Yeah, people gotta vent at times when crap happens. If I was in your shoes, I'd be pissed too and probably asking the same questions.
I think it's important to be mindful venting doesn't turn into blaming or expecting one political figurehead to fix it.
Germany went through hell after WW1. People were starving. Desperate. That's how they got to the point of voting to put Hitler into office. I'm not comparing your very reasonable venting to Nazi germany... but on a politics thread, I'm trying to point out that the normal and reasonable human desire to find someone responsible and someone to blame can sometimes grow into something very dangerous on a mass scale.
But wouldn't I see a Duke Energy truck somewhere doing something? I've seen none. Zero. OUC restored all their customers and Orlando had it worse then Altamonte.
Outages can be due to reasons other than what a truck can quickly fix. There can also be a shortage of trucks and simple manpower to get around to it all.
An example: Many states freaked out behind the scenes about Y2K and expected massive power outages... because of software glitches alone. No natural disasters. Thankfully, there weee not widespread issues, but that's just one example of how keeping the lights on involved a lot more than just power lines being up. Lots of systems have to be up, running, adequately staffed, safety checks done. I see no reason to believe that's Duke is maliciously or lazily just ignoring your needs. There is no economic or other reason to motivate them to do that. No power means they lose millions if not billions in revenue every day.
Your acedotal experience that FPL and OUC are turning on the power more quickly is your neighborhood doesn't hold true for the crisis state wide. NPR recently reported, "As of Wednesday morning,
Florida Power and Light said 1.9 million of its customers were still without electricity, having restored service to 2.5 million out of 4.4 customers impacted by Irma." (From:
Power Outages Persist For Millions In Florida, Georgia And Carolinas After Irma.) That's roughly the same rate of power still being out for FPL customers as Duke customers on that same date, three days ago.
Turning this back to the topic of this thread, US politics, it's easy for all Americans to think the situation on their doorstep is the same for people across the country - when it is not.
This is why I wish we would reduce the power of the federal government and give more power back to local and state governments who can know the situation on the ground better - everything from health care to education.
