Comments on: Rainy days and Monday’s http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/2008/09/15/rainy-days-and-mondays/ News via Planet Waves Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:24:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mysti Easterwood http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/2008/09/15/rainy-days-and-mondays/#comment-183020 Mysti Easterwood Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:20:28 +0000 http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/2008/09/15/rainy-days-and-mondays/#comment-183020 I realize I am trying to shout over a media and governmental machine of impossible proportions, but IKE WAS NOT A BIG DEAL. I have (conservatively) 25 friends in Houston - none of them are flooded out, a few trees are downed, the streets are cleared and passable. What *is* a problem is the fact that the consortium of electricity providers (deregulation means that Houston has at least a dozen, uncoordinated entities) have not turned the grid back on, for reasons that no one can quite fathom. This was not an emergency. 100 mph winds, even when 500 miles wide (a sneeze for the Gulf) die out about 100 miles past land contact. This one did as well. I am still puzzling over the fact that people in Seattle and Chicago woke up this weekend to dire headlines about a medium sized hurricane in Texas. We have 10-20 of these a year. Usually at least 5 hit - annually, and this one came in at a lowball Cat. 2. The noise is being used to create something, or as a social experiment. Sigh. I realize I am trying to shout over a media and governmental machine of impossible proportions, but IKE WAS NOT A BIG DEAL. I have (conservatively) 25 friends in Houston - none of them are flooded out, a few trees are downed, the streets are cleared and passable. What *is* a problem is the fact that the consortium of electricity providers (deregulation means that Houston has at least a dozen, uncoordinated entities) have not turned the grid back on, for reasons that no one can quite fathom.

This was not an emergency. 100 mph winds, even when 500 miles wide (a sneeze for the Gulf) die out about 100 miles past land contact. This one did as well. I am still puzzling over the fact that people in Seattle and Chicago woke up this weekend to dire headlines about a medium sized hurricane in Texas.

We have 10-20 of these a year. Usually at least 5 hit - annually, and this one came in at a lowball Cat. 2. The noise is being used to create something, or as a social experiment.

Sigh.

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