As of Monday morning, 33,000 Hartford residents, or 56 percent, were without power, according to city officials.
Very smart. It's always best to have urban areas without power for 7 days if you want to preserve order.
told the Middletown Patch that moods were positive “but two
days of this and I think their nerves are going to get frazzled.”
The first 72 hours after a disaster are critical. Electricity, gas, water and telephones may not be working. In addition, public safety services such as police and fire departments may not be able to reach you immediately during a serious crisis. Each person should be prepared to be self-sufficient - able to live without running water, electricity and/or gas, and telephones - for at least three days following a disaster.
For those who received the lower history and political science grades in Trinity (which was where I could afford to go, not Yale where I was told to go) and elsewhere, no power leads to no refrigeration and no ability to cook. It leads to no gas and no money because there are no banks and no ATM functions. And even if you have these, the loss of any other part disables the rest of the processes of life.
With stores, gas stations and government dysfunctional, what was the government priority ?
Was the priority their delivering thousands of gallons of fuel, or food as they do for people in Iraq and Afghanistan who are never ordered to pay it back and are never told start pumping oil and pay us ?
Not exactly.
They restarted the chemtrail spraying immediately after the storm they enabled.
A US government watchdog has criticised a programme to train Iraqi police, saying it could become a "bottomless pit" for American money.
The report said only some 12% of the money spent in 2011 would be spent directly helping Iraq's police.
"What tangible benefit will Iraqis see from this police training program? With most of the money spent on lodging, security, support, all the MOI [Iraqi Ministry of the Interior] gets is a little expertise, and that is if the program materialises," Mr Assadi was cited as telling the report's authors.
The report also raised questions about the price of the programme. It said the cost of each trainer had risen to $6.2 million (£3.9m) a year.
That's $6.2 million for each American cop or retiree to go stand there in Iraq and tell Iraqis how to pepper spray their citizens for an unlawful coup begun against Rome in 476.
...and people went in search of groceries, gas and coffee.
As many as 884,000 customers lost power after Saturday's storm, which dropped up to 18 inches of wet, heavy snow in some parts of the state. It may take more than a week to restore power to everyone, officials said.
On Sunday, state residents hunted for open grocery stores, coffee shops and gas stations — and hotels with vacancies. Rooms were so scarce that some hotels helped individuals find lodging in Rhode Island.
Long lines and minor skirmishes were reported at gas stations across the state...
Minor, for now. What about in 72 hours ?
On Sunday night, CL&P reported that nearly every town has at least one crew assigned to it, with a priority of coordinating with local officials.
Why weren't these damn fools ready after the Irene sham storm ? Where are the damn generals who are so fast to authorize violations of posse comitatus for weapons and sports events as well as traffic stops, but are absent and then so damn slow when it's you without food or fuel ?
They're criminals. They all go sit high and mighty on interlocking boards of corporations stealing hundreds of thousands to millions in pay after their military "service."
The only people the government and military officers are serving are themselves.
You can't kill and sicken yourself. Only government can do that as I learned on 31 October 1998.
And he's concerned about Halloween.
Then there's Senator Blumenthal that caused my father to wait 15 minutes dead on the ground for a Killingly ambulance on 31 May 2008. Or Larson who went to CCSU with my father...
Both Larson and Blumenthal were briefed by police Captain Tracey Gove about the impact of Saturday's snow storm on West Hartford, then Gove took Larson on a tour of the town, pointing out the damage as he drove.
"It looks like a war zone," Larson said when they got to Chelsea Lane and saw trees and wires strewn across the road.
"It looks like a bomb went off in the neighborhoods," Gove agreed.
It is one. So ask the weather program managers why they're doing it and stop pretending if you don't know already. But you do. You must.
Larson said it will be challenging to get federal assistance for Connecticut. Some people don't believe the federal government should assist town during emergencies, he said. Larson said he hopes they learned a lesson from Tropical Storm Irene and realize the help is needed.
Why is that John Larson ? Since you're in the seat I refused to consider in 1995, do explain how it is that I see billions given to the South in reconstruction after every storm, 146 years out.
Oh, I know why the payola is really handed out after each storm in the South, and so "difficult" for the North, you bet...
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