blackstone code

Chapter 1923 The First Night

Hula-hula fire truck sirens blared all night.

The first night of the blackout was really tough.

The mayor looked out the window at the sky reddened by the flames, and sighed heavily.

The separation of federal power supply companies and power grid companies has indeed played an anti-monopoly role, of course, this is what the officials themselves think.

They hope that several companies will compete with each other, so as to solve the fact that the market is monopolized by a certain company.

The result is that in each state, there will be one or two very large companies, and two or three, three or five very small companies.

In the eyes of the public and the federal government, this is not a monopoly, but a free market competition.

The small scale of small enterprises is due to the lack of core competitiveness.

A large enterprise has a large scale because of its core competitiveness.

It sounds like that is the case, but it is not clear whether it is actually the case.

There are three power supply companies in this state, two thermal power plants and one small hydropower plant.

The electricity supplied by small hydropower can only cover one city near the power plant, and the supporting small grid only works in this one city.

One of the other two major thermal power companies provides electricity for residents in most cities in the state, and the other provides electricity for industries across the state.

The two power grids are also relatively independent. After all, civilian electricity does not use too high a voltage. Considering the construction of the power grid, industrial electricity and civilian electricity are separated.

Now the power plants are still working, but the civilian power grid has suffered a large-scale failure due to lack of management and other reasons.

Repair work is currently underway, but not optimistic.

The city was also almost completely plunged into darkness.

This is also the reason for the fires in many places in the city tonight.

There are two ways for ordinary urban residents to get warm.

The first one is for those who have a little money, they will use the heat flow from the boiler for heating.

Like Lynch's house, there are copper pipes in the floor and walls.

After the weather is cold, the hot water in the boiler will flow into the copper tube, and the heat in the copper tube will spread out.

The temperature in the entire room will also be maintained at a relatively high temperature.

The overall effect of this heating method is very good, and the whole house can be warm, but there is a small disadvantage, that is, the cost is relatively high.

The overall laying of copper pipes in the room and the cost of the oil-fired boiler, as well as the 24-hour combustion materials.

With the outbreak of the war, the fuel price of the Federation has been soaring, not to mention several times, and the least increase has exceeded 50.00%.

Coupled with the heavy tax imposed now, not everyone can afford to burn boilers for heating.

In other words, this blackout actually didn't affect the rich at all!
The other is the current mainstream electric heater, which has been invented for many years.

After years of development and evolution, the technology is relatively mature.

To put it bluntly, it is a heater, which heats the air in a room to a warm level through heating sheets and circulating air.

This heating method is more common among the people at the bottom of society.

Although the current electricity bill of the Federation has risen a lot, overall it has not made people unable to afford electricity.

Moreover, electricity supply is a social infrastructure, and the federal government will also provide some subsidies to provide low-cost electricity for the public.

Turn on the electric heater to the maximum overnight, and the heating cost is only one or two yuan, which is completely acceptable to the vast majority of low-level people.

And this group of people has also become the most injured group of people in this blackout.

At this time, the temperature in the central region of the Federation was already between minus [-] degrees and minus [-] degrees. At this time, the heating was suddenly cut off, which was a nightmare for almost all people living at the bottom of society.

It's that time of year that turns from the coldest to the warmer, and the temperatures are terribly low!
In the absence of heating conditions, people's demand for heating will increase infinitely.

Some families began to heat themselves through fireplaces or burning firewood, which is the main reason for the current large-scale fires in the city.

The fire is relentless, it does not tell people before it starts to burst, and if it is not extinguished or careless, it will take more people's lives.

It doesn't do that.

When people find this problem, most of them can't control it!
Especially for some old people, they may be roasted by the fire, fall asleep while roasting, and then be swallowed by the fire.

All over the city fire trucks were scurrying, and buildings were on fire.

Some were just small detached houses that were set ablaze, others were buildings!
The invisible, the dark, the fire, the cold air, all these things combine to make a knife, a knife to kill.

The mayor stayed up all night, and after dawn the next day, he began to count the losses of the city fire last night.

Hundreds of people lost their lives because of the fire, tens of millions of properties were burned to ashes, and hundreds of people froze to death.

Especially the elderly, who have become the main victims of this disaster.

Looking at the report in his hand, the mayor didn't even have a smile on his face. Who knows how many people are still on the list that haven't been counted?

