Hurricane Sandy Victims: 'We are living like animals'

A lot of the wiring was underground but these areas flooded and the wiring was destroyed.

You need to keep something in mind. Tropical weather may be very unpleasant and uncomfortable. But if you are wet and the temperatures drop into the teens and 20s you WILL freeze to death, plain and simple.

Stop comparing a few mosquitos and sweaty hot nights to being put into a freezer to die.

Get a grip. Like to see you survive a 10 degree night in a sleeping bag. LMAO.

You already receive a huge guaranteed subsidy from the US taxpayer. What more do you want? Stop complaining...

I talked to someone whose working for national grid and is down there on long island.

The reason for the delay is that miles and miles of poles are down

Also the streets are clogged with rocks and debris. He said that even if he had a crew of 1,000 working 24/7, which they are it would take 1-2 months just to set up the poles, never mind putting the wires on them.

he said he turned down a street, putting poles up and they couldn't go any further, because someone's yacht had washed up in the middle of the street.

This is such an epic disaster, due to all the downed poles, the wiring, the entire grid.

New York is hated by most of the country.

A few years back a big transformer blew in a storm in minus 36 here in BC. I was at the end of the line. It took 5 days for the power to be restored. The people in town got there's first and us rural property's were last.

We did not have all the destruction that area did and it still took 5 days. That area got ripped apart. I have seen the satelite footage of it. Its not going to get fixed in a blink on an eye. When you live in a high hazard danger zone sooner or later this stuff happens. You have to accept things for what they are or make a move out of harms way.

There is bound to be more of this over time as we go along here. People need to rethink where they live and not live. Make some changes. if it means starting over then you do just that. They still have their lives. Others lost theirs.

Not an easy situation.

And YET so many of those in the worst affected areas managed to vote for Obama.

Unbelievable.

if they put the powerlines underground, nobody would have lost power. Plus, they don't gotta cut down all the trees a long the roads. It's expensive to bury the powerlines though, so they don't do it. I don't know too much about it, maybe it's expensive because they don't have enough equipment to do it on a large scale.

I can't imagine though, it's less expensive when they have to replace all those transformers. Here the underground lines just have metal boxes on the ground, I've never seen anyone do maintenance on them in 20 years. They are built to last decades with virtually no maintenance.

Nobody strings fiber optic cables along telephone poles, why do it with power lines?

i am not complaining you made the accusation and got slapped down for it. now you are whining like a girl?

yes that and the fact that lipa ran out of new poles. yea really they did. lol

No, the ones adversely affected voted for Romney. Remember HAARP is accurate to within 10 feet. That'll teach their sorry asses for voting for that asshat.

And that asshole Cuomo is bitching at them for not being prepared.

There is no utility that is prepared for an epic disaster like this. These guys working so hard to repair things, and Cuomo comes along and whacks them for not having done well enough.

The one whose performance was inadequate was Cuomo, and the more he tries to deflect the blams onto other scapegoats, the more blame he earns himself.

I hope we can throw out Cuomo in the next election. His performance is disgusting.

Sorry but you are WRONG!
Underground Power and data cables are pressurized...
This low pressure is applied at a constant rate to keep moisture out...
How do I know this?
Because I used to work for Ma Bell..

Air pressure for data cables and oil pressure for HV or high voltage cables.

if they put the powerlines underground, nobody would have lost power. Plus, they don't gotta cut down all the trees a long the roads. It's expensive to bury the powerlines though, so they don't do it. I don't know too much about it, maybe it's expensive because they don't have enough equipment to do it on a large scale.

I can't imagine though, it's less expensive when they have to replace all those transformers. Here the underground lines just have metal boxes on the ground, I've never seen anyone do maintenance on them in 20 years. They are built to last decades with virtually no maintenance.

Nobody strings fiber optic cables along telephone poles, why do it with power lines?

Let me explain this before Facebook becomes a million people posting how all electric wires should be underground. Flooding can get into electric conduits underground, underground line blows up, melts inside conduit. Takes multiple crews digging up the street and redoing conduit to fix at a minimum. If an Overhead wire gets knocked down. One crew with a bucket truck can fix in a couple hours. And don't get me started with the reactive power implications of an entirely underground system......

This was taken from my cousin's husbands Facebook status, he works for Los Angeles power and water, I believe he is an engineer.
Also during hurricane Issac , I lost power for 5 days and the lines in my neighborhood are underground.

In my small colonial city, in the downtown all transmission lines are underground,,,, In rainy season it floods continuously. They're strung inside plastic tubing and are unaffected.

No, people who care for animals have feed put up for the winter. NY and NJ did nothing to prepare.

I find it hilarious that they would protest. Are they missing all common sense? What do they think they will accomplish? If they were protesting the Unions kicking out non union crews, I could understand it. But they weren't, they were protesting the government not taking care of them.

When true trouble comes, how many hundreds of millions will be dead in this country because they will expect to be cared for by people who never come???

This was taken from my cousin's husbands Facebook status, he works for Los Angeles power and water, I believe he is an engineer.

Sorry but you are WRONG!
Underground Power and data cables are pressurized...
This low pressure is applied at a constant rate to keep moisture out...
How do I know this?
Because I used to work for Ma Bell..

Air pressure for data cables and oil pressure for HV or high voltage cables.

Except that the racist liberal media is praising Obama for failing.