The areas where they cut power the longest also happened to be areas with the oldest infrastructure in most cases. Consequently, a lot of those areas also happened to be lower income. However, one of the neighborhoods that was out the longest, Clintonville (some still without power), also happens to be one of the more affluential neighborhoods in Columbus. There were other examples like New Albany and Upper Arlington, both wealthy neighborhoods. So I honestly don’t think this narrative holds much weight.
And actually, a couple days ago people started posting flyers for staging a protest claiming this was clearly a target on marginalized communities. I’m generally getting a little annoyed that every time someone finds themself at an inconvenience, we gotta stage a protest to “stick it to the man”. This was a little more than an inconvenience (some were out of power for 4 days and counting in 100+ heat) but literally no thought went into the actual accuracy of the conclusion.
The entire downtown and surrounding areas were hit.
Downtown has loads of state government and white collar workers. Surroundings are largely nice neighborhoods; some farther out are lower middle class, but the place is pretty stable overall.
The state fairgrounds, just a few miles north of downtown, has a huge facility for horse shows and there was one going on this week. They ended up having to cancel classes because they had hundreds of very expensive horses inside a hot barn with no fans to keep the air circulating (which is what they normally do.)
Not sure if OH State Univ was affected but it's not far north of downtown, too.
Anyone know Columbus? What are the demographics of the areas in which they were cutting power?
Could be illuminating.
I live in Columbus.
The areas where they cut power the longest also happened to be areas with the oldest infrastructure in most cases. Consequently, a lot of those areas also happened to be lower income. However, one of the neighborhoods that was out the longest, Clintonville (some still without power), also happens to be one of the more affluential neighborhoods in Columbus. There were other examples like New Albany and Upper Arlington, both wealthy neighborhoods. So I honestly don’t think this narrative holds much weight.
And actually, a couple days ago people started posting flyers for staging a protest claiming this was clearly a target on marginalized communities. I’m generally getting a little annoyed that every time someone finds themself at an inconvenience, we gotta stage a protest to “stick it to the man”. This was a little more than an inconvenience (some were out of power for 4 days and counting in 100+ heat) but literally no thought went into the actual accuracy of the conclusion.
The entire downtown and surrounding areas were hit.
Downtown has loads of state government and white collar workers. Surroundings are largely nice neighborhoods; some farther out are lower middle class, but the place is pretty stable overall.
The state fairgrounds, just a few miles north of downtown, has a huge facility for horse shows and there was one going on this week. They ended up having to cancel classes because they had hundreds of very expensive horses inside a hot barn with no fans to keep the air circulating (which is what they normally do.)
Not sure if OH State Univ was affected but it's not far north of downtown, too.
Democrat run city, had riots with little police interference a few years ago.
Lot of African Americans. I know people there. They nearly shut off all of Columbus.
I know people there no sections were turned off. Try again. It was 55K people.