It's a long and honorable family tradition you have; none better. I can't resist saying thank you for your service, for you all provide far more service to the American people than I ever did in the Navy escorting oil tankers for the benefit of Big Oil and Empire.
Half a million Ohioans are appreciative of y'all right now, I can tell you that.
Does anyone have the skinny on the infrastructure bill passed under Biden? It was bipartisan so I am very suspicious that it gave lots of money to corporations with little control.
I really don't know the details. All I know is that I didn't see much evidence of any major infrastructure projects around here, and neither has anyone else I know.
It was a hurricane that hit us and it was called Beryl who knocked out power to over three million of us yet it took our provider three days to get us back online and our lines are buried here where I live anyway which was the difference between what Houston goes through with Centerpoint who is corrupt like all of them are and you guys don't have the real heat and humidity for prolonged days like we do here in Houston area.
No, we usually don't. I grew up in San Antonio and I've been to Houston in the summer many times. One reason I left Texas was because I couldn't stand the weather. I lived with the "dry" heat of Colorado, and got sick of that as well. One reason we moved to Ohio is because we like the climate here.
I neglected to mention that the temperatures were rising, and the humidity was over 90% on Thursday, so good native Texan devotee of the great household god Carrier that I am, I said "fuck that shit" and found a hotel where his presence was strong.
I'm well aware of how vulnerable we both are to prolonged heat stress, and now, unlike 20 or more years ago, we could actually afford to do something about it.
Thanks for the info on how long your power was out, with buried lines. There are undoubtedly many variables on the subject of aerial vs. underground power lines that I don't know about, but I do know we could do a helluva lot better than we are doing now.
Buried lines cost money. A lot of money. And as First Energy owns the state legislature, regulators requiring them to give up some profit just aint happening. Remember, this is the same outfit that caused a blackout across most of the eastern US and Canada in '08 because of an overtaxed power line sagging into a tree. Their solution to this obvious deficiency in their grid? Trim some tree branches. (But not the whole tree, that would cost too much.) As a result, all throughout NE Ohio you will see the distictive shape of trees pared away from power lines in the shape of giant "Vs," as if some titan was displaying its collection of slingshots. But the grid itself? Just waiting for the next branch to say in the right (wrong) way.
I recently had to sell my house to a flipper (southeast of Tampa) because I could not afford repairs or the increased home insurance. Due to financial difficulties, we did not have heat or air conditioning for about five or six years as the air conditioner was broken and I could not have afforded the electric bill anyway. Lots of fans, and blankets in the very cold. Grew up in Philly and then moved to central Illinois for a long spell, so I was actually used to hotter, more humid summers and colder winters. Where we live now, a very large (1920 SF) doublewide, paid for!!!!, we use the air for about eight or ten hours a day at the very most, seems luxurious!, and the bill comes to about $210 or so. Not having a mortgage or that ridiculous insurance payment is bliss.
Yes, we have mostly buried cables. And my refrigerator literally lights up with a message that there has been a power failure, even if just a second, and displays the temps of the freezer and refrigerator compartments, for two days, so I have at least a clue that something happened if I was away.
Just read in The Intercept that the only reason anyone would support Trump is racism, so I am done with the internet for a bit, wave of total disgust just washed over me. Gonna be a childishly vituperative campaign season. I'd rather be in a basket of deplorables than be a Democrat, that's for damn sure. I am not in that basket, but the Dems are pushing me there, because that's all they got. Literally.
I live in NE Tampa, actually right on the edge of Tampa, and rarely lose power, and not in a flood zone. But TECO is getting so expensive that I hear Clearwater is looking into replacing them, which, if it works, will be a signal to Duke (which owns TECO) that they have gone too far. They are asking for another increase. A few weeks ago I got a survey from them, and the entire slant of the survey was to collect compliments, so they could go to their quite owned tame Florida legislature (and that is bipartisan, folks) and get another increase approved. The color "green" will be mentioned a lot, along with "getting ready for climate change". I deleted the survey; there was no actual way to reply to it and call them on it.
