To Gov. John Lynch: This is not your first term as governor, so this whole New Hampshire ice storm of record proportions falls clearly on your shoulders. The Public Utilities Commission and PSNH and Unitil management cannot be blamed on Craig Benson - this mess occurred on your watch.

You carried towns that Barack Obama, Jeanne Shaheen and Carol Shea-Porter didn't. You got a mandate and won re-election by a cake walk. If heads don't roll and there is not an investigation into the ill-preparedness of the PUC, PSNH and Unitil, your next election will not be a cake walk.

This is New Hampshire, not Tennessee. At least an ice storm in Tennessee would be considered an abnormality. But in New Hampshire, an ice storm that affects more than 300,000 homes and takes more than 12 days to recover should have been an agenda item at someone's meeting to discuss what-if disaster plans.

Heads gotta roll.

JOEL SAREN

Hampstead