not exactly easy to repair a system that was constructed over the course of many many years. Ivan raped where I lived, and washed out roads that took over a year to re-open, and made bridges look like Dashes and Underscores
Like so:
[img]http://www.govancleave.com/ivan/i10.jpg[/img]
I went 6 days without power and my particular neighborhood wasn't damaged too much, just exterior house damage, and sand from the barrier islands that was blown over basically sand blasted everyone's cars. 11 days without power from something like this is normal, and Sandy was still not as bad as Ivan I say, just hit an area less prepared than more hurricane-veteran areas. But also, Gulf Power, worked 24/7 Non Stop like slaves, so props to them
NYC and the island are doing odd/even gas days like the 1970s.
We had a big storm here that rolled down from the Yukon/Arctic region one year, and we didn't have power for two weeks. With a huge amount of snow. Calm down East Coast.
Then again almost all of us have wood stoves and are used to dealing with the power going out every year like clockwork.
i didnt have power for 6 days. It wasnt too bad the first few days, but then toward the end the temperature dropped and thats when things got dismal. Im sure thats why people are in an uproar, i can deal with no power entertainment, but being in a cold house all day is incredibly demoralizing.
When Hurricane Rita rolled up the East Texas are I was without power for two weeks. Seeing as how it outright demolished every other utility pole in half the state I'm not surprised it'll take a long time to get power back up there.
[QUOTE=NinjaS;38389227]They firstly need to get the water out before they decide to turn back on the power, I mean come on now think of the train tracks being wasted you know turn the power on them and you'll wreck the whole of america, and other places.
The water needs to go back into the sea where it belongs! :dance:
Everyone should get a bucket and spade to help out..
Also the USA will slowly sink into more debt just think of that 210k of people[/QUOTE]
This post caused me to lose IQ points...
Probably the closest I've ever been to this kind of experience was back in April when a cat. 5 tornado turned my town into a wasteland.
My high-school gym was.. removed almost completely.
Power was out for nine days, fifteen hours. And my family only received power because we're on the same grid as the gas stations up the road which were prioritized.
Water came back on after two days.
People were running up into other peoples houses and stealing shit.
There were nineteen murders, four rapes, sixty seven burglaries, and nine hundred and nine "curfew violations." Over a twelve day period. The curfew being after 9:00 at night, you'd better have a fucking good reason to be out walking around or your ass is getting thrown in the county lock up.
It still bothers me how people will just up and go bat shit crazy when they think they can get away with it, especially since the majority of the police force and emergency response people were preoccupied pulling dead folk out of trees and out from under buildings.
I once didn't have power for a week because snow came unexpected and damaged something in the lines and the power company couldn't fix it for so long.
Answer: Electricity touch water. Electricity can go boomy or zap people to death. Electricity powerstations take long time to get working after water damage.
There's the answer, guys. More at '12
I've a friend who lives in New York. He came back online on Skype after 8 or 9 days of no power. Calls me up and goes "Thank god we finally got our power ba-"
He's been offline for 3 days now.
Aren't diesel generators easy to obtain from home stores?
People aren't very clever these days.
[QUOTE=AK'z;38419370]Aren't diesel generators easy to obtain from home stores?
People aren't very clever these days.[/QUOTE]
Oh that's a very good plan, except for the fact that the stores that sell these generators, the banks with people's money, and the gas stations that sell diesel are all without power as well.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;38423624]Oh that's a very good plan, except for the fact that the stores that sell these generators, the banks with people's money, and the gas stations that sell diesel are all without power as well.[/QUOTE]
The pumps can't be disabled surely, and in rural america I'd definitely have had a backup generator...
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I mean they wouldn't do much in terms of quality living, but simple things like microwave and cooker would be good enough.
[QUOTE=AK'z;38425746]The pumps can't be disabled surely, and in rural america I'd definitely have had a backup generator...
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I mean they wouldn't do much in terms of quality living, but simple things like microwave and cooker would be good enough.[/QUOTE]
If the pumps don't have power, then they aren't going to work, and the tanks where the gas is stored are usually hundreds of feet below ground, so siphoning would be difficult.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;38426343]If the pumps don't have power, then they aren't going to work, and the tanks where the gas is stored are usually hundreds of feet below ground, so siphoning would be difficult.[/QUOTE]
I've been hearing that people are able to get gas though..
wait, I'm British... [B]fuel[/B] not gas. :)
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[url]http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/gas-rationing-in-new-jersey-to-end-tuesday/[/url]
see, it's even rationed.
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