I haven't read the Intercept, except when somebody else brings it up, since Glenn Greenwald left it. I don't have a XTwitter account, and that's great for my blood pressure.
The literal Blue Team cheerleaders doing dances protected by Ohio's halo law to introduce their presidential candidate told me the maximum level of maturity to expect from the $kamala/Waltz campaign.
I'll poke fun at them, but I'll be damned if I make following their, and Trump's, antics the main focus of my writing for the next three months. I know how you feel. I saw a Harris/Walz TV ad in the hotel bar. Thought I was going to puke.
I wasn't the only one. The staff immediately changed the channel. You're not alone.
Well, the reason Glenn left the Intercept (and everyone else worth a damn has now as well) is because one of the Blue Team megadonors bought it. Don't exoect anything worth reading to come from there anymore.
Well you old grumpy man you are right on with you commentary. We suffer at home so our government can cause suffering and mayhem around the world. We need to get our government back on track cause currently its a mess.
We can do this by axing the old guard and replacing them with representatives that represent us. Its a beginning at least?
I think it's worth noting that this is also a story of the increasing frequency and intensity of climate crises. Our infrastructure is crumbling, the weather is becoming more hazardous, and many people can hardly handle disasters like this due to their precarious positions. We can't keep going like this.
There have been plenty of monarch butterflies in my neighborhood for the last several years. I don't know if it means anything, other than we let milkweed grow in the back, but there are still a lot of them in some places.
Sad and tragic. Bee populations are dropping as well. I remember here in the Midwest when I took a trip of an hour more I would have to stop to scrub down the squished bugs off the windshield. Not any more. All of food supply depends upon pollinators.
A few years ago I bought some echinacea plants for my garden and a year or two later saw on a report how neonicotinoids are bred into many potted plants so that even if you don't use it, it's still in your garden.
Stay safe OB! To add insult to injury on the issue of vulnerability of the US infrastructure - long in decline, one can expect little to no Federal assistance and then there is the notion of Amerikkkan 'individualism'/survival of the fittest which negates communities coming together in times off crisis, a phenomenon embedded in the DNA of our kultchur and accelerating with the ongoing political wars in Washington and beyond. This feature seems to me to make us unique globally and all the more vulnerable....Over and over again through casual observations of Russian society, they've had to come together for the floods, natural disasters and the international conflicts....I was thinking today, despite the Jewish Voices for Peace and other activist protests, most Amerikkkans seem immune to what's happening in Gaza...(Classic example Episcopalian church service I attended yesterday where they 'progressively' labeled their women clergy with the title 'Mother.....'....Yet no mention of the conflict in Palestine, etc. When I pointed this out to the clergy in charge I got the reply 'It's complicated...') But US geographic isolation is symbiotically related to this 'individualism' /exceptionalism complex and I believe it is to its immediate/long-term detriment....My apologies for the rant....
Respectfully, Ohio, you're simply wrong. Increasing supply is the antidote to price inflation. The only reason it took a couple of years for Reagan is because that's how long it takes to filter out the inflationary spiral, that and reducing government spending, which is what started it all.
It will take as long for a DJT administration also. Of course, if peeps don't vote for the only opposition party, then the Dems get to keep doubling down, and there might be no coming back from that.
How do we increase supply when we're not manufacturing anything? And as for government spending, if you're not willing to cut the defense budget by at least half, you're not serious about government spending.
Long family affiliation with the IBEW here. Myself, father, and grandfather all members.
Electricians, who would work with that shit?
The fearless.
Big brass ones required, no doubt about that.
It's a long and honorable family tradition you have; none better. I can't resist saying thank you for your service, for you all provide far more service to the American people than I ever did in the Navy escorting oil tankers for the benefit of Big Oil and Empire.
Half a million Ohioans are appreciative of y'all right now, I can tell you that.
Does anyone have the skinny on the infrastructure bill passed under Biden? It was bipartisan so I am very suspicious that it gave lots of money to corporations with little control.
It likely went directly to the laundromat.
