The maximum surge was at the Sabine Pass again, just like Rita, so you know it was bad to the east, but the media goes for the big cities and ignores the rest. They picked up on the flooding in Chicago, but have been ignoring everything outside of Houston related to this hurricane.
You won’t see my county ever appear on the MSM, because the local officials were so angry about what they did back in 1995, that deputies turn media trucks away. Nobody has time for these fools. Deputies had to intervene to keep the Air Force from shooting them when they tried to just drive into clearly marked US Government property to “get better shots of the damage”. They do a lot of classified things around here, and the guards really will shoot you. In this particular incident, the area is definitely off limits because every time there’s a hurricane unexploded munitions are uncovered.
]]>The infrastructure was better in Houston and apparently none of the networks own a boat.
]]>My Mother’s house is actually on the same block as mine but her power comes from a main feed line, so she gets power back almost immediately. I’m on a spur on the side street, and I’m lucky if I get it back in less than a week.
The people in the little towns are usually on a low priority secondary line, and it only feeds that town, so they are screwed. Even after they get the secondary up, they generally work from a central location. It gets really annoying when they get power to the “priority” locations, like schools, before residences, and the schools are out of session.
We’ll see how soon Steve gets it back, but I agree, no one was talking about the obvious, that it wasn’t just Houston – the whole coast from Houston around to at least Cameron was going to get pounded. Hell, they were very nervous in New Orleans and shut some of the flood gates.
]]>Note that once the flood waters go down, most cities will have power within 24 hours. It’s the remote small towns that end up going without power for a week or more. With Gustav, my brother’s power was off for 20 hours. My mother’s power was off for four days, and she was further from the coast and got less wind and rain — but she was in a smaller town than my brother’s, and one that was nestled amongst pine trees that fell over and toppled many wires. So the “no power for a week or more” is a bit misleading. Yes, there are places that won’t have power back for a week or more — but I bet you that all of metropolitan Houston outside the coastal flood zones will have power back within 48 hours.
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