Thank you Chuck from Toronto! (And Chris up in that bucket there!)
This is Chuck. I didn't ask too many questions, didn't talk too much. Man had a job to do. Man was working on the downed power lines in Woodbridge, Connecticut, very far from his home. Man is my hero. Probably should at least buy him a BEER.
The headline from the CT Post reads: "More than 300,000 still without power; 3 entire towns in the dark". The Wall Street Journal has an article about angry crowds razzing the gov. Some of us are more realistic. Some of us look at the hellacious mess that Irene made and hunkered down for a long wait. Some of us are happy that we can go to a nice library and read and go online. Some of us are grateful that it was only a tropical storm. Some of us realize what might have happened, if a storm as big as Irene had hit us with force.
If you don't know about that storm, read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane
And we are pleased as punch, some of us, that we are getting our power back pretty soon. If it takes a few more days, so be it. It could have been so much worse. And we are so glad that there are so many well-trained and diligent folks coming in from all over the place to get us up and running again.
Chuck and Chris and the rest of these folks are going to be working on this task for a long time. We have a lot of trees, a lot of downed lines. It's a big job.
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Thank you Chuck from Toronto! (And Chris up in that bucket there!)
This is Chuck. I didn't ask too many questions, didn't talk too much. Man had a job to do. Man was working on the downed power lines in Woodbridge, Connecticut, very far from his home. Man is my hero. Probably should at least buy him a BEER.
The headline from the CT Post reads: "More than 300,000 still without power; 3 entire towns in the dark". The Wall Street Journal has an article about angry crowds razzing the gov. Some of us are more realistic. Some of us look at the hellacious mess that Irene made and hunkered down for a long wait. Some of us are happy that we can go to a nice library and read and go online. Some of us are grateful that it was only a tropical storm. Some of us realize what might have happened, if a storm as big as Irene had hit us with force.
If you don't know about that storm, read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane
And we are pleased as punch, some of us, that we are getting our power back pretty soon. If it takes a few more days, so be it. It could have been so much worse. And we are so glad that there are so many well-trained and diligent folks coming in from all over the place to get us up and running again.
Chuck and Chris and the rest of these folks are going to be working on this task for a long time. We have a lot of trees, a lot of downed lines. It's a big job.
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