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Re:PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this week... by OnlineGladiator on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:57PM (#21360050)
This does nothing to address the issue of how poor management is to blame for this situation in the first place. Yes, the blackouts are probably a reasonable response to the current situation, but what are they doing to make sure this never happens again? Basically where is the accountability?

If they need to do rolling blackouts to prevent fires that's fine. Are the people that designed the system so poorly being blamed for leading us to this situation or are they being handsomely rewarded?

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Re:PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this week... by cgriswald on Friday October 25, 2019 @11:49PM (#21361597)
Given that we regularly have moderately strong winds here and that during the last blackout the winds were very calm, I’m quite skeptical of claims of this being a “reasonable” behavior. As far as I can tell this is a game of chicken and they’re betting the state will flinch first.
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