An elderly woman who had been living without power in her home due to hurricane damage was finally seeing the light Friday night, when power to her home was restored.
with this:
Electrical contractor Kent Crook was amazed when he saw how she managed to get a tiny amount of electricity into the house for a Spartan existence.
"She has extension cords running into her house, plugged into a tiny little refrigerator and a cook top, and a lamp or two in front of her house," he marveled.
She had power - she was not "without power". What she didn't have was service, as in a drop line and a premise registered as an account with the local utility.
WTF is happening to journalism these days?
WTF is happening to journalism these days?
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Probably nothing new, twenty five years ago I started a business which I initially operated from my home. There was a lot of interest in home based business at the time and a reporter from the local paper called me and asked me a lot of questions and (with my permission) ran a story. He screwed things up so badly that a few weeks later when the local TV station wanted to do a story on my home based business I told them I was not interested. Most of these people don't know up from down and as the old saying goes, "couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were printed on the heel". That is the honest ones, of course, many of them are not above deliberately falsifying a story as has become apparent in recent years.