I really don't know the details. All I know is that I didn't see much evidence of any major infrastructure projects around here, and neither has anyone else I know.
But I do know the grift must flow.
Glad you’re safe! Props to the IBEW workers!
I am glad everything worked out and yes bravo to workers everywhere.
It was a hurricane that hit us and it was called Beryl who knocked out power to over three million of us yet it took our provider three days to get us back online and our lines are buried here where I live anyway which was the difference between what Houston goes through with Centerpoint who is corrupt like all of them are and you guys don't have the real heat and humidity for prolonged days like we do here in Houston area.
No, we usually don't. I grew up in San Antonio and I've been to Houston in the summer many times. One reason I left Texas was because I couldn't stand the weather. I lived with the "dry" heat of Colorado, and got sick of that as well. One reason we moved to Ohio is because we like the climate here.
I neglected to mention that the temperatures were rising, and the humidity was over 90% on Thursday, so good native Texan devotee of the great household god Carrier that I am, I said "fuck that shit" and found a hotel where his presence was strong.
I'm well aware of how vulnerable we both are to prolonged heat stress, and now, unlike 20 or more years ago, we could actually afford to do something about it.
Thanks for the info on how long your power was out, with buried lines. There are undoubtedly many variables on the subject of aerial vs. underground power lines that I don't know about, but I do know we could do a helluva lot better than we are doing now.
Buried lines cost money. A lot of money. And as First Energy owns the state legislature, regulators requiring them to give up some profit just aint happening. Remember, this is the same outfit that caused a blackout across most of the eastern US and Canada in '08 because of an overtaxed power line sagging into a tree. Their solution to this obvious deficiency in their grid? Trim some tree branches. (But not the whole tree, that would cost too much.) As a result, all throughout NE Ohio you will see the distictive shape of trees pared away from power lines in the shape of giant "Vs," as if some titan was displaying its collection of slingshots. But the grid itself? Just waiting for the next branch to say in the right (wrong) way.
I recently had to sell my house to a flipper (southeast of Tampa) because I could not afford repairs or the increased home insurance. Due to financial difficulties, we did not have heat or air conditioning for about five or six years as the air conditioner was broken and I could not have afforded the electric bill anyway. Lots of fans, and blankets in the very cold. Grew up in Philly and then moved to central Illinois for a long spell, so I was actually used to hotter, more humid summers and colder winters. Where we live now, a very large (1920 SF) doublewide, paid for!!!!, we use the air for about eight or ten hours a day at the very most, seems luxurious!, and the bill comes to about $210 or so. Not having a mortgage or that ridiculous insurance payment is bliss.
Yes, we have mostly buried cables. And my refrigerator literally lights up with a message that there has been a power failure, even if just a second, and displays the temps of the freezer and refrigerator compartments, for two days, so I have at least a clue that something happened if I was away.
Just read in The Intercept that the only reason anyone would support Trump is racism, so I am done with the internet for a bit, wave of total disgust just washed over me. Gonna be a childishly vituperative campaign season. I'd rather be in a basket of deplorables than be a Democrat, that's for damn sure. I am not in that basket, but the Dems are pushing me there, because that's all they got. Literally.
I live in NE Tampa, actually right on the edge of Tampa, and rarely lose power, and not in a flood zone. But TECO is getting so expensive that I hear Clearwater is looking into replacing them, which, if it works, will be a signal to Duke (which owns TECO) that they have gone too far. They are asking for another increase. A few weeks ago I got a survey from them, and the entire slant of the survey was to collect compliments, so they could go to their quite owned tame Florida legislature (and that is bipartisan, folks) and get another increase approved. The color "green" will be mentioned a lot, along with "getting ready for climate change". I deleted the survey; there was no actual way to reply to it and call them on it.
I haven't read the Intercept, except when somebody else brings it up, since Glenn Greenwald left it. I don't have a XTwitter account, and that's great for my blood pressure.
The literal Blue Team cheerleaders doing dances protected by Ohio's halo law to introduce their presidential candidate told me the maximum level of maturity to expect from the $kamala/Waltz campaign.
