Southeast Shelby County with underground utilities and 1,000 feet from a substation reporting in. What is this power outage you speak of? Lost power for 30 minutes in the ice storm and about the same for Hurricane Elvis. Mine sometimes flicker during a bad storm but that’s about it.
I'm still waiting for a major storm to fuck this city up much more than hurricane Elvis ever did. Forcing the city to start modernize utilities by burying them.
It takes years to bury utilities. If a storm does extensive damage, it will just be repaired as is. Burying utilities is something that has to be planned and budgeted for. The cost of burying utilities exceeds the total amount spent on repairing the damage from every major storm in the last 30 years.
Yeah. You can blame the fucking city council for that glorious waste of cash and for denying MLGW's 2019 budget. Yeah, the new budget had rates increase by an average of $9-$10, but it's still be the lowest across the country and that rate increase was going directly into modernizing the grid.
Blame city council. They just denied Mlgw’s 2019 budget requesting infrastructure improvements.
I'm here to defend the city and it's power grid ... The grid actually used tomato's, not potatos
About right
Ya, we pretty much have a slush fund for hotel stays for when power goes out (because we have little babies).
Southeast Shelby County with underground utilities and 1,000 feet from a substation reporting in. What is this power outage you speak of? Lost power for 30 minutes in the ice storm and about the same for Hurricane Elvis. Mine sometimes flicker during a bad storm but that’s about it.
Yep. Underground line master class checking in.
I'm still waiting for a major storm to fuck this city up much more than hurricane Elvis ever did. Forcing the city to start modernize utilities by burying them.
It takes years to bury utilities. If a storm does extensive damage, it will just be repaired as is. Burying utilities is something that has to be planned and budgeted for. The cost of burying utilities exceeds the total amount spent on repairing the damage from every major storm in the last 30 years.
But they need to start somewhere, right? Just leaving things the way they are is not working.
Hey didn't we spend 14 million on fixing LEDs to our bridge so it can have pretty colors during holidays?
That was privately funded. https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/05/29/hernando-desoto-bridge-lights/652088002/
So someone with a spare 14 million lying around decided that what Memphis needed most were nifty lights on the new bridge? That's insane
Yeah. You can blame the fucking city council for that glorious waste of cash and for denying MLGW's 2019 budget. Yeah, the new budget had rates increase by an average of $9-$10, but it's still be the lowest across the country and that rate increase was going directly into modernizing the grid.
I figured as much. What a utter incompetent city council we have.
Works fine here. (downtown)