Infrastructure. Today is the third time this year that we’ve had an electrical outage due to high winds and lasting four or more hours. It has progressively worsened over the past five years as utility usage prices have soared and system maintenance has been put on a back burner. Used to be we would have one or two outages each year, mostly in summer months when there were many electrical storms with heavy rains and in winter when ice and snow overburdened power lines. Since weather patterns have changed dramatically over a relatively short time, the problem has become a year-round and common phenomena. Instead of using excess corporate profits to bolster the electrical grid, companies have allowed nature to outpace their ability to prevent such problems. President Obama had a good idea concerning rebuilding all phases of our nationwide infrastructure; but he has no viable long range plan to carry out necessary repairs and replacements with new and better technologies. He failed to convince Congress, and more importantly, the American people that it was something vital to the welfare of the country. Three things must be maintained to insure that the United States has decent future prospects: National security; education; infrastructure. National security has been vastly over funded as education and infrastructure have been severely under funded. At present, the President and Congress are going to make more and deeper cuts to eduction and infrastructure, while paying only lip service to trimming the huge over abundance of fat from military appropriations.
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The power is on again, but the next storm system through the area will most likely put us once more in the dark. It is what I get for living on the poor side of town.
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From being bored out my ears, I made the photo this morning by window light while it was raining outside. This is a 30 second exposure.
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Have a good Sunday, my friends.
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