Quote Originally Posted by 48307 View Post
I'm not opposed to investing in infrastructure, but the issue is that many of the same people that complain about power outages would also complain about a bill increase to fund infrastructure improvements.

My Rochester Hills neighborhood has underground power lines, but the lines that bring power to our neighborhood are still above ground. We've been less prone to power outages here, but we still get them.

I got lucky this time around, the storm with the winds dove south and didn't affect us.
That's the Granholm mentality. "We'll have to raise your rates." No, take the money you're pissing away on paying time-and-a-half and double-time repairing the same problems over and over again throughout the years, and start using it to run lines underground. Be proactive. When she was in office, I-94, and who knows what else, got fresh asphalt every three years. When asked why not redo it correctly with concrete, the reply was " it would cost too much".