Jan 09 Ky ice storm

[TimE]

Has everyone forgotten? Was the slow response due to Ky being a red state?

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-4769197.html

http://digitaljournal.com/article/266732

[DJD]

IMO, it had nothing to do with us being a red state......has everything to do with the upcoming election just days away and they needed a deterrent from the failed policies of Obama. It's politics as usual.

[Catfish Bob]

The poor old man that lives next to my hunting property down at Nolin was without power for over a month.
He was basically trapped for the first few days because it is dirt road down hill both ways to get to his house and he said when the road froze over he couldn't get his truck up the hills for nothing.
Luckily he had a wood burning stove in his house and plenty of whiskey stocked up that I take him for watching over my property.
Guy is 87 years of age.

[Col Forbin]

There is huge difference in dealing with disasters in an urban area as opposed to a widespread disaster in mostly rural areas. Western Ky was among the hardest hit areas of the ice storm, and I don't think response was slow. There were trees down on power lines every 100 feet or so. They basically had to replace all power lines, as well as most utility poles, and most of this was done in a couple weeks, and a couple more to remote areas.