Jindal prods utilities to speed recovery

[jus_the_facts]

Source: The Town Talk

4 hours ago

BATON ROUGE -- Restoring electricity is probably the most important thing that would help the state recover from Hurricane Gustav, says Gov. Bobby Jindal.

About 1.5 million people are without electricity, Jindal said, and power companies estimated that about half would be restored within 10 days but the others could take up to six weeks. "Restoring power would move our recovery forward more than anything else we could do," Jindal said. "The lack of power for our communities is a huge obstacle for people to get back to their lives."

After returning from reviewing damage in St. Mary and Terrebonne parishes and Grand Isle with federal Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, Jindal said "You can read about damage of the storm but you have to go see it for yourself" to realize how devastating it was.





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The MSM would make you believe all is goin' great down here...it's not by a long shot. There is major flooding still going on all over the state as well.

[Sinistrous]

1. Last evening on Interstate 81

I passed a convoy of about thirty electrical line trucks -- heading south.

Somebody must have ordered them, so take heart, Bobby.

[jus_the_facts]

2. There's been more destruction in Baton Rouge than New Orleans....

....but the media was all about NOLA...there's been almost NO news about the havoc that has and still is being experienced in the rest of the state....and that's no where near enough utility trucks that's needed at this point...I have to give Jindal some credit for all he's done in the face of this hurricane and it's aftermath...which is still ongoing and will be for weeks....if not a lot longer.

[Sinistrous]

7. Where did I say that those trucks were "enough"?

I was ONE person on ONE stretch of ONE highway. For all I (or you) know, that convoy could have been but one of thousands converging on the devastated areas of Louisianna, Mississippi, and the other states needing recovery efforts.

I wrote my post as a report that there was evidence of help on the way. To construe that as a report of the sum total of the relief is insulting.

[gauguin57]

3. McCain might have been better to choose Jindal for veep ...

... the guy seems pretty well in charge down there. He could be a loser -- I dunno -- but he has a great, serious, in-charge demeanor in those briefings. Seems like a detail guy. He seems kinda "gee-whiz" in live interviews, but with the disaster stats in front of him, he comes off as more of a leader than Palin.

I mean, hang it all, if you're gonna choose someone we know nothing about, at least choose someone who seems like they're in charge!

[jus_the_facts]

4. As much as I don't WANT to say it...he's done extemely well during this...

...he even threatened the ENTERGY Corporation that supplies most of our electricity by saying that if they couldn't do any better of a job at getting service restored then they were OUTTA here...don't know if the earlier recall threat against him caused him to grow bigger balls...but he definitely has impressed me with his take charge attitude in all the chaos that's still goin' on down here.

[Melidoperez]

5. He better hurry

People need electricity here.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

6. I wish him great success with this ...

... that is what he was elected to do. The people deserve action from their elected leaders at times like this.