[camle]

OK, so we were without power for a few hours. that is hardly a lifde threatening event. in the grand scheme of things it's ahrdly a blip. shall we get over this, and quit trying to build ourselves up by being survivors?

it's not like anybody's gonna die if they can't watch TV for a few hours, or even (shudder) lose their A/C!

a little perspective, please

[netmilsmom]

You don't want to be around me after 24 hours without coffee ;-}!

[Judith Anne]

The power goes out regularly in flyover country for several hours at a time, a couple of times a year. Storms can take the lines down summer or winter. The power company puts the lines back up. We deal with it. A couple of years ago, it was off here in the dead of winter for 29 hours. Phones were out, too.

What is the big deal? Do we have to build the NE an entirely new grid state of the art, that will be cripplingly expensive for the entire country (read: tax base) just so the NE will never have an outage?

Y'all can quit whining. Nobody out here in flyover country, that you look down on with such self-congratulatory superiority, feels a need to donate more taxes just so you don't ever have to do without power. And frankly, we don't care how much it costs yall. Suck it up.

[jonalvy44]

Wow...And I guess it's crazy to think some radical Muslims could coordiante the hi-jacking of 4 planes to use as missiles vs the United States as well, huh?

Denial is not just a river. I'm still amazed at how some out there think we will continue to experience massive population growth, mind the eco-terrorists, and voila!, we'll still have all the comforts electritiy provides, etc. Either you're very naive or I'm very paranoid. I'd rather err on the side of caution.