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Hurricane Ida Exposes Grid Weaknesses As 2,000 Miles of High-Voltage Lines Damages


1 posted on 08/31/2021 2:07:51 PM PDT by blam
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30 days in NO is bad enough WITH electricity.


2 posted on 08/31/2021 2:09:28 PM PDT by albie
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I didn’t know New Orleans had their own Governor?


3 posted on 08/31/2021 2:10:13 PM PDT by albie
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I find it insane people in that area do not have backup power systems ready to go...knowing the weather and threat of storms.

Customers have been panic searching Generac generators and generators since the hurricane made landfall


4 posted on 08/31/2021 2:13:42 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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Not as simple as drilling holes with an auger and dropping a wood pole in or restringing some lines that got broken.


5 posted on 08/31/2021 2:14:22 PM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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Well, give the Governor a pair of lineman pliers and he can go for it.


8 posted on 08/31/2021 2:15:29 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Biden’s Katrina


10 posted on 08/31/2021 2:17:35 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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Louisiana is Going Green, Yeah baby!!!


11 posted on 08/31/2021 2:20:00 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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I don’t think he should be satisfied.


12 posted on 08/31/2021 2:21:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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New Orleans governor??? Who writes these headlines?


13 posted on 08/31/2021 2:22:33 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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With all of that wind they should have plenty of backup battery power from windmills.

Isn’t that how it is supposed to ‘work’???


17 posted on 08/31/2021 2:27:14 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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does LA not make any of it’s own power?


19 posted on 08/31/2021 2:40:54 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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Maybe Puerto Rico has some generators in storage.


20 posted on 08/31/2021 2:41:18 PM PDT by cnsmom
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Liberals learned how to talk to repair people from Star Trek.


22 posted on 08/31/2021 2:44:45 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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What is wrong with the Democrats?

Where is Biden?

No power for 30 days?


24 posted on 08/31/2021 2:48:02 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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Nothing left of NO after 30 days without power.

30 days without power and they will need 5,000 guardsman on the streets 24/7.

Lots of emergency food rations an water have to be sent it.

Maybe they want a catastrophe, like maybe what happened in Afghanistan was on purpose, in order to demoralize us, further weaken our confidence in our institutions, set us against each other, and by pulling it off like they just don’t care, reminding us who the boss is.


25 posted on 08/31/2021 2:49:18 PM PDT by BusterDog
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26 posted on 08/31/2021 2:50:41 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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I have been watching a Louisiana community FB site and noticed that someone reported a theft of their grandmother’s generator. Can you imagine?


27 posted on 08/31/2021 2:51:26 PM PDT by plain talk
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If the governor isn’t satisfied he should go climb a few utility polls and start fixing wires.


29 posted on 08/31/2021 2:52:54 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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I am developing a new social theory, Hurricane Race Theory (HRT).

HRT postulates that hurricanes are racist because they impact the poor the most, and the poor are mostly minorities.

I am accepting contributions to right this racist weather wrong, and you are racist if you don’t give me money.

My first action to stop this racism will be to distribute a pamphlet telling people that planning ahead is not racist, and that the time to buy a generator and fuel is when the weather is good, when you don’t need it.


32 posted on 08/31/2021 2:54:17 PM PDT by PTBAA
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Well John, what are you doing to help? How about more regulations?


36 posted on 08/31/2021 2:56:16 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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