February 2003. Man what an ordeal that was. A lot of neighborhoods here have power lines that run along the back side of property lines. Through trees. Lots of trees.
Man, it was a natural disaster of the first order. A year and a half later, the electricity line that comes off the pole and to my apartment building still snakes through a walnut tree. With the rain we had this year, everything was overgrown too.
Suffice to say, political candidates that emphasize basic infrastructure rate high on my list. In other words, none of the local ones...
