Posted on 10/03/2022 9:47:26 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Linemen have reportedly restored power for roughly two million customers in Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian last week, the governor said on Sunday.
The powerful storm rocked Florida’s west coast as a Category 4 storm, moving its way across central Florida and exiting off the east coast. It strengthened back to a hurricane after being downgraded to a tropical storm and smashed the South Carolina coast last week, making a second U.S. landfall.
Prior to the storm, DeSantis assured that tens of thousands of linemen were ready to restore power when the inevitable occurred in the Sunshine State.
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What the media really wants to say:
“Power Restored for over 2 Million White People in Gov. DeSantis’s Florida”
Got to admit, that was fast- based on how bad the storm was.
That was fast. Florida is on the ball.
Our Democrat-run city had 1/8th of an inch of ice and was without power for ten days.
In the fwiw department, we lost power for 18 hours.
It was horrible.
We ran out of bourbon.
Pray for SW Florida, Ft. Meyers beach, Sanibel, and all of Lee county. Amen.
5.56mm
Has Biden even made it yet to his hurricane photo op?
Ah, for the good old days when it would take weeks to get power back. We remember them well. 😁✌. Probably still a lot of folks without.
None of the Power company trucks that came in from out of state to help ran on electricity.
You see, people??
ENERGY - its not that difficult, when competent people and not ideologues are in charge.
We sent power crews before the hurricane even hit
Green Screen?
Wow. It took three weeks for FPL to restore power to my home in 2005 after Hurricane Wilma.
Oh. I remember !Who! was our governor back then.
Big difference. :-)
One of the things International Help teams say is that in third world countries the people generally just wait until someone else does the work. It was a serious complaint of aide groups in Haiti during their earthquake.
Wow, that was fast! How long did it take ‘rat Governor Blanco after Katrina (even though fewer than half as many lost power)?
My daughter lives in an apartment complex in Tampa located at the edge of Tampa Bay (water). She and her husband stayed with a friend in Orlando the night of the storm. When she went home the next day, she had power!
Bingo! Kudos to Desantis. Kudos to the linemen. And kudos to the average Floridian for doing what they could.
There’s a depth to what this means.
Generation is all on line.
The high voltage transmission lines are fine.
Distribution and connections are restored to 2 million more places.
BUT his doesn’t mean the utility can or should connect power to damaged buildings.
Also from friends in the business, and from publications by their public affairs office, AT&T has restored 98%+ CELL service over the entirety of Florida, and has reached 70%+ restoration to hurricane affected areas. AT&T also enabled other network customers to roam onto their network AT NO FEE and was handling over 10 TB of data and 3 million plus texts per day from other carriers. There’s a story in the news showing where AT&T sent an amphibious SatCOLT to Sanibel island to provide cell service for the First Responders there.
There’s lot of ‘phone company’ haters here, so knock yourself out.
But AT&T, who operates the FirstNet network for FRNA, has done a great job of keeping the service up and restoring it where lost via COLTs and SatCOLTs.
The wireline and internet stats are not as good, but cell service is coming back pretty rapidly, and especially so for first responders and National Guard.
My sister in law is (was) on Sanibel. She evacuated to her son’s place in Ft. Meyers (not the beach) and was ok but we understand she lost everything on the island.
How to spin this? Hmmm.
Prior to the storm, DeSantis assured that tens of thousands of racist, homophobic and completely unqualified linemen were ready to restore power when the climate change caused hurricane occurred in the Sunshine State.
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