Lines and lines in front of Gas stations;lines and lines in front of the grocery stores; not sure why, we cannot put anything in the refrigerators.
Not much police presence; America is handling itself without much authority on the road..
We the drivers and the commuters are organizing traffic at crossroads; we are more than usual courteous, we go in turns, and we turn in turns...
Virginia and DC; the most affected declared emergency, deployed the National Guards, but we do not see them, they are there, I think, if we need them...
Congress and the President are silent; they live here, but it would not be prudent to talk electricity now, and they have electricity although living in no electricity zones...But I’m not going to play politics here, our Federal Government and constitutional departments must function regardless if the other neighbouring streets have or have not electricity. National defence is the bottom line friends, or Mates as the Aussies would say...
The electric companies, Dominion, PEPCO and others are issuing hourly progression reports; they never talk about what happened or how, they never talk about where it happened, they never talk about what are they going to do to prevent it from happening again. They just talk that they are repairing, and they are. But the other information, we Americans, do not need to know.
The lucky ones have generators; very few though, in my neighbourhood, only one, others .luckier, probably, flooded hotels around here, The Ritz Carlton and the Four Seasons are fully booked..and Motel 6 as well..But again, not to play politics, it could be because the 4th of July holiday on Wednesday..Wait a minute; it cannot drag that long, on the fourth of July we celebrate America’s birth, no way without electricity, no way without fireworks...but the electric companies are telling us that it could take weeks before full restoration....
Average Americans like me flooded McDonalds and Starbucks for free electricity, free Air Conditioning and free Internet...But as a courtesy at least order something...
Public Libraries are open, Cooling centers are open;and this is America. You have or you have not, there is a place for you. But you need to learn, and you need to go to that place and try at least to reach it..
Not much police presence; America is handling itself without much authority on the road..
We the drivers and the commuters are organizing traffic at crossroads; we are more than usual courteous, we go in turns, and we turn in turns...
Virginia and DC; the most affected declared emergency, deployed the National Guards, but we do not see them, they are there, I think, if we need them...
Congress and the President are silent; they live here, but it would not be prudent to talk electricity now, and they have electricity although living in no electricity zones...But I’m not going to play politics here, our Federal Government and constitutional departments must function regardless if the other neighbouring streets have or have not electricity. National defence is the bottom line friends, or Mates as the Aussies would say...
The electric companies, Dominion, PEPCO and others are issuing hourly progression reports; they never talk about what happened or how, they never talk about where it happened, they never talk about what are they going to do to prevent it from happening again. They just talk that they are repairing, and they are. But the other information, we Americans, do not need to know.
The lucky ones have generators; very few though, in my neighbourhood, only one, others .luckier, probably, flooded hotels around here, The Ritz Carlton and the Four Seasons are fully booked..and Motel 6 as well..But again, not to play politics, it could be because the 4th of July holiday on Wednesday..Wait a minute; it cannot drag that long, on the fourth of July we celebrate America’s birth, no way without electricity, no way without fireworks...but the electric companies are telling us that it could take weeks before full restoration....
Average Americans like me flooded McDonalds and Starbucks for free electricity, free Air Conditioning and free Internet...But as a courtesy at least order something...
Public Libraries are open, Cooling centers are open;and this is America. You have or you have not, there is a place for you. But you need to learn, and you need to go to that place and try at least to reach it..
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