Where We Live: Still Recovering From Irene
It's been a long week for those without power and without homes.
Five days ago, Tropical Storm Irene battered Connecticut and put nearly a million utility customers in the dark.
Still, Governor Dannel Malloy says the biggest issue facing the state is “power, power, power, power.”
Homes from Bristol to East Haven have been destroyed by flooding. Outages have pushed back school openings by more than a week in some districts.
Today, an update on recovery efforts in the region. We’ll check in with Governor Malloy and Attorney General George Jepsen about where we stand today on issues of power and prices.
We’ll also hear from a reporter in Vermont who has been covering the devastating flooding in that state.
Are you without power? How are you adapting? What’s been your reaction to the government’s handling of Irene?
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Facebook comment from Joan
Just to let you know the Weston playhouse in Weston vt will be having the performance scheduled. All sets, costumes and orchestra pit were damaged but the show will go on.
Listener email from Mary
Has anyone made the ironic point that Hartford was relatively safe place to be during tropical storm Irene ? More importantly for those who have moved (sprawled) to coastal towns and bucolic hinterlands, the increasing impacts of climate disruption (global warming) might become increasingly more expensive - and dangerous.
The West End (Hartford) did not loose electricity, water, or gas. Thus I have been working all week = productivity !
Perhaps those 18th century ship insurance salesmen knew something about challenging weather.
Listener email from Malgosia
I have been listening to part of your show in the car.
My question is, why in the 21st century the power lines are still not buried. I am from Europe and every time I come back home to West Hartford I am astonished at the power posts and the tens of different lines hanging from them. I was just driving on South and North Quaker Ln and many of those posts are leaning every which way.
Our German friends who visited us some time ago were afraid to walk on the street claiming that this does not look safe. Don’t your guests think that a lot of money and man power could be saved in winter and the hurricane if the power lines were underground?
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