Hurricane Sandy

[Spexxvet]

Electricity flickered once, here. Our new construction fucking leaked. A couple of substantial sized limbs (think upper arm diameter) fell, but were considerate enough to not fall on anything. Lots of interesting wind. I'm going out for a drive soon, to look at the local creeks.

Originally Posted by Ibby

I've been saying for years that we need a massive national energy infrastructure security investment. Think of the stimulative effects on the economy! Think of the health and safety improvements! think of the quality-of-life effects!
We live in a really very stormy nation. Why the fuck isn't it just OBVIOUS to put a lot of money into helping mitigate the common effects of that?

This is one of my hot points. We are a reactive nation. We'd rather pay over and over for repairs and losses due to outages than to proactively fix something.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I did lose an old, dead tree but the tree didn't completely fall. It's held up at a 60-degree angle by another tree. Now I wonder whether I should just leave it to the new owners. Maybe they will like it like that.

Leave it. It adds character to the place.