Originally Posted by KRL

South Florida is still all fucked up right now. We just got power back yesterday. Driving is the absolute worst situation with so many major intersections missing traffic signals. Gas lines are getting back to normal. Nightly 9PM curfews are a pain in the ass. Everything is closing early. Boil water orders were lifted yesterday. Seems like the vast majority of trees are without leaves and branches so it looks surreal like the winters up North. Schools can't open yet because of debris and difficulty getting the school buses driving on time with so much intersection grid lock.

This was the worst storm to hit Florida since Andrew back in '92. If Wilma wasn't moving at high speed across the state there would have been a catastrophic amount of building damage too. It felt more tornado like than the two hurricanes last year. I saw huge trees snap like twigs and go flying.

Still not easy to go food shopping. Restaurants starting to open again. Cable TV isn't working. BellSouth still has 1/2 a million homes without phone and internet service.

All in all its been quite a frightening experience to see complete wide scale infrastructure breakdown and failure for such a large region of the country. Even having your own generator isn't much help, since it only helps you and everything around you isn't functioning. We have become so dependent on electricity for powering everything in our lives that this country is extremely vulnerable to total collapse when the power grids get fucked.