I'll poke fun at them, but I'll be damned if I make following their, and Trump's, antics the main focus of my writing for the next three months. I know how you feel. I saw a Harris/Walz TV ad in the hotel bar. Thought I was going to puke.
I wasn't the only one. The staff immediately changed the channel. You're not alone.
Well, the reason Glenn left the Intercept (and everyone else worth a damn has now as well) is because one of the Blue Team megadonors bought it. Don't exoect anything worth reading to come from there anymore.
Well you old grumpy man you are right on with you commentary. We suffer at home so our government can cause suffering and mayhem around the world. We need to get our government back on track cause currently its a mess.
We can do this by axing the old guard and replacing them with representatives that represent us. Its a beginning at least?
Right on!
In my family, and I tried to be unionized, but it was "frowned upon" in Florida in the early 80's.
I think it's worth noting that this is also a story of the increasing frequency and intensity of climate crises. Our infrastructure is crumbling, the weather is becoming more hazardous, and many people can hardly handle disasters like this due to their precarious positions. We can't keep going like this.
Get used to it, folks. With the accelerating climate crisis in the cause of corporate profit, we ain't seen nothing yet.
I notice it here in NE Wisconsin with our loss of butterflies. I have seen more Monarch butterflies this summer than last .. six. Last summer four.
I was sweeping out my garage yesterday and found a dead moth. The only moth I've seen this summer.
There are the big tragedies of destroyed power grids and neighborhoods, and then the quiet tragedies of lost wildlife and ecosystems.
There have been plenty of monarch butterflies in my neighborhood for the last several years. I don't know if it means anything, other than we let milkweed grow in the back, but there are still a lot of them in some places.
You're fortunate. We have lots of milkweed too. In SW Wis., where I used to live, the situation was the same.
That’s sad. I have no idea why that is.
Sad and tragic. Bee populations are dropping as well. I remember here in the Midwest when I took a trip of an hour more I would have to stop to scrub down the squished bugs off the windshield. Not any more. All of food supply depends upon pollinators.
Check this out... this is one of the main culprits...
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/neonicotinoids-101-effects-humans-and-bees#:~:text=The%20reason%20neonics%20are%20bad%20is%20the%20same,but%20also%20countless%20butterflies%2C%20bees%2C%20and%20other%20wildlife.
A few years ago I bought some echinacea plants for my garden and a year or two later saw on a report how neonicotinoids are bred into many potted plants so that even if you don't use it, it's still in your garden.
Stay safe OB! To add insult to injury on the issue of vulnerability of the US infrastructure - long in decline, one can expect little to no Federal assistance and then there is the notion of Amerikkkan 'individualism'/survival of the fittest which negates communities coming together in times off crisis, a phenomenon embedded in the DNA of our kultchur and accelerating with the ongoing political wars in Washington and beyond. This feature seems to me to make us unique globally and all the more vulnerable....Over and over again through casual observations of Russian society, they've had to come together for the floods, natural disasters and the international conflicts....I was thinking today, despite the Jewish Voices for Peace and other activist protests, most Amerikkkans seem immune to what's happening in Gaza...(Classic example Episcopalian church service I attended yesterday where they 'progressively' labeled their women clergy with the title 'Mother.....'....Yet no mention of the conflict in Palestine, etc. When I pointed this out to the clergy in charge I got the reply 'It's complicated...') But US geographic isolation is symbiotically related to this 'individualism' /exceptionalism complex and I believe it is to its immediate/long-term detriment....My apologies for the rant....
Respectfully, Ohio, you're simply wrong. Increasing supply is the antidote to price inflation. The only reason it took a couple of years for Reagan is because that's how long it takes to filter out the inflationary spiral, that and reducing government spending, which is what started it all.
It will take as long for a DJT administration also. Of course, if peeps don't vote for the only opposition party, then the Dems get to keep doubling down, and there might be no coming back from that.
How do we increase supply when we're not manufacturing anything? And as for government spending, if you're not willing to cut the defense budget by at least half, you're not serious about government spending.