You cannot hate government and deliberately try to make it fit into a bathtub

[malaise]

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and then depend on privately owned for profit utility companies to replace the electrical grid in 24 hours after a Cat 4 hurricane.
Market or society - make up your effing minds ReTHUGs and your MAGAban members.

[Throck]

1. Government or private, I don't see any entity repairing the grid in 24 hours.

IIRC Puerto Rico's electric utility was government owned and they were off line for months after their hurricane.

I've lived through 4 major north east ice storms. The power restoration was a function of collaborative government resources and private utilities pulling in resources from outside the storm zone to pull things back together.

Before this hurricane hit, the utilities up here were mobilizing their crews for mutual assistance.

This storm hit us twice.

[malaise]

2. Neither do I but they expect the government to step in and make life easier

So do I but I believe in both government and society.
And you are correct - after Gilbert, it took three months to repair the grid and it was government owned back then.

I think Puerto Rico had an additional problem - a bogus company was allowed to pretend to be a private utility company.