East Coast outages could last most of the week

[Superfreak]

LOL SF, it's all there in the article. Here is just some of it below. Just the facts, sorry. Twist and turn all you want, the fact remains thanks to a state filled with irresponsible voters and tax slackers, you guys are now welfare queens. Sorry.

As Colorado Springs battles a rash of robberies after a wildfire that still licks at its boundaries, it does so with fewer police and firefighters and a limited tax base that may hamper its rebound.

The place where the Waldo Canyon fire destroyed 346 homes and forced more than 34,000 residents to evacuate turned off one-third of its streetlights two years ago, halted park maintenance and cut services to close a $28 million budget gap after sales-tax revenue plummeted and voters rejected a property-tax increase.

The city, the state's second-largest, with a population of 416,000, auctioned both its police helicopters and shrank its public-safety ranks through attrition by about 8 percent; it has 50 fewer police officers and 39 fewer firefighters than five years ago. More than 180 National Guard troops have been mobilized to secure the city after the state's most destructive fire. At least 32 evacuated homes were burglarized and dozens of evacuees' cars were broken into, said Police Chief Pete Carey.

"It has impacted the response," said accountant Karin White, 54, who returned Thursday to a looted and vandalized home, with a treasured, century-old family heirloom smashed.

"They did above and beyond what they could do with the resources they had," she said. "If there were more officers, there could have been more manpower in the evacuated areas."

Since the start of the 18-month recession in December 2007, U.S. cities have faced shrinking revenue and diminishing state support, leading to budget cuts and reductions in services and workforces. Cities faced a fifth-straight year of revenue declines in 2011, according to the National League of Cities, which estimated that municipalities would have to fill budget gaps of as much as $83 billion from 2010-2012.

Colorado Springs, which depends on sales tax for about half its revenue, was hit harder than most. The city — the birthplace 20 years ago of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which later passed statewide and has been pushed around the country to restrict government spending — became a high-profile example of cost-cutting. The law restricts government spending to the previous year's revenue, adjusted only for population growth and inflation.

Thanks to our resident liar above for proving yet again that she has no fucking clue what she is talking about. She can't even read her own article to see that it shows the fire is hitting up on the edges of the city. She doesn't realize again that the bulk of the fire is on FEDERAL land. Apparently her masters haven't informed her how ignorant she would look parroting such stupidity.

[Superfreak]

apparently dearest little Darla thinks Colorado Springs should hire extra firefighters and police to deal with fires on Federal lands that might just infringe upon the city every 10 years or so. Dearest little Darla once again demonstrates the lack of logic used in liberal 'thought' processes.

[Darla]

LMAO Look at this spinout! Wow! This is even better than I had hoped for.

Well you two welfare queens obviously can't handle the facts in the article, but try and cool off because it is hot out there and people on welfare should not be using air conditioning!

[Superfreak]

I wonder what would happen if timber companies came in and started clearing those federal lands to help protect against future fires. How fast would Darla and the other left wing nuts start screaming about the timber companies raping the environment or some such nonsense?

[Superfreak]

Well, apparently they don't cling to bibles and guns so it's all good to charge Colorado for fires that start on Federal land and spread into cities.

So... Why did Obama's () Forest Service cancel the contract with the tankers?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/06/27/...-cancellation/

Obviously Obama wanted the fires to keep burning to distract from his abysmal economic record.

[Damocles]

LMAO Look at this spinout! Wow! This is even better than I had hoped for.

Well you two welfare queens obviously can't handle the facts in the article, but try and cool off because it is hot out there and people on welfare should not be using air conditioning!

Nobody believes you are laughing, Darla. You were pretty much owned once you understood that the bulk of the fires are on Federal lands.

Tell you what. We'll even spring for paying for your fire spreading into our cities, that part we'll pick up, so long as you pay for only the bits on Federal land...

We're magnanimous like that.

[Superfreak]

Nobody believes you are laughing, Darla. You were pretty much owned once you understood that the bulk of the fires are on Federal lands.

Tell you what. We'll even spring for paying for your fire spreading into our cities, that part we'll pick up, so long as you pay for only the bits on Federal land...

