Anyone heard from Hindoo?

2VU0609
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:36:59 +0000

I am also a resident in the Western half of Kentucky, in fact in one of the areas considered to be hardest hit. I try never to pin it down exactly on CC. The damage here is incredible and after all downed trees are removed, as well as damaged trees that are topped out and will be vulnerable to disease, pests, and winds, our area will easily lose over half of the established trees. I have been lucky to have power restored to my home after 48 hours and seeing the temperature steadily rise on the thermostat from 46 degrees Thursday morning (luckily had a good friend with excellent gas logs who invited me to their home Wed. night) to the 60s, I felt like I had won the lottery. Like Hindoo, I have developed a passion for a new issue - a federal project underwriting a mandate to bury as many power lines as practicably possible over the next 20 or so years. We should be spending money proactively instead of reactively. While such a project would not only save money in the long term, the human costs of this disaster could be avoided.