A promise I won ' t make

Running for First Selectman makes me think about some issues a bit differently. Our town has fiscal problems, because we have a very small commercial tax base, and few kids in school which means our per pupil cost is high. (We still need a principal and a custodian and a building, and class sizes are small.) I might be able to do something about that. At least I have ideas and I ' ll campaign on them.But one of the biggest complaints people have is that the power goes out very frequently, and it usually takes a long time to get it restored. I finally broke down and got a standby generator, but they ' re expensive and this is not a wealthy town either -- a lot of people can ' t afford one, they can barely pay their taxes. The reason this happens is because, first of all, we live in a forest, and second, in case you hadn ' t noticed, storms are getting more frequent and more severe. On Friday, we had a tornado -- one of five tornadoes that touched down in southern New England on that day. It ' s rare for New England to get that many tornadoes in an entire year. We ' ve had several bouts of severe weather this summer, and in the past few years, tropical cyclones and squall lines have knocked out power here for days or a week at least five times that I can recall offhand. It ' s only going to get worse.Fortunately, nobody has been seriously injured in these events and property damage has mostly been minor, with the exception of the power company ' s property, but obviously o...
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