The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem

Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by wffurr on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:29PM (#26188834)

“They turned the power off for many and just left us in the dark” is hard to reconcile with “Mother Nature is fucking stuff up and rides it out.”

I mean, yeah, Mother Nature rode in and fucked things up pretty good. But it’s been known for years both how to prepare for this and that it’s been needed (see the FERC report about 2011). There’s pretty clearly someone to blame, and it’s the grid operators, regulators, and the politicians and voters that enabled them to cut corners this hard.

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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by txlpo78 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:44PM (#26188952)

Did you misread my comment? I didn’t say this event was due to Mother Nature, and the entire second half is specifically about how the Austin Energy grid is mismanaged and victim to cut corners.

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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by wffurr on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:03PM (#26195167)

I think I did. It was hard to tell if your comment was supportive or not of the people blaming leaders and the grid management.

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