Wisconsin and Illinois got hammered by some storms two days ago.
The two states had combined power outages of about 320,000 customers.
Today? Michigan's turn - two utilities: DTE Energy with 561,021 customers out and Consumer's Energy with 198,657 customers out. The lightning has moved South and spread out in a long line from the midwest through Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is getting quite the show. I grew up there and really miss these storms - I love thunder and lightning.
Again, those folks would love a real infrastructure bill right now. One that actually does what it says on the box.
Instead, we are getting 5+ billion dollars of pork.
Just as an aid for visualisation, if you had one billion dollars and spent one dollar every second 24/7, it would take you 31 years to spend everything. One billion dollars is a lot of money.
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