Five days after the hurricane hit, there are still over 1.5 million American households without power.

Here are the numbers:

A few takeaways from this crisis. First, kudos to Ron DeSantis for expert and timely intervention to avert a disaster in Florida, which is mostly back up and running and now deploying crews to help in the other states that were hit.  This man should be president someday.  Biden’s readiness and response has been incompetent.

Second, loss of electric power is a life-threatening event during a natural disaster.  Hurricane Helene is yet another wake up call for America and our politicians to safeguard our fragile grid system. The left is preoccupied with replacing coal and nuclear power – which are reliable and cheap – with unreliable and intermittent “renewable energy.”  If we go down that path, we will experience routine outages and not just due to Mother Nature. Just ask Californians how going green is working out for them. 

Third, can you imagine if we were 100% electric vehicles right now?  What a calamity?  Tens of millions of Americans would be trapped and immobile. Biden wants all gas cars and trucks eliminated in the next dozen years.  See below.