Can the lamestream media say”Katrina”?
Last night, on I-95 just north of Savannah ... Streams of utility work trucks, with yellow lights flashing ...all headed SOUTH! With all the outages still happening for Sandy, why are all these trucks heading south? (Turned away?)
There should be a huge headline on LI -
YOUR UNIONS AT WORK! TURNING AWAY NON-UNION HELP AND SUPPLIES ON NON-UNION TRUCKS FROM OTHER STATES - so you can go without power for weeks!
“While oversight has drifted, politicians have installed relatives and friends in executive positions at the authority, turning it into a rich source of patronage jobs, “
....which is exactly what will happen with ObamaCare. Doing without power is bad, but you or your family members will die from malfeasance in the government-run health care system.
There was this Morning on FoxNews a report stating word to the effect that some of the out af area electrical work crew said that “bubble-gum-and-bailing-wire” would be a optimistic assesment of what they saw in Long Island. They said that they didn’t know how this EVER worked.
As a smarter than I FReeper pointed out, all those underground electric systems are going to have problems because of the salt that got into them. It might take weeks or months but they will degrade.
Ya can baffle 'em with BS, until the lights go out.
Private power companies were forced out of business by the federal government under the reign of FDR via the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Now we have quasi-governmental, monopolistic power companies that really don't care about the customers because they don't have to.
Compare/contrast public education.
What people do not realize that LIPA’s failure is a failure of government, LIPA is NOT a company, but a “a municipal subdivision of the State of New York” and a monopoly.
From wikipedia:
“The Long Island Power Authority or LIPA [ “lie-pah” ], a municipal subdivision [1] of the State of New York, was created under the Long Island Power Act of 1985 to acquire the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO)’s assets and securities. A second Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), a wholly owned subsidiary of the first, acquired LILCO’s transmission and distribution system in May 1998.
LIPA, a non-profit municipal electric utility, owns the retail electric system on Long Island and provides electric service to over 1.1 million customers in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. LIPA does not own any electric generation assets on Long Island, and it does not provide natural gas service. “
They won't understand.
Yes, “DMV style” healthcare.
They will unionize the medical industry and it will resemble the quality and professionalism of public education.
When we had a disaster in Texas - hurricane Ike - there was one, single minded mission to re-establish civilization. Our Governor (like others on the Gulf) had plans of cooperation with other electric companies to restablish power and services. They came in large carrivans from all along the coast into Texas and it still took a few weeks before everyone had service. We had hotels set up in advance for them to stay in and coordiate their work. There was no other “interest” other than fixing what was broken as professionally and quickly as possible. People appreciated this and showed this respect to those workers who slaved long hours to make things right again.
The same with garbage collection services. All planned out ahead of time and workers showed their commitment to rescuing the victims from the awfulness of the disaster; working long, hard hours. They were treated like heros. Everyone remembers them and their sacrifice.
All these guys made A LOT of money along the way as should be. But that came along as a natural consequence to their professional mission of restoration.
This is a totally foreign culture to the Sandy victims where greedy union workers and mindless resenting residents - blame and hate, hate, and hate. So sad. It’s going to be broken for a long time. The spirit of survival is dead in multicutlurally cleansed humanist societies. New York has an edgy, cool culture; but cool has nothing to do with disaster recovery. It’s the opposite.
I wonder how things would be going if Shoreham had ever come on line.
Either there would be plenty of power right now, or the idiots in charge would have FUBAR'ed everything in the past 30 years and it'd be another Japan. (Sadly, probably the latter.)