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Just weeks after the Iberian Peninsula went dark thanks to an overreliance on unreliable energy, New Orleans had 100,000 customers left in the dark. The power outage came with a three-minute warning as providers were forced to kill the juice to avoid imminent widespread and longer blackouts. Grid instability issues threatened to produce a much … Read more
The tragedy in New Orleans and the car explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas were horrific events in themselves. Still, the reaction and cover-up by authorities are as horrific and insulting. The people charged with keeping us safe by preventing incidents like the ones we experienced on New Year’s Eve are racing … Read more
I watched the news and read the alerts as they hit my iPad throughout the day, and I sensed disappointment when the terrorist in New Orleans turned out to be a U.S. citizen. It is much easier to get angry at these senseless incidents when the villain is an outsider. When the person who pulls … Read more
On New Year’s Day in New Orleans, on a famous stretch of road known as Bourbon Street, a US citizen used a rented pickup truck to kill twenty people and wound many more. This mass casualty event – we can’t say mass shooting because the only individual to die from gunfire was the perp when … Read more
At approximately 3 AM in New Orleans, a vehicle drove into a New Year’s Eve Crowd on Bourbon Street. The New Orleans Police Department said in a statement reported by NBC affiliate WDSU that “mass casualties are reported on Bourbon and Iberville Streets” and that a vehicle may have plowed into people. WDSU NBC 6 New Orleans … Read more