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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
http://news.sky.com/story/1187037/ch...-for-thousands
With thousands of people being without power, hit by floods and some will not be back to normal by the weekend.
Why hasn't Government been recalled to help with aid to the stricken people.
This government has been quick enough to come to the quick aid for other countries, and yet this government remain quiet on its own people and stayed on holiday.
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Arthur, can you tell me what good recalling the government will do? The major part of the problem (as I understand it) is getting the machinery and personnel in to an area through flooding, fallen trees etc. We had a 60 ft connifer fall in our garden on Monday night. Managed (luckily as while our shed was holding the tree away from our house, the shed was not going to last forever) to get a company in to fell the tree. In the hour they were there chopping the tree into little bits, the guy in charge had 17 calls. They were the one company (after a *lot* of phone calls) that I could find that was able to look at the tree before christmas.
So, for one thing, there is probably a shortage of qualified people to fell trees. For another, most utility companies aren't really equipped to handle damage to large parts of their network quickly. Even assuming the power companies had enough staff qualified to repair the network, they probably don't have enough equipment like cranes for the power cables. That's not to mention that they probably don't have enough staff with the right qualifications to do it.
Fixing any of the problems I have listed takes time, even if the government came in and gave the utility companies infinite resources to get more people and equipment in, it would still take time to find (and maybe train) those people, and the equipment needed would probably need to be built. The equipment the power companies use is not exactly off the shelf, so it would take time to build it.
Recalling the government won't actually fix the problems any quicker.