Heard something good on the news about hurricane aid

[bleedingheart]

Apparently our local power company (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is part of some special team and Duquesne Light has trucks ready to go south to assist with restoring power to the areas around New Orleans.

Call me crazy but I would rather hear about this stuff than watch some reporter stand in hurricane winds saying..."wow it is blowing hard"...well duh...

edit: to note where the power company is..

[FloridaPat]

1. You would not believe all the power trucks that came to Florida

last year. Trucks from dozens of states. It was amazing. These people are great. Now here's a group that should get a medal.

[bleedingheart]

I think it is wonderful and I am glad there is a service like this.

[underpants]

2. Lcoal Red Cross on radio -warning to those not able to see the big picture

they have a standing agreement with the Southern Baptist Convention to deliver meals. The Red Cross packages the meals and the SBC provides volunteers to hand them out.

Big Picture here folks BIG PICTURE

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[bleedingheart]

4. They aren't leaving right this moment and they will be here until

the storm passes over us...

And...they belong to a group that does this type of reciprocal work so when we have had disasters other states have sent their utility companies to help us...I guess you don't want to honor that agreement???

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[bleedingheart]

6. the mills went because the corporations decided that cheap

foreign labor was the "answer" and the never upgraded those mills. It is really pathetic that 100 year old furnaces will being used to make steel.

Who is to say that some good hearted Southerners or even former Pittsburghers living down south didn't help out flood victims?

If anything the fact that the LA National Guard is in Iraq and not home to help will probably make it even more apparent that they voted for a war mongering president... I also have to remember that not all the people in LA voted for him....and they deserve a chance.

[Bridget Burke]

9. How many of your jobs went to New Orleans?

By the way--the city was built centuries ago. The geographic situation has changed with time.

Is Pittsburgh a center of culture & one of the unique cities of the USA?

[kick-ass-bob]

7. was the warning of a deleted thread not enough?

New Orleans is a link between the Atlantic and the busiest river in the US.

There is a FUCKING REASON to build the city... removed ...

[blondeatlast]

8. If you are crazy, so am I. The story is the people who are displaced

and the hardships they face, and the incredible amount of planning and dirty fingernails science involved in alleviating the devastation.

I love hearing about the kind of stuff you describe; putting science, psychology, and manual labor together to get things done.

[miss_kitty]

10. We had some severe weather and lost a lot of electricity

I can't remember what it was-but in the next few weeks the area was flooded with power trucks from Alberta and BC as well as Oregon. And people that hardtimed the Canadians over the exchange thing (when they were in their gear, buying snacks and meals) had their asses socially kicked.

Thank you Canada! and Oregon too!