[Cyber Liberty]

You make excellent points in #47. I have no snappy answer (because you are *correct*), but if the EPA has been making retrofits unaffordable (and I know there are denizens of that place who would like nothing more), then they are to blame for making a bad situation a worse situation.

I moved to the West for the same reason our forefathers moved to this continent: Our old sh!t was beyond repair. But stop saying your weather event is unique. It is not. Stop saying I didn't read your links. I did.

Last summer we had a Haboob, which is a crapload of destructive wind, I couldn't see across my suburban street, and it left dunes of dust in the streets. The pharmacies were running out of asthma meds. It took the grace of God with His rains to wash out the mess. And the utility guys reassembling the destroyed 65KV lines. Things are tough all over.

[dirtboy]

There are no easy answers to any of this. For every sane citizen who supports basic tree maintenance, there is the idiot who resists such. And that idiot will be the first to complain when his power is out for more than a few hours due to a major storm such as this one.

And the same liberals who talk about taxing the rich will complain about property tax increases to fix local infrastructure problems.

That is just the nature of the idiots in the world. You have then in your neighborhood and I have them in mine. It's just that I have more of them in mine. :^)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Last summer we had a Haboob, which is a crapload of destructive wind, I couldn’t see across my suburban street, and it left dunes of dust in the streets. ***

Sounds like a common sandstorm to me.