Kentucky Residents Without Power in the Cold for Weeks
Utility crews renewed work in subfreezing temperatures Saturday in their effort to put the power back on for nearly a million customers left in the dark by an ice storm that crippled parts of several states this week.
Thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky awoke in motels and shelters, asked to leave their homes by authorities who said emergency teams in some areas were too strapped to reach everyone in need of food, water and warmth.
A 20-degree temperature boost was forecast across much of the region, a boon to the power crews but one that carried with it the threat of flooding.
Dozens of deaths have been reported and many people are pleading for a faster response to the power outages. About 536,000 homes and businesses across Kentucky were without power, down from more than 600,000 the largest outage in state history, surpassing the damage last year from the remnants of Hurricane Ike.
The outages disabled water systems in much of the western part of the state, where some in rural areas resorted to dipping buckets in a creek. Authorities warned it could be days or weeks before power was restored in the most remote spots.
Where are the likes of your “objective” reporters like Katie Couric regarding the Ice Storm that has swept across the midwest and it’s “Non-Response” by FEMA since there are reportedly areas that locals are having a hard time accessing to see if anyone is alive….
Does our new President hate the whites to the point he is withholding assistance…. These were some of the implications that were made shortly after Katrina…by some of the more noted media personnel as they referred to then President George Bush…
Just wondering….
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