ENCOURAGING NEWS

Westbeth Update
Thursday Afternoon November 08, 2012
Back at Westbeth – Good to be home, sad to see the hardships many have endured.
Today’s update from Nancy Gabor, Erica Fae, Valerie Ghent and Westbeth Corp FB page
General Notes
-Running cold water throughout building
-No heat or hot water throughout building
-Still no electric in A section and parts of B & C near A section
-Sketchy reports on phone service – Verizon service is down and may be until December. Will follow up on that report. Some FIOS phone service people do have phone service.
-Do not use trash chutes. Leave trash outside your door in a well-sealed plastic bag.
-Electric blankets are being distributed to those who requested them. If you have a need, see me or Nancy at today’s meeting.

Daily update meetings continue in Community Room at 3 PM.

More Specific Notes
-Management hopes to have heat and hot water up by end of weekend. No way to tell right now how efficient or effective it will be but it will be an improvement over the current situation.
-Elevators: Hope to be back on line within a week and even then, it may only be the Freight car in the A section that is operable at first.

-New transformers that will provide electric to the rest of the building should be in place and operable by end of the weekend. Will update you on progress in next report.
-Basement clean out work is continuing. No tenant can go to basement without first making arrangements with management. Studios in basement need to be cleaned out ASAP but all discussions on your work/possessions in the basement need to be taken up with management.
I am overwhelmed by the help and kindness of our Westbeth community and many strangers. Thank you all!
More tomorrow.
George