It is possible that some elderly people who live alone will not find out that the person is dead until their corpse starts to smell, or their family members find out that something is wrong and visit!
It is conservatively estimated that thousands of people left overnight!

This is only the case of one city, what about other cities?

What about the entire state?

The mayor gave the materials to the secretary and asked her to send them to the state government. As for the others...

Hope everything gets better soon.

At this time, in the state government, the governor and his staff were also full of helplessness.

Feedback on the situation of disasters in various places came up, and the figures were shocking.

"There are still two cities where the data is not counted. Based on what we have so far, more than 6000 people were killed, and the property lost may have exceeded one billion."

The Governor, clutching a pipe, acted as if he hadn't heard it.

He has to thank his governor for his successful re-election this year, but it may not be easy to get re-elected.

His rivals would use the catastrophe as a justification for attack and lash out at him.

And he couldn't deny these allegations!
It did happen during his tenure. Tens of thousands of people died in fire and cold. People don't think about understanding that this incident actually has nothing to do with him. People just angrily let him get out of power!
Two years later, where will I go?
"...what to do next?"

After a while, he was startled by the staff's words and came back to his senses, and he took a puff of his pipe.

The tobacco leaves in the pipe made a slight crackling sound of being burned by the flame, and he then exhaled a thick smoke, with a hint of mockery on his face.

"What else can I do?"

"After the data is collected, send it to the presidential palace. This is something they should worry about!"

"As for us, let's start the disaster relief process."

A little after nine o'clock in the morning, the losses caused by the blackout were placed in front of Mr. Truman.

He was calm, but anger was brewing in his heart.

Nearly 3 people died, of which [-]% to [-]% were due to fire.

In order to avoid being frozen to death, many families who did not have the means to use open fires for heating used open fires for heating, thus causing fires.

Not every family has a fireplace. You can think about where those families without fireplaces will be heated.

A kitchen with a smoke alarm?
Or in a cramped bathroom?

Perhaps a more spacious living room or bedroom would be a good choice.

Among them, in addition to being burned to death, many died of poisoning and suffocation from burning residues...

And there are still many victims who have not been found.

Lost property, casualties, all stemmed from a major power outage!

He looked at the document in his hand, his eyes were a little empty, as if he had landed elsewhere, at least not on the document in front of him.

After a while, his pupils changed, and he picked up the phone and dialed the number of the former president.

"I want to see the current head of the Jerry & Deiss Group and ask him to come to my office, the Office of the President."

The former president is having breakfast.

Although he only served one term, the term of this term was a bit long, a full six years.

In the past six years, he didn't do too many things, but he didn't do anything wrong, plus some behind-the-scenes political games and concessions.

After retirement, his life is still going well!

Hearing Mr. Truman's request, he didn't refuse, but he didn't immediately agree, "Is it because of the blackout?"

He heard that there was a sudden power outage in a nearby state yesterday, although the Army sent some generators there.

Those generators can only maintain the power supply of some government agencies in the city. Want to use military generators to solve the city's power supply problem?
That's a joke!

And the problem is the power grid, not the power supply company!

Now it appears that the problems from the first day of the outage have exploded.

Mr. Truman responded positively, "Yes, you don't want to know how serious this is."

The former Mr. President sighed lightly, "Have you already thought about it?"

"The people you have to face, and everything you may encounter."

He knew that Mr. Truman was dissatisfied with these consortiums, and the paid vacation incident made him have a deep-seated dislike for the consortia and the big capitalists.

There was no collision between the two parties before.

Now with a collision, the result is bound to be bad.

Mr. Truman's tone didn't change much, "My father told me when I was a child that if you make a mistake, you must admit your mistake and accept punishment, no one is an exception."

The former president could only sigh again, "I see, I will contact them, go to your office, right?"

"Yes!"

The former president shook his head after hanging up the phone. Many people privately said that he had no opinions.

In fact, he himself knows very well that in this capital-controlled country, the president does not need it at all, nor can he be too assertive.

Now Mr. Truman has promoted many policies that can be implemented, not because of the compromise of capital, but because of the war!

As soon as the war is over, he will usher in the counterattack of capital forces!
The more he does now, the more violent the capital's counterattack will be in the future!

(End of this chapter)