The Great Gale of 2007 did not bring about the awaited Left Coast, ecotopic, green revolution, nor did it help to affirm a Libertarian do-it-yourself-and-bugger-the-government’s-meddling agenda. It was rather that mild-mannered townsfolk, people with no alternative stance, people who would rather the government and the utilities did their job, had simply had enough. They began to take the project of heating and lighting their homes into their own hands.
