intercst
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Waiting for our moron governor to suggest arming the linemenâŚ
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Waiting for our moron governor to suggest arming the linemenâŚ
I know where he was yesterday evening. It wasnât in Texas.
Steve
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What makes you think they are not already armed?
Its sad that power restoration is taking so long. Usually they have agreements with neighboring utilities to send linemen and equipment to make repairs faster. Big storm. Lots of damage. And neighboring utilities also affected. Crews probably coming from across the country. All the overtime they want.
You wonder if they had adequate supplies of replacements like poles, powerlines, cross arms, etc in stock. Or did they run out and have to wait for arrivals from vendors?
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Shortage of bullet proof vests, probably.
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Having a lot of money tied up in a spare parts inventory reduces excessive Executive Compensation. In a Big Business friendly, no regulation state like Texas, there may be no penalty for an obvious Executive management failure.
People get what they vote for.
intercst
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There was a storm went through North Houston about 2 months ago.
Flooded, high winds knocked trees n power lines down. Took a week to get most back up and working. I suspect some of their inventory was used up?
As for Texans hating on the utility workersâŚ
The weekend after the storm, I was in a small town just north of Houston, getting some non-denominational religion. The preacher, before starting the religion part, described driving through the flooded areas with utility workers wading around in thigh deep water, repairing the infrastructure.
He asked us to be grateful for the utility workers and their efforts.
After the sermon, I approached him and expressed thanks for bringing that to our (my) attention.
NOTE: I donât live in the affected area. Iâm still grateful.
No, Iâm not religious, but I will support friends and family regardless of their POV.
ralph
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Houston is a text book example of why large cities with no zoning laws become cess pools to live in. :(. Lots and lots of concrete, relatively flat so little natural drainage, storm sewers that can easily be overloaded, no where for the water to go. Sometimes âgovernment regulationâ is a good thing.
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When I moved to Houston from New York in 1981, the County Judge (in Texas, thatâs the âMayor of the Countyâ) was a Republican Civil Engineer John Lindsay, who really wanted to start doing something about drainage. Of course, anything that required raising taxes was a nonstarter.
https://txarchives.org/hcarch/finding_aids/00041.xml
Houston could today be the âVenice of the Southâ, with residents happily boating around town on a network of drainage canals.
intercst
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Wow!! As in your power might come back sooner if you have a Trump sign in your yard? In a red state what do you expect?
Thought some of you would call that âresponsible exercise of gun rightsâ.
How about 'protected free speech"?
Steve