[joeclarke]

I’m sure the environmentalists and EPA have made sure the grid was maintained, upgraded, supplemented, added redundancy, and trees were properly trimmed over the last forty years, based on predicted population and economic growth, and have never obstructed any of the preparations for the surety of such a natural disaster.
Except that is not the premise of this post.

Gawd, are you such a juvenile that you cannot face the basic fact that this was a major severe, sudden and unexpected weather event and that alone is sufficient to explain the outages?

That was the premise of the post. The storms caused the outages, the continued outages were caused by non maintained, unprepared grid

[dirtboy]

When there is a hurricane, there is some advance notice and utility repair crews from other regions can start to deploy in advance to the affected area. There was no such warning with this system, so it's taken 2-3 days for outside crews to reach the affected areas.

This is about much more than maintenance. This system brought down entire trees, not just limbs.

[dirtboy]

When there is a hurricane, there is some advance notice and utility repair crews from other regions can start to deploy in advance to the affected area. There was no such warning with this system, so it's taken 2-3 days for outside crews to reach the affected areas.

This is about much more than maintenance. This system brought down entire trees, not just limbs.