As I alluded to in the other thread....that can't be the whole story.

Nowhere near this level of backlash in Gustav.

Some rumblings of Entergy vs Demco, but that is all.

And it took almost a week before restoration even began to be noticeable.

There were people this time honestly expecting all upstream repairs to be completed and work started at the street level within 24 hours of the storm's completion.

Has the urban parts of Jefferson Parish\Orleans parish just been shielded from hurricanes that they have no experience? Other than Katrina where they mostly evacuated anyway I mean.

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Posted by Napoleon

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Posted on 9/3/12 at 10:36 am to Siderophore

I didn't lose power for longer than three days after Gustav.
Katrina the line in the back of my house got ripped off, so that i understood taking a while. But i drive down major commercial stretches in my city and they are still out.

I don't remember backlash from other storms, but this is a very large outage.

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Posted by VOR

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Posted on 9/3/12 at 10:39 am to Siderophore

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Has the urban parts of Jefferson Parish\Orleans parish just been shielded from hurricanes that they have no experience?

I think it's partly due to the fact that after the storm passed, people in the urban area went outside and saw what appeared to be the results of a very bad thunderstorm. Some downed trees and lost shingles, but not flooding or devastating structural damage (with a few exceptions). So then they hear that Entergy is hitting the streets late Wednesday and/or early Thursday. They probably lost sight of the massive nature of the outage and damage to lines and poles.

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Posted by Methuselah

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Posted on 9/3/12 at 12:41 pm to Siderophore

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Nowhere near this level of backlash in Gustav.

I think bottom line is that more of the people in the areas affected by Gustav are a little tougher and more hardy than some of the people affected by this one. If you look closer it seems like even in this one, people in places like the River Parishes who actually lost things were too busy busting their asses helping out and doing work to complain much about power.

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Has the urban parts of Jefferson Parish\Orleans parish just been shielded from hurricanes that they have no experience? Other than Katrina where they mostly evacuated anyway I mean.

Could be this. But I think they are just a little softer in general.

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Posted by tom

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Posted on 9/3/12 at 2:28 pm to Siderophore

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Nowhere near this level of backlash in Gustav.

That's because Gustav was an actual hurricane that dropped more trees on my street than Isaac dropped in the entire city.

And by week 3 of no power after Gustav, I was pretty annoyed.

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