We're magnanimous like that.

Oh come on Damo... it is her only defense now that she has once again been made to look so foolish. The whole 'I was just kiddin' line cannot be taken away from her, it would just be cruel of you. Obviously cities should hire firefighters to sit around in case a forest fire comes near their town. Its all about paying people to do nothing... the liberal way...

[Superfreak]

Well, apparently they don't cling to bibles and guns so it's all good to charge Colorado for fires that start on Federal land and spread into cities.

So... Why did Obama's () Forest Service cancel the contract with the tankers?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/06/27/...-cancellation/

Also... the above does make it even funnier... that Obama cut over 80% of the planes and 60 people from the federal firefighting effort. Too bad the Feds refuse to pay for their 'fair' share.

[ZappasGuitar]

No at this moment Darla is saying, fuck those two welfare queens will lie about pretty much anything.

Just now figuring that out, are ya?

[ZappasGuitar]

LMAO Look at this spinout! Wow! This is even better than I had hoped for.

Well you two welfare queens obviously can't handle the facts in the article, but try and cool off because it is hot out there and people on welfare should not be using air conditioning!

While you're at it Darla, check out how irresponsible some Colorado Politicians are...maybe this guy had something to do with the Waldo Canyon Fire?


From The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colo:

In his latest exchange with police over petty tickets, Mesa County Commissioner Craig Meis was cited last weekend on suspicion of violating a fire ban in Chaffee County when his camping party lit up a small charcoal grill.

Meis denied suggestions he tried to “fix” a ticket written Saturday by Chaffee County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Matthew Goodwin, who cited the commissioner on suspicion of building, maintaining or attending an open fire during Stage 2 fire restrictions, a violation of county ordinance carrying a possible $500 fine.

” ... I’m willing to pay a fine if necessary but will be disappointed if a mandatory court appearance is still enforced given the circumstances and the fact that we were acting responsibly and abiding by the intent of the fire ban law but apparently not the letter of the law,” Meis wrote in an email Tuesday to Chaffee County Sheriff Peter Palmer.

“In short, I’m asking for your discretion in this matter at this time since Deputy Goodwin was unable to receive such at the time and based solely on these circumstances and not on my county position, title or past,” Meis wrote.

[USFREEDOM911]

So the larger of the fires as shown on the burn area is almost entirely on FEDERAL LAND, as is the Waldo fire and the offshoot of the High Park Fire and you are still on here whining and crying that the feds actually pay something to help put out fires on FEDERAL land?

You obviously are intent on talking out of your ass and lying about events that you are completely ignorant on solely because you wish to call us welfare queens? You, who think that everyone else should pay for your contraceptives because that $10 month is just too much for you?

This is like one person accussing their spouse of partner of cheating and then it's discovered that the one making the accusations is the one cheating.
Darla's refusing to admit that this is a problem that has more to do with the Feds and wants to continue to accuse you and Damo of being "welfare queens", when in fact it's more then likely that Darla's the one who's feeding off of the Government Teat and she's probably sucking really hard, in order to get more then anyone else.

By the way, can we change the title of this tread to be more exact and have it say:
East Coast outRages could last most of the week

[Threedee]

Just now figuring that out, are ya?

Well, that was definitive. So it's settled, then?

[Banned]

THIS!!! The parent company of the company I work for is the biggest utility construction company around. We do less underground work on the east coast than virtually anywhere else.

Put the lines underground!

As for why its taking so long, there are thousands of guys busting their ass out there as we speak. But handling powerlines is not like plugging in cables. Some of the best are climbing poles and running bucket trucks in the heat to get things restored.

this would require each customer to also re route their electric service entrance underground. Costing at least a few hundred to a few thousand per household.

[Banned]

I wonder what would happen if timber companies came in and started clearing those federal lands to help protect against future fires. How fast would Darla and the other left wing nuts start screaming about the timber companies raping the environment or some such nonsense?

How much would those downstream of the timber cutting complain?

So cal does not have much timber but they have brush fires....

[WinterBorn]

All the more reason to let them suffer and die.

I am sure they scare you. This would be easier for you, wouldn't it?