This article seems pretty brutal. Company that recently pleaded guilty to bribery failed to properly plan for disaster response, is in charge of this cluster fuck.
400k lost power on the 6th and 196k people were without power 3 days later and some won’t have it back until the 15th. And the state asks county officials if they need help, which they refuse claiming to have it under control.
9 days without power is truely batshit.
Yeah, guilty of bribery and took half a billion dollars to make the grid resilient and cut down branches that might fall on power lines, only for the grid to not be resilient and several branches falling on power lines.
This is like a friend is moving, and I only offer to help 3 days after they already started to move. Then I say they ‘failed their house’ for not accepting my offer to help when they already handled most of it.
“The communities have to identify what their needs are first and that takes some time,” he said. “Then let us know what they need so we can try and source it for them.” – the county agencies, who did not request assistance from the state at any time
The damage is not over 3 days after a storm. They don’t even know what they need yet.
