FPL and Southern Bell Blues and Miami City Govt wasting money on replanting palms with shade trees

Quick hello... found more time.. really going

Most of this is a post from Hurricanecity..

At my brother's temporary office... using his computer fast. Will catch up with email later, I don't want to abuse the favored here.

Love the video Jim.. really incredible.. the eye looked alot like Katrina's eye over my house... cloudy but no real wind and then.. BAM!! back side... smile

Can't read..will catch up soon.

Doubting FPL's "restored" claims as many "restored" users LOST it AGAIN and are back on bottom of wait list for second coming of restoration... so wondering if those figures of 30,000 w/o power are sort of bogus or slanted in their favor. I know more than a few people who had power and then their transformer blew and they were told they have to get new ones from out of state and it will be "a while"

Also..someone should slam FPL or rather the regulatory commissions who are trying to give them a present of lost revenue from people who couldn't go to work or live normally for the last few weeks without power. Seems people who work at normal jobs and have small businesses are allowed to lose revenue and MONEY but FPL and insurance agencies are NOT allowed to have a losing season. Only the Dolphins... They want to tack money on and raise rates.
Let me say this..

They have easements..they OWN the land under their wires..they are supposed to maintain said wires and they USED to cut the tree limbs. Private gardeners will NOT cut those trees back as they say we should call FPL. I didn't plant the tree.. most of us didn't..someone back in the 1950s or 1960s planted those nice backyard mango and ficus trees and tree cutters here will not cut them as you are supposed to call Asplunge/FPL.

FPL was called and called and called by neighbors and ignored. After Katrina they jerry rigged lines for temporary fixes, those lines all broke. So did the phone company.

Legally I don't own the land under my wires... FPL does so why isn't FPL taking responsibility for their problem.

Not to mention.. poles that should have been inspected or maintained properly weren't.
Makes you wonder how they can be rewarded for doing a bad job at THEIR job and not talking the sweet working pole guys.. talking the fat money fed higher ups who run the show... talking whoever gets government pay offs to reward them the same way the Insurance Commission thinks getting a profit in business is a right from God like air to breathe...

Read Miami Herald if you don't know what I am talking about... Fred Grimm's column.. excellent.

Also... Miami had a plan before this summer to take down Royal Palms from Biscayne Blvd and Brickell to plant oak and other shade trees. The Royal Palms survived the storm... the oaks and other shade trees didn't or were severly pruned... leaving debris all over. The Palms are being replanted by "Watson Island" which really means WE the PUBLIC are paying to make the New Parrot Jungle on Watson island nice with trees worth $6000 a piece.

People want the palms to stay on Biscayne Blvd and Brickell Avenue where they make Miami look "tropical." That is afterall why people live here and not Kansas or Chicago..

But even though Miamians are without power and trying to clean up still their fallen oak and shade trees.. the City is going ahead with the removal of 90 old, treasured and much loved Royal Palms that were and should be the symbol of Downtown Miami because well... that was what they decided and they think people will spend more time walking around outside in the hot humidity on city streets if they have more shade and less Royal Palm Trees. Nice to know that there is money in the city budget to cut down.. remove and transplant trees during a time when no one can find a tree cutter to save their life unless they have the big bucks the city goverments have..

Now THERE is a government plan that needs to be fixed.

Truth is... we need leaders who will stand up to utility commissions, insurance commissions and worry less on beautifying something that isn't an eye sore and stop fixing things that aren't broken and fix things that are...

A joke.. a real joke... beyond words a joke and Miami isn't laughing and when you try driving down Brickell next hurricane season for an escape from your house without electric or phone lines.. don't blame me if you aren't driving under beautiful Royal Palms planted by our city years ago but driving through an obstacle course of broken branches from "shade trees"....

Not to mention loss of revenue from film shoots.. I guess they will have to go to Domincan Republic from now on and pretend it is Miami because those scenic streets will look a lot like Miami, Ohio from now on..

really going.. Bobbi