Sunday, August 28, 2011

Tropical Sham Irene: Use your serious voice

In Chatham, facing the Atlantic, the strongest gust reported by NWS so far was at 852 AM and was SE at 18 MPH with a gust of 40 MPH. At JFK airport in New York a few minutes earlier, the strongest wind recorded there so far was at a whopping E at 35 MPH with a gust to 46 MPH.

Yawn.

I love politicians making comments like "we have several trees down" in their serious voice, as one was heard to say on WCVB.

You have "several" ? Across a town ?

In this yard we had dozens after Hurricane Bob.

What would they do then ? Has everyone devolved into a wimp ?

And then there' s the power outages.

The power companies do zero maintenance. They do repairs.

Power lines weeren't meant to be in the air since 1945.

Instead of funding (without question) the Military Industrial Complex, the government at three levels should have fueled the civilian infrastructure for 65 years.

They didn't.

You have power failures because wire is corroded and brittle; when a branch hits it, you lose power. You have power failures because lines weren't buried and because limbs aren't cutaway from lines. That includes the tree huggers who cry over tree limb maintenance.

You don't have power failures because of weather. No weather in New England has been that severe recently to be the cause of failures.

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