Apparently, if it’s Saturday, I am not allowed to have any electricity.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
It is shabbat, but i am pretty sure its ok to have electricity, as long as you dont turn anything on or off.
Electricity? Back when I was a kid we didn’t even have Saturdays!
Heh. Welcome to my world:
In coastal Massachusetts north of Boston, lost power Friday midmorning, got it back a couple of hours later, lost it again at 7:00 p.m., just got it back a couple of hours ago. Fortunately I’d replaced my nonfunctional battery-operated storm lantern just a few days ago, I have a gas stove and lots of matches, and sticking the perishables in a box out on the deck to preserve them till the fridge came back on made for a great excuse to clean the refrigerator.
And no trees fell on my house or car. But hoooo-eeee did those winds howl and roar!
Also, kept tripping over the cat.
Around here is was cloudy, with rain this morning. About a quarter inch, with no wind at all. We only got three hours of sunshine mid day, and it stayed chilly, I doubt it got over 65 degrees.
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Teachers in Oklahoma are making plans to go on strike.
http://ktul.com/news/local/oklahoma-teachers-planning-a-statewide-strike
Imagine how the people in Puerto Rico feel.
It’s all a racket.
Big Generator causes them.
Third world electric grid
other countries bury the lines you know.
That’s actually less of a no-brainer than you’d think. The cost difference per mile is significant; it’s harder to locate and get at to repair faults; installation is significantly more disruptive in thickly settled areas, just for three considerations. Not saying undergrounding is never a good idea, especially in urban areas, but this country has a lot of widely scattered population, meaning a smaller pool of ratepayers per distribution company to support a higher capital expenditure. It also means, in older systems, replacing a massive amount of infrastructure already in place well before its economic life is over.
We do have a massive infrastructure problem looming over us, and not just in roads and bridges and electric lines. A lot of the big cities, for example, have ancient water and sewer pipes buried in their streets — cast iron, clay, even wood! The expense to dig them all up and replace them with modern materials is simply unthinkable, so they continue in place till they rupture, or a construction project requires opening the street, and then that segment can be replaced. Gas companies have many miles of cast iron and unprotected steel pipes which must be replaced, but again, doing it all at once is impossible, so they prioritize them by leak rates and potential for catastrophe.