I'm not making an argument, I have no "position" that I'm advancing.

I've seen the headlines, I was asking for clarification on what made those different. I do think "storm preparedness" is not a category that should be excluded from consideration given their occurrence is also systemic (and may increase due to climate change), but I'm also open to how these outages differ from more systemic outages. The difference that makes sense to me is that federal regulations - the topic at play here - wouldn't have impacted these situations at all. Makes sense.

I don't believe you can fully prepare a grid for winds bringing down trees and residential/transmission lines. That's the distinction. The winter outage could have been handled better both from preparation and from the crisis management.

> I don't believe you can fully prepare a grid for winds bringing down trees and residential/transmission lines

No, but perhaps you can have better plans for responding to such events, different staffing practices, temporary measures of some sort, etc.

That wouldn't affect the number of people who had power outages which is the metric mentioned earlier

Well the problem was not a temporary loss of power, it's how long their power stayed out.