Just sayin' there might be a few obstacles in their way... Jeeze, it takes 5-7 days to run an electric line over there? Isn't this complex on a bay that they could run a ship in there and leach off of the ships power plants? or is that not enough?
and the line is jsut run? it won’t be hooked up til tomorrow? Man they’re slow.
I think you might be underestimating the obstacles that exist here. The earthquake/tsunami wiped out all the transmission line connections to the rest of the grid, and probably turned the terrain into a real mess. They probably had to clear a path before they set the first pole. They had to accumulate enough equipment - poles, insulators, crossarms, wire, etc. - to complete the task. They had to ready a position from which to start, hopefully with a separate circuit breaker for the new line. They had to ready equipment at the recieving end, after likely tsunami damage to substation equipment, circuit breakers, controls, and such.
It took Associated Electric in Missouri almost a year to rebuild the transmission lines in western MO after the ice storm of 2009. Granted, that was hundreds of miles of circuit, but it wasn’t just a matter of slapping a few poles in the ground and stringing wire.
Just sayin' there might be a few obstacles in their way...