A tiny little storm rolls through, and the next thing you know, half the East Coast gets plunged into darkness.
Why?
As a raving paranoid off his meds, I speculate thusly:
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1) Obama was playing with Biden and accidentally tossed Joe’s favorite squeak-toy into a transformer.
2) The EPA forgot we actually still USE all those coal-fired plants they shut down.
3) Jay Carney got carried away during an imaginary game of “Mission: Impossible” and cut the red wire.
4) Mr. Burns will NOT give you back your Dental Plan!
5) Luke is a crack shot with those proton torpedoes. “Bullseye, womprat!”
6) That dang Morpheus keeps unplugging people.
7) Leonardo DiCaprio woke up and everything just fell apart.
8) Godzilla!
9) The lights were turned off in preparation for Obama’s climatic appearance on stage at the Democrat Convention. What a drama queen!
10) Unfortunately, the East Coast “smart grid” uses the same “smart” as Obama’s “smart diplomacy”.
11) Who is John Galt?
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Speaking of John Galt, a local elected Democrat had this to say:
“I will not accept the timetable of July the 6th, said Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), shortly after Pepco announced some homes would not have their power restored until Friday or even later. “Having our citizens go seven days without utilities in my opinion is not the kind of service we should expect.”
Brings to mind the sort of political mind-over-reality huffenpuffery of the politicians who caused the Taggart Tunnel disaster.
I blame myself. Really.
Hurricane Irene last year left many thousands without power last summer for a week or 2. I was in a very lucky little pocket, but I did lose cable during that time.
Joe Biden: Where’s my froggy?
Thank you for #4 Harvey, reminds of the days when that show was watchable.
As to the power, its the Northeast, deal with it. Our grids need to be updated, maybe if we could provide some kind of incentive to the electric companies, like a discount on the money the give to the gov’t, there’s a term for it, we did it a lot before 2009. . .
Maybe the Dems could pull their national convention out of Carolina and put it on a nice scenic train through the Rockies?
What could go wrong?
PS, I liked #2 the pointiest.