I am a New Englander enjoying the first full day of power in a week. I agree with you.
I was getting so angry at the pols for whipping up a frenzy over this. I tried over and over to explain how devastating the damage was to folks who were bitching. Just from my own house, back to the main trunk, about a mile away the lines were down in eight places and the roads were blocked with downed trees.
It took the crews working 18 hour days, three days to just get in to cut the trees off the lines, and then they could start retiring.
To have the Govenor say they need to work harder just tells me he is an idiot who has no clue what he is talking about. The last thing you want are linemen working 20 hours in a row. You will just end up with dead linemen.
Well it’s pretty apparent that everyone thinks their crisis is worse than someone else’s. What we could probably all agree on is that most people are not prepared to handle extremes of any kind for more than a day or two. And we all know we, unfortunately, cannot count on any government agency for rapid, organized and effective response and assistance. Even though a foot or two of snow would cause a whole new set of problems for most Texans, at least it would eliminate our current major problem of drought and devistating fires. Given our present situation it might even be a crisis that we would welcome, at least for a while.
Malloy proved he was an idiot when he ordered all “non-essential” state workers to report to work the Monday after the storm.
He forgot that most gas stations were not operational. That led to mile long gas lines that clogged up streets (in addition to downed power lines and trees).
On the day when the state needed the roads clear the governor added to the mess.
The utility executives really drew the short straw on this one. Most of its shareholders live in the heavily affected suburbs.
Hope they have their resumes updated.