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The 'tough New Englanders' can really only be found in Downeast Maine, and the mountains of NH and VT; maybe in the hills of Central MA. In the cities, and small towns close to them, it's mostly suburbanites who are used to being able to drive to the store to buy what they need on a weekly basis, and don't even think about heat, lights, etc. They are completely dependent on the outside world for their livelihood, and their creature comforts.

The ironic thing is that one of the reasons the power outages were so bad was because some of these picturesque little towns have enviro-wackos and tree-huggers who complained when the power companies wanted to cut tree branches away from the power lines in the last couple of years. The loudest mouths of the towns didn't like that their trees would look 'ugly', and barred the power companies from cutting the branches. Well, guess what; those loud mouths are at it again, this time BLAMING the power companies for taking too long to restore power, after those branches fell on the lines.

Buncha goobers.

>Well, guess what; those loud mouths are at it again, this time BLAMING the power companies for taking too long to restore power, after those branches fell on the lines.

Yup. I grew up in a fairly rural part of CT and we are used to being on our own. This storm hit the rich suburbs of the Farmington valley and they are whining up a storm.

I have a friend whose husband is a CL&P lineman. She told me that one of the crews had some harpy throw dog feces at them, while they were hooking up the electricity! I mean WTF lady. And the media breathlessly complains about everything, as though this is not a historic outage (worst in state history).

Completely agree with your assessment. Here in the shadows of Jay Peak, we all carry sand, salt, shovel, chains and tow ropes from now until May; the chains we use routinely, but the rest are to help get the flat-landers out of the ditch when they think their BMW with summer tires can handle our roads.