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To: Libloather
and has watched his 42 panels as well as those on several other houses in the area go unused since the power went out Oct. 29

Good. Grief.

The idiots have FORTY TWO solar panels on the roof, an inverter in the garage and are surrounded by flooded cars with perfectly good batteries and wrecked buildings FULL of electrical wire.

And they still can not figure out how to get some power going in one or two rooms of a house?

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7 posted on 12/01/2012 7:10:32 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TLI
And they still can not figure out

I've made a good living off of idiots in the past.

Someone has to lead a life that serves only to demonstrate what NOT to do.

/johnny

8 posted on 12/01/2012 7:18:28 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: TLI
The idiots have FORTY TWO solar panels on the roof, an inverter in the garage and are surrounded by flooded cars with perfectly good batteries and wrecked buildings FULL of electrical wire.

And they still can not figure out how to get some power going in one or two rooms of a house?

I won't call them idiots, but it's clear that there is a serious lack of knowledge/initiative to utilize the resources in front of them.

After Katrina, it took us a few days to clear the downed trees off of the dead end road we live on (only way out). On the last day, we came to a downed power pole and transformer laying in, and blocking passage through, a flooded area that was almost becoming passable as the river fell.

As I walked up and heard the discussion, the consensus they (neighbors) had reached was that we would all have to wait (some unknown number of days/weeks) for the power company to reach us so that we didn't get electrocuted.

I informed them that if the line had any electricity, it would be popping and crackling as the electricity shorted out in the water. And also, that the likely hood of any power returning in the near term was pretty minimal.

Nobody wanted to believe that, so I went to my toolbox and got a hacksaw, waded out to the pole/wire, and hacked through the line. Once they saw that the line was really dead and that I wasn't dancing with Reddy Kilowatt, someone pulled up their tractor and we pulled the pole/transformer and line over to the side.

A few hours later the river dropped low enough for us to pass through the flooded area, and after cutting through two more downed trees, we had full passage open to the main road.

Of course, then we found out how little food, gas, etc. was available to be had at that point.

So, that's why I won't call them stupid, if they don't know something, finding a solution can be challenging.

Of course, out of that many people impacted, seems like there ought to be enough knowledgeable people there.

12 posted on 12/01/2012 7:42:10 PM PST by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: TLI

You have to realize they sat there for days whining about not having any water to drink (next to a system of rivers and the Atlantic Ocean)


13 posted on 12/01/2012 7:56:15 PM PST by willyd (Don't shoot, we're Republicans!)
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