19 Sep 2008

  
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Houston's suckiness

Although the media moved on after just 4 days of obsessing about the windows in the Morgan Chase Tower, they never got around to covering Houston which is very damaged, and continues to be screwed up.

Seven days and counting and this place is still more than 50 percent out of power. More than half the street lights are still not working. The soonest my lights will be on is Tuesday. The longest estimate is 4 weeks. This is how the "Energy capitol of the nation" responds to an outage? Seriously, what is the longest that ComEd has left you without power?

It will be a happy day when I leave this crappy backwater town.


 
 
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Sounds like your (conditional) love affair with all things Houston has screeched to a halt . . . and all it took was a little ol' hurricane.

Good to know.

Carl 20 Sep 2008

Ahem. Let me adjust your deliriously incorrect statement; I have never had a love affair with Houston, despite what Houston claims. Now back to my question: What IS the longest ComEd has left you high and dry?

jpeg 20 Sep 2008

ComEd service has never been out for more than an hour in the 8+ years I've lived here.

I must have gotten some bad (third-hand) info regarding your attitude towards Houston . . . my gaffe.

Carl 20 Sep 2008

pussy.
you get your first hurricane and your crying like a baby. Suck it up. I was annoyed when I had to dig my car out of my first blizzard. It just is what it is. Welcome to the Gulf Coast.

kidding... really, do you need anything.... pussy.

kristin 20 Sep 2008

I've cut Houston some slack of late, to make my remaining time here bearable, but I've never loved it. It just doesn't hold its own in terms of the 3 larger U.S. cities. It has precious little culture, no identity and few diversions. The non-Rice people here are quite nice and down to earth.

The longest I recall being out of power with ComEd is 3 days, maybe 4 if our house was ass-deep in water, and that's for a tornado (or massive storm), which can't even be anticipated like a hurricane that takes a week to arrive. If these dicks did anything to prepare for the aftermath, it is imperceptible.

Also my dad was a lineman for ComEd. We KNEW how long it took the city to get back online because he would be gone for all those days, until the job was done. These douchebags took this weekend off!

jpeg 21 Sep 2008

Kristin, you're becoming quite the little Houston booster. I might have to start calling you Mr. Holloway.

jpeg 21 Sep 2008

thems is fightin' words, jpeg.

kristin 21 Sep 2008

 
 
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