This just in

Well, I just got done talking to my mother, and now I'm completely pissed off... I cannot believe that something like this happened in the USA, of all places! Last night we had lots and lots of rain, there were even tornado watches, and there was thunder and lightning. Here in Iowa City, everything went just fine, that is, considering what happened in Silvis (Illinois). Now my parents and siblings live in Silvis, and they pretty much had the same weather we did. Here is what pisses me off, the electricity went off last night/early this morning, and since those houses have electricity-driven pumps to keep the houses from getting flooded, and it took MidAmerican Energy 8 hours (!!!!) to turn the electricity back on, my parent's basement (which is also where they have the computers, the master bedroom, another living room, storage area, and so on) is now flooded. I just might understand that MidAmerican Energy was incapable of getting there earlier to turn the electricity back on, but now they won't even cover the cost of the damage caused by the flooding because it was a natural disaster. In addition to that, several people have already come up to my parents telling them that they should have gotten battery for a back-up pump. What. The. Hell?! MidAmerican never told them about this pump in the first place, so how should they have known that something like this could happen in the first place. And it is MidAmerican's fault because it usually never takes them 8 hours (!!!!) to get the electricity back up and running! 2 hours I understand. I even get 3 hours. However, 4 hours is already pushing it, let alone 8. And then they are unwilling to cover any costs!!!! I hate to sound typically American, but I do feel very tempted to sue MidAmerican Energy. I don't know, I'm just incredibly pissed off at the lack of responsibility being displayed here. Yep, 2006 is turning out to be a better year than 2005...(*sound of me banging my head into various objects*)