Spoke with a group working “mays landing nj” this morning. They report this is a total clusterfck. Damage assesment which is key to restoration is poor at best. Crews allocations are poor at best.

This is a “16 man crew” that have been given 2 assignments over 2 days. One was to remove small tree, pick up 2 spans of wire and energize circuit. Other was to remove limb and energize circuit.

From my conversation with man in charge he’s telling me these people have little to no idea how to do this restoration. They have also been harrassed by the public for sitting in parking lot waiting for local utitlity instructions. Local utitlity will not turn over areas to our people to work and demand to have full control. This is NOT how it’s done if you want the lights back on in timely manner.

Others are reporting similar scenarios in other locations.

I forgot to mention that by the time the power came back on Thursday night, I was nestled into my reclining chair with a headlamp, a beer, a book, and a blanket. I was settling into another night without electricity, and I was starting to get the hang of it. 🙂

Staten Island was at the absolute center of destruction — with more lives lost than any other area.

The count is still rising — as bodies are still being found.

Entire areas have been flattened — Biblically.

Here’s the real deal. If you stay in your home and survive that is the easy part. After that you BETTER be prepared to be self sufficent for at least 5 days.

Food, water, fuel, medecine etc. The GOV will not be their to help except in life threatening emergencies and WHY should they ? YOU put their lives in danger by staying! Now I do realize some could not or did not have the means to leave. I feel for those.

What’s happening now in Staten Island and other places is predictable. It’s not pretty and it’s gona get worse before it gets better simply because of the # of people that need help.

Its an opinion, one I hadnt thought instantly deserved having a label pasted on. I guess you hadnt lost your liberal roots entirely.

RCP poll put Obama up .3.

It will be interesting to see how the MSM handles this. My guess is the real critical stuff will come out after Tuesday. A notable exception is the NBC/Ann Curry piece on Staten Island.