16 Years After Katrina, Hurricane Ida Leaves Trail Of Devastation Across Louisiana>
16 Years After Katrina, Hurricane Ida Leaves Trail Of Devastation Across Louisiana>
Hey Green New Dealers, how well do you think a wind or solar farm would hold up in a Cat 4 hurricane ?
Biden: this means we need another infrastructure bill.
Imagine, a cat 4 hurricane that lands in the USA and causes no damage at all.
Gee, I wonder if they’ll require any out-of-state workers coming to help repair the hurricane damage to be vaccinated. Sadly, not sarcasm.
OH NO! How will they charge their cars?
Don’t these Democrats care?
People are without power!
Where is Biden?
One emergency generator can run gas pumps for fueling several cars in a fraction of the time.
And not a dime of that so-called “infrastructure” money will ever be spent on actual infrastructure.
Boss, Don’t know when I’ll be able to get back to work. There’s no power to charge my car.
‘I understand. You can work from home for the time being.’
D’oh!
I don’t know. I think if we can recover from losing 2000 miles of lines in a couple of weeks that shows strength not weakness. Disasters are called disasters for a reason. You really can’t expect a grid to stay up when that much cable gets taken out. The real question is what’s your recovery time.
I was involved in emergency planning/response in Oregon.
I can tell you all one thing: They plan for ALL of these contingencies and NOTHING is a surprise.
Caveat: What IS a surprise is that any money allocated to preparation is almost always pilfered for inconsequential needs or debacle projects.
Oregon’s preeminent example is its epic failure to create a statewide communications system which originated primarily to deal with the theoretical disaster on which exhaustive tabletop exercises were performed: Chemical leak from Umatilla Chemical Depot, where the US sent all its chemical weapons for incineration. The project later mushroomed to largesse & incompetence on multiple levels.
The failed radio project came on the heels of the 0bama-era Cover Oregon failure.
The prior was the $600 million Oregon Wireless Interoperability Network (OWIN), now camouflaged as the State Radio Project.
The government’s failure in its ability to plan for disasters has been demonstrated time & again, ‘Katrina’ being most notable.
In my region, the ‘Big One’ is the latest example of the failures, the ONLY demonstrable examples of planning being evacuation routes to high ground on the coast (aside from generous federal grants to pad their budgets and pay for trips to regional conferences to discuss other ways to fleece the taxpayers). Heaven help you if you reside on the west side of I5 (those knowledgeable will get the joke).
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2011/07/new_state_radio_project_emerge.html
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2014R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4031/A-Engrossed
https://www.govtech.com/archive/oregon-governor-asks-director-of-state.html
The references above provide all the relevant terms for more research to those who choose to do a deeper dive.
Anyone who wants to counter my biting critique should know that I know a LOT more I can’t discuss. So go ahead and try to be relevant in defense of government planners. /s
You’d think they’d have figured out by now that they are in a hurricane bullseye and already have a generator.
Why wait until disaster strikes to decide to do something about it?
Talk about normalacy bias.
Hi, I hope you are doing well.
I know everyone knows this, but going through a Cat. 4 or 5 hurricanes is not fun.
Cat. 4-5 hurricanes not only kill people and destroy towns, but also rearrange geography. Bigly.
5.56mm
Just put up a few windmills. No biggie.
WTF do they expect? Do they thing fairies deliver electricity?
Too.much to expect Joe to do as much as W and make a personal Visit after IDs. But maybe the squad could send AOC down. I here she has a really nice car that could practically drive her dow there by itself. It would make a great demo trip for her GND!
They blamed trump for PR poor infrastructure, so Biden is responsible for this disaster and LA’s poor infrastructure