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In reply to the discussion: I'm from the south. [View all]kentauros
(29,414 posts)And that was back when the power company had company-linemen, did regular maintenance on the lines, and kept it all in tip-top working order. We discovered what happens during Ike when corporations don't want to pay for that kind of "gold standard" level of maintenance. I'm sure that was also part of the power problems after Katrina.
I have to admit that I can't imagine going that long without power. While I've spent two weeks at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, that's still only two weeks.
There's a Top Gear episode out there somewhere when they came to the US, and drove across the South. They ended the episode in New Orleans, and were absolutely appalled that the place still looked like it had gone through a massive disaster, and that was years after Katrina. Even hard-core conservative member Jeremy Clarkson was in shock at what they were seeing and how we, as a country, hadn't done anything more to help that area out.
(gotta leave work now, and will pick this up later )