ongoing island power saga

i got an email this weekend saying that they found the fault in our underwater power cable – 4800′ from shore and 180′ underwater. sounds daunting, no?

the part that really got me though is that they are 2 weeks into applying for the environmental studies and permits to fix it – and they won’t be done with that and able to start fixing it until the END OF MARCH. you’d think someone in the bureaucracy of hippie-enviro-land could fast-track this process for an emergency where 1200 people are paying $400k/mo for temporary power while waiting for the cable to be fixed.

i think we’ll be lucky to see it fixed by the time we return home in late april.

that is just insane.

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