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Honestly, though, I can't really fault them. They're not to blame for the storm or the heat. I wish they were more helpful in their information, though. I've actually been surprised at how bad the various local sites have been at getting out information. Only two of the local tv stations make at attempt with their websites for distributing information about the outages KSDK and KMOV have some information, but KSDK's been linking, annoyingly, to Ameren's press releases instead of giving out actual information. The Post's page is OK for information, but I don't feel that it's updated enough.
Basically, I feel that there should be a big fat fucking link in bold at the top of each of these guys' pages that says "WHEN WILL I GET POWER BACK?!", because there are around 320,000 St. Louis households right now without electricity, and that number's down from something like a half million. Surely these places can throw together a better response than the magical mantra of "72 hours", which sounds creepier the more it's repeated.
Local pols seem to be criticizing the company. I don't know how much of this is just easy politics, but I would like to see Ameren give some more information about when the power'll be back up. Ok, that's all.
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In remember last time there was a big wind storm Ameren took some heat and may even have gotten fined for they failure to keep their power lines free from trees. Most likely they still hadn't done shit about it as of Wednesday. When big old trees hang over power lines, those power lines are gonaa get fallen on. So lets not act like this isn't their fault at all. Also, they destroyed Johnson's Shut-ins. Fuck Ameren.
Good points. You know, the tree-i-ness of St. Louis is certainly one of its strengths, but right now that largely means downed power lines and debris everywhere.
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