Colin McEnroe Show: Stories Of Disruption And Innovation Post-Irene
We check in with farmers, reporters, a newly wed bride and CL&P.
Published: Sep 01, 2011
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Colin McEnroe Show: Stories Of Disruption And Innovation Post-Irene
There are two Connecticuts right now. One has power and one doesn't. Actually, there might be even more Connecticuts than that, because within the group that has no power there are factions believing that other people are more likely to get their power back first because of socioeconomic status.
Eastern Connecticut thinks western Connecticut gets preferential treatment.
Like a lot of people who do have power, I've found myself helping to host people who drive up from the south to take showers, do some laundry, charge all manner of portable devices and get a cold drink from the fridge.
A lot of things we take for granted seem like special treasures right now, for those of us who can bestow and those who receive.
Today's show is about some of the ways people have improvised when the storm wrecked their plans.
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WNPR discovers there was a hurricane
Wow, Colin. Where have you been all week? Those of us downstate have been without power, water and safe food since the weekend. But your show, until today, has ignored the biggest story of the decade.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. You talked about banjos.
The station we thought we could count on during a crisis let us down. WNPR didn't carry Gov. Malloy's briefiings and has virtually ignored downstate's crisis. The one feature I did hear yesterday was about a tobacco field thT was flooded. How quaint.
From your ivory tower in the Dankosky Building on Asylum Hill you can't see bit for a few miles. Your signal covers the state.. You may not have lost power, but hundreds of thousands did. We were counting on you to cover our plight and you pretended nothing was happening.
Shame on you WNPR. You have lost a listener, a supporter and a contributor.
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