Linemen Appreciaton Day 2023
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It is an April 18th observance taking note of those who maintain the power lines which serve the population.
We have a relatively new company in charge of the lines in South Carolina called "Dominion". They replaced the old SCE&G criminal organization which was out to fund a never to operate expansion of a nuclear plant called the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station near Jenkinsville.
I was forced to visit this monstrosity in the mid 1970s while on active reserve duty in the Navy. They closed it down after a never ending stream of cost overruns and rate increase requests to cover their losses.
It is distressing to think that the state government cannot do anything except bring another set of crooks in to manage power on the South Carolina grid. The South Carolina Public Services Commission is a bunch of irrelevant dullards who don't know how to benefit from past mistakes. It is inkeeping with the vast majority of elected officials in the state. Perhaps if their parents hadn't been brother and sister things may have gone much better for the taxpayer.
I personally toy with the thought of installing my own generator and pulling in tankers of diesel fuel to keep it running. I suppose I'm one lottery win away from that reality.
The people consistently come to my property and invade it installing poles and lines where I don't want them. So to HELL with Dominion and the linemen — whom I really do not appreciate with their shoddy work which is pretty much all they've shown me in the past 30 years.