September 5, 2008
Discuss Friday's editorials
Katrina's lessons are too easily lost
Virginia still doesn't take the transportation gridlock in Hampton Roads seriously enough to come up with the money to fix it.
"A Hampton Roads family fleeing a Category 2 hurricane could face a 15-hour trek up Interstate 64 and then only make it to the outskirts of Richmond before the storm hit," The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported on April 17. The newspaper wasn't speculating. It was reporting the latest data that the hurricane program manager for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management had shared the day before with regional transportation policymakers for Hampton Roads.
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Don't dam up lake discussions
At least release a transcript of today's closed-door negotiations.
The invitation-only, moderated meeting today of stakeholders in the dispute over how much water Appalachian Power Co. should release from Smith Mountain Lake apparently is legal. But it isn't fair. Not to the 2,000-plus lake residents and people downstream who showed up at a public hearing last month to air complaints about water levels, everyone's concerns heightened by drought. If today's discussions are successful, they will affect the water-release protocol the power company will write into its relicensing request for the hydroelectric project.
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Comments
[September 5, 2008 6:53 PM]
JimThe only lesson I learned from Katrina is that a President can get blamed for an act of God. Oh, and you can die if you don't evacuate a hurricane.