Half a million people without power, damgage everywhere, heat wave, and other things,
Should Bush declare it a disaster zone.
ON wenseday night storms came and hit us pretty hard, then another came today...
2006-07-21 08:36:53 · 7 answers · asked by xxXJokerXxx 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Its not that big of a deal. I'm from south county in St. Louis and I still don't have power. Ameren says we probably won't for another 3-5 days. Sometimes a big power outage is a good way to remind people what life would be like without all of their electronics. It kinda makes you appreciate what you've got.
2006-07-21 08:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by joshman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, asking the president would be going too far. Loss of power is not a particularly exciting situation. Sorry. The heat wave in the absence of power could be deadly for the young, old, and infirm, but that's why hospitals all have backup generators.
Katrina was special in that everything was obliterated, and not just in one special location -- it crossed state lines and needed a larger-scale recovery effort, and so the president was involved.
2006-07-21 15:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by Kay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad, but not bad enough. Up in Wisconsin, tornadoes did LOTS of damage last year, more than you described in St Louis, but we didn't get the disaster area relief.
As a country, we can't even rebuild New Orleans....11 months after Katrina...
2006-07-21 15:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Dwight D J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Missouri should be able to handle it. Don't you have big storms and power outages every summer?
2006-07-21 15:40:58 · answer #4 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For him, yes.
It's no worse than Katrina and Brownie did a helluva job with that!
2006-07-21 15:40:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Comes with the territory.
2006-07-21 15:39:02 · answer #6 · answered by somebody else 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is your governor's job.
2006-07-21 15:39:04 · answer #7 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