Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by shagie on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:42PM
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When I was living in California (no, not a large scale event - just a suicidal squirrel and power to 8 small houses)...
The mother in law of the guy who handled the property would fuss at him about his RV. She didn't like it and would have loved to have him sell it.
And one day, there was a suicidal squirrel. Took out power for six hours. She only has two tanks (1h each) of backup oxygen... and shortly into the outage when we found out that PG&E would be awhile before repairing it he powered up his RV and plugged her oxygen into the RV.
She didn't fuss about the RV after that.
If you don't have an inverter and a long lasting source of power, an outage like this can (and probably has) kill many people who depend on the consistent power to keep their medical devices working.
The mother in law of the guy who handled the property would fuss at him about his RV. She didn't like it and would have loved to have him sell it.
And one day, there was a suicidal squirrel. Took out power for six hours. She only has two tanks (1h each) of backup oxygen... and shortly into the outage when we found out that PG&E would be awhile before repairing it he powered up his RV and plugged her oxygen into the RV.
She didn't fuss about the RV after that.
If you don't have an inverter and a long lasting source of power, an outage like this can (and probably has) kill many people who depend on the consistent power to keep their medical devices working.