Re: OT: Hurricane - utility workers

Posted by JDEM on September 14, 2017 at 07:45:13 from (70.194.2.141):

In Reply to: OT: Hurricane - utility workers posted by JML755 on September 14, 2017 at 06:24:01:

I see a lot of anecdotal reports on places like FB with doom and gloom about the hurricanes. Much looks like nonsense to me.
I was sent down south by the power company I worked for in the 70s. We got food allowance and housing allowance. Plenty of
it. My dad did the same in the 50s and 60s. Kind of a fun adventure each time. I find it hard to believe in these modern
whining times that any power company is forcing lineman to travel down south and starve.

Much of this stuff is silly. Not exactly what I call a "natural disaster" when people build substandard housing in an area
prone to hurricane and flood damage. Especially the Keys. You'd think after the Labor Day hurricane that was a Cat 5 back
in the 30s, they'd learn a lesson?

We were camping in the Michigan UP all week and did not get much news. What I did see what "questionable." Like the woman
crying because a family member would die without a generator? Well duh. If that WAS the case, maybe buying one before a
hurricane might make sense? I also saw a report of two cops (man and woman) killed in the "line of duty" near Naples and
Punta Gorda. I found out later it was two prison workers who drove head-on into each other and not storm related?

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