Blackout of '09???

It's happening again, folks.

Much like in last September's dry wind, in which electricity was knocked out in many neighborhoods for over a week, parts of the Cincinnati metropolitan region are now facing the same putrid roo gas all over again.

All because it snowed (like it does every winter), and our local electric infrastructure is so frail that it's incapable of handling such natural disasters as snow.

The power just went out here, even though no more snow has fallen in days. I'm not sure this had anything to do with weather though, because the power goes out here even during fine weather.

All this courtesy of the local utility monopoly that increased its rates to pay for last year's blackout that it wouldn't fix in time. And I will wager that they're going to demand another rate hike after the current blackout - which the power company now says won't be resolved until at least this weekend.

I want to see what excuses the corporatists come up with to defend the power company this time.

Methinks its time for local and state governments to take over the power company.