Power should be back tomorrow
David - do you have a loooooooong extension cord?
I saw a
Roadside
Industry
Profiting
Off
Frustrated
Folks guy selling Titan generators out of a trailer. Police were there
Maybe he was legitimate, maybe not.
I have seen 4 generator units sold by Home Depot and they've all been defective. Two we got had sludge in the carbs that we had to disassemble and clean (luckily 4 of us at work knew what to do). Another hasn't worked yet, and the owner was told "no returns" and the replacement for that 1 has broken both engine mounts.
Once the power comes back we'll pretty much be back to normal. Most of the local gas stations were able to open late Wednesday or yesterday.
We were going to relocate our office today as net access, which is critical to us, will be down for an unknown time. Packed everything, shut down he servers and then the phones came on.
No power - just the phones. Power, we were told, could be another 7 to 14 days. With the phones DSL is possible, so as of this evening we're on-line and have plenty of gas available. Unpack everything.
The post Katrina recovery effort was a cluster fluck from day one. No planning, no planned response and no active management till outside resources arrived. This time around things have been better. Granted the problems haven't been as bad, but at least planning was in place and people knew what to do a week before they had to do it. It wasn't perfect but it worked damn well. The needs in BR caught many a little short as most of the advance planning was directed NO's way. The response afterwards has been about all it could be.
Now that it's over let's hope IKE leaves the east coast the hell alone
