Whatever man, whatever. It's pretty easy to be critical when you are not the one in the business dealing with profits and losses. Trust me, power utilities are not making more money than it would cost to do what you want to have done.Storms are not new. People have survived during them from back before nearly everyone had commercial power and they will continue to do so.In fact when my father was a kid the winter storms were far worse than today, often lasting two or three days and dumping 3-4 feet of snow. he grew up without electricity to begin with. The real problem is that individuals have come to rely on everything being done for them and fail to take the responsibility of their own safety into their own hands. I find that owning a back up generator for the extreme rare times I need it is far cheaper than paying twice the going rate or more for power every month just to have expensive to maintain underground utilities.
