Not really sure where to go with this. A storm came through the Midwest and as far as I know went from Iowa to Indiana. Here in Iowa most of the metro areas like Des Moines and on the east side like Cedar Rapids and Iowa City have their power out, some are saying it’s gonna be a week. The governor of Iowa is already in a hot mess over Covid and now most the populated regions of the state have no power. I’ve been checking on everybody I know and thankfully no one is hurt, but most of friends and family still don’t have power.
I don’t know what the fuck to do. Shit just kind of sucks.
I'm in Iowa, CR area. Some aren't going to get power till the 20th and cell service is incredibly spotty. Tons of houses had massive damage that probably won't be repaired for months. Half the trees in the city are going to have to get removed. No stores downtown are open and some of the gas stations have fuel leaking into the street. People are using their cars for electricity but they have to go out of town for gas.
The spottyness of mobile and internet service has been getting really noticable lately. We had a somewhat large storm sweep through on the east coast last week and the second the power went out, so did the internet and mobile service. It isn't just healthcare. Every single piece of infrastructure in this trashheap country is being held together with paperclips and bubblegum. Maintenance and redundancy is simply lost profit.
I hope you and your family are safe. I’ve never seen anything like this. I saw there were lines of cars going out cr to towns like independence, who also don’t have gas.
Also I feel like the state gov has said anything, just banking on the power companies by themselves to get shit running