Bloomberg: If you see a downed power wire, don't touch it...

[kerouac2]

OMG are people really this stupid. No wonder the election is close when it should be an Obama landslide... If you see a downed power line, don't touch it... sheeesh.

[flamingdem]

1. The return of Mayor Bloombito! Si se puede por favor

The person who created a character out of Bloombito on twitter must be ecstatic!

[geckosfeet]

2. Yeah well. The trick is not touching it if you don't see it. Stay out of flooded areas if possible -

you never know whats under or in the water.

[El Supremo]

3. Did you just hear his Spanish?

OMG!

[Firebirds01]

5. I was going to ask about that

What did it sound like to a Spanish speaker? I cant tell accents when people are speaking non-English tongues.

[mecherosegarden]

12. I liked him.

I understood what he was saying.

[flamingdem]

7. That was Mayor Bloombito, he's on twitter from

a previous disaster, huge snowfall, can't even remember, but he hauls out his espanol for such occaisions and his accent is a riot

[Firebirds01]

4. Hold on

Phone lines and power lines look alike. Some people may be used to phone lines and need to be reminded not to touch them. We had a huge storm this summer and had a phone line down. Our neighbor's son came over and moved the power line. I about had a heart attack telling him not to touch it. Sometimes it's good to hear the warning to start a conversation that you may not otherwise think about.

[jenw2]

6. He's really trying to circumvent Darwin

[oswaldactedalone]

8. Have to say

I was quite impressed with the lady signing.

Regarding power lines, I've heard of people just bumping into dangling power lines and being electrocuted. Bloomberg's comment was right on point.

[Liberal Gramma]

9. ...unless you don't believe in climate change

In that case, this isn't really a massive storm and you can't be hurt by something that doesn't exist.

[tarheelsunc]

10. Are you sure he wasn't talking about giant soda cups?

[Big Hit Buda]

11. Downed power wire...

Don't touch it unless you're a Republican

[Lex]

13. I wonder about these reporters standing in water and reporting without knowing

about lines being down in the water, etc.

[quaker bill]

14. In many cases the number of people injured and killed

after a storm is larger than during the storm. In my neighborhood a whole bunch of cubicle rats managed to get an SUV out on the roads went to Home Depot and bought a load of shiny new chain saws and the gas to run them.... Some died because they did not know to run the generators outside....

Powerlines, well most of them laying about are usually completely dead and inert, but the problem is that they look exactly the same as the live ones, and dead ones can come back to life at any moment because someone a mile away is fixing something you don't even know about. The 480 or 640 volt service coming into neighborhoods can be quite deadly in an instant. Leaving all of them alone is very good advice, people die messing with them most every storm.