Blizzard Warning in Connecticut

[gehayi]

They're predicting that we'll get up to three feet of snow by the time the snow ends on Saturday. It's the weight on the wires I'm worried about, because it doesn't take much for us to lose power around here

Comments

[gehayi]

According to Connecticut Light & Power...no, they haven't, not in my town. The excuse, according to Town Hall, is that it would cost too much and no one on the town council wants to be responsible for voting to spend money for something that people wouldn't benefit from on an everyday basis.

[gehayi]

My understanding is that approach to infrastructure generally ends up costing more, what with emergency labor in bad weather and overtime costs, but nobody asks us...

I did point that out to the person I was speaking to, but he said that the cost would just become a campaign issue that got anyone who supported it voted out of office. (And I couldn't say he was wrong, given that one of the Republican candidates for state senator last year spent her campaign complaining about how much money her opponent was wasting on things she didn't approve of. She lost, by the way.)

[hekatelesedi]

Sorry to butt in, but what?! Everyone benefits from reliable power. On an everyday basis, no less. God I hate politicians.

[gehayi]

I know. I KNOW. Politicians can be very, very short-sighted.

[hekatelesedi]

Someone should really explain that whole "ounce of prevention/pound of cure" thing.