Posted on 11/01/2012 6:15:34 PM PDT by Red Steel
“We don’t wait for the government! Chruches, businesses and individuals get busy. They save lives.”
When Isabel came blasting through, FEMA came in with truckloads of ice...AFTER most people had power back. So it sat there and melted. Made for great news clips.
The cities and Commonwealth did a far better job. I remember seeing folks from obscure state agencies I’d never heard of chopping up trees to clear the roads. They done good. FEMA might as well have stayed home.
Ultimately your neighbors and friends and family are the ones who save your bacon in a disaster.
Oh great, yet another chance for Chris Christieto blubber on about his mother and his marvelous President.
There is a reason he wasn't selected for VP. He's an emotional train wreck. And train wrecks CAN be fascinating.....but....
Yes, Hopefully and God willing that is what will happen.
Is that political correctness for an Indian Summer?
"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas.'
"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."
Solution? Don't publicize the problem.
Yeah. And one of my “wise guy” jokes. LOL!
I was out for approx. 2 days after Irene and 9 days after the 2011 Halloween storm in Northern CT.
Storm Sandy resulted in a 6 hour outage and several brief 10-20 second outages.
I went 9 days in Northern CT after the 2011 Halloween storm. Wouldn’t want to be in parts of NYC or NJ after a few days the welfare class without power, etc.
Both knocked me out for 8 days (each). Only about 8 hours for this storm. Pretty shocked by the whining going on locally. Saw some woman from Orange complaining how horrible it was, just horrible, while she sat in a shelter with an intact home. For those who don’t know the area, Orange is no where near the worst impacted area, just dealing with a power outage (on day 4, which ought to be in your 7-10 day prep time period).
I mean WTH CT people, suck it up. We didn’t have it near as bad as anyone else in the tri-state area. What are you gonna do when we get our typical ice storm?
If that was on WFSB I think I saw that interview. I just looked at the CL&P outage map, down to approx 175K ad UI 150K and the bulk of the outages now seem to be along the shoreline.
Let’s think here:
Monday: Sandy hits, no restoration work, only de-energize/clear down lines at best
Tues: AM still windy, again no major restoration work can be done, still lines coming down. Maybe begin assessing damage ans some minor repair work.
Wed/Thurs: Finally good weather to asses and send crews out to repair
In realty, crews had had two full days to begin major restoration work and got the numbers down from the high 400/low 500K down to 178K in two days.
As far as I can tell, CL&P’s time for restoration work is not that for off from other utilities in MA and NY with comparable damage. With the exception of the hardest hit areas they all seem to say around Monday or Tuesday.
But no, many CT residents seem to demand their power be back on within hours, not days after the storm hit and believe CL&P is taking way to long or not providing estimates. And we know what happens if they miss a estimate by even 6-8 hours from Irene/Alfred, they are called liars. My understanding is that even places like FL, TX and other places that are know for hurricanes it takes crews multiple days to restore power.
And they aren’t allowed to have guns to defend themselves. What a screwed up place.
and NON-Union Relief Workers Sent Away from New Jersey
Yes, that was on WFSB. I noticed the utilities didn’t give timetables. They learned that lesson from our Gov after those storms last year. He’s already beating the “we’ll hold them accountable” drum.
Locally I think the tree trimming from Spring to Fall along state roads helped a lot. We need to continue doing that.
Especially when Utility workers from multiple Alabama locations are turned away because they are NON UNION.
I would be talking to any reporter I could corner.
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