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Anybody know where there is a stray cat colony in eastern Monmouth County? My fish is thawing. I can cook it, but I can't eat it all. Thought I'd feed cats rather than toss it.
I don't live in other states, I live in NJ, so I really don't care what other states are doing.
Did we learn nothing after Sandy? Why are towns still planting trees underneath power lines?
Of course almost nothing was learned after Sandy. Thousands of people in the US still lost power after a little rain and wind. The situation is not very dissimilar to India or any other third world country.
But people and towns are planting trees under the power lines because they want to look and enjoy the benefits of the trees, not look at often ugly houses of their neighbors and sun burned grass. And since power lines run on every street, the solution is not to have streets without trees. The best solution is to bury the power lines so that a broken tree branch can never plunge the street into darkness. Another solution is to make the electric poles much taller than tree lines and make them thick enough that falling trees or branches will not damage them. In either case, substantial infrastructure investments are needed from the government. Private utility is not going to invest in those improvements since they don't bring profits. But Americans are apparently OK with third world, crumbling infrastructure. It is seems the country decided that it is more important to give more tax breaks to millionaires and to buy a few useless aircraft careers and other military toys.
the mayors have no control over it and the residents are like "do something mayor." so they tell everyone that they complained to them. my wife does the same thing to me so i have to call and lodge my complaint that accomplishes nothing.
My sister lives in Hackensack, and her power returned 90 minutes ago.
Very sad. From what I know from people I work with, outages in India, in the ares of PUNE almost never last for more than one day. And these are outages from the monsoon rains & flooding...
Quick heads-up: The Wal-Mart in Brick on Rt 88 is closed again.
They said the power was out.
*This as of a half hour ago.. ~9:45AM this morning. They will probably be out all day again.. had to work one day, got paid for the day mid-week because the power was out. So I go in on day off and it is closed. No power, is what they said.
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