> http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/15/blackout.detroit/index.html > > Power may not be restored to all of Detroit Edison's 2.1 million customers > until Sunday as the area copes with the massive power outage that hit the > northeastern United States, officials said. > > Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said efforts were underway to restore power > to residents in Detroit, Lansing and Ann Arbor. She said Detroit Edison > told her they can't say when all power will be fully restored, but that it > might take until Sunday.
I listened to Gov. Jenny G's speech on my battery powered multi-band receiver (It's a Yupiteru MVT-7300EU for you gear heads out there. look it up :^) today and she also made a statement commending us for "no reported incidents of looting, that we know of." I dont know what Detroit she's keeping tabs on, but I listened to the frequencies that the Detroit police department uses to communicate (the squad cars, dispatch, headquarters ect.) and they we're running around like crazy on numerous reports of looting throughout the entire city! There was in fact looting, shooting and stabbing homicides, assaults, breaking and enterings, armed robberies, hit and runs, fatal collisions, pedestrians hit by vehicles, car jackings (in one incident a parking lot attendant was held hostage while multiple cars were jacked as they entered the lot), missing children reports, and sexual assaults all over the airwaves. And I only scanned the police bands until around 11:30 p.m! I dont know how she could go on the air and proclaim a night of calmness, when I was thinking it was approaching a declaration of martial law. If you want to know whats *really* going on during a local emergency situation, I reccomend you get a police scanner. that way you can hear it as it hits the fan and know which direction it's coming from. I've heard all kinds of crazy stuff going on it the city that never makes it onto the nightly news nor in the morning papers, just by listening to what calls the police are going out on and what they report back on once they arrive on the scene. But thanks Jenny. we can all sleep well tonight knowing that at least *our* city keeps a cool head during blackouts. sean
