'Third World' power outages plague US homes, firms by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) Nov 6, 2011 The United States is the biggest economy in the world, but all it takes to put the lights out here is some snow, or wind, or rain, or squirrels, even a prison break-out. Power outages -- like one in late October that left two million people without electricity in the northeast, in some cases for several days, after an unseasonably early snowstorm -- are a fact of life for many Americans. "Is Connecticut a Third World country?" asked a contributor to Newton Patch, a community website in neighboring Massachusetts, frustrated by the indefinite loss of electricity. "No power, no water... Please know people are suffering and it is hard to understand when this is the United States, why we cannot solve this problem in a timely manner."

'Third World' power outages plague US homes, firms by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) Nov 6, 2011 The United States is the biggest economy in the world, but all it takes to put the lights out here is some snow, or wind, or rain, or squirrels, even a prison break-out.
Power outages -- like one in late October that left two million people without electricity in the northeast, in some cases for several days, after an unseasonably early snowstorm -- are a fact of life for many Americans.
"Is Connecticut a Third World country?" asked a contributor to Newton Patch, a community website in neighboring Massachusetts, frustrated by the indefinite loss of electricity.
"No power, no water... Please know people are suffering and it is hard to understand when this is the United States, why we cannot solve this problem in a timely manner."