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Sandy victims get $500 power bill for uninhabited home

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    LIPA slaps family with charges despite house being destroyed

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Just one month after moving it to their dream home on Long Island Merrick Long Island -- -- tech family lost everything a superstar and sandy.

Not everybody's upset about it.

I've been to add insult to injury that badly received a life a bill for over 500 dollars despite the fact you weren't even living in their house.

But they were willing to -- And they were just left -- -- are angry journalist right now you're seeing Michael and just get.

Jack who took that into their own ends and checked -- is Matt.

It's YouTube -- story from the obvious reason huh.

-- you how hot you didn't.

Could you do -- children -- it -- great scene that's crazy and this is your -- Seven weeks so congratulations thank you now so what happens is the way -- -- to do an estimated bill that you just moved.

That's -- -- we had just moved in so we don't know we close our house September 20 so they could have been their September 2 or they -- been -- month.

Prior.

But we received our bill -- December.

For November right and it I think it was about 300 dollars and then we got another one for a little over 20 so we -- totaling around 518.

And we knew something was not you -- -- problem I don't how do -- leave the -- that money.

That was what was kind of surprising so.

-- right after Christmas I went out and I read the -- did the math.

And based on my estimates we probably should have been somewhere around like 200 or so but by -- point we were -- Who over 67.

Under but so.

-- local fox affiliates took -- your -- half they started pounding on life.

They did and that it would happen right before the -- -- sell a ballot I would say fifteen in.

In 215 minutes about a half hour before the segment aired on fox five's.

We got a call from the executive offices from light.

Saying that someone had come to actually check the box January 10 and they apologize for everything that had happened yeah they -- going to read realized from September 28 to January 10 based on.

Actual usage so look at your house capacity of three feet of water keep from every angle it's dead over.

Hundreds over a hundred that a 150000 families are affected and I think is a message here to.

You could go find out and we'll take a look at your bill and you -- -- pursue -- right Michael yeah I mean you can't assume that everybody's gonna do the right thing even if you've been.

You know affected by the storm and you got to kind of watch out for yourself.

Now how you guys do -- now.

Were -- I mean we're all happy and healthy and we have -- beautiful girl here be here.

-- Hopefully we'll be back in house within a couple of months.

And these.

You know we had just moved him so we didn't have a lot of time to get attached all the good and stuff from the house.

Well and now we have a -- on our website we can learn to read your own meter -- -- did Michael low around our.

Go read the meter -- -- downed power dot org slash meter.

And now that is going to be on our website to.

That's great I think for people to be proactive and make sure that they're not paying for anything that they're not using especially -- -- handy as a great -- it just so I agreed to do you had no power -- and you're getting billed for power.

That you couldn't possibly access sent.

-- by a company that wasn't turning it on for some reason exactly.

Michael Jessica -- -- thanks so much for sharing your family -- story with -- -- -- really appreciate it.

Senate leader you know I hope I get to meet Riley has says she gets older Brothers -- every year at this time are vulnerable all right.

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