Quote Originally Posted by Nemesis View Post
Why do americans suck at getting people their power back? When we're hit by something similar we might loose power for a few hours when the states has it off for weeks. get to work you vaginas.
A lot of places have above ground power. So polls and lines got to be replaced and that takes a lot of time. Also as seen in the videos of the storm a shit ton of transformers blew up so all that shit has got to get replaced and that takes time to order them, for them to get there and then install them. Then there is places where relay stations, sub stations ect get blown up and that is a big mess but the big thing is the transformers. It is the same issue we would have if there was a major cosmic EMP blast. The destruction of that many transformers over the earth would take years to replace in first world nations and decades in the rest of the world.