Florida Power and Light… Isn’t!!

That’s it! Florida Power and Light did it again – We had another 1/2 second power outage. This happens once or twice, every one to three days! And it’s been going on for the three years that I’ve lived in Florida! I can’t imagine the degree of incompetence that must exist within their management, and that of the Florida politicians and/or agencies that regulate such an important part of Florida’s infrastructure. Everyone one of them should be voted out of office, or fired.

I can’t imagine any other state in this country that tolerates the frequent power outages that occur in the state of Florida. I don’t even see any references to it in local news media. Have the residents of this state become so accustomed to it that they expect it is part of normal life?

I encourage every reader of this blog to contact their local city, county, and state representatives and demand that these costly power outages end.

UPDATE – June 12, 2008 (Rave!)

After getting the governor’s office, and the Florida Utilities Commission involved, the problem hasn’t recurred!  Now, neither of the agencies I attempted to contact did anything for me.  In fact, they threw up so many roadblocks, that I was ready to go to a “consumer help” TV show.  However, since they were contacted, there have been NO problems with power!  There have been two short events that occurred since, but they were obviously a result of really nasty thunderstorms with plenty of lightening.  Kudos to whatever brought about the improvement.  I’ve even been impressed (in a positive way) with the reliability of power during some really nasty thunderstorms.  Good job, FPL!