I was at a loss as to why that city is taking so damn long to get back to normal. My guess is that it's because the corporations of the world are taking a long long time to position themselves to make as much profit as possible....
Adam, as usual you don't understand reality. You are lost in the vagaries of the abject poverty philosophy of the Essenes, which is the Judaic sect to which Jesus is thought to have joined. They were the ultimate communists, and the basis for the Pope's recent comment about people giving up their wealth. You are not web-illiterate so I'm sure you can look it up. You will find that I am not wrong in making that reference. Many people think that Jesus was an Essene. It is not a religious insult to say that, either. It is no worse than saying a person is Catholic or Methodist or Presbyterian.
Your guess as to the cause of the delay is the typical kind of remark that you make and I didn't actually expect anything else from you. The reason that it takes a long time for cities and people to get back to normal is that a lot of their physical infrastructure is damaged. Hurricanes damage utility poles and towers. They strip away wires. They damage buildings so badly that people have to find other places to live. You found barely any rooms because during and immediately after disasters, the feds supply vouchers to allow people to stay in hotels when their homes are stripped away, partly or completely. They often end up staying for weeks or even months.
Only a MONTH and you were griping? Unwise child, wake up. It takes a month just for the insurance adjusters to inspect and verify your claim and provide an estimate for repair costs. Then it will take people months to find a contractor and implement repairs - or rebuilding if that was needed. And DO NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES dare tell me I don't know about which I speak. I LIVE in a hurricane-prone area and can speak from personal experience on this one. It took us 14 months to get our house back into order after Hurricane Katrina and we were lucky. Some houses in the New Orleans lower 9th ward, because of inadequate insurance and some dishonest contractors, will NEVER be habitable. The owners cannot afford to fix the homes and can't get rid of them because nobody wants them.
To restore power to an area might take crews of literally hundreds, or even THOUSANDS of line-persons and technicians removing damaged wires, replacing downed poles, replacing wires on the new poles, and establishing circuits that run for anywhere from miles to hundreds of miles in a given area depending on the size of the power grid. It is not unusual for such repairs to take 10 days to 2 weeks. The fact that I lost power during Zeta for a mere 29 hours makes me incredibly lucky.
Your "maximize profit" remark is totally inappropriate and fails to realize that without having built up some cash reserves during the good times, they would not be able to pay the overtime of the local technicians, much less the visitors on reciprocal agreement status. And trust me on this narrow statement, those techs are making overtime until they are ready to drop from exhaustion. Oh, they are making money. And the flood of repair people for homes that only need spot repairs? This is a positive WINDFALL for them. It is an ill wind indeed that blows no good somewhere. And here? Construction contractors will be making a mint.
