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Originally Posted by Larry Frey
Pete,
We lost power at 4:00am Sunday and best guess is with half a million homes still without power it's going to be a while. There are crews here from Alabama and Georgia, I can't imagine what this state would have done if the storm came in as a cat 1 or 2.
Hopefully they have learned a lesson and will start keeping the trees cut back from the power lines. If some of that federal stimulus money was used to improve the power grid instead of lining the pockets of political cronies’ we all would have benefited.
Now we await all that water from Allan’s place to flow down thru the already overflowing Connecticut River. Life is good.  |
The problem is a bit more complicated in NH. For most of my life we had a single state regulated utility and the state approved the electric rate. We had a well maintained grid. In the late 90's politicians decided to deregulate electrical power and when that was done the major utility no longer had exclusive ownership of the grid, they had to share the grid with competitiors and thus have no monetary incentive to keep it up beyond minimum standards.