Bobby. wrote on Sep 29
th, 2016 at 5:03pm:
longweekend58 wrote on Sep 29
th, 2016 at 4:44pm:
The blackout showed a few things about SA preparedness for power failure.... NONE
1) the police's very bright suggestion was to 'keep your phone charged since the power will be off a long time'. How pray do we recharge it when there isn't alive powerpoint in the entire state? I used one of our laptops to keep mine charged.
2) Watch ABC for news on the blackout... on my pedal-powered TV
3) adelaide airport, knowing 2 days in advance of possible power problems cranks up its emergency generators only to find half of them dont work.
4) not a solitary set of traffic lights in the entire city has a UPS
5) 'keep your phone charged' #2. Four hours into the blackout most of the mobile phone towers run out of battery power so very difficult to get a signal anyhow.
6) Adelaide hospitals condition is unknown because.... their phone system isnt working. No generators????
7) SA Water was unable to pump water and sewerage so if you are uphill from your water source... limited supplies.
8) the 000 network crashed - no power.
9) the Adelaide newspaper had to get the paper printed... in Victoria
dear Longy,
Jay Weatherill - the SA Labor premier must resign.
He has to do the right thing.
Jay will never resign, he'll hang in there as long as he can.
Unfortunately his government is stacked with people who have no qualification for the job; Jack Snelling, minister for health, the minister for transport, Steven Mullighan, he has a senior adviser for transport who has no more qualification than I,because we did the same work, and so it goes on.
That the generator failed at Flinders, is probably the result of the Australian behaviour; she'll be alright mate; as there was clear weather warnings, the generator should have been thoroughly checked.
Here is how Australian politicians are rated:
Have the politicians of Australia the know-how and will to change the tax and social system to be more egalitarian, or was the late Professor A.J.Marshall right when he wrote, as quoted in the book “Equality and Authority” by S Encel on page212: “Most Australian politicians, he wrote, aspire to parliamentary seats ‘to better their salary, to inflate their egos and feather their nests’.
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