ranger5oh

So I havent had power for almost a week now. My neighborhood looks like downtown Beirut after a bombing, and there is so much debris on the road it is a pain to cycle. The power company said , "your neighborhood is the worst we have EVER seen!"

If we have power before tuesday, Ill be amazed.

ANyway, I finally made it to a Bread Co with interweb, so I posted... please note I now have a red star yeah!

Thanks for letting me rant for a second.

happy trails,
a.

Bikewer

Hang in there! I work at Washington University, and we are putting up some 300 out-of-state UE workers who are doing 16-hour shifts trying to get things going again.

We've moved a couple of our police officers and their families into dorm rooms till they get power back on.

Banzai

Just remember...there's no such thing as global warming...this is not part of any trend.

Please don't worry, and don't even consider enacting change. That is all.

spinnaker

What does no power have to do with cleaning the streets? It seems to be you Municipal Authority is falling down on the job. Probably something silly like the workers can't punch in so they can't work.

Bikewer

The problem with the St. Louis area in general is whichmunicipal area. I found the St. Louis metro street department hard at work yesterday, moving down major roads with massive tree-chippers to chop up all the debris.
But in the "greater St. Louis area", we have 99 municipalities of varying size, who may have their own street department, contract with St. Louis county for same, or use private contractors.

This particular storm came up suddenly, virtually out of nowhere, and downed thousands of trees, signs, etc, which in turn knocked out power lines and transformers all over. Then we got another blast Friday, with another round of locally-damaging winds. Fun stuff, and it was during some of the hottest days of the year.

Mariner Fan

I've heard about this. Man, that sucks. Hope you get the power back soon.

farrellcollie

I am in South City and we just got power late Sunday afternoon - but they still have 250,000 + without power and are now saying thursday for some. Biking at night is treacherous because of all the limbs and debris on the roads - a good light is the only way to go.

carless

"National Weather Service remains in effect for most of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. Temperatures are nearing record levels - the all-time high for July 21 is 104, in 1938; and the record for July 22 is 100, in 1978. "
It was 106 today.

Nightshade

There is no such thing as "Peak Oil" either. The earth will never run out of oil.

This is the way our cities will look all the time after "Peak Oil" & "Global Warming" so just continue
to live as your are.

ollo_ollo

Olympia falls short of record temp again on Sunday: News Flash, it gets hot in the